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Bill O'Reilly Does Charlie Gibson Imitation For Letterman
Fox News' newly-reupped host Bill O'Reilly appeared on Late Show with David Letterman last night.
As you may recall, Mr. O'Reilly and Mr. Letterman didn't get along so well when they met in 2006, but this time, the two got on just fine, making small jokes at each others' expense but smiling the whole time.
Mr. O'Reilly told Mr. Letterman he admired vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, describing her as a "self-made woman" and offering an impersonation of ABC News' Charlie Gibson interviewing her about The Bush Doctrine. read more »
Times' Kristol Also Thinks Charlie Gibson Was Like a Teacher
Last week, Media Mob took note of a new cliché used by critics, pundits, and journalists to describe the dynamic between Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin and ABC News' Charlie Gibson. Apparently some thought he was very much like a teacher or a professor.
Today, late the party, comes The New York Times' William Kristol, a writer who never met a cliché he didn't like. (In January, The Atlantic's James Fallows noted "the breathtaking banality of expression" in Mr. Kristlol's column.)
Here's what Mr. Kristol writes of Ms. Palin's ascendency (after his two Times' colleagues Jim Rutenberg and Alessandra Stanley made the same reference last week):
The media establishment was horrified. Its members expressed their disapproval. Palin became more popular. They got even more frustrated. And so we had the spectacle last week of ABC’s Charlie Gibson, one of the most civil of the media bigwigs, unable to help himself from condescending to Palin as if he were a senior professor forced to waste time administering a Ph.D. exam to a particularly unpromising graduate student. read more »
The Gibson Strategy on Day One: Play It Serious
"When I asked John McCain about your national security credentials, he cited the fact that you have command of the Alaskan National Guard and that Alaska is close to Russia. Are those sufficient credentials?" asked Charlie Gibson.
Mr. Gibson was just a few short minutes into his high-stakes interview with Sarah Palin, and he was already hitting his stride. He gazed toward the vice presidential candidate through a pair of gravitas-amplifying reading glasses and waited for the answer. He did not smile.
About a week earlier, in a clip heard round the political world, CNN's Campbell Brown had asked McCain campaign spokesperon Tucker Bounds a similar question, sending the surrogate into a frenzy of petulant defensiveness, and later inspiring the campaign to cancel a subsequent CNN interview as payback for the audacity of questioning Ms. read more »
Vicarious Journalism: What Should ABC's Charlie Gibson Ask Sarah Palin? (Thursday Roundup Edition)
What questions will Charlie Gibson of ABC News ask Sarah Palin? Nobody knows. What questions should Mr. Gibson ask the Alaskan Governor turned vice presidential nominee?
Everybody knows!
Herein, a sampling of what other journalists would like Mr. Gibson to ask Ms. Palin.
Jack Shafer of Slate has 10 questions, including, "How are you like Hillary Clinton?"
Over at Foreign Policy, Rebecca Frankel has 20 questions, including "What is your preferred plan for peace between Israel and Palestine? A two state solution? What about Jerusalem?"
Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici: "You're on record as favoring abstinence-only sex education. Has your teenage daughter's pregnancy caused you to reconsider that stance?"
In the meantime, The Washington Post's E. read more »
Levy's Questions for Palin
Former Newsday columnist Larry Levy says if he was interviewing Sarah Palin, his first question would be, "How do you really gut a moose?"
His follow-up is more intricate.
Palin and the Charlie Gibson Strategy
In theory, Charlie Gibson has the power to expose Sarah Palin as the fantastically uninformed foreign policy thinker that most Democrats—and, if primed with a healthy dose of truth serum, probably more than a few Republicans—believe her to be.
The ABC newsman, who scored the first of what will surely be scant few major media sit-downs with John McCain’s running mate, could very easily do what a mischievous Boston television reporter did to George W. Bush in 1999 and spring a pop quiz on the unseasoned politician, measuring her knowledge (or lack thereof) of some elementary facts about global hotspots.
There’s no shortage of possible questions that could be asked, and while the ethics and relevancy of playing gotcha would be debated endlessly after the fact, the sight of Mrs. read more »
ABC News' Charlie Gibson Lands Interview with Sarah Palin
The Associated Press broke the news over the weekend that Charlie Gibson of ABC News has landed the covetted first post-convention on-air interview with Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin.
ABC News has since confirmed the news. No details yet about when the interview will take place or when it will air. Although, according to the AP, the interview will be conducted in Ms. Palin's home state of Alaska.
ABC News' Charlie Gibson to Anchor 'World News' from New Orleans
Tonight, ABC News' Charlie Gibson will be anchoring World News from New Orleans. George Stephanopoulos will head up the network's convention coverage from St. Paul.
More from ABC News' press release:
ABC News will continue to report from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN. "This Week" host and Chief Washington Correspondent, George Stephanopoulos, will anchor and report from the RNC and ABC News correspondent David Wright -- who has been covering the McCain campaign for ABC News -- will continue to report from the trail for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms.
On Monday, September 1, "GMA" weather and news anchors, Sam Champion and Chris Cuomo, will bring morning viewers reports on Hurricane Gustav and the damage and destruction that Hurricane Gustav is expected to bring to
the Gulf Coast area during the morning broadcast.
