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The job of cleaning up President Joe Biden after his CNN debate mess has been given to ABC News and the network’s ace propagandist George Stephanopoulos who was tabbed for the high-stakes interview.
Calls for the geriatric leader to drop out of the 2024 race before he gets clobbered by former President Donald J. Trump rang out after the debate and the White House and Biden’s surrogates badly need to gaslight voters that his CNN stumbles were merely an anomaly and that the 81-year-old is mentally fit as a fiddle.
The need to shift public perception is so great that the network has junked its previously announced schedule and will air the interview in a primetime special at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, with one big catch, it won’t be done live on the Disney-owned network.
EXCLUSIVE: @GStephanopoulos will sit down with Pres. Biden for the exclusive first television interview since the presidential debate. Tune in across ABC News platforms Friday, July 5.
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— ABC News (@ABC) July 2, 2024
The network said that “a transcript of the unedited interview will be made available the same day,” assuring Americans that they are trustworthy and everything will be above board which if that was truly the case, why not just do the interview live so people can see for themselves and make up their own minds?
“Not only is the choice of George Stephanopoulos as the interviewer by design, but it being taped and capable of being chopped up and edited by design. ABC can and should release a full transcript of the interview, but that means nothing if we’re not able to see the full, raw, unedited video ourselves,” said Curtis Houck, the managing editor of media watchdog
NewsBusters.
“This could be Robert Hur 2.0 if the transcript has a moment not shown on camera where Biden fumbles and stumbles,” Houck told Fox News Digital. “If this were a Republican presidency in crisis like this, ABC would be bullied into doing it live, but the other networks will certainly employ a trust but not verify strategy with one of their own.”
“No unedited video. We’re just supposed to trust ABC News to have not deceptively edited out the umms, uhhs, ahhs, and dashes, aren’t we?” Houck added in a post to X.
No unedited video. We’re just supposed to trust ABC News to have not deceptively edited out the umms, uhhs, ahhs, and dashes, aren’t we? https://t.co/3likl4j8j8
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 4, 2024
There was much skepticism expressed by X users after the interview was first announced, with few seeming to place much trust in Stephanopoulos and his employer.
Biden’s first interview will be a pretaped, edited interview with Bill Clinton’s former comms advisor, and his first press conference with be at NATO, while out of the country.
Again, everything this WH is doing is the exact opposite of reassuring voters that he’s fine.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 2, 2024
Wise comms professional notes that aside from this Biden “interview” being conducted by noted Dem operative George Stephanopoulos, it’s not even being aired live, so it can be edited, sliced, and diced to help Biden. https://t.co/N2LFFQTAYb
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 2, 2024
George Stephanopoulos has been a boot-licking, jock-sniffing Democrat water carrier his entire career. First for Bill Clinton, when he was paid to lie about and trash all the women Bill assaulted, then for Hillary. This “interview” will be no different. https://t.co/P3qWMTGpps
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 2, 2024
Joe Biden will do an interview with George Stephanopoulos that will last no more than 15 minutes, contain pre-approved questions, and then be edited down to 5 minutes by liberal network execs before being shown to the public on ABC.
Well that should calm everyone’s fears.
— NotKennyRogers (@NotKennyRogers) July 4, 2024
And the unedited video itself will be made available when?
— Gerry (@GerryDales) July 4, 2024
Biden has announced an “interview” being conducted by noted Democrat operative George Stephanopoulos.
It’s not an interview, because it won’t be LIVE. It’ll be edited, sliced, and diced to help Biden.
America 2024.
— GreatAmericanMail (@mail_american) July 2, 2024
George Stephanopoulos will be the first to interview President Biden since the debate. Of Course it will NOT be live, allowing for the tape to be Doctored Before airing.
Keeping the Americans in the dark about the President’s condition.— James Marcello (@JamesMarcello6) July 2, 2024
It’s easy to understand why so many people now view the mainstream media as the equivalent of state-run TV.
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