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You know something has gone radically wrong with the country when one of the top three television news sources chooses to pull the wool over the American People's eyes like ABC News did last night.

Can you believe what ABC News did last night?

Ever since Kamala Harris was anointed in a back room as Joe Biden's replacement by Obama and Pelosi on July 21, ABC's evening-news crew has never applied an ideological label to Kamala.

In Kamala's first week as the nominee, CBS cited her "liberal voting record" and NBC reported she was a "self-described progressive prosecutor," but through September 4, ABC's correspondents never called Harris either a "liberal" or a "progressive." The ABC News team also never criticized Harris's handling of top issues like painful inflation or illegal immigration, so, the Democrats' plan for the debate quickly reveled itself. The ABC moderators would keep Trump in check, while they allowed Kamala lie her ass off.

ABC News' David Muir and Linsey Davis were the most egregiously biased of moderators and spent 90 minutes running interference for Harris while ambushing Trump at every possible opportunity. They didn't care that the world could see the deceit. It was that or have a fair debate and watch Kamala be destroyed.

ABC News even broke the rules during the debate. Remember, the "microphones turned off" rule? ABC News didn't and didn't care you saw that at a critical moment, they turned
Kamala's mic on.

It forced Trump into a three-on-one fight in which the moderators took on Trump. Their questions to Trump were slanted and combative and rather than addressing soaring inflation, rising gas prices, fake job numbers, the deadly fentanyl, and the border crisis, the alleged "moderators" decided to focus on platitudes and let Harris got away with murder -- yes, murder.

Kamala was allowed to say whatever flashed through her head -- true, false, bullsh!t -- it didn't matter. At one point, Harris recited a litany of the most obvious, thoroughly debunked lies about Trump. What did the moderators do? They targeted Trump with seven fact-checks and they never fact-checked Kamala's obvious lies once.

Muir and Davis routinely inserted themselves Yes, into the debate under the guise of "fact-checking" the former president even on trivial matters, to the point that at times it devolved into a side debate between Trump and the moderators.

The Fedralist has already published a list of twenty-five of Kamala's falsehoods.

Kamala Harris claimed that Donald Trump "refused to rent property to black families" and called for the "execution" of the Central Park Five.

She claimed that Trump wants to "terminate" the U.S. Constitution.

She claimed that Putin would "be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe" if Trump had been commander-in-chief the past four years.

She claimed Trump told Putin he could do, "Whatever the Hell he wants."

She claimed the Trump administration resulted in a trade deficit -- "one of the highest we've ever seen in the history of America" -- yet, the trade deficit under Biden-Harris has never been as low as it was under Trump.

She claimed she never called for a ban on fracking.

She brought up the debunked Charlottesville hoax, saying, "Let's remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate, and what did the president then, at the time say? 'There were fine people on each side'."

She dodged question on migration policy and that was fine with the moderators, who failed to correct Kamala alluding to the "suckers and losers" hoax.

The moderators failed to correct Harris on the "bloodbath" hoax. Kamala falsely claimed Trump said there would be a "bloodbath" if "the outcome of this election is not to his liking." This, however, was another mischaracterization of Trump's previous remarks in which he said that the country would fall victim to an economic bloodbath if he were not in office to place a "100 percent tariff on every single car" that is imported.

She claimed Trump "incited" the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. She lied, saying that six police officers died on Jan. 6. The moderators were good with that. They never faulted Harris' Jan. 6 bogus comments, but they showed their even-handedness by never once addressing the Trump assassination.

The moderators said nothing when Harris lied about her views on fracking, gun control, and defunding the police. Nor did they say anything when she erroneously claimed there are no American troops in combat zones (three U.S. soldiers were killed in a drone attack in Jordan earlier this year, and seven were injured in a raid against ISIS in Iraq last month).

The debate was an ambush, pure and simple. It would have been better had it not happened. It was a mistake for Trump to participate since the Democratic Party is firmly in the hands of subversives and you can't do deals with subversives. They don't play within the lines and expecting fairness from these people is a fool's game. This is a war for the future of America and it needs to be approached as a war.

The moderators oversaw nothing more than a game show where the outcome was known before it began and in which Trump was forced to defend every word he's ever spoken, while Harris was able to skate past her twenty years of activism and four years of failure with the most egregious lies and mischaracterizations.

That was ABC News' goal. They had the Democratic media standing by, ready to sabotage Trump's chances of winning by making him defend trivial issues, creating fodder for the media to malign him while praising Harris.

Have you seen the news and the social media this morning?

What was different about this debate, though, was how brazen the bias was. ABC News seemed totally unconcerned by the absence of anything that looked like journalistic integrity or fairness. It was shocking to see it.

The end result of the exercise was to erode our ability to function as a coherent polity, to maintain a democratic form of government or anything close to self-government. You can't do it like this, especially not in our digital era. The lies and distortions and undisguised bias get fed directly into social media, which instantly becomes a feeding frenzy of claim and counterclaim, replete with clips and commentaries that serve only to compound the distorting effect of the debate itself.

We can't engage in meaningful debate this way. We need a bare minimum of shared reality for that. The conduct of ABC News and the rest of the corporate press is making it impossible. If they're going to behave like this, then they're just contributing to the disintegration of our polity by distorting reality and making political discourse impossible. Instead of a necessary and salutary part of our national elections, the Fourth Estate has become a poison in the bloodstream of our national life.