Would it be the same if it were someone from the Trump-Vance orbit? Certainly not.
According to the Medica Research Center, major networks ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC didn’t dedicate one segment — one minute — to reports that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff “forcefully slapped” his girlfriend in 2012 after he thought she was flirting with a valet.
From MRC:
Between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC and their liberal cable networks CNN and MSNBC have yet to devote a single second to disturbing new allegations leveled by the Daily Mail against Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff that claim he slapped a then-girlfriend in 2012.
In contrast, NewsNation has had robust coverage with 30 minutes and 50 second on the allegations reported by Daily Mail senior writer Josh Boswell (which made anonymously by three friends of the woman whom Emhoff dated) and the double standard if these claims were made against a Republican. Newsmax was the only other cable network to have touched it with 11 minutes and 29 seconds.
Instead, ABC, CBS, and NBC have combined for 27 minutes (27:08) obsessing over January 6-related matters with the newest filing by Special Counsel Jack Smith against former President Trump and the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign cutting a new ad about what Senator JD Vance (R-OH) said about that day during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate.
MRC founder and president Brent Bozell shared the report on X, saying “No chance ABC, CBS and NBC would’ve skipped the alleged Doug Emhoff slap if he was a Republican. None. Zero. Zip.”
More over at MRC:
No chance ABC, CBS and NBC would’ve skipped the alleged Doug Emhoff slap if he was a Republican.
None. Zero. Zip. https://t.co/iLJNJOOqzi
— Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) October 3, 2024
