The bias of the moderators of ABC’s presidential debate three weeks ago against Donald Trump was so blatant that even the opening skit of this past weekend’s season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” skewered it.
“I had hoped the takeaway of the debate I moderated would be my striking good looks,” quipped neatly coiffed “SNL” cast member Andrew Dismukes, portraying ABC news anchor David Muir, “but unfortunately, it was whether or not I was biased towards the Democrats … which, duh!”
Mr. Muir and his co-moderator, Linsey Davis, were so widely (and deservedly) criticized that CBS announced that, at tonight’s vice presidential debate, it would instead let the VP candidates, Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “fact-check” each other in real-time.
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