Charlie Gibson Goes From Most Respected Anchor to Foolish Disgrace

Canada Free Press ^ | 09/14/08 | Yomin Postelnik

[Yomin Postelnik]

Electoral victories of Democrats is a matter the media elites take immensely personal. Bill Clinton’s victory in ’92 was seen as their victory, the ascension to power of all children of the 60s (although Clinton is more conservative than they are, we must bear in mind that perception always trumps reality when it comes to the whimsical allegiances of superficial media elites) . Their fierce allegiance has now transferred to their replacement hero, Obama, who is far more radical than Clinton ever was and who may be even more radical than the media elites are themselves.

So it’s understandable that they’re personally upset. What’s not excusable is that they’ve, in effect, walked off the job. They’re refusing to report and have instead assumed the role of attack dogs for their campaign of choice. Yes, they’ve favored, lied and manipulated the news for years, many times in very inexcusable ways. But they never campaigned as overtly for or against a campaign as they are now. They’ve never been so full of bile as they are today. They’ve never acted as outrageously and been so openly spiteful as they are with their anti-Palin, pro-Obama crusade. And in the process, they’ve thrown their integrity straight out the window.

Joining their ranks is the once respected Charlie Gibson. He’s done similar things before and his biases are very much a reality. But the sad thing is not that he was never as overtly biased as he is now, as is the case with the rest of the media. The truly sad part is that the level of nastiness and hypocrisy displayed by him is uncharacteristic and is a blemish on an otherwise fairly decent career (as decent as one can expect from one in today’s mass media).

[snoringbear]

“His interview was very confrontational and it was obvious to anyone who had one modicum of objectivity that he was out to trip her up with a gotcha question.”

“Which is why I refused to watch it.”

Can’t say that I blame you for not watching. On the other hand, I believe that there is merit in intelligence gathering of one’s adversaries. What’s that saying - “keep your friends close and your enemies even closer”...

[Paladin2]

Make Charlie find Muskogee on a map.

[Diogenesis]

Will Bully Gibson apologize? I think not.

Gibson, the Biased ABC Media Bully [looking down his nose from up on high]:
"Please take off your American flag pin. The American flag is an abomination now prohibited by ABC News."

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Charlie Gibson's Gaffee

"The Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.
There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings,
each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration--
and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today.
...... I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry
on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term."
Charles Krauthammer

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Comparison: Gibson Questions for Obama (and Edwards in 2004) vs. for Sarah Palin

Obama's Puff-piece interview:
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Palin's 'kangaroo court' interview:
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking?
Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

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"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

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ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview

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[ZULU]

Great piece.

You can go to http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/story?id=128148
and register and make a comment about this biased liberal bigot.

Didn't realize that ABC is owned by Marxist Mouse. That explains a lot. Guess Palin’s family values conflict with their “gay day”.

[Grampa Dave]

Charlie is SOP for the ABCNNBCBS left wing POS’s posing as unbiased anchors.

It is time we let everyone know our feelings about Sarah, and my tagline is a good place to start.

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.................................HA ha!!!

[scooby321]

Boycott ABC news, This Week, 20/20 and GMA .

Let them wonder why their ratings have tanked

[silverleaf]

I havent watched those shows in years!

If commentators didn’t gossip about them on conservative blogs, I would have NO idea what the chattering classes are chattering about!

[nobama08]

I bet Charlie wishes he had a do-over.

[McGruff]

Charlie Gibson Goes From Most Respected Anchor to Foolish Disgraceful Partisan Hack.

[Yomin Postelnik]

Yes - thanks for the list

[oh8eleven]

Charlie Gibson Goes From Most Respected Anchor
Most respected - by communists.

[Vinnie]

I compared him to Olberman and Chris Matthews in objectivity.

[Zakeet]

Boycott ABC news, This Week, 20/20 and GMA ... Let them wonder why their ratings have tanked.

Probably a futile comment.

I doubt if there are many more than a dozen people on Free Republic who still watch main stream nitwork smooze.

I attribute this to the desire to not waste time sifting through endless leftist drivel in search of an occasional nugget of news, and the natural tendency to avoid pain.

[Hot Tabasco]

Gibson needs to head back to GMA where hosting guest Emeril is more in his league of competence........

[Joe Boucher]

If I were to watch t.v. news Gibson was the most fair.
Now I will not tune in to any of the big three.
Liars trying to seem objective.
No difference in Gibson and Cokie Roberts and their zeal to get liberals elected.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Shouldn’t we thank Charlie for acting as an agent to strengthen Gov. Palin (and further weaken BHO’s effort)?

I think that was the net effect.

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Gibson has no credentials to be considered a "respected journalist". He's at best qualified to be a morning show anchor. That's all he was before Peter Jennings died. Gibson got Jennings job because ABC viewers "liked" him more than the other candidates for Jennings job. Gibson did not get the job because he had a track record as a respected journalist.

So, throw Gibson into a situation (the Palin interview) for which he is completely unqualified and ABC had to know Gibson would be revealed as a complete lightweight.

[McGruff]

I think that was the net effect.

That may have been the net effect but it certainly wasn't the intent of the hit piece.

[palomonte]

My opinion is that the Gibson backlash will be another factor for Biden to consider in his preparation for his debate with Palin.

Biden naturally adopts many of the same condescending speech patterns, body language, facial expressions, etc. that Gibson did in his interview.

Plugz will be damned if he does or doesn’t in a lot of ways.

Gee...thanks Charlie.