CNS Censors Herschel Walker Abortion Scandal

We’ve documented how CNSNews.com spent a lot of time hyping Herschel Walker as a potential Senate candidate — then largely ignored him after he finally announced his candidacy, presumably because Walker’s history as a domestic abuser came out around the same time. Almost a year has passed since that happened — during which Walker won a Republican primary, got caught telling numerous falsehoods and had to reveal that he has more illegitimate children that he had previously admitted to — and in that time CNS has devoted only one article to Walker, a Jan. 3 article by Craig Bannister claiming that Walker “says Americans need to rethink what it means to “Build Back Better,“ in a video taking on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion social spending and climate bill.”

A couple weeks back, it was revealed that a woman who had a relationship with Walker said Walker paid for an abortion he wanted her to have (and had receipts and a greeting card to prove it)  and that his campaign knew the story was out there. Walker denied the story and threatened to sue over it, though he eventually did admit he knows the woman and that he also has a child with her. All of this caused the one son he acknowledged before the campaign started, Christian Walker, to switch from vociferously defending his father to vociferously attacking him and his dishonesty.

Now, you would think a story like this would be very much in CNS’ ballpark of coverage — after all, editor Terry Jeffrey is an anti-abortion obsessive and regularly lectures against broken families because they can provide better for their children. But you would be wrong: CNS has completely censored any mention of Walker’s abortion scandal.It has referenced Walker in two articles since the scandal broke, howerver:

• An Oct. 10 article by intern Peyton Holliday on black Republicans noting Walker’s campaign against incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock.
• Another article the same day by Susan Jones that was focused on attacked the abortion stance of Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who’s running for governor in Georgia against Republican Brian Kemp; buried in a transcript is Abrams stating that “Brian Kemp has said that Herschel Walker is entitled to his personal choices, but no woman is, and that is unconscionable.” There was no explanation of what those “personal choices” were.

CNS’ abject refusal to report a newsworthy story solely because it makes a Republican candidate look bad actually makes CNS look bad. This partisan censorship makes it all too clear that CNS cares nothing about journalism and everything about advancing partisan right-wing narratives. It’s not a “news” organization — it’s a stenography service, and nobody who wants to truly call themselves a journalist has no business being associated with such hackery.