That was Jonathan KARL babysitting Huckster SANDERS last night. (On EDIT, her *COMFORT PET* )
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During the Shrub era KARL was clearly a Brit HUME acolyte as a flunky for the Bush Family Evil Empire, always finding a way to work in some BUSH reference (whether Poppy, Shrub, or Jeb Crow Shrub) as paragons of The Best. When he subbed on This Week, he did this incessantly, one Father's Day doing a segment on how saintly Poppy was (NOT) and declaring him as "The Father of the Country."
So there he was on the dais last night, sitting next to Huckster SANDERS and acting as her baby sitter, scowling at the comedienne. And now there are his thoughts on the matter, to the effect that the Huckster was treated viciously.
Googling for background on him, I found this old piece from 2011 validating my long held impression of him as a wingnut:
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https://fair.org/extra/a-right-wing-mole-at-abc-news/
JULY 2011
Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement
.... Karl came to mainstream journalism via the Collegiate Network, an organization primarily devoted to promoting and supporting right-leaning newspapers on college campuses (Extra!, 9-10/91)—such as the Rutgers paper launched by the infamous James O’Keefe (Political Correction, 1/27/10). The network, founded in 1979, is one of several projects of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which seeks to strengthen conservative ideology on college campuses. William F. Buckley was the ISI’s first president, and the current board chair is American Spectator publisher Alfred Regnery. Several leading right-wing pundits came out of Collegiate-affiliated papers, including Ann Coulter, Dinesh D’Souza, Michelle Malkin, Rich Lowry and Laura Ingraham (Washington Times, 11/28/04).
The Collegiate Network also provides paid internships and fellowships to place its members at corporate media outlets or influential Beltway publications; 2010-11 placements include the Hill, Roll Call, Dallas Morning News and USA Today. The program’s highest-profile alum is Karl, who was a Collegiate fellow at the neoliberal New Republic magazine.
After a stint at the New York Post, Karl soon found his way to CNN, but he was still connected to ideological pursuits; he was a board member at the right-leaning youth-oriented Third Millennium group and at the Madison Center for Educational Affairs—which, like the Collegiate Network, seeks to strengthen young conservative journalism. After moving to ABC in 2003, Karl contributed several pieces to the neo-con Weekly Standard, such as his April 4, 2005 article praising Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as out to “make her mark with the vigorous pursuit of the president’s freedom and democracy agenda.” ....
What’s striking about Jonathan Karl’s reporting, however, is that it’s not flagrant Fox News-type bias. Rather, Karl comes across as a somewhat exaggerated version of the kind of Beltway center-right conventional wisdom you’re likely to see on any network newscast. Perhaps the lesson is that right-wing pressure to push the news business to the right has been so successful, a conservative movement plant fits right in.
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