Extreme ABC Bias Calls for Total Disney Boycott

Alas, poor Mickey, we knew him well...

Whoever you think won that stupefyingly tedious (called “fiery” by the Washington Post) event, the Sep 11 Presidential Debate, one thing is abundantly clear.

ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis broke the American, or possibly the world, record for extreme partisan bias by MSM journalists.

It’s a high bar, with the record previously held by Chris Wallace for cutting off Donald Trump from discussing the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020, but they managed to do it. 

Perhaps they should move over to Olympics network NBC and collect their gold medals from Mr. Olympics himself, Bob Costas.  It wouldn’t be much of a stretch since ABC, NBC and CBS mirror each other so identically ideologically.  They have been demonstrating this for decades with the bias only growing bigger by the year, all the while insulting the intelligence of the American people by pretending they are even-handed.

During this particular debate, Muir and Davis didn’t just insult the public.  They ran roughshod over them, and Donald Trump, of course,

By censoring and/or disagreeing inappropriately and/or inaccurately with Mr. Trump at every turn while figuratively handing out medals of her own to Ms. Harris—silver, not the gold they reserved for themselves—they have earned their dubious prize.

Trump has been criticized for missing opportunities in this debate, justifiably alas, but one wonders how anyone could perform in that austere, audience-free chamber, more like an interrogation room, when ganged up on three against one. 

While the usual leftwing sources from the AP to Salon are predictably chortling about a Kamala victory, the right has been left fuming, also as usual, about the monolithic views of the MSM, more precisely termed the corporate media. (That’s the subject of a new book in which I have an essay.)

After this fuming, other than criticizing some of their own compliant politicians, most of whom roundly deserve it, the conservative rank-and-file for the most part retreats to its corner only to have it happen all over again..

Earth to conservatives—you don’t have to.

This is that cliché, “a teaching moment,” just as was the Bud Light affair.  But it is far more significant because there is a lot more at stake than a glass of beer. (Okay, I’m a martini guy.  Sue me.)

I’m sure you know it, but ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Company.

They own, as you also probably know, an astounding number of things, you can read about here.  They are the world’s biggest entertainment company by far.  You could almost say they were too big to boycott.

But they’re not. Nobody is. You don’t have to go to their over-priced theme parks filled with weird woke people trying to rewire your kids.  You can get your news elsewhere and much better than on ABC. As for entertainment, there’s a bazillion other channels.  Or you can even read a book.  Or go to a movie—just not a Disney one.

Yes, there’s always NBC, CBS, ESPN, the New York Times, and so forth into infinity, doing essentially the same as Disney.  But if you can wound the biggest and most powerful of them all, you will be sending a message to others, some of them anyway.  Change will ricochet.

Look upon this execrable debate as a gift.  You were being told by the Almighty this is the time to act.  It shouldn’t be all that difficult.  What are you actually giving up?  If you can’t do that much for what you believe, quit complaining and fold up your tent.

Speaking personally, I worked for Disney myself a bit in the late eighties and early nineties as a screenwriter, in the days we used to call the studio Mouseschwitz.  I could say I wouldn’t work for them again, but in all likelihood they wouldn’t have me, so that would be posturing.  But in thinking of what Disney was, I’m more than a little sure old Walt wouldn’t like what had become of his company.  He’d probably want to boycott it too.

So that’s up to us.  Let’s do it.

If you are still waffling or worried about missing some beloved television show—it’s not exactly “King Lear”— remember this: Where does so much of Disney’s money come from? Communist China. They have wrapped their arms around Xi Jinping ,his horrid despotic colleagues and their policies. Tim Walz is not the only one to ignore the Tiananmen Massacre and all that it has wrought. No wonder there were no questions regarding America’s most powerful adversary from ABC’s hack propagandists during the debate. Disney would never allow anything to disrupt their revenue stream, certainly not, to quote the title of a great anti-communist movie, “the lives of others.”

Meanwhile, this afternoon (Sep 12) talk show host Hugh Hewitt is saying that Trump is winning the more important post-debate because the public is beginning to realize how biased it was and Americans don’t like cheaters. I suspect he’s right. Trump himself has declared himself the winner and made clear he will not debate Harris again. This is probably wise. He has better uses for his time. We all do. No word yet on the vicepresidential debate scheduled for NBC, of all places, with the equally propagandistic Norah O’Donnell at the helm. What is it with the GOP leadership that appears to have learned nothing from the mistakes of the much-reviled Ronna McDaniel era?

That will be the subject of a forthcoming post. Meanwhile, we can act ourselves. If you agree that Disney deserves to be boycotted, please pass this on.

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