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All three broadcast network morning shows paid tribute to the late former Vice President, and 1984 Democratic presidential nominee, Walter Mondale on Tuesday, but only NBC’s
Today actually permitted the “L” word — “liberal” — to be heard on their airwaves.
On ABC’s
Good Morning America, correspondent Mary Bruce avoided mentioning the strong liberal stance that cost Mondale 49 out of 50 states in the 1984 general election, while
CBS This Morning co-anchor Tony Dokoupil claimed Mondale — “a self-described progressive” — ultimately “won” his ideological argument with former President Ronald Reagan, as Dokoupil insisting that today “government is not the problem in people’s lives that Reagan described.”