Comments on: Gibson, ABC, Media Bias And Dishonesty

By: SpideyTerry

SpideyTerry — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:15:18 +0000

Memo to ABC and other liberal media hacks – If you’re going to cut up an interview to make someone look bad, make sure no one gets a hold of the unedited version’s transcript.

I supposed McCain supporters like myself should be thankful. Gibson and ABC’s rampant stupidity will probably help Palin with the base and undecideds.

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:07:35 +0000

As for clipping the video, it was deliberate and designed to hurt Palin and McCain. It is part of the MSM agenda to support Obama.

Tell me again who is being dishonest this week…

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:04:40 +0000

Any tough interviews of Obama have been sparse and they did not have the tone this one had. Remember, SNL did the skit about how Obama was being treated differently? There is a reason for that.

When did Gibson have an in depth interview where he asked these kinds of questions?

Obama was interviewed by O’Reilly and was treated with respect by the host. Obama stammered all over that and lied or changed positions which he was called on. But O’Reilly never treated him badly.

You know how you can tell the agenda? A professional who was not biased or had no agenda would have started by saying I know you sent your son off to Iraq today, how are you holding up? You must be proud of him? Thanks for taking time out to do this. Let me start by asking….

Gibson had an agenda and you have NEVER seen Obama subjected to that. He might have had a question here or there but not that kind of treatment. Don’t mind it, just be fair.

Even Democrats are saying that this is the case…

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:51:46 +0000

I think the difference in the interviews is clear. To the media Palin is a new, relatively unknown politician giving her first major interview.

Gibson’s interview of Obama came after Obama had given dozens of major interviews to various media outlets over the last year covering all topics between experience and policy and after Obama and Clinton had debated a hundred times on national TV.

Here are a couple of examples I found:

On 60 minutes in Feb of this year, Steve Kroft asked Obama about his lack of executive experience.

In March of this year ABC’s Terry Moran asked Obama about Rev Wright and that mess, a tricky situation for Obama to have to talk about.

Gibson interviewed Obama in July after Obama had won a historic primary and thus the topic of the interview was the primary.

I think you are simply wrong to shrug off the time frame of the interviews. Is Gibson required to re-ask questions that have already come up in the course of the primary? I don’t believe so. No previous interview of Palin had asked the questions he asked however.

The cutting of the interview is another argument alltogether which I don’t know if I want to even step into. I’ll think about it and get back to you later maybe…