Among the many Americans rendered ignorant about current events by too much dependence on mainstream media we must now count one Charles Gibson, anchor of the ABC World News. Michelle Malkin tells the story:
Several Chicago readers and Twitterers report that ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson told WLS-AM Chicago talk show hosts Don Wade and Roma this morning that the reason he hasn’t covered the ACORN scandal is that he didn’t know about it.
Never mind three shocking videos featuring waste, fraud, and child abuse, Gibson didn’t even know that the Senate had voted yesterday, 83 to 7, to cut off housing funds to ACORN. This despite the fact that Jake Tapper’s blog entry about the vote is highlighted on the front page of the ABC News web site.
Which raises an interesting question: where does this guy get his news? And why should anyone trust him to keep them informed when he doesn’t know what’s going on himself?
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He needs to attend a ninth grade current events class n/t
yoyo (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 2:29PM EST (link)…..
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Or read a newspaper, maybe? nt
Incredible (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:24PM EST (link)“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
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Gibson Not a Serious Person, Is He?
Spartan4Life (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 2:32PM EST (link)Has anyone taken this joker serious? I laughed when he got bumped from the innocuous GMA to the anchor chair. Not that anyone watches, anyhow.
This is the bow shock of the Ministry of Propaganda running the news
civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 2:52PM EST (link)Oh wait, we already have the daily secret briefings from the White House to major news agencies dictating the news coverage of the day.
Thank God we have the alternative media, who don’t get the briefings yet and haven’t put shut down yet (no matter Obama is so deferential to Chavez, because he see him as his mentor) – otherwise we’d not have any independent press yet, just government slaves.
Freedom of the press becomes it’s antithesis, an agency of oppression when the only “free” press (i.e. those not in prison or otherwise silenced) are those on the government payroll, figuratively or literally.
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It's more than not knowing.
NightTwister (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 2:58PM EST (link)It is his job to actually find this stuff in the first place. Not knowing is just the next logical step after not looking.
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No, his *job* is to do what his bosses tell him to do
civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:04PM EST (link)And right now, his bosses are telling him that he takes his marching orders from the White House (or they’re acquiesing in the White House initiative, which amounts to the same in the end).
His duty as a journalist is to keep informed of what is going on and to seek out the truth,
But evidently journalistic duty goes down the tube when it conflicts with his job duties.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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Hmmm.. Something fishy here.
TNJim (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:18PM EST (link)Didn’t know about it, or didn’t want to talk about it. WLS, last I heard, carries a lot of conservative talk, including the big 3 of Limbaugh, Levin, and Hannity. Plus they stirred some stuff up about Obama during the campaign that had the Chicago left all wee-weed up. He knew he was heading into an environment where he would probably get asked something about these current events about one of his hero’s pet organizations.
As much as ACORN’s been in the news over the O’Keefe videos, the Census showing them the door, and yesterday’s Senate vote to deny funding to ACORN, well…
Sorry, Charlie. Didn’t know about it? I ain’t buying what your trying to sell to WLS. Unless of course when all those stories came out you jammed your fines in your ears and yelled “LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!”
Which I could see him doing since he’s as in the tank for Obama as much as anyone else in the dinosaur media. Just another presstitute tring to cover for his pimp.
The only two possibilities are that Gibson is...
RedBeard Tuesday, September 15th at 3:20PM EST (link)…guilty of journalistic malpractice due to gross ignorance, or he is lying. If he’s lying, it must be to cover up for his previous lack of action, which was in turn designed to cover for Obama’s ACORN buddies.
Maybe it’s elements of both ignorance and prevarication, as it is in the case of a great many Obama lackeys.
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Charlie Gibson aka Ted Baxter
wolfster38 (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:26PM EST (link)Charlie is the poster child for whats wrong in the media.
He truly makes Ted Baxter of the MTM SHOW look smart.
His life times work just was flushed down the drain!
You Mr, Gibson and ABC are failures!
ABC needs to stick to soap operas ABC is not the news anymore!
LONG LIVE FOX !
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Wow, I wish I had heard that show
Bill S (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:28PM EST (link)because Don Wade must have ripped him a new one over that. Wade is a hard-core conservative, and Roma is also, although much more gentle about it than Don.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Well then Charlie Gibson didn't
Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:30PM EST (link)go to a friendly audience but instead a place to get kicked around.
