“He really isn’t a journalist” is a devastating, if accurate assessment of George Stephanopoulos’s activities at ABC News, where he is the front man, the most visible embodiment of that organization. And this doesn’t come from some right winger, it comes from a former colleague at ABC News, Carole Simpson. Lloyd Grove, the former Washington Post writer now at the Daily Beast, recounts the flak that Stephanopoulos took from normally friendly sources on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Sunday morning: Stephanopoulos’s former ABC News colleague, Carole Simpson, unloaded on the former top aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton that she said she likes and respects. “There is a coziness that George cannot escape,” said Simpson, who toiled for two decades at ABC News, notably as the weekend anchor of World News Tonight from 1988 to 2003. “While he did try to separate himself from his political background to become a journalist, he really...(Read Full Post)