Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly “extraordinary friends” with the senior Disney executive who manages ABC News.
ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company, which is itself a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. And working at The Walt Disney Company is Dana Walden, whose husband, Matt Walden, has known Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, since the 1980s, according to the New York Times.
Harris has previously described the Waldens as “extraordinary friends.” And it just so happens that these “extraordinary friends” have donated bundles of money to her campaigns.
“Dana Walden has donated to dozens of Democrats and contributed to Harris’s political campaigns since at least 2003, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco,” according to Fox News.
“She went on to donate to her subsequent campaigns for California Attorney General and U.S. Senate, as well as her 2020 White House bid,” Fox News notes.
All this would normally present a potential conflict of interest because Harris has agreed to participate in an ABC News presidential debate on Sept. 10th.
Of course- Kammie has pals at the very top of ABC TV network – and of course – they’re doing the debate. SMH.
Atop ABC, a Personal Connection to Kamala Harris https://t.co/p5gCsgBkYA
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) August 12, 2024
But according to the Times, there’s nothing to worry about because ABC News has said so.
“ABC News says that any perception of a conflict involving Ms. Walden is not reality,” the left-wing outlet eagerly reported. “The company says that the executive, who oversees 18 businesses across the sprawling Disney empire, is only involved in the news division’s corporate matters (like budgets and staff size) and that she has no say in editorial decisions.”
“ABC News has built its longstanding reputation on journalistic integrity,” the network said in a statement. “All editorial decisions are in the hands of ABC News management and the seasoned journalists and producers of ABC, who hold themselves to the highest journalistic standards.”
Do they really?
Stephanopoulos rudely and abruptly ends interview after getting owned by JD Vance https://t.co/ekNyU1sJux via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) February 5, 2024
ABC News further claimed to the Times that Walden hasn’t hosted a fundraiser for Harris since 2022. However, Fox News notes that she donated $20,000 to support President Joe Biden in 2023.
“OpenSecrets finds Walden has donated extensively to Democrats across the nation over the years, including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Raphael Warnock, and Cory Booker, among numerous others,” Fox News further notes.
Moreover, last month Puck News described Walden as a “Hollywood winner” when it comes to Harris’ sudden rise from VP to Democrat presidential candidate.
“If there’s a Hollywood winner in Harris’s ascension, it’s probably Dana Walden: The Disney TV chief and her husband, Matt, go back years with Harris,” the establishment outlet reported.
Meanwhile, Walden is one of the top executives who might take over the company altogether when CEO Bob Iger’s contract expires in two years.
As previously reported, ABC News’ bias tilts heavily, heavily, heavily to the left. Just this week ABC White House correspondent MaryAlice Parks contrasted a “joyful” and “happy” Vice President Harris with a “mean” and “nasty” former President Donald Trump.
Listen:
(Video Credit: Good Morning America)
Days earlier, several ABC News hosts celebrated Harris picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, describing him as “folksy,” “personal,” and “the all-American definition of a man from Middle America.”
This is, as a reminder, the same guy who forced schools to put tampons in the boys’ restrooms. He’s also the same guy who supports transgender surgery for children, who sat back and watched as Black Lives Matter rioters devastated his state, and who was a COVID tyrant.
Meanwhile, former President Trump has sued ABC News for defamation over remarks made by host George Stephanopoulos. During an interview last spring with Rep. Nancy Mace, Stephanopoulos smeared Trump, claiming a jury had “found him liable for rape.”
In his suit, Trump accuses Stephanopoulos of acting “with actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth” and claims that Stephanopoulos “knows that these statements are patently and demonstrably false.”
“In order to prove defamation of a public figure, Trump must prove not just that the statement was incorrect, but that Stephanopoulos met the heightened standard of actual malice, showing that he had knowledge the statements were false or acted with reckless disregard of whether they were false or not,” according to CBS News.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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