Democratic operatives together again, posing as news analysts

George Stephanopoulos is most well known as the chief political correspondent for ABC News – the news division of the broadcast television network ABC – and a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program, Good Morning America (GMA). He was previously the host of This Week, ABC News's Sunday morning news program. He is the primary substitute anchor for ABC News's flagship news program, World News with Diane Sawyer.

Many people will not remember that Stephanopoulos was a well known and effective partisan liberal propagandist, he was a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and later became the White House Communications Director, he went directly from the Clinton White House to a greater stage at ABC News WM.

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After the last two Republican presidential debates, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos turned to Democrats for reaction. After President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress, the morning show host again featured a Democrat. On Tuesday, Stephanopoulos brought on Democrat James Carville for reaction to the President's tax plan.

The journalist asked his former Clinton White House colleague how the Obama administration would deal with a new book charging incompetence and sexism. But Stephanopoulos seemed interested in extracting the White House from possible danger: "How does that portrait strike you? Does it square with what you've seen? And how would you advise the White House to handle this book?"

Carville responded, in part by asserting that the White House "can't do anything about what's in that book." It's interesting that Stephanopoulos would speculate about such a strategy as he was very aggressive in suppressing Unlimited Access, an anti-Clinton book back when he was a White House staffer.

A March 24, 2004 MRC CyberAlert recounted a past Stephanopoulos' faulty memory regarding his role:

George Stephanopoulos was asked on Tuesday’s Good Morning America, in reference to Dick Clarke’s book, if he’d “ever seen an administration put on a sort of full-court press against one individual as they did yesterday?" Stephanopoulos insisted: "On a book? No, never, it's never happened before.” Hmmm. Wasn’t Stephanopoulos in the Clinton White House in 1996 when the public relations apparatus under Stephanopoulos went full bore to discredit FBI agent Gary Aldrich’s account in his book, Unlimited Access, about what he saw as an agent assigned to the White House?

Stephanopoulos did ask a few tough questions. On the subjct of the Republican rejection of a call for tax increases on the wealthy, the host wondered if the GOP's "class warfare charge might stick and scare off the moderate voters that Obama's going to need next year?"

Over the span of nearly two weeks, GMA has featured three prominent Democrats to respond to events, often ones where the natural inclination would be to find a Republican. On September 15, Stephanopoulos finally talked to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and grilled him about the "distraction" Sarah Palin had become.

A transcript of the September 20 segment, which aired at 7:07am EDT, follows: click here for transcript