Now that ABC News has settled with Donald Trump for $16 million, the station’s situation is dire. The staff are angry and there are rumors that George Stephanopoulos may be sent off.
Megyn Kelly recently discussed this with comedian Adam Carolla, and they both agreed that ABC News did this to them.
Carolla pointed out that ABC News was wrong about the Russian collusion hoax and got a lot of things wrong about the coronavirus, two of the biggest stories in recent years.
Partial transcription by Eric Abbenante Twitter/X:
Megyn Kelly: “Stephanopoulos is reportedly humiliated and very angry that this happened to him.
But they are in full rebellion at ABC News, feeling that their reputation has been unnecessarily tarnished and that they should never have reconciled with President Trump.
They were also concerned that this could set an industry standard. In other words, this issue could reach all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and the New York Times v. Sullivan case, which has set a very, very, very high bar for problematic speech. There is a possibility that the hurdle of recognizing that there is a ”
Adam Carolla: “They have systematically destroyed their reputation over the last five years, starting with collusion with Russia and having been lying about it, or at least being wrong, for three or four years. .
And that was exactly the case with the coronavirus. So the two biggest stories of the last eight or nine years have ruined 10 roads by Sunday. So I tried not to listen to ABC News too much. ”
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ABC News executives are in “all-out rebellion” after settling the George Stephanopoulos case for 15 million yen, not anticipating the damage to their reputation.
Megyn Kelly: “Stephanopoulos is reportedly humiliated and very angry… pic.twitter.com/nd5nfV8XJK— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) December 18, 2024
George Stephanopoulos is a former Bill Clinton hatchet man and a major figure in Democratic Party politics. He should never have been appointed to cover political news at ABC in the first place.
