[ April 19, 2024 ]
C-SPAN’s Steve Scully disqualified himself as debate moderator after he contacted anti-Trump commentator and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci and asked for advice on how to handle Trump.
Scully messaged Scaramucci on Twitter but accidentally posted it as a tweet instead of message.
Caught red-handed, Scully — objective, fair, ethical CSPAN debate moderator.
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C-SPAN suspends Steve Scully indefinitely after he admits he lied about his Twitter being hacked
Scully was set to moderate the now-canceled second presidential debate
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
Steve Scully Twitter mess shows anti-Trump bias by debate commission
C-SPAN has suspended political editor Steve Scully, who was at one time slated to moderate a presidential debate, indefinitely after he admitted he lied about his Twitter being hacked when a message to former Trump aide turned adversary Anthony Scaramucci emerged.
Scully, the “Washington Journal” host who was selected to moderate the now-canceled town hall event, went viral last week after a tweet sent from his account indicated he had reached out to former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, something he later alleged was the result of being hacked.
C-SPAN and the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) did not immediately respond to Fox News’ requests for comment.
Both C-SPAN and the CPD initially defended Scully. According to C-SPAN’s original statement, Scully “did not originate the tweet” in question. The statement added that the CPD was investigating the incident “with the help of authorities.”
MEDIA LARGELY AVOIDS STEVE SCULLY CONTROVERSY, TV NETWORKS SKIP DEBATE MODERATOR’S ‘HACK’ CLAIM
CPD later stated that “it had reported the apparent hack to the FBI and Twitter” as part of its investigation.
A spokesperson for Twitter previously told Fox News “We’ve no comment” when asked to confirm whether or not Scully’s account was hacked.
Scully, who has not yet publicly addressed the controversy himself and could not be reached for comment, has a history of blaming “hackers” for posts made on his Twitter account, dating back to 2012 and 2013.
Tweets from 2012 and 2013 pic.twitter.com/jdeKqq7UEW
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 9, 2020
The CPD had selected Scully to moderate the second presidential debate between President Trump and Joe Biden scheduled for Oct. 15. That debate was canceled Friday night after Trump pulled out following the CPD’s announcement that the event would be virtual. Biden subsequently withdrew from the debate and has since scheduled an ABC News town hall for the night that the debate was supposed to take place. Trump similarly landed a town hall with NBC News airing opposite of ABC’s Biden event.
STEVE SCULLY HAS A HISTORY OF BLAMING ‘HACKERS’ FOR POSTS MADE ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT
Scully’s initial tweet caused confusion and fury among critics, with many concluding the moderator meant to send his message to Scaramucci privately.
“@Scaramucci should I respond to trump,” Scully wrote in the now-deleted tweet.
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21 Comments
3 years ago
Oops, so much for the Seal Team 6 revelations… Their latest video got yanked. Expect more trouble with Disqus as well. I previously downloaded the deleted video, so I will try to put it back up in other ways. Ask me if you want to download YouTube videos.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Nothing will EVER be done about it and 99.7% of the American public will NEVER hear about the murder of Seal Team Six, much less that obimbo was the one that hired the hit men.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Haven’t experienced them for my work yet- tho hear increasing accounts here of it…d
3 years ago
I see this as a major victory. I’m amazed anything happened to him.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
You have read about it. However, 99.7% of the American voting public will NEVER hear about it.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
True, but stuff is starting to bleed out pretty fast and furious now. Let’s see how well they can block and censor all of it.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
When we reference “starting to bleed out …” we think of ourselves and like minded.
As far as the general voting public, this information will never see the light of day.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
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3 years ago
This isn’t the first fake hacking claim he has made for partisan reasons….
3 years ago
Interesting theory, regarding Scully’s texting. We’ve all heard of “drunk texting”. Prior to the widespread use of text messages, it was “Drinking While Dialing”.
The theory goes like this …. When Scully served as an intern, for joey bidet, he became close friends with joey’s son, hunter bidet.
Ever since getting into hunter’s stash, Scully has had a difficult time controlling his phones and mobile devices. Especially, when hunter fills a new order. Scully had gotten his “new order” just hours before.
That text was “furnished by hunter”.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Ach: That seems credible, because crack can cause loss of impulse control. People do stuff impulsively that they would not otherwise do. And of course, combining crack with alcohol makes it even worse.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
There’s two ways of looking at booze and cocaine (it’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright …).
If you’re a juicer, cocaine (powdered or crack), makes you able to drink a great deal more.
If you’re a junkie (joey bidet’s term) booze brings down the fly.
3 years ago
This so-called deabate commission must be abilished and its members put out to pasture. It should be replaced by members selected by the RNC and DNC in equal numbers who can then set forth iron clad rules, or, if they cannot agree, the tie can be broken by the current POTUS.
3 years ago
3 years ago
“My account was hacked”
“Some Trump guy put a noose around my neck”
“If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance”
Lies and more lies. Scully’s was just dumb… why would somebody hack his account and do something to make him look like a Left wing hacker if he really wasn’t? Makes no sense. If only we can get a real moderator for these presidential debates then maybe we’ll get some enlightening information from the responses instead of the nonsense coming from Biden/Harris… oh wait… all they have in nonsense…. but at least it might be exposed for what it is so that the gullible people will realize that the Left are just spouting lies. But, sad as it is, what we have today is not an independent news but propaganda.
