It’s not been a good couple of days for ABC’s reputation as a hard-hitting journalistic enterprise. On Friday, chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce played softball with Vice President Kamala Harris, only to be surpassed by Saturday’s Good Morning America co-host Janai Norman in the competition to see who could give the easiest interview as the latter welcomed White House communications director Ben LaBolt.
If Burce lobbed softballs, Norman put the ball on the tee, “Now, one day after the State of the Union, the president started taking his message on the road. What is the administration’s top priority right now?”
After running through President Joe Biden’s travel plans, LaBolt took the opportunity to give a truncated version of Biden’s State of the Union Address, “He’s focused on preserving democracy in this country after…
