My friend streiff over at RedState has the scoop on ABC News: ABC News Imitates The New Republic:

ABC News has joined The New Republic, Reuters, and the New York Times on the ash heap of journalistic integrity.

For five years a consultant named Alexis Debat worked for ABC news and has provided information to their reporters. Now it turns out that quite a few of the interviews he alleges to have conducted, interviews which found their way into ABC news reporting, simply did not take place.

Debat, an ABC News consultant, has published a number of interviews which never took place. He invented interviews with Barack Obama, Alan Greenspan, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates, and Mike Bloomberg. None of these bogus interviews found their way into ABC News stuff, but they did the right thing and canned him. It is not know how much of his work for ABC News, the network’s infotainment division, was fraudulent.