Gibson's rebuttal confirms his idiocy

[BobcatJH]

Only a moron like John Gibson would confirm his previous idiotic statements while vigorously trying to refute them:

GIBSON: My Word starts with your word and an e-mail by Bill Sartori in Windsor Locks, CT. "So, anyone who wants to cover the Iraq war instead of Anna Nicole Bimbo 24/7 is a 'snob.' How incredibly ignorant of you Gibson."

This is an example of the purposeful and malicious misinterpretation department at the great left-wing slime machine called ThinkProgress.org. What they do is take something I have said and make it into something they want me to say, for the purpose of sliming me. I'm not whining just for myself. They do it to anyone who isn't a card-carrying member of the far left, the out-where-the-buses-don't-run left of the Democratic party.

I was criticizing an anchor on another network for his snobby attitude toward anyone. Anyone out there in the audience watching TV who wanted to see Anna Nicole coverage. He said, "I just wanted to scream at them, 'There's a war on, there's a war on, there's a war on.'"

Well, first, we know there's a war on. I've personally spent hundreds of hours of TV and radio discussing the war.

Secondly, we know the mainstream media represented by this particular anchor guy would like to do whatever they can to make sure the war isn't successful, that it is always viewed as a failure.

My point was something else. That in my many years of doing the news on tv and radio, I’ve often found myself saying, "Oh, I don't want to do this story," because I've thought there's something more important that day, like the anchor guy I was criticizing, and I have found that was always a mistake.

It is news snobbism, by definition. The war is a fine thing to cover. Not my intention to say it's not. The point I was making is that sometimes, people might want a break from the war, to watch the drama in a story like Anna Nicole, and who am I, or who is news person, to say, "No. I don’t want to do it because it's beneath me."

But this isn't the first time I've been maliciously misinterpreted by the lefties, like ThinkProgress, and I suppose it won't be the last time. That is my word. Write to me at [e-mail].

Two points: First, I find it distressing that we live in a climate in which those with a soapbox aren't immediately drummed out of the profession for saying things like, "Secondly, we know the mainstream media represented by this particular anchor guy would like to do whatever they can to make sure the war isn't successful, that it is always viewed as a failure." And second, John, you are exactly the person to say that stories like Anna Nicole Smith aren't as important as those from, say, Iraq. The news, contrary to what you appear to be saying, isn't so much what people want to hear; it's what people need to hear.

[SteppingRazor]

1. But what people need to hear doesn't always sell...

in fact, it usually doesn't.

[zbdent]

2. Remember how castor oil was supposed to be good for you

but I would hate to try to find anyone who regularly took castor oil as an adult, of their own free will. I'm sure there are some out there, but they be rare ...

Today's Repukes are like that ... the know what really needs done to get this country good ... but they will kick and scream bloody murder to avoid it ... and then turn around and claim you're unpatriotic because you want to stop the murder of our own troops for something they won't "take the castor oil" for (enlisting themselves or their children or their grandchildren) ...

[SteppingRazor]

4. I don't remember castor oil. Which kinda proves my point.

People of my generation and those younger than me don't know what castor oil is — or know of it only anecdcotally — because no one wanted the nasty stuff, and they eventually stopped selling it. (Actually, I believe you can still buy it, but you have to really look for it.)

That's the same reason we've got Anna Nicole coverage and whatnot. It sells. And no newspaper or other news org. wants to go out of business. Indeed, most of them are publically traded companies now, and have an obligation to make a profit. And giving people what they need rather than what they want is bad for business.

[Bitwit1234]

3. When you hear and see these idiots on TV

it really really makes you mad that the other side of the issue can not be given...it really really makes you mad that these idiots continually refer to the media "liberal"...when there is not one person on TV anywhere except Keith who gives the other side of the issue. And the republicans have the nerve to say the media is "liberal".

Thank goodness the public is finally wising up and are going to the internet where you get a more "balanced and fair" news report.