Turley Nails It:
In today's soundbite world, where confirmational bias is almost the universal appeal.....it does not.
And the morons posing as moderators on Thursday's debate are clear examples of that.
ABC News has been widely criticized for the bias of the two moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir. Even liberal outlets acknowledged that the two journalists seemed inclined to “fact check” only Trump. In the meantime, they allowed clearly false statements from Harris go unchallenged.
Three of the unchecked claims are being widely disseminated by supporters, including some in the media. Here are three legal “facts” that are being repeated despite being clearly untrue.
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I'll list the first
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Crime is down under the Biden-Harris administration.“
One of the most notable slap downs by ABC followed Trump commenting that crime rates have drastically risen during the Biden-Harris administration. Muir immediately balked and declared: “As you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”
Harris and her allies have been repeating the claim by ABC. But the actual statistics show that Trump was right. The Justice Department’s released survey found that, under the Biden administration, there has been a significant increase in crime. Violent crime was up 37 percent from 2020 to 2023, rape is up 42 percent, robbery is up 63 percent and stranger violence is up 61 percent. Other reports had shown startling increases such as a
doubling of carjackings in D.C. in 2023.
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Now, it depends on what you are talking about.
PEW indicates that looking murder rates...they rocketed in 2021 and 2022, but have dropped off in 2023. But they are still higher to previous year.
Murder rates had been dropping since the 1990's and there is a question as to how things are being reported.
But even PEW tells us that Murder Rates and other Violent Crime has been up.
We can discuss the others going forward.
And Turely is right. ABC is taking heat. Even some democrats are saying there should be an internal investigation.
Let's get one thing clear.
The job of a moderator is NOT to fact check. The is the opponents job.
The SUPER LAME excuse given by the female idiot poser moderator in no way justifies their influence on things.
