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UNBURDENED: CBS’s O’Donnell MAD About Trump’s Garbage Truck ‘Stunt’

Oct 31, 2024

By Jorge Bonilla

With her tenure as anchor of the CBS Evening News coming to a close, Norah O’Donnell is now unburdened by what is, and is now openly and brazenly editorializing ahead of reporter packages. Former President Donald Trump’s response to President Joe Biden calling Trump supporters ‘garbage” was simply too much for O’Donnell to countenance.

Watch as O’Donnell unleashes a whopper to open the newscast (emphases mine):

NORAH O’DONNELL: We are now six days out from Election Day. Nearly 60 million votes have already been cast in early in-person voting and through the mail. And the latest polls suggest the race cannot be tighter. Both campaigns are locking their focus on the battleground states. Vice President Kamala Harris rallied in North Carolina and Pennsylvania today and is in Wisconsin tonight. Former President Donald Trump was in North Carolina earlier, and tonight he is also in Wisconsin. He landed in Green Bay just a short time ago and then pulled this campaign stunt, speaking to reporters from a garbage truck, proof that he and his supporters are giving no grace to a gaffe by President Biden where he, in his explanation, inadvertently called Trump supporters “garbage”. This, of course, was in response to that racist joke about floating garbage told at a Trump rally just last weekend. Vice President Harris is distancing herself from the negativity, and trying to drive home her unifying message that if elected, she will represent all Americans.

This is the kind of over-the-top propagandizing that may well make both the North Korean anchor lady and ABC’s Mary Bruce say, “whoa, take it down a notch.”

First, there is O’Donnell’s rank dismissal of the garbage truck play as a “stunt”, which is language that is limited to describing the activities on one side of the aisle. Were a Democrat to do this, they’d be hailed for their strategic acumen and keen connection to the common folk. Trump doesn’t get that courtesy.

Then, there’s the line about giving no grace to Biden. How much more grace does Biden need, exactly, after having the Regime Media act as his Praetorian Guard for the last three and a half years? Biden got tons of grace in the form of non-coverage whenever he wandered off the stage at an event, shaking hands with empty air. Biden drew tons of grace from a Regime Media more interested in firefighting his scandals than performing journalism. Now contrast that with the media’s spread of every possible hoax and baseless rumor as pertained to Donald Trump. Suggesting that Biden unloading on Trump supporters was an inadvertent gaffe is an insult to the public’s intelligence.

Then, the cherry on top: O’Donnell pivoting to Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to “distance herself from the negativity”, and the description of her message as “unifying”. This kind of gross propaganda proves Jeff Bezos’ point about the public losing interest in the media.

O’Donnell then tossed to correspondent Robert Costa’s report on the Trump campaign, which featured the aforementioned garbage truck. But with that kind of editorial embedded into an intro, why even bother with a report?

Editor’s note. This appeared at Newsbusters and is reposted with permission.

Categories: Donald Trump