Gibson is a biased jackass. Sarah is qualified to be President. She earned it. Gibson is not qualified to be a reporter. He is where he is as part of a quota system (affirmative action) or political correctness, not because of any great talent.
“Goodbye Charlie”
Charlie Gibson, once a journalist , now a political hack............
Now there is an idea!
(forward him the full Lincoln/God quote)
It immediately tells readers they will be practicing “advocacy journalism” and deteriorates from there.
That was nice. What is the source?
Well written. You may be getting older but haven’t lost the skills.
Thought of freelancing for WSJ or similar publication?
And didn’t you all like the artifice of Charlie wearing his glasses Ben Franklin style while wiggling his feet in annoyance? What an arrogant, condescending little prig!
They started out by trashing Bush and calling him a murderer and railing about how many billions of dollars were being wasted in Iraq. They would have none of my defenses of him and said he was the sorriest excuse for a Christian they had ever seen.
Then, the conversation started to get interesting. They both told me how badly they wanted Hillary! to win this time and how disappointed they were with her loss. Finally, they told me how much they love Sarah Palin -- so much so, that they will now vote for John McCain.
They were also outraged at the way Gibson handled the interview and said there's no way he would have done that if it were a man he was interviewing.
I know this is only two people, and it occurred in reliably red Indiana, but if it is happening here, I am sure it is happening other places as well.
I know I’m repeating myself, but.......
In defense of poor Charlie, he really is like a third-stringer. He’s 65 and got the job he currently has only after one guy died and the next one almost did.
Welcome to the 21st Century.
Where the MSM has been replaced by editors and players from scripted reality television.
That’s pretty much it now, isn’t it?
Smug, sneering, sexist, condescending elitist
Until Peter Jennings died, Charlie was probably destined to be a game show host.
Great insider post.
Thanks.
He acted very condescending, like she was a child and he the adult. It was very insulting.....
I really PO’d ABC didnt go after Palin for eating live kittens!
Please provide their names and their affiliations. This article contains no sources.
As such, it can't be taken seriously.
And Pilosi says they want to instill a "Fairness Doctrine....."
The Fairness Doctrine would make sense if journalism were objective. But the conceit of journalistic objectivity would have struck the founding fathers as ridiculous, for the simple reason that newspapers of the day were cacophony of competing opinion, with hardly any news which was entirely unknown to the public at the time of printing.The conceit of journalistic objectivity derives solely from the commercial imperatives of the Associated Press and its member newspapers, and it is the propaganda power of the AP and its members alone which provides that conceit with what passes for its basis in fact. The conceit of journalistic objectivity is baseless in fact, and politically it is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.
Nice article.
We can assume that Gibson was operating under intense pressure to harass and provoke Gov. Palin in the hope of leading her into a gaffe. When no such moment emerged, ABC simply pretended Palin’s accurate summary of NATO’s responsibilities towards Georgia as a hypothetical member was warmongering. Still, pressure or no pressure, Gibson was certainly under no obligation to greet Palin with insinuating questions, false quotes and visible sneers. No doubt the scales fell from the eyes of a few more old media viewers after that performance.