Who will lecture Charlie Gibson on his ignorance? (VIDEOS)

The Constitutional Alamo ^ | 09/17/09 | Michael Naragon

[Publius772000]

Anyone who followed the 2008 election in even a cursory manner must rememeber the interview Sarah Palin granted Charlie Gibson in September. Much like liberal comrade Katie Couric, Gibson used the opportunity to ask Palin every difficult question conceivable, a stark contrast to the kid glove treatment received by media darling Barack Obama.

In a now-famous exchange, Gibson asked Palin about the “Bush Doctrine,” as though it was a well accepted concept that had been widely circulated. Like many of us in the audience, Palin struggled to understand what Gibson meant by the term, and she received ridicule and criticism over the next several days from journalists who themselves had not been sure of what Gibson had meant. Gibson himself, professor-like, his glasses on the end of his nose like a tenured dinosaur whose life’s meaning has been reduced to baiting students into impossible questions, lectured the governor of Alaska on what, in his opinion, the so-called “Bush Doctrine” meant.

It is now a year later. The presidential candidate supported by Comrade Gibson and his ilk has won the presidency, helped in no small part by the society of community organizers known as ACORN. Perhaps Gibson believed his work was done at that point. Perhaps all journalists did. This would explain their absolute surprise and alarm that two amateurs with no real journalistic experience have managed, with limited time and funds, to crack the mighty oak that was disguised as an ACORN.

Gibson, when asked about this groundbreaking story and the resulting Senate vote that cut funding for ACORN, laughed hysterically and claimed he knew nothing of the story. Gibson’s claim of ignorance came despite the fact that a fellow ABC employee, Jake Tapper, had done a piece on the ACORN scandal and posted it on ABC’s website.

[Publius772000]

VIDEOS of both exchanges and more commentary may be found at the original article at http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/?p=837

Thanks for reading!

[SAJ]

Who will? Whatever for?

Who the hell wants to waste his/her time lecturing a tree stump?

[Genoa]

Gibson’s an overpaid actor. And he laughs like a little girl.

[w1andsodidwe]

Link broken. Just get “Sorry no posts match your criteria”.

[cvq3842]

I’d say gibson really danaged his reputation - less than Dan Rather, probably, but that’s not saying much.

“ACORN? What’s ACORN? Duh, I just read what they put in front of me! Can’t I go back to interviewing celebrities and trying out cooking recipies on Good Morning America?”

Lightweight.

[cvq3842]

danaged = damaged

[Publius772000]

Sorry! Posting problem! Here is the link: http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/2009/09/17/who-will-lecture-charlie-gibson-on-his-ignorance/

[Publius772000]

Sorry, repaired link: http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/2009/09/17/who-will-lecture-charlie-gibson-on-his-ignorance/

[cvq3842]

Thanks - I think another poster asked for this but I ppreciate it also.

[cvq3842]

ppreciate = appreciate

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Quit clowning around Gibson!.....

[GOPJ]

When I hear "New York Times"-fair or unfair-what I hear is "New York Times Whore House"...

When I hear ABC NEWS - fair or not - I hear " All the News Democrats Want You To Know and Non-Stop Hatred for Conservatives... "

[w1andsodidwe]

Thanks, it happens to the best of us.

[ETL]

(WABC's) Charlie Gibson on Acorn Scandal: I Don't Even Know About It
BigGovernment.com ^ | Publius

Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:02:59 PM by ETL

This morning, the ACORN scandal was raised to Charlie Gibson in an interview on WLS AM Chicago’s “Don Wade & Roma Morning Show.”

TRANSCRIPT:

Don: Ok here’s my question, Senate bill yesterday passes cutting off funds to this group called ACORN. Now we got the…we got that bill passing, we got the embarrassing video of ACORN staff giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel with 13 year old hookers. It has everything you could want corruption and sleazy action at tax funded organizations that’s got government ties. But nobody’s covering that story why?

Charlie Gibson: (laugh) I don’t even know about it. Uh, so you got me at a loss, I don’t know. Uh, uh, but, but My goodness if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it we should talk about it this morning.

Roma: This is the American way…

Charlie Gibson: Well maybe, maybe that’s one you just leave to the cables.

Roma: Well I think that this is a huge issue because there’s so much funding that goes into this organization and it’s a multi…

Charlie Gibson: Well, I know we’ve done some stories about ACORN before but uh, uh this one I don’t know about.

Roma: Jake Tapper did some blogging on it. I know he’s at least blogged once on this scandal.

Charlie Gibson: You guys, you guys are really up on the uh on the website.

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Footage of the San Bernardino investigation was not available at the time of the interview.

Thank you to WLS AM Chicago for providing the audio.

Listen to the audio here:
[begins about 4 minutes, 30 secs into the audio clip. More incredible audio clips from the new Acorn videos later in the audio (apprx 11 mins into it) - total length of audio: apprx 35 mins. you can slide the bar over to the 4-1/2 min mark]
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=8e38a801-07a5-41be-b6a1-fac443716e71

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341347/posts

[bigbob]

For the record, the 2nd “video” is actually audio of Don Wade, a great Conservative and common sense voice on The Big 89, WLS-AM Chicago, who put the question to Mister condescending-looking-down-his-nose, Charlie Gibson. Props to Don! Especially for his timing, as he asked this most important question after Gibson had been yammering on for several minutes about his upcoming retirement, and Wade caught him squarely between the eyes!

[Publius772000]

Thanks for filling in the information!

[VRWCmember]

Let me ask you a question Charlie: Do you agree with the “ACORN Doctrine”?

[VRWCmember]

If Gibson truly did not know about the story, then his ignorance far outpaces that which he and his comrades in the media claimed about Palin. She did not know the media term for Bush’s actions in the Middle East.

For that matter, even the media didn't have a common definition of the Bush Doctrine. There were at least THREE different foreign policy philosophies that had been described as "the Bush Doctrine":
1) The first use of the "Bush Doctrine" referred to Bush's approach to old outdated Treaties with the Soviet Union (which doesn't exist anymore) that the US is not obligated to abide by obsolete treaties that don't apply anymore and whose counter-signatories don't exist anymore;
2) The next foreign policy described as a new "Bush Doctrine" was the statement that Bush made after 9/11 that we will make no distinction between the terrorist groups that orchestrated the attacks and the nation/states that give those groups harbour;
3) A third idea described as the "Bush Doctrine" was the policy/philosophy as expressed by Bush that the United States is not obligated to ask the permission of the UN to defend itself and/or execute the war on international terrorists;
4) The third concept was repackaged by the media as one of "preemptive attacks for self-defense" and described as the "Bush Doctrine" policy of Preemptive attacks to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom (which was really just an extension of the clinton policy of regime change in Iraq after Saddam's numerous violations of the terms of the Cease-fire that ended the prior Gulf Conflict in 1991.

[GOPJ]

bump to the top

[Publius772000]

Exactly so. This discrepancy among journalists themselves wasn’t mentioned at the time of the Palin attack, but, then again, I don’t believe any conservatives had/have any delusions that the State media would do anything remotely close to actual reporting.