Posted on 06/06/2007 4:21:14 PM PDT by wagglebee
Edited on 06/06/2007 4:24:24 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
ALEXANDRIA, VA, June 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Yesterday, while filling-in for Regis Philbin on Live with Regis and Kelly, CBS News Early Show anchor Bryant Gumbel actually boasted about once calling conservative culture-critic Robert Knight "a [edited] idiot". Gumbel used the actual word at the end of a June 29, 2000 interview on CBS's The Early Show about whether active homosexuals should work as scoutmasters in the Boy Scouts. Mr. Knight, then with the Family Research Council, is now the director of the Media Research Center's Culture (MRC) and Media Institute.
After the first incident, the Media Research Center called on Mr. Gumbel to apologize. He remained silent. His employer, CBS, made the astounding claim that they did not know what Mr. Gumbel had said, although the incident was captured on videotape and live television.
In his comment today, Mr. Gumbel expanded on the insult, saying, "One time I was doing an interview with - I'm going to kindly describe him as a gentleman - and he was arguing about how gays should be kept out of the Boy Scouts, etcetera, and he was infuriating me. And I finished the interview and I thought we had gone to commercial and we hadn't, and I said 'what a blank-ing idiot.' I was correct, but it was wrong to do."
Concerning Mr. Gumbel's recent remarks, MRC President Brent Bozell commented: "Bryant Gumbel is a crude, left-wing reporter who has now confirmed what we documented and CBS denied for seven years-CBS claimed 'it is unclear what the comment was'-and for which Mr. Gumbel refused to apologize. Mr. Gumbel's words and lack of decency and decorum, then and now and as confirmed on the broadcast today, show that he is grossly biased and sees absolutely nothing wrong in smearing people he disagrees with politically as blankety-blank idiots."
Bozell added, "Robert Knight, and the audience, deserved an apology back in 2000 from Mr. Gumbel and CBS, and they certainly deserve one today from Mr. Gumbel. In this age of Don Imus and belittling of people for political reasons, the lewdness on the left needs to be challenged and rejected by all Americans, most notably by those in the media."
He concluded: "We once again call upon Bryant Gumbel to apologize publicly for his crass comments and we also call upon CBS to correct the record, which it has stonewalled for so long."
To express concerns to CBS contact: audsvcs@cbs.com
I'm sure they will say that it's "fake but accurate."
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Gumbel has a case of the Harry Belafonte syndrome: he hyperventilates when he runs headlong into shallowness of his intellect.
I didn't realize B.Gumbel was still with CBS on their morning show. Thought that ended years ago.
Gumbel is so ghey.
Maybe the Vice President can be persuaded to give Gumbel an exclusive, like the one he gave Leahy.
and i have the right to call bryant gumbel one of americas leading racists.
I’ve despised Bryant Gumble ever since his attempts at cute commentary ruined the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Olympics.
God is not mocked. The homosexual agenda is another way for man to glorify man rather than God.
I haven’t watched a morning show in over twenty years.
takes one to know one, so to speak.
So where both outta the mainstream. LOL Fine by me.
gumby is but another reason that cBS is going bankrupt!
LLS
gumby may be a butt pirate... hiding in the closet!
LLS
The irony is that their prime-time lineup kills the other networks in the ratings, their news division is just siphoning off profits. It would be cheaper just to buy out the contracts of everyone in the news division.
I’m guessing that advocate borrowed his brother Greg’s hairpiece.
Bryant Dumbbell - who cares what he thinks?
He’s an Alka-Seltzer on the beach while high tide’s coming in.
This just in Bryant, your Today Show days are long over.
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