Walt Disney Co. executives have refused to answer questions about whether the company's close friendship with Kamala Harris influenced last week's ABC News presidential debate, where moderators David Muir and Lindsey Davis frequently displayed clear bias in favor of Harris.
Dana Walden, who oversees ABC News and directs the debate, spoke on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. Variety I asked her if she had anything to say about the controversy, which the media has disingenuously portrayed as a “far-right” talking point.
“I really don't want to tarnish my reputation by reacting too much,” Walden said.
“I have the utmost respect for everyone at ABC News. It's the most professional organization and has the most top-notch journalists,” she added. “I don't think there's much dignity in responding.”
Walden's refusal to answer comes after ABC News' Lindsey Davis recently acknowledged that the news organization knowingly planned to subject former President Donald Trump to live fact-checking on air, but didn't apply the same standard to Kamala Harris.
During last week's debate, the ABC News moderators repeatedly interrupted Trump to fact-check his remarks but never did so for Harris, who told a long list of easily disproven lies, including the shockingly false claim that military personnel serve in war zones.
Dana Walden's apparent bias against Trump has sparked accusations that she is campaigning to help her friend, Kamala Harris.
The vice president even describes himself as a “special friend” of the Waldens.
Dana Walden is co-chair of Disney Entertainment, overseeing a number of its television divisions, including ABC News and ABC Entertainment. She has donated multiple times over the years to Kamala Harris' various political campaigns, including her 2020 presidential bid, which faltered early in the primaries, according to a recent investigation. The New York Times Report.
She has hosted fundraisers for Harris at her Los Angeles home and reportedly donated $20,000 last year to support President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Even more disturbing is that Walden is reportedly close friends with Kamala Harris and her husband, entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff, and Harris once said during a 2022 fundraiser that she owes her marriage to Dana Walden and her husband, Matt.
Walden has been thrust into the spotlight after last week's debate, as questions arose about why news networks allowed their hosts to be so blatantly biased in favor of Kamala Harris.
The bias was so obvious that former advisers to Bill and Hillary Clinton publicly denounced ABC News.
in The Wall Street Journal EditorialFormer Clinton adviser Mark Penn wrote (with Andrew Stein) that ABC's bias deprived voters of a fair debate and that the hosts should have fact-checked both candidates or done neither.
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