As is often the case, the Elitist Media’s favorite subject turns out to be the Elitist Media. So it is with ABC’s This Week, which aired a self-congratulatory montage on occasion of their 45th anniversary. And in so doing, they confirmed some of their worst biases.
Watch the montage in its entirety, as aired on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, November 15th, 2026:
This morning's 45th anniversary retrospective for @ThisWeekABC displayed the show's greater hostility to views of conservative than liberal guest. And George Stephanopoulos recalled getting "grilled." Really? pic.twitter.com/NxX6b87WJ9
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) November 15, 2026
DAVID BRINKLEY: Good morning. We're glad to have you with us. We have a new Sunday program for you, which we hope you will find useful. We will look at what has been happening, what is happening now, and what we can see happening next week.
MARTHA RADDATZ: That was David Brinkley 45 years ago today, November 15th, 1981, beginning the very first broadcast of ABC's This Week. We're so grateful for your support over the years, and we wanted to close the show this morning with a special look back through the decades as we celebrate 45 years on the air.
ANNOUNCER: For 45 years…
BRINKLEY: Here in Washington and other places, we're all here. Pleased to have you with us.
ANNOUNCER: From presidents…
BRINKLEY: You do have some explaining to do if the polls mean anything.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH: I sure do.
COKIE ROBERTS: On the tax pledge.
GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes.
ROBERTS: Would you take it again? Would you sign that piece of paper again?
ANNOUNCER: And before they were presidents.
GEORGE WILL: You've never had or aspired to, as far as anyone can tell, a job outside of politics. Do you think that's the best kind of person to be president?
ROBERTS: Isn't it possible that you could have affected the policy if you all had spoken up sooner, instead of just going along?
JOE BIDEN: Well, let me be very specific. The answer is yes, we could have.
ANNOUNCER: To world leaders and newsmakers.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (TO VLADIMIR PUTIN): What do you say to Americans who see Russia and you not only as a rival, but an unfriendly adversary?
RADDATZ: The President of the United States is accusing the former President of wiretapping him.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: If this happened, Martha, this would…
RADDATZ: If, if, if, if.
JON KARL (TO JD VANCE): You said you advocated giving extra votes to people with children. Do you regret saying that? You take that back?
ANNOUNCER: Asking the tough questions.
KARL (TO MIKE PENCE): Trump actually said, in response to what you said recently about January 6th, that it was your fault. That's what he said. What do you -- what do you think of that?
STEPHANOPOULOS (TO JOE BIDEN): Let's start with the debate. Was this a bad episode, or the sign of a more serious condition?
SAM DONALDSON (TO DAN QUAYLE): I get to ask the question. You're right, you get to give whatever answer you want. And my question is, do you want to ban abortion?
ANNOUNCER: For 45 years, the most interesting place to come on Sunday mornings.
DONALDSON: Welcome to our roundtable.
WILLIAM SAFIRE: Thanks, Sam.
DONALDSON: We're glad to have you. Now that may be the last kind word anyone says to you today.
(LAUGH)
SAFIRE: More than I expect.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ABC's This Week.
STEPHANOPOULOS: 45 years. It all started with David Brinkley. I still remember my first time when I was a young campaign aide. Bill Clinton coming on and getting grilled by Sam, Cokie, and George.
RADDATZ: The first time I was ever on This Week, I was basically terrified. I was on the Roundtable with George Stephanopoulos and thought, what will he ask me this time? I still get that feeling.
KARL: I started watching This Week with this guy when I was in middle school. And for years, it was my favorite political show on television. It has been the honor of a lifetime to actually be part of this great program.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): If it's Sunday morning, it's This Week.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning and welcome to This Week.
RADDATZ: Welcome to This Week.
KARL: Welcome to This Week.
DONALDSON: And until next week, that's This Week.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For all of us at ABC News, until next week, thank you.
RADDATZ: Got nothing else to say. That was great.
The montage serves as a decades-old exhibit confirming ABC’s long-standing institutional liberal biases. As our own Brent Baker pointed out, even their montage displays a “greater hostility to views of conservative than liberal guests.” Whether it’s Presidents Bush 41 and 43, Vice President Dan Quayle, ot then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, all drew harsher lines of questioning than did the liberal guests depicted.
Most laughable: the current rotating sub-hosts quivering at the thought of being grilled by marquee colleague George Stephanopoulos, as if he were a serious journalist and not what he’s always been: a hyperpartisan Democrat fixer.
The current edition of the show makes no effort to conceal their partisan biases. Whether it’s significant omissions of major stories inconvenient to Democrats, sucking up to socialists (see AOC, Zohnram Mamdani), overly preening editorials to start the show, or a general laundering of Democrat talking points, it is clear that the show has strayed far from the halcyon days of David Brinkley.
What the self-congratulatory montage accidentally makes crystal clear is that the current iteration of This Week is as Trump-deranged as the rest of ABC News.
