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Charlie Gibson Goes From Most Respected Anchor to Foolish Disgrace
Canada Free Press ^ | 09/14/08 | Yomin Postelnik

Posted on 09/14/2008 4:57:31 AM PDT by 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).

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; abcnews; charliegibson; chucklestheclown; disgrace; gibsonpalin; hatinpalin; mccainpalin; mediabias; mediawingofdnc; mediawingofthednc; propagandawingofdnc; sarahpalin
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Come on, does anybody really take these guys seriously anymore? Okay, the liberal choir; who cares?


41 posted on 09/14/2008 6:30:05 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

yeah like he’s the only one

how about if your in news media you are a disgrace that should over it all


42 posted on 09/14/2008 6:41:21 AM PDT by Flavius (war gives peace its security)
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To: Mediocrates
To Charles Gibson. When are you going to ask Obama the same questions as HE'S running for President. Reporter bias is the reason TV ratings are slipping. The same can be said for print media. The public IS watching and we get it.
43 posted on 09/14/2008 6:42:11 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (In VP's, McCain picked the future, Obama chose the past.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Dan Rather met his fake Bush memo Waterloo. Now Charlie Gibson has flushed his own reputation down the loo, too.


44 posted on 09/14/2008 6:42:39 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Chode

We have a winner !!!!!!!

Excellent !!!!


45 posted on 09/14/2008 6:42:45 AM PDT by Kimmers (Liberalism: Where fun goes to die)
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To: ArchAngel1983

There are people who aren’t net savvy that watch these programs for info. My landlord is one. He’s a Polish immigrant. Getting lots of complaints worry’s newsies. Remember what happened to Chrissy and Olberman.


46 posted on 09/14/2008 6:46:51 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (In VP's, McCain picked the future, Obama chose the past.)
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To: maggief

LOL!!!


47 posted on 09/14/2008 6:51:09 AM PDT by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

I went to the abc site to register my objections. Only took a minute, everybody should. Make them sweat.


48 posted on 09/14/2008 6:58:11 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (diogeneticistical...esque...ish...)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Dan Rather was at the other end of Charlie’s earpiece.


49 posted on 09/14/2008 7:20:13 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: McGruff

Nice when things backfire on libs, ain’t it?


50 posted on 09/14/2008 8:45:22 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Why can’t it just be understood that common people are like fingernails on a chalkboard to Charlie. As we say in the south, “Bless his heart”, he is just too elite and grand to be subjected to interviewing a real candidate.


51 posted on 09/14/2008 8:56:14 AM PDT by nclaurel (I think therefore I vote Republican.)
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To: Yomin Postelnik
Even ABC’s “Fact Checker” got in on the game, playing
fast and loose with the “facts.”


Heck, even ABC Radio News is jumping on the "Stop Palin" bandwagon.
I can't wait for the affilitated ESPN to say what an aweful Governor
Palin is because there's not any NFL, MLB, NHL or pro-basketball
teams in the state!!!

This morning the ABC Radio News reader said that Palin was now
making campaign appearances without McCain.
And in so many words said that she was just repeating her convention
speech..."that is full of flipflops and information that has
been debunked".
You could hear the snearing against Palin in the voice of the
ABC news-reader.

In other words, they tried to convey the thought that she's too
lazy to work up new material. I guess ABC Radio News has never
heard the term "stump speech" that Republicans, Democrats,
Libertarians, Independents ALL repeat over and over again while campaigning.

And that she's just a liar. Even though every real investigation
of the facts presented in her convention speech has shown
Governor Palin is NOT GUILTY of the sort of mendacity or wiggle-
words that are Standard Operating Procedure for Democrats.
Heck, I even heard a CNN reporter run through a fact-check of
Palin's speech and he basically said that she was pretty much
honest in all her speech. (Hearing CNN concede that almost gave
me a freakin' heart attack!!!)

I'm suprised the news-reader didn't say she campaigning alone
because McCain can't stand to be around her!!!
52 posted on 09/14/2008 9:06:06 AM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA
Oops, let me fix something I'm suprised the news-reader didn't say she is campaigning alone because McCain can't stand to be around her!!!
53 posted on 09/14/2008 9:07:27 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Yomin Postelnik

for years it seemed Ole Charlie was the cleanest prostitute on Media Street. Now he’s just as dirty as the rest of them.


54 posted on 09/14/2008 9:09:56 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Gibson is a third-stringer who only got his job because one guy died and the next guy got blown up. It’s like a bad movie where several of the basketball team’s star players get hurt and the coach looks down to the end of the bench and the only player he has left is the dweeb with the towels. In the movie, the dweeb hits a buzzer-beating three-pointer.

In Gibson’s case, he slipped on snot and fell flat on his pudgy face.


55 posted on 09/14/2008 9:14:45 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Yomin Postelnik
Gibson, like so many others in the American Press are afraid of Obama. They must well recall when he threatned them if the media dared air an ad that he (Obama) found unpleasant against him. Now they are trying to make things all rosie between them again.

If Obama is elected, this will backfire on them. Obama wants full censorship of the press, there is no doubt of that. All his statements about what should be fair about him, his family, even others at times, point to that fact. Obama believes in the therory: "Control the press and you control the country." (Wonder whose idea that was, long ago? LOL) Obama will make sure the press reports only what he wants to be said about Obama or his administration. He will sweep over the blind sheeple in the media and, before they know it, their "freedom of speech" will be denied to them. They are just too stupid to realize the extent to which they will be censored if Obama is POTUS.

56 posted on 09/14/2008 9:41:22 AM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Mediocrates

I just e-mailed him

Dear Charlie,

Great job on the Palin interview.... GO OBAMA. Yeah!!! Now we can get even with whitey.... yeah, baby...!!!!

Go OBAMA
Go Obama.... get whitey....burn baby, burn.

We’ll get even with all them rich, white folk now....


57 posted on 09/14/2008 12:22:32 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: palomonte

If Biden makes it that long.

Note to Biden: Please plagiarize Charlie Gibson’s interview. You can blame it on Neil Kinnock. Also, where lots of lipstick to prove Obama’s point (that you can even put it on a p’Biden).


58 posted on 09/14/2008 1:33:30 PM PDT by Yomin Postelnik (Vote the War Hero, Not the Incompetent Noob, Our Security's At Stake - McCain-Palin, YES)
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To: scooby321

Well said. I didn’t look at This Week and instead subjected myself to Deface da Nation. Scheiffer was actually decent today. Maybe he knows to play to the conservative viewers who were sickened by ABC (would bet ABC ratings are down out of disgust).

I did throw the fridge and the kitchen sink straight into the TV set when Debbie Tiresome-Schultz went on, but that’s another story. Why don’t we play her speeches to the folks in Gitmo? They’d be singing like birds.


59 posted on 09/14/2008 1:38:53 PM PDT by Yomin Postelnik (Vote the War Hero, Not the Incompetent Noob, Our Security's At Stake - McCain-Palin, YES)
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To: Yomin Postelnik

Well done, Yomin! Isn’t it interesting how the media have made themselves an issue in this election cycle? It’s almost as if they need to feed their demon egos regardless of the dem candidate. One wonders how the Rodham rodent must feel knowing the media has so completely tanked for the almost black messiah by disregarding his past in favor of attacking the life of a woman only situated in the veep slot for the Republicans! I’ve taken to referring to Gibson as ‘Charlie-tuna Gibson’ but he’s more a stinking fish than ol’ TV Charlie who could not rise to the level of ‘star’ kissed.


60 posted on 09/14/2008 1:52:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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