BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today sent a letter to ABC News President David Westin, asking that reporter Sam Donaldson be barred from ever again reporting on gun rights issues, because he is serving as master of ceremonies at a fund-raiser for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Donaldson is hosting the event May 15 in Washington, D.C. His appearance, said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, reinforces the opinion of this nation’s gun owners that ABC and its reporters for the most part share an anti-gun philosophy.
“We believe that the appearance of such a high-profile ABC reporter and commentator as the host of an event that raises money for one of the nation’s most hysteria-driven gun control organizations is a terrible breach of propriety,” Gottlieb said.
“Donaldson is actually out there in the spotlight,” he continued, “helping this anti-gun organization raise hundreds of thousands of dollars that will be used to trample our Second Amendment rights. It’s as bad as Dan Rather being the keynoter at a Democrat Party event in Texas a few years ago.
“Any appearance of fairness that Donaldson may have had on the gun rights issue just went out the window,” Gottlieb observed. “As of now, Mr. Donaldson has zero credibility on any level that deals with firearms, and the same pretty much goes with ABC News as a news agency.
“Donaldson has no business hosting a fund raising event for a gun control organization, and ABC News has no business allowing it,” Gottlieb stated.
“By participating in this event, Sam Donaldson and ABC News just spit in the faces of 80 million law-abiding gun owners,” Gottlieb concluded, “and I guarantee sponsors of ABC News are going to hear from all of us.”