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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump Battle over 2016 Candidate’s Remarks about Mexico

By Curtis Houck | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

ABC’s World News Tonight aired a preview clip on Tuesday of Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos’s interview with 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in which Trump battled the former Clinton official over remarks he made dur ...

Poll Shows 46 Percent Want Stephanopoulos Out of Campaign Coverage

By Randy Hall | May 19, 2015, 6:20 PM EDT

If it weren't for bad luck, senior ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos would have no luck at all. According to a poll released Tuesday by Rasmussen Reports, a plurality of 46 percent of likely voters think that the co-host of the weekday Good Morni ...

Former ABC Colleagues: Stephanopoulos 'Very Foolish,' 'Really Isn't a Journalist'

By Randy Hall | May 18, 2015, 6:20 PM EDT

The fallout from the revelation that ABC's George Stephanopoulos-- the co-anchor of Good Morning America and host of the Sunday morning This Week program-- donated $75,000 to the foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family intensified on May 17, ...

Salon: MSM Debate Moderators Allow GOPers to Blast ‘Stealth Liberal Agenda’ As Audiences ‘Hoot and Holler’ Approvingly

By Tom Johnson | May 17, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT

In the wake of the furor over his gifts to the Clinton Foundation, George Stephanopoulos has taken himself out of the running to moderate a Republican presidential debate set to air on ABC next February. That development gave Salon ’s Jim Newell a peg for ...

FNC’s Kurtz Rips Stephanopoulos for Making ‘Severe’ and ‘Unthinkable’ ‘Blunder’

By Curtis Houck | May 15, 2015, 12:55 PM EDT

Speaking with Megyn Kelly on Thursday’s Kelly File, Fox News Channel’s MediaBuzz host Howard Kurtz slammed ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos for committing an “unthinkable” blunder in making previously disclosed donations totaling $75,000 to the ...

Networks, MSNBC Ignore George Stephanopoulos’s Donations to the Clinton Foundation

By Curtis Houck | May 14, 2015, 11:14 PM EDT

On the heels of the news Thursday that former Clinton aide and ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos gave a previously-undisclosed $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC joined MSNBC in making no on-air mention of th ...

Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook Interned for Stephanopoulos; Thanked in Book

By Curtis Houck | May 15, 2015, 12:03 AM EDT

As uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon Thursday afternoon, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook interned for ABC News chief anchor and former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos during his tenure at Columbia University and even thanked Mook ...

Stephanopoulos Aggressively Questions Peter Schweizer Over ‘Clinton Cash’

By Jeffrey Meyer | April 27, 2015, 8:42 AM EDT

On Sunday’s This Week, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos interviewed Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash, and repeatedly badgered his guest about the accuracy of his book and chose to focus on Democratic attacks against the author. During the heated discuss ...

Nicolle Wallace Downplays Hillary's E-Mail Issues as 'Media Problem'

By Jeffrey Meyer | March 9, 2015, 8:57 AM EDT

On Sunday, ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos spent a considerable portion of its broadcast on the ongoing saga surrounding Hillary Clinton’s issues with transparency after it was revealed that she failed to use a government email account while se ...

ABC Promotes ‘Unabashedly Progressive’ Bernie Sanders

By Jeffrey Meyer | February 23, 2015, 8:41 AM EST

On Sunday, ABC’s This Week promoted Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his recent trip to Iowa as he considers a potential 2016 presidential run. In a pre-taped segment, reporter David Wright touted how Sanders is “as unabashedly progressive as B ...

ABC Spins Obama as 'Taking His Medicine' on Midterms

By Scott Whitlock | November 6, 2014, 12:33 PM EST

The journalists at Good Morning America on Thursday spun Barack Obama's post-midterm press conference as "taking his medicine," hyping a jokey response by the President about having a drink with incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConne ...

Lena Dunham: George Stephanopoulos Is A ‘Sexual Icon’

By Jeffrey Meyer | September 30, 2014, 3:27 PM EDT

Lena Dunham, liberal feminist and star of the HBO series Girls, appeared on Tuesday’s Good Morning America to promote her new book “Not that kind of girl” and was treated to a fawning interview by ABC co-host Robin Roberts. Prior to discussing the book, R ...

George Stephanopoulos Frets Over U.S. Taking Action Against ISIS: ‘Is There A Danger Here of Overreacting?’

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 25, 2014, 7:37 AM EDT

On Sunday, August 24, This Week moderator George Stephanopoulos bizarrely worried that the U.S. might take too much action in combating the terrorist group ISIS. Speaking to Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, wondered “it s ...

New Yorker Editor David Remnick Whines That Obama ‘Has Been Stifled At Every Angle’

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 19, 2014, 5:22 PM EDT

During an appearance on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick complained that an intractable Congress has made it impossible for immigration reform to become law. Speaking on Sunday, August 3, Remnick whined ...

Ex-Bill Clinton Aide George Stephanopoulos Spins for His Old Boss on Bin Laden

By Scott Whitlock | August 1, 2014, 12:52 PM EDT

Former Bill Clinton operative turned Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos on Friday spun for his ex-boss in the wake of newly released audio about Osama bin Laden. In the recording from September 10, 2001, Bill Clinton justified not ordering th ...