In what was an absolutely wild admission to the Los Angeles Times about her behavior during the September 10 presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris that was hosted by ABC News, ABC News anchor Linsey Davis admitted that her fact-checking of Trump was influenced by how the CNN debate between Trump and Biden went.
As background, both Davis and her co-moderator, ABC News personality David Muir, were hammered in the aftermath of the debate over what critics contended was their bias in seemingly only fact-checking former President Donald Trump and letting Vice President Harris get away with spreading obviously false claims, such as the “fine people” hoax.
Despite that criticism, Davis said during an interview with the Los Angeles Times that she wanted to use her position as a debate moderator to address concerns that the former president’s statements could be allowed to “hang” in the air unchallenged by the moderators, as she claimed happened when he debated Biden on CNN in June in what even most critics of CNN contended was a relatively fair debate.The Times, describing Davis and what she said, wrote:
Davis added that “anonymous” accounts remind her of the “stereotype” that she “can’t be unbiased,” saying, “There is a stereotype that I am acutely aware of that I can’t be unbiased covering this moment. And the anonymous Instagram people serve as reminders every day.” However, she didn’t add why she was unable to combat even the worst instances of Kamala’s outright lying, such as the “fine people” hoax, if she was so unbiased and it is a mere lie and stereotype that she couldn’t be and wasn’t unbiased during the contentious debate.
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