ABC Allows Host To Bully Rape Victim
George Stephanopoulos is a hypocritical worm. He’s also a misogynist and a bully. Anyone watching ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday - the WHOLE show, not the clip the legacy media is showing - saw it too.
Rep. Nancy Mace
He introduced his guest, South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace with phony praise about how bold she was to reveal several years ago that she had been raped when she was 16. (She went public with this painful experience to persuade lawmakers to include strong exceptions for rape when crafting abortion laws.)
The TV host used that swarmy open to set her up. Almost immediately Stephanopoulos demanded to know how a rape victim could support Donald Trump for president.
”Trump has been found liable for rape!” he intoned multiple times.
Mace objected to the question and accused him of shaming her.
Still, Stephanopoulos was relentless, asking the same stupid question over and over.
He clearly blindsided her with the question. Nevertheless, Mace tried to differentiate between the rape of a teenaged girl and a woman with marinated memories who waited decades to come forward with hazy half-baked details of an alleged assault. Those vague memories were enough to secure a civil judgement - with a low bar for evidence - in a friendly New York court (where everyone hates Trump). Trump’s alleged victim then joked about how she was going to spend Trump’s loot.
Stephanopoulos played dumb, insisting that E. Jean Carroll was a legit rape victim and that no rape victim should support the former president. As if he’s qualified to tell sexual assault survivors how to vote.
If Mace had been prepared for this tawdry line of questioning she could have turned it around on the weasly TV host.
She should have asked HIM how he supported Bill Clinton for president when his role in the 1992 campaign was as part of Clinton’s “war room” that had one job: extinguishing “bimbo eruptions.”
Clinton’s sexual adventures were well-known and the women he had extra-marital affairs with or assaulted were surfacing regularly.
Anyone else remember Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick or Paula Jones?
Stephanopoulos and James Carville acted like irreverent frat boys during the campaign as they set out to not only discredit but to ruin any woman who dared accuse Clinton of sexual misconduct or even rape.
Remember Carville’s famous remark about Paula Jones, a low-level state employee whom Clinton summoned to a Little Rock hotel room so he could expose himself to her?
“This is what you get when you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park,” Carville quipped.
George Stephanopoulos worked his tail off to get a womanizer and sex abuser elected president.
That makes him uniquely unqualified to relentlessly badger a rape victim just because he doesn’t approve of her politics.
Stephanopoulos should be reprimanded by ABC for his boorish behavior.
That won’t happen.
Legacy media will stoop to anything to keep Trump from winning the presidency.
Bullying rape victims is just part of their game.
