On Thursday’s Good Morning America (GMA), the superficial and unserious ABC News program cloaked itself in humor-tinged consumer reporting by using a recent Cookie Monster tweet to talk about the rise of shrinkflation in the current economy, but naturally absolved the Biden administration of responsibility and even eagerly touted the replies of two Democratic senators who happened to be in tough reelection fights.
Worse yet, correspondent Trevor Ault went full partisan hack as he left out the party affiliation of both senators, Sherrod Brown (OH) and Bob Casey (PA).
The GMA co-hosts did their part with not one but two teases. In the first, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos quipped: “Turns out, ‘s’ is for shrinkflation. Why Cookie Monster joined the outcry over high grocery prices.”
In the second, co-host Robin…