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Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
He absolutely did NOT go to a friendly audience
Bill S (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:32PM EST (link)at least not from Don and Roma.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Pot. Kettle. Black
TheYeomanFarmer (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:49PM EST (link)What’s especially aggrivating is that this is the same Charlie Gibson who lectured Sarah Palin for not being able to describe the “Bush Doctrine.”
Charlie and Sarah Palin was my first thought as well
Right_Again (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:54PM EST (link)This is just an absolutely stunning revelation. How tightly would you need to shut your eyes to be unaware of this story? Even if he hadn’t seen the videos, the Census Bureau cutting ties and the Senate voting with only seven dissenters to cut federal funding to Acorn are stories about which he should have been aware.
I personally prefer news anchors to be somewhat informed.
Yep, 1 more great reason not to watch Charlie
peg_c (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 6:06PM EST (link)Lecturing Palin on her supposed ignorance and showing stunning ignorance or mendacity himself. He’s not too bright either way.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Remember his question?
Chong Wednesday, September 16th at 2:49PM EST (link)He did not specify which of Bush doctrine he wanted her to comment on. That question was design to make her look bad. That show me that is a bias news anchor and should not call himself a journalist.
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Gibson is LYING - there is a 100% chance
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 3:50PM EST (link)I am aware that most of us get our news from Drudge and the right side, and so it seems weird that ANYBODY would not know all about the weeks-long Van Jones scandal and the ACORN scandal.
Average citizens, it’s not surprising that many of them do not know. But there is a 0% chance that the News Division of ABC did not know these were both hot-ticket items. Your average MSM reporter is a moron, and lazy to boot, but EVERY news division has people that track the OTHER networks, and they all watch FNC in particular because FNC (obviously) comes up with so much material that is legitimately original.
Charlie Gibson knew at least cursorily about both stories, but there’s no way he was going to admit it. To admit knowledge was to invite the follow-up question: why then did you not cover it? The ‘well, we didn’t think it was newsworthy’ is an untenable position and he knows it.
So he professed not to know, because being thought stupid is more acceptable to those guys than to be proven biased.
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EPU, Charlie didn't know about ACORN
peg_c (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 6:07PM EST (link)the way the WH didn’t know about the 912 march and rally. Someone get a really big fire truck to put out all those pants!
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Bingo, EPU!
Rich Tandler (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 8:18PM EST (link)His laugh when he answered the question gave it away. It was much easier to lie and say he hadn’t heard about it than it would have been to explain away the lack of coverage.
These Obama talking point “newscasts” are become less relevant by the day. I can learn just as much about what’s really going on in the world by staring at a test pattern for half an hour.
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Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 8:25PM EST (link)Playing the I don’t know game works better than saying you knew and didn’t even cover it. With it being everywhere, the I don’t know shouldn’t even be excepted.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
"Or maybe this is just one you leave to the cables"
Right_Again (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 4:03PM EST (link)Would that be like the John Edwards, Charlie Rangel, Jeremiah Wright, Christopher Dodd, and John Murtha stories that were inconveniently about people on the left?
Gibson tells me a lot about how he operates as a newsman with that statement.
Who is Charlie Gibson? nt
Common_Cents (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 8:39PM EST (link)Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Gibson=Srgt Schultz from Hogan's Heros
illinois (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 8:53PM EST (link)I know NOTHING! I see NOTHING! But the dufus could dump on Sarah. What a joke! But, then who cares? Who watches those bozo’s anyway! They’re all going bankrupt. They’ll fold soon enough.
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Tbone (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 9:13PM EST (link)“Where Charlie Gibson gets his news.”
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Stupid; or Just a Liar
aposematic Wednesday, September 16th at 9:20AM EST (link)Gibson is either too stupid to be a news anchor or he just lied.
You choose?
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Can we vote 'and'?
Loren Heal (Diary) Wednesday, September 16th at 10:19AM EST (link)Yes we can.
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I Just Read the News on Camera
downstateinabluestate Friday, September 18th at 10:32AM EST (link)Mr. Gibson:
Sarah Palin is laughing at your ignorance / incredulity.
On a lighter note:
1) Charlie did read the morning fax :
However the White House talking points
did not have the response he needed.
2) Charlie left his teleprompter at home.
3) The Obama teleprompter was on lone to Biden.