Liberal Media Scream: Meet the Press’s Kristen Welker debuts as Chuck Todd clone

This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the debut of Kristen Welker as host of NBC’s Meet the Press. But other than a new face, there was no change from the lefty bias of the declining show’s MC.

To help Welker’s first episode, former President Donald Trump agreed to appear. In return, he faced the usual liberal fact-checking interruptions, especially when answering questions about abortion.

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Several times, Welker tried to quiet Trump’s charge that Democrats favor abortion right up to birth. “Democrats aren’t saying that. Democrats are not saying that,” she said.

Her performance won failing grades from conservatives, who weren’t expecting a big shift from the bias of former host Chuck Todd.

Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway was first out with an analysis headlined, “NBC’s Kristen Welker Lied Repeatedly About Democrats’ Extreme Abortion Position.” “Kristen Welker brazenly and repeatedly lied in a bizarre, conspiracy-laden debate with former President Donald Trump on Sunday,” she wrote, adding, “Welker interrupted her own pre-taped debate with the president to insert her own ‘fact checks’ that were false or were not responsive to actual claims Trump made.”

From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:

DONALD TRUMP: Roe v. Wade. For 52 years, people, including Democrats, wanted it to go back to states so that states could make it right. Roe v. Wade, I did something that nobody thought was possible, and Roe v. Wade was terminated and put back to the states. Now, people, pro-lifers, have the right to negotiate for the first time. They had no rights at all because the radical people on this are really the Democrats that say after five months, six months, seven months, eight months, and even after birth, you’re allowed to terminate the baby.

KRISTEN WELKER: Democrats aren’t saying that. Democrats are not saying that. Does it bother you, though, that women say their lives are being put at risk? Do you feel you bear any responsibility because, as you say, you are responsible for having Roe v. Wade overturned?

TRUMP: What’s going to happen? It’s an issue that’s been going on for a long time. It’s a very polarizing issue. Because of what’s been done and because of the fact we brought it back to the states, we’re going to have people come together on this issue. They’re gonna determine the time because nobody wants to see five, six, seven, eight, nine months. Nobody wants to see abortions when you have a baby in the womb. I said with Hillary Clinton when we had the debate, I made a statement: Rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, you’re allowed to do that, and you shouldn’t be allowed to do that.

WELKER: Again, no one is arguing for that, that’s not a part of anyone’s platform, Mr. President.

TRUMP: The Democrats are able to kill the baby after birth, and nobody wants that.

WELKER: Democrats don’t want that, either.

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Kevin Tober, news analyst for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “Kristen Welker either never read the 2020 Democratic platform or she’s purposefully trying to gaslight her viewers in the guise of a ‘fact check’ of Trump. The current platform of the Democratic Party poses no limits on abortions. Instead of pointing this fact out, Welker decided to scold Trump for telling the truth, which apparently isn’t allowed on NBC. If this is what we can expect from Welker as the new moderator of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd might as well have stayed on as the moderator. Different anchor, same liberal media bias.”

Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

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