Even the liberal author of “Saturday night LiveThe show’s season premiere took a dig at the Disney-owned network by admitting that ABC News’ presidential debates were “biased.”
NBC’s long-running sketch comedy show debuted Saturday, with cast member Andrew Dismukes appearing as “World News Tonight” anchor and debate co-moderator David Muir.
“I had hoped that the conclusion of the debate I moderated would be my stellar appearance, but unfortunately, it was whether or not I was biased toward the Democrats, which… oops,” Dismukes Muir told the audience. Due to which the audience started laughing.
ABC News did not immediately respond. fox news digitalRequest for comment.
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ABC News anchors David Muir and Lynsey Davis have faced intense criticism for their handling of the first presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (ABC News)
“SNL” also appeared to shed light on the first assassination attempt. former president trump Cast member James Austin Johnson ridiculed him while speaking at the rally.
“Where the hell is everyone going? Where are you going? I see you’re trying to leave, but the doors are closed. Come back – we’re having fun. We love our rallies, except When someone goes ‘bing, bong, bing, bing’ right at me,” Johnson said as Trump. “You know it’s because of the rhetoric of the radical left. They say me blaming the Democrats for inciting violence is like calling the kettle black, but to be honest, I didn’t know the kettle was black until recently. I thought the kettle was Indian but then he decided to paint it black.”
Additionally, during a “Weekend Update” segment, after playing a clip of Trump, Colin Jost quipped that he was “starting to worry that the bullet just hit the ear a little more,” than he has President Biden. Have a better “body”. A recent rally.
“SNL” cast member Andrew Dismukes plays ABC’s David Muir in the cold opening of the show’s season premiere. (Screenshot/NBC; Heidi Gutman/ABC via Getty Images)
ABC News has faced intense backlash for its hyperpartisan debate, where Muir and co-moderator Lynsey Davis repeatedly fact-checked Trump and asked him far more pointed questions than Vice President Kamala Harris, who was asked by the anchors. Faced zero hostility from.
Last Thursday, Trump repeated his attacks on Muir and his network during a press conference.
“And during the debate, I mentioned him and David Muir, who was a really light guy,” Trump said. “I had one against three, but I think we did pretty well. But David Muir of ABC, the fake news, when I said crime is way up in our country, he corrected me, he corrected me and Did a lot of things and it was right. She (Vice President Kamala Harris) didn’t do it right once, and everything she said was wrong, absolutely wrong. Charlottesville, all different things, almost everything that happened. He said it was never corrected.
“But he corrected me on the crime. He said, ‘No, no, the crime has not increased.’ I said crime has increased massively. He said, ‘I would like to say for the record that crime has not increased.’
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Former President Trump took aim at “lightweight” Muir and alleged that ABC News broke its agreement with his campaign about not fact-checking during the debate. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump alleged that ABC News broke a “deal” made before the debate.
“Now you don’t know this, but we had an agreement with ABC that there would be no corrections of any kind, and they violated the agreement. Why? Because they’re bad people, and they’re fake news,” Trump said. . “So he did this to me several times during the debate. He violated the agreement. That’s the deal, because you can take anything and try and make up stories with him. We had an agreement where that No. You can do whatever you want as soon as the debate is over, but he did so in complete violation of our agreement and many people standing there will tell you (as soon as he looked at his employees). That will show you what it really was. David Muir has lost all credibility.”
Former President also took a dig at Davis, who provided the first fact-checking To argue against them.
Trump said, “I’ve never heard of her. I never want to hear about her. She was terrible. I don’t know how she got the job in the first place.” “But we have a country to save, and we can’t keep having fake news like this. And their ratings deserve to go down.”
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this story.
