Opinion by Erik Wemple: The GOP’s putrid case against the debates commission
at former Trump aide-turned-critic Anthony Scaramucci with a question about whether he should respond. The townhall-style debate that Scully was scheduled to moderate was canceled after Trump rejected a virtual format to account for covid-19 concerns. After Scully’s tweeted question to Scaramucci drew fire on Twitter, Scully, inexplicably, lied that he’d been the victim of hacking, and C-SPAN subsequently suspended him.
In her Breitbart op-ed, McDaniel put a misleading spin on the matter: “It came as little surprise to Republicans when Mr. Scully accidentally revealed prior to the debate that he was seeking advice on how to attack President Trump.” It was Scully, actually, who was under attack. “It’s 100 percent inaccurate,” Scully says of the RNC’s version of events.
Another bias allegation from the RNC dates to 2012, when President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were facing off in the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Republicans had been criticizing Obama for soft-pedaling this act of terrorism, and the matter surfaced in a CPD debate moderated by CNN’s Candy Crowley.
until two weeks after the fact. She pointed out that Romney was “correct” about a related point. There was no allegation of lying. The RNC is also aggrieved that several of the commission’s board members — six of the 10, according to McDaniel’s op-ed — have said “disparaging things about the Republican nominee.”
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