Posted on 09/13/2008 10:41:16 AM PDT by Perdogg
It won’t come as a surprise to LGF readers, but Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin was heavily edited by ABC News to make Palin appear more hawkish and less knowledgeable. Mark Levin has the complete transcript, and what ABC News tried to pull here is a textbook example of media malfeasance: Gibson Interview.
Also see: ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview.
The interview was so egregiously biased, even UPI is calling out ABC News for their blatant double standards: ABC’s Gibson grilled Palin hard, but it may backfire.
The double-standard Gibson applied to Palin, compared with the uncritical media platforms repeatedly offered to Obama, who has had zero executive experience running anything, was especially striking. ABC and Gibson focused on Palin as if she were running right now for the presidency rather than the vice presidency. He and other media pundits, by contrast, have never asked the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, if he has ever had to make a decision on anything.
Gibson’s aggressive approach appeared to take Palin by surprise: He was clearly attempting to put her on point by presenting her as having extreme religious views. This again, however, appears to be a double-standard, as Palin grew up in the Assemblies of God, one of the largest Christian denominations in America with 16 million members, and is now a member of the Wasilla Bible Church. Even now, Obama has yet to receive any comparable grilling on his 20-year attendance in the congregation of the notoriously racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
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No surprise there.
I noticed in the interview that some of Sarah’s sentences seemed to be edited out. It looked like she was still talking but she was abruptly cut off the screen. Not surprising to hear that they did selective editing to make her look as bad as possible.
The American perception of media will be permanently changed in the wake of this election. They are rapidly descending in public perception to the level of lawyers, politicians and shifty car salesmen.
Go to Mark Levin’s web site. Full text there with edited parts highlighted.
"Charles Gibson of ABC News was out for blood and inherently applied
a double-standard compared with the kid gloves George Stephanopoulos
used on Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois on Sunday night.
Gibson was out to embarrass Palin and expose her presumed ignorance from the word go. "
UPI Say ABC Exhibits Double Standard
ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview
http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=n1ronxelmtin
Funny video based on Lion King about Lefty blogs and media going after Palin.
A short time ago I watched a video of Newt commenting on the questions posed by Gibson about the “God’s plan” thing. Gibson took one portion of one sentence from a much longer statement that Governor Palin made and put it into a context not even remotely like the one in which it was given. The only shock here is that he would be so brazen about something that can be so easily fact-checked and exposed. These media propagandists are truly stupid to think in this day and age they could get away with this kind of blatant manipulation.
I think it is way past time for the GOP to realize that the leftist media is an active opponent in this and every election cycle. There are outlets that the GOP can trust to give them something resembling a fair shake but ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN and their midget spin-offs are not among them.
Gotta love Sarah...she gently led Charley down the lighted path...exposing his nasty demeanor with cool class.
Excuse me for shouting, I'm a bit incensed. Sorry for the rant but . . . in rants is Truth.
“Gibson’s aggressive approach appeared to take Palin by surprise...”
Why conservatives give these jokers a forum, I don’t know. And I don’t know how anyone can be surprised at their bias.
I had huge reservations when I heard originally that Palin would be interviewing with Charlie Gibson. Why can’t the Republican’s foresee that they’re walking into mine fields when dealing with the MSM? They take the “upper road” and get shot down every time. Sarah Palin needs to address the public in televised town hall type interviews from now on. Why can’t the RNC arrange for several hour long spots with both her and McCain and blow off the MSM completely?
Whenever members of the liberal media establishment decide to engage conservatives and/or Republicans, the level of inconsistency and unfair treatment is beyond the pale.
I would expect nothing less from ABC and Charlie Gibson.
Next week we'll see Sean Hannity interview Sarah Palin and I expect she'll get some softball questions thrown her way. Should be a better time to watch.
rot roh...anyone keeping tabs on Dan Rather
FYI, Mr. Kingpin.
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