{"id":9318,"date":"2015-05-15T02:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T02:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2015-05-15T02:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T02:40:49","slug":"step-aside-george-stephanopoulos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9318","title":{"rendered":"Step aside, George Stephanopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I hope it doesn&#8217;t come to this, that the Republican National Committee forces George Stephanopoulos to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that he does it himself.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/05\/14\/the-rnc-should-ban-george-stephanopoulos-from-participating-in-2016-debates\/<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos, host of the ABC-TV weekend news-talk show &#8220;This Week,&#8221; has revealed that he gave $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Rodham Clinton, of course, is running for president of the United States. Stephanopoulos&#8217;s credibility as an impartial journalist has been compromised beyond repair and he must not cover any aspect of the political campaign that&#8217;s beginning to unfold.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t reveal the donation until he was forced to do so by conservative media organizations.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t look good for someone I&#8217;ve always trusted to be impartial &#8212; and bipartisan &#8212; in his questioning of political figures.<\/p>\n<p>His contribution to the Clinton Foundation ties him directly &#8212; and monetarily &#8212; to the Democrats&#8217; leading presidential candidate. He cannot possibly be seen as a neutral participant in any debate involving Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Surely he knows that. Just as surely he knows what he has to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope it doesn&#8217;t come to this, that the Republican National Committee forces George Stephanopoulos to do the right thing. My hope is that he does it himself. http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/05\/14\/the-rnc-should-ban-george-stephanopoulos-from-participating-in-2016-debates\/ Stephanopoulos, host of the ABC-TV weekend news-talk show &#8220;This Week,&#8221; has revealed that he gave $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Rodham Clinton, of course, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Step aside, George Stephanopoulos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,1],"tags":[118,1034,1897,2139,3715,3967,4758],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-uncategorized","tag-abc-news","tag-clinton-foundation","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-presidential-debates","tag-rnc","tag-the-federalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}