If you read conservative websites and news sources, but probably not if you get your news from MSNBC and the rest, you probably know that an alleged whistleblower has emerged to claim that Disney’s political mouthpiece ABC News conspired with Harris Campaign officials to rig the Presidential debate that Harris “won.” From the Hindustan Times (yes, it’s come to that…):
An affidavit, purportedly from an anonymous “ABC News whistleblower,” has sparked controversy after being circulated online. The document alleges close collaboration between the network and Kamala Harris’ campaign leading up to the recent debate against Donald Trump…
The affidavit alleges several serious claims regarding the debate preparation and ABC News’ role. One of the primary allegations is that Kamala Harris was given access to sample or similar questions before the debate. If true, this would have given her an unfair advantage over Donald Trump by allowing her to prepare more thoroughly for specific topics.
Another claim is that the Harris campaign actively blocked ABC News from questioning Joe Biden’s health. This issue has been a point of discussion throughout the election cycle, with some critics suggesting that Biden’s fitness for office should be more rigorously examined. According to the whistleblower, Harris’ team ensured that this line of questioning was off-limits.
The affidavit also asserts that the Harris campaign influenced ABC to avoid probing into allegations against Harris’ brother-in-law, who has been accused of embezzling billions in taxpayer money.
Additionally, ABC staff members are said to have been fearful of retribution from Trump, possibly implying that they felt pressured to comply with the Harris campaign’s requests to avoid conflict.
The whistleblower claims to have secret recordings that prove the Harris campaign pressured moderators to fact-check Trump during the debate. These recordings, if they exist, could provide key evidence in backing the whistleblower’s assertions.
Moreover, it is alleged that ABC News was given instructions about which questions to steer clear of during the debate, implying that the Harris campaign had significant influence over the content and flow of the event. This control over the debate, according to the whistleblower, included a demand for live fact-checking of Trump while Harris faced no such scrutiny, even when she made statements that were factually questionable.
The whistleblower reportedly signed the affidavit in New York and has sent a copy to Speaker Mike Johnson, further raising the stakes as these claims are now in the hands of political leadership.
Bill Acker, the conservative billionaire who helped rid Harvard of Claudine Gay, sent a letter to Disney chair Bob Iger that has given the alleged whistleblower story a bit more visibility…
Hmmmm. The previous proprietors of Twitter would have probably censored that tweet. There is certainly a lot of circumstantial evidence that such a plot was in effect. The ABC moderators were ridiculously biased. Smart covert Harris agents would have at least factchecked the Vice-President, who issued many false statements, at least once, but Muir and Davis confined their “factchecking” to Trump, and then often incorrectly. The absence of obvious questions that would have given Harris some difficulty answering was also striking, as wasthat Harris seemed to have clear answers to the questions she was asked at the tip of her tongue, when in the only two interviews she has done since her nomination she was halting and prone to descending into gibberish, as is her wont.
And, as we know by now (or should), the Democrats cheat, and the mainstream media is shameless and unrestrained in its determination to help Harris defeat Trump.
I hope, I really do, that the whistleblower is a hoax. The reaction by the Left-end of the media spectrum, however, (the Left-end is about 90% of the whole) is certainly suspicious. Most of it has barely noted the affidavit, and the main concentration seems to be on the hysterical claim by Chief GOP Conspiracy Theory Idiot Marjorie Taylor Greene that the “whistleblower” was mysteriously killed in a car crash. This response is more circumstantial evidence that there might be truth in the whistleblower story: as we often see in the comments on Ethics Alarms, a prime progressive tactic is to find a tangential detail in an account that reflects poorly on the Axis and discredit that as a way to deflect attention from the real issue, and facts that the Left would prefer to be ignored or discredited.
So far, the media response to the whistleblower story is eerily reminiscent of the successful Axis conspiracy to hide the truth about the Biden family’s influence-peddling racket until after the 2020 election. Again, I want the claims to be false: if ABC really did conspire with the Democrats to rig the debate, that was civil war-level interference with democracy, and worse than anything we have seen in this country. If they are accurate, however, we need to know quickly, and the consequences need to be harsh, swift, and decisive.
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This just seems like more of the same from the Democrats and their captive media. The first debate with Biden was rigged to favor Biden. After the debate, media personalities tried to push a narrative that Biden had decisively won the debate because of ‘Trump’s lies’. It was so outrageous that I turned it off about 1 minute into the commentary. They only had to back off because it was so ridiculously false. Every presidential debate this century has been rigged to favor the Democratic candidate. It is only as noticeable now because the ruling class puppets the Democrats are willing to put forward are only semi-sentient.
In a September 15th comment I wrote here on Ethics Alarms, I wrote in part…
My statement was based purely on my own thorough observations of the actual debate. If an actual verifiable and truthful whistleblower exists it would certainly support the underlying manipulative patterns and narrative building that I noticed in the debate, but I’m not convinced that an honest whistleblower actually exists. I attribute the underlying manipulative patterns and narrative building that I saw to collusion and some things that have been reported since the debate seem to support my opinion, but we’ll see.
I also wrote on September 15th…
Regardless of the possibility of a whistleblower, I think the appearance of collusion between ABC and the Harris campaign in that debate warrants a Special Investigator of some sort and certainly some public under oath Congressional hearings. If actual collusion exists between our existing federal government, a partisan campaign, corporate business, and the media to favorably electioneer the election towards one candidate by means of rigging the debate then We the People of the United States of America need to know about it!
