If even Nancy Pelosi thinks that sexual harassment accusations against sitting Democratic Congressman Ruben Kihuen are serious enough that he should resign, why haven’t ABC and NBC covered them at all?
Kihuen has been accused of making multiple sexual advances towards a campaign staffer in 2016 without her consent, including touching the staffer’s thighs. According to the accuser’s interview with BuzzFeed, Kihuen “propositioned her for dates and sex despite her repeated rejections.”
Yet so far, the morning and evening news shows on ABC and NBC have completely failed to even mention Kihuen. The CBS Evening News also hasn’t mentioned this story, while CBS This Morning gave it a whopping 15 seconds on December 2. As the MRC has highlighted before, this matches an ongoing trend by the networks to downplay Democratic scandals while hyping Republican ones.
The accusations against Kihuen came out in a BuzzFeed story on December 1. Pelosi called for him to step down the next day. Yet that dramatic step did nothing to excite the networks.
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