An earlier version of this essay of mine was published by American Thinker on 3/13/2024.

The amorality of ABC's George Stephanopoulos

It is probable that ABC's Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos genuinely feels he did nothing wrong in publicly assaulting teenage-rape victim Nancy Mace. His sleazy past portrays a politically obsessed hatchet-swinger without conscience. 

Examining doctors might conclude he's a sociopath. I can't make that diagnosis, but I am suspicious for sound reasons.

Stephanopoulos savaged Rep. Mace of South Carolina on GMA. Though her appearance had been proposed as an opportunity to share insights on 2024's presidential contest, the devious host opened the segment by attacking Mace personally.

"You endorsed Donald Trump for president," Stephanopoulos began. "Judges in two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming a victim of that rape. How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?"

It was a premeditated ambush offensive. The miniature monster lied numerous times during the segment. The former president was not found liable for rape, but rather "sexual abuse" - that's a pivotal legal distinction.

During her retort, Mace insisted "I'm not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim."

The GMA host purred that he had done no such thing, though all watching had just witnessed him doing precisely that.

The interview continued in that sorry vein, with Stephanopoulos attired in the gear of a partisan bully. Without apparent conscience, he pursued political interests and not journalistic ones.

"George Stephanopoulos tried to bully me and shame me as a rape survivor over my support for Donald Trump, which is insane to me, because he wasn't found guilty of rape anywhere," Mace subsequently told Fox's Harris Faulkner, per The Hill. 

The ABC network apparently shares Stephanopoulos's lack of conscience. The Hill article quotes an unnamed ABC spokesperson as praising the host's foulness: "George did his job by asking meaningful questions that are relevant to our viewers."

Democrats generally profess compassion for victims of sexual assault. That those claims are cynically opportunistic was made clear by their post-interview championing of Stephanopoulos and gang predations leveraged against Mace with despicable relish.

On MSNBC, Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough (sans banjo) and Mika Brzezinski, and guest Jonathan Lemire of the left-loyal Politico, castigated the South Carolina representative.

"She's not shamed because she's incapable of being shamed," chortled Scarborough.

"She was acting like an eighth-grader screaming at him," lied Brzezinski. Mace was legitimately outraged, but never screamed.

Politico's Lemire leapt into the anti-victim spectacle. "It is bad acting," he opined. "But really, it's bad faith. What we saw from Representative Mace, it was indeed, although it is impossible to shame. It is shameful."

Other cheerleaders included a Mary Sue writer who thanked (!) the ABC figure for his caddish molestation of Mace, and former Vox associate editor Aaron Rupar. Rupar tweeted commendation for the Democrat host in the scurrilous incident's aftermath. 

The Daily Beast and Raw Story also rushed to join in the pile on. 

Stephanopoulos is not new to levying attacks on women victims whose traumas he calculates as politically deleterious. In 2015, a Jackson Sun columnist recalled "The little guy cut his teeth managing 'bimbo eruptions' when Bill Clinton was running for president. His job was to destroy and discredit anyone who could make his boss look bad."

Decades later, predatory sexual deviant Clinton frolicked on Democrat mega-donor Jeffrey Epstein's 'pedophile island.' This writer has never heard of Stephanopoulos condemning the cretinous 'Slick Willie' for that jolly misbehavior.

At this point, numerous questions present themselves: 

- How do ABC's women employees feel? 

- Kimberly Godwin is the ABC News president. Has she addressed this? If not, why not? Might she perhaps share the effete GMA host's 'all's fair for the Democrat Party' maliciousness? 

- Have feminist and rape-crisis figures spoken out? Can it be that their decisions to remain silent on liberal Stephanopoulos indicate they prioritize abortion advocacy over women victims' welfare? 

Just as Stephanopoulos has a reprehensible record on sex crimes, so does ABC. Informed observers have long known that network's executives tolerate sexual abuses for the sake of political and institutional advantages. 

Its news division attempted to squelch the truth about Democrat Party-donor Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood sex crimes. And the scandalous carnal sins of former ABC celebrity host Matt Lauer are surely ones network suits would prefer be forgotten.

One dearly hopes the fetid Stephanopoulos and the network itself soon find themselves on the wrong end of a massive defamation suit brought by the slandered Trump.

Stephanopoulos's apparent smug confidence that his televised attack on teenage-rape victim Mace would go unpunished would be validated, were serious professional sanctions not forthcoming.

Given ABC's sordid history, though, blow-dried lout Stephanopoulos will get away with his vile performance. Kimberly Godwin might even give him a bonus.