Charlie GIBSON bumps off Elizabeth VARGAS

[UTUSN]

Despite wingnuts thinking GIBSON is "liberal" - I think of two incidents: One, when President CLINTON said, "O.K., let me be very honest with you," GIBSON said, "What were you being before?" He was clearly, purposely?, misreading CLINTON's Southernism, which is that "very honest" means in Southernspeak, to be rude, blunt, hurt-your-feelings.

Another time, on the topic of the 2000 Selection, where a guest complained about the SCotUS intervention, GIBSON said, "Well, they had to do SOMEthing..."

I get this image of GIBSON's having been passed over originally, then evilly lurking just offscreen, bumping off his replacements.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060523/ap_on_en_tv/tv_abc_gibson_4

Charles Gibson Named New ABC Anchor

NEW YORK - ABC appointed Charles Gibson as the new anchor of its struggling "World News Tonight" broadcast on Tuesday, replacing Elizabeth Vargas.

Vargas, who is pregnant and goes on maternity leave later this summer, will return in the fall to co-anchor the "20/20" newsmagazine, ABC said.

ABC's announcement did not specify a role for Bob Woodruff, Vargas' co-anchor on the evening news until he was seriously wounded in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Jan. 29. Woodruff is still recovering from serious head injuries and broken bones.

In a news release, Woodruff called Gibson a mentor and friend, and said: "I look forward to contributing to his broadcast as soon as I am able."

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[medeak]

1. Poor Diane Sawyer

rejected again.

[AlCzervik]

5. i wish cbs rejected Katie Couric, bob Scheiffer has done a good job

imo, i thought he'd be a shill for Bush but he's proved me wrong and the segments with Lara Logan are very good, horrifying but good.

[phoebe]

7. all joking aside, Sawyer is too valuable to the MSM -

she used to work for the Nixon press secretary. Be interesting to see what role she ends up playing..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Sawyer

BTW she also helped Nixon write his memoirs

[Midlodemocrat]

12. She's also a personal friend of the Kennedy family.

[JPZenger]

2. Bumps Off is too rough - Maternity Leave

The term bump off is too rough. She had good ratings as anchor but is going on maternity leave. I imagine she also wants a reduced schedule after she has a baby - she will be on a weekly news magazine vs. a daily news program.

[UTUSN]

3. How about, punished-for-getting-pregnant?

Actually, she always seemed a lightweight choice to me. Even now, in Googling ABC News or World News Tonight, the links are overwhelmingly about Peter.

[elehhhhna]

9. She stinks. She was a hack in Chicago and it was SHOCKING when she

got a national gig. SHE STINKS BAD.

[xultar]

21. I don't think so. She just wasn't that good and needed a stronger

anchor. Charlie Gibson or Diane Sawyer is who they should have picked in the first place. I dont' think they could move Diane because she has a huge following in the AM.

[partylessinOhio]

4. Gibson is a poor choice. I turn him off in the morning.

What is happening to ABC? They keep slipping lower and lower.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. I agree....I had to stop watching GMA

because Gibson became such a * admin cheerleader!

[goclark]

26. Right! He is a Bush Cheerleader

Don't let him fool you for one minute.

[peekaloo]

8. I call him Shakes the Clown

Apologies if his head bobbing is due to some neurological disorder but the guy is a lightweight. Fluff.

Piss poor moderator for the last presidential debate(s), too.

[tenshi816]

10. Slightly off-topic, but please bear with me here...

The only American networks my satellite picks up in England are CNN (International, thank God) and FOX. No ABC. Being American myself though, I'm both familiar with World News Tonight and Charlie Gibson.

Where I'm going off-topic is your anecdote about Clinton and Gibson: President CLINTON said, "O.K., let me be very honest with you," GIBSON said, "What were you being before?" and your mention of Southernspeak.

THANK YOU (yes I'm shouting) for saying this about "Southernspeak". During the entire hounding of Bill Clinton during the run-up to impeachment, I used to tell people in the UK that if someone had just sat down with Ken Starr for a couple of hours and explained Southern idioms (for example, that a lot of southerners don't believe that a BJ is the same as "having sex"), it would have saved the American taxpayers a hell of a lot of money.

Back on-topic now, I'm kind of embarrassed to say I don't know who Elizabeth Vargas is - like I said, I don't have ABC.

[cookiebird]

11. Preggers?

and i should care? At her $$$$$$?

[tenshi816]

18. I don't know about that. I don't know who she is. n/t

[BooScout]

13. ABC National News....

Is run on BBC (Channel 2) around 1 or 1:30 each night. NBC News is on CNBC if you have satellite around 11:30 and CBS News may or may not be run on SKY News at 12:30......I say may because sometimes it's on and sometimes it's not....ya just never know.

[tenshi816]

19. Thanks.

I didn't know that.

You already know more about TV here than I do! How are you anyway? Have you settled in OK? I'd love to know how you're getting on, so please PM me if you ever get a chance.

[goclark]

14. I hate Charlie Gibson ~ recall him thinking GW's "joke"@ WMD

at the Correspondence's Dinner was so funny.

He thought that was soooo funny, he laughed and laughed.

That was so insulting and I will never like him.


ROVE is really getting his folks lined up.

What is the name of the nice looking lady that just married the Bush Aide?

[peekaloo]

24. Campbell Brown married Dan Senor.

She's another lightweight best suited for celebrity/fashion/cooking segments, imo.

[Cocoa]

15. I think Gibson got her pregnant

:tinfoilhat:

[UTUSN]

17. That's IT!!!!1!

[kenny blankenship]

20. You did say that he bumped her

[xultar]

22. pants unzipped in the hallway. Buhwawawa! Heck of a Bump Charlie!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

16. When I think of Vargas...

...(and that's almost never) I think of the last time I watched her anchor. It was a day or two after Cheney's "Go fuck yourself" remark to Senator Leahy. She was visceral and nasty toward Dem leadership in her effort to rehabilitate Uncle Dick. She had an interview clip from Cheney, amazingly standing behind his remarks rather than apologizing for them, and no interview or comments from Leahy or any other Dems. This is her idea of fair and objective news coverage. I haven't been able to stomach looking at her on anything since.

[Virginia Dare]

23. I guess I missed something...

did they already announce that Woodruff would not be returning?

[question everything]

25. I may actually move back to watch ABC

For years this used to be the network of choice. Then in the past year, even before Jennings had to take off, it started to resemble the 700 Club with too many religious stories so we moved to CBS and I liked Bob Schieffer.

But I was not going to watch "spunky" Couric starting each show pointing to her breasts saying they were real, or pointing to her shapely legs.

Well, maybe she would not, but that image is hard to shake.

I've always liked Charles Gibson even though I stopped watching GMA, too.

So perhaps it will be a nice change.