Sitting in on Friday for host and NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I dove into an absurd Los Angeles Times profile celebrating ABC’s debate co-moderator Linsey Davis for, along with co-moderator David Muir, interjecting for so-called fact-checks of Donald Trump. 

Longtime TV writer Stephen Battaglio admitted Davis Muir did so to avoid the blowback that CNN did after the June 27 debate with Trump and Joe Biden. He even said Davis’s false smear of Trump on abortion was “the showstopper” of the night. 

Battaglio played up Davis’s Christian roots, how prayer played a role in preparing for this three-on-one interrogation, and a former ABC journalists who has become someone for Davis to lean on....Carole Simpson.

Later, the fellas also discussed this week’s zaniness from The View and dove into the latest on CNN’s defamation lawsuit. Needless to say, CNN is not having a fun time.

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