I can’t repeat this enough…
Yes, I’m fully aware that I am biased against the media, and for some verifiable valid reasons, and that bias could directly and indirectly influence my perception of what I saw in the debate. I didn’t watch the debate live as usual, I didn’t see any news or opinions regarding the debate until I reviewed it for myself. I reviewed the debate on video so I could rewind it as many times as I needed to see specific parts again. I actually spent several hours reviewing the debate on video at about 1:30am on September 11th (I didn’t get much sleep that night) rewinding very regularly and critically reviewing my own perception of what I saw. I go out of my way try to review these kind of things multiple times prior to seeing any other reviews and I do the best I can to think critically about what I see regardless of my bias.
Side Note: There was one point in the debate where I honestly wondered why Trump didn’t simply and calmly state, “I’m done with the three of you building your false narratives, and you two (pointing directly at the moderators) are a disgrace to journalism” then turn and walk off the stage.
If this turns out to be true, what’s to be done? The media has all but admitted it is in the tank for the Democrats, so finding out they put their finger on the scale would surprise nobody, and generate applause from the Left.
I would love to believe the American people would rise up in outrage, but the last eight years have taught me to doubt that.
Jack wrote:
if ABC really did conspire with the Democrats to rig the debate, that was civil war-level interference with democracy, and worse than anything we have seen in this country.
Agreed, it is definitely a new low, but even if the recordings provide unimpeachable proof of tampering, I can’t see anything but “well, as long as we beat Trump, it’s worth it” coming from the Left and the anti-Trump right.
I have seen yawns over assassination attempts, even a few snarks and almost-cheers. I think we are at the bottom. Falling further will require a backhoe.
I was just watching the Megyn Kelly show from yesterday, which extensively discussed this affidavit. One point of emphasis was that this was prepared and mailed the day before the date — via certified mail so that the timing could be verified, and that there was a still sealed copy with those date markings. Slightly convoluted, yes, but it’s a way to leave a paper trail.
If this is true, it is a devastating indictment of the Harris campaign and ABC. It also insults the rest of the media by confidently expecting they will turn a blind eye to all the incongruities (this part they’ve live up (or down) to).
It would clearly mean that Harris and / or her campaign believed that in an impartial debate she would have been trounced or worse. Also why they rejected a Fox debate out of hand. It makes one wonder as to the sincerity of their demands for another debate.
What it does not do is excuse Trump’s poor performance for much of the debate. Harris was able to get his goat on more than one occasion, and get him off balance and defensive. Even with it being a 3 on 1 debate, Trump can do better. How much that might have changed had Harris been asked questions she hadn’t rehearsed an answer for, I don’t know.
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The saddest part of this development is that the Democrats have conditioned us so that we have absolutely no difficulty believing that they would cheat and rig the debate. It is part and parcel of what they’ve demonstrated leading up to the debate.
Boy, was I ever right when I said the debate was actually a paid Harris campaign ad which should have been concluded with an “I’m Kamala Harris, and I approved this message.”
A document like that, mailed before the event that it exposed, is what broke the TV Quiz Show Scandal in the 50’s.
This is the process:
Did Democrats care when Hillary Clinton was leaked debate questions ahead of time? If it doesn’t make a difference when their own party’s debate or nomination process is rigged, why would it make a difference if it’s rigged in favor of their own candidate?
All they have to do is keep this news from getting wide dissemination, deny its legitimacy and/or fixate on some stupid thing Trump has said and/or tweeted and shrug their shoulders after the election.
Their base would vote for Stalin if he had a D behind his name. The only people this might matter to in the long wrong are the undecided voters.
4. TRUMP!
Really, Trump should have run as a Democrat this time. He’d pick up most of the D base, and still have a goodly number of the MAGA base. He might get 450 electoral votes.
What’s not to like, eh?
You forgot 2 steps. Step 2.5 is “Why do you CARE so much about this?” and step 5 is that you are racist for bringing it up.
One aspect of this I haven’t heard discussed is the Mike Johnson angle. He allegedly received a copy of the affidavit, sent before the debate. Has he commented? I tried googling “mike johnson affidavit abc”, (and DuckDuckGo, in case Google is putting it’s hand on the scales), and didn’t find any statement by him.
Maybe I’m wrong to think this way, but I hope it is true. To anyone with any objectivity at all, the collusion between the ABC moderators and Harris was palpable. Whether it was explicit, as alleged in the affidavit, or merely implicit, it happened and it’s wrong. It’s symptomatic of what I, and I imagine many others, believe is an existential threat to our democracy. As divisive and shocking as it would be, concrete proof like this would go a long way towards getting things out in the open so we could, I hope, work towards a resolution.
As a follow up, Megan Kelly said this morning that her team had reached out to Mike Johnson’s office but hadn’t heard back.
Whatever happened to Federal Commnications Commission? Anyone? Beuhler? How about fining ABC or suspending their license for a month, or maybe football season?
The fact that this “secret recording” wasn’t produced immediately makes me suspicious about the alleged whistleblower’s claims.
(Depending on the state, they may be illegal.)
Hadn’t thought of that, but what about whistleblower protection laws?
It appears that, so far, we are still in step 1 — Deny it ever happened.
Just finished looking through all the NY Post’s stories on their web site and not a mention of this. When I do a search for ‘ABC whistleblower’ on the NY Post website, the top few results are about the Trump assassination attempt.
Nothing on RCP either.
Do we eally need a whistleblower to reveal that which was obvious in real time!