Surprise: ABC Honors Scalia as a ‘Legendary,’ ‘American Original’

Scott Whitlock | February 14, 2016
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The morning after the shock news that Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia died, ABC and NBC actually opened their Sunday shows with fitting tributes to the “legendary” “American original,” seeing the conservative as a “giant” who was “funny and sarcastic.” That didn’t stop the journalists at Good Morning America and Today from constantly referring to Scalia as “controversial.”  GMA’s Terry Moran, no conservative, praised, “The Supreme Court had never seen anything like Antonin Scalia. He was the court's first Italian-American. But he was a high-voltage intellectual who developed this great theory about the Constitution.” Moran mourned, “He was a happy warrior. You know, I've been thinking, it's just impossible to imagine that great courtroom without him in it.” 

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