ABC News debate moderator Linsey Davis endures racist, sexist abuse on social media for fact-checking Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

2 hours ago


ABC News anchor Linsey Davis was subjected to vile racist and sexist abuse online after she fact-checked former president Donald Trump while moderating Tuesday night’s debate. In what marked the very first time the former president and Vice President Kamala Harris had ever found themselves in the same room, the two presidential candidates went head-to-head on the debate stage in Philadelphia.

Throughout the almost two-hour-long event, Trump repeated a string of wild, debunked claims ranging from abortion to a bizarre falsehood that migrants are eating pet dogs and cats in Ohio. At one point, Davis corrected the former president when he falsely stated that some states allow for the “execution” of babies after they are born.

“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” Davis told Trump. On X, internet trolls and Trump supporters lashed out at Davis.

While conservatives on the platform accused both Davis and her co-moderator David Muir of being biased and favoring Harris throughout the debate, Davis was especifically targeted with racist and sexist posts. One X user called Davis an “idiot DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] moderator” – an acronym that conservatives have used to make racist attacks on people and undermine their position. Another user on the platform told ABC News to “puta muzzle on your chick moderator” – a sexist remark referencing Davis.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/debate-moderator-linsey-davis-racism-trump-abc-fact-check-b2610641.html

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The media platformed 45 10 years ago and sane-washed him while he occupied the Oval Office, extending that propping up after he was thrown out (still continuing the incoherent word salad ranting and lies to this very day).

[Irish_Dem]

1. Another profile in courage.

Speaking truth to evil.

[PJMcK]

2. Trump supporters

They are despicable!

They are attacking a newscaster for telling the truth.

They are pathetic losers. I have only contempt for these miscreants. They are un-American assholes who are irredeemable. If anyone is to be deported, it’s these freaks

[Frank D. Lincoln]

6. Well stated. I completely agree. nt

[bsiebs]

11. Hillary warned us about these "deplorables"...

[Crowman2009]

12. Preferably to Russia! So they can test out how gun-crazy macho they are in an actual war zone.

[2naSalit]

21. And 2/3 of them...

Are probably just ruzzian trolls.

[JohnSJ]

3. I wouldn't even characterize it as a fact check. They were corrections of outright LIES.

[Firestorm49]

4. "You can't handle the truth!" (They can't handle the truth.)

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

5. But the man moderator with the "chiselled good looks" is not getting any abuse ? Is this

Is this article saying what I think it's saying? He made a few corrections too.

[twodogsbarking]

7. X marks the spot. They create chaos.

[hadEnuf]

8. MAGA supporters are simply thugs.

Truth means nothing to them. They have nothing and need to be regarded as the terrorists and thugs that they are. That's all they are.

[wolfie001]

9. Every racist should be tracked down and their employer notified. Every one!!!

Hopefully, Anonymous will get involved.

[birdographer]

18. Is Anonymous still out there?

Haven't heard about them for years. Have they done anything about anything lately? Quite likely if they did, I simply missed it since I have backed pretty far off from news.

[wolfie001]

22. They just did something recently

Imma do a quick check.

[wolfie001]

23. I found something

Seems like they're always busy. I guess they rely on donations. Cheers

https://www.anonymoushackers.net/category/anonymous-news/

[paleotn]

10. I wish they'd stop with the DEI crap and just use the regular racial slur they're actually thinking.

Fucking cowards.

[Crowman2009]

13. These scumbag MAGA cult members deserve to be abandoned by their family.

No way would I be near anyone who has constant violent fantasies.

[birdographer]

19. The very reason I am isolated here

in a small town in trumpistan--I refuse to have anything to do with them, so goodbye every social possibility. Not sure how to find what is probably the other 5 Democrats in this nest of 4k MAGAts.

[AndyTiedye]

24. Can You Get Out of Dodge?

Or at least vote early and take a vacation in a blue state around Election Day? Trumpies are notoriously sore losers.
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-28-election-story-nobody-talks-about-neiwert-qa/

[ouija]

14. Bunch of keyboard tough guys

Mad that they are broke white males that need a reason for why they have failed in life

[Hamlette]

15. They do it so next time newscasters will sane wash him. You can see how it happens.

We are in scary times.

[FakeNoose]

16. Thank you Linsey Davis for doing your job professionally and well

I'm sorry we live in a country where idiot cultists are allowed to spew their insults and threats publicly on Xwitter.

[BigDemVoter]

17. Oh, and she & her family will get death threats too. . . .

This is how the Maga shit heads operate. . . .

[SpankMe]

20. Color me surprised. n/t