Laura Ingraham destroys Charlie Gibson on ABC’s This Week “roundtable”

charlie-gibsonThe “Roundtable” of This Week on ABC discussed the White House’s war with Fox News Channel. Guests in included George Will, Cynthia Tucker, John Podesta (of Soros’s funded Center for American Progress), and some other liberal who I forgot their name. Laura Ingraham was also a guest, and she thoroughly destroyed Bush doctrine boy Charlie Gibson’s claimed cluelessness at the whole ACORN story when it broke in September. All George Stephanopoulos could respond was “Well, uh ummm Charlie has had an amazing career”. Newbusters has the entire transcript, and we have the video :) :

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVPXBfB7LZo

Can I speak as the Fox representative on this show? By the way, you’re all going to be banned from any future White House events for having me at this table. Bill Schein said that, and I know him well, he said that because he believes that of all the networks, Fox was going to hold the administration the most accountable. And the last time I checked, I thought that was the role of the press. I think, and again, I might not be invited back, George, but when Charlie Gibson didn’t know what the ACORN story was all about, that was a collective gasp you heard across the United States. Charlie Gibson is an esteemed journalist. How do you not know about a story about a, about a group where President Obama cut his political teeth that had been exposed to the extent that Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill were ready to pull the rug out from under them and their funding? That’s the kind of story that the White House doesn’t want to have reported and repeated on other networks. That’s why they don’t like Fox News.

I think a lot of people say if the Administration had the same view of, of, of the way to treat other threats to the United States, whether economic threats or real threats, Islamic jihadists, and don’t probably put Fox in that same category, then it would be okay. I mean, they’re so impassioned about Fox, meanwhile, it’s kind of like very even rhetoric about other threats…I just think honestly the passion, the passion when you send out Emanuel and Axelrod and the President comments on it, I haven’t seen them talk about other real threats in the same coordinated and sophisticated way as they’re going after Fox. I mean, honestly, it looks defensive…We want him to treat the terrorists like that.

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October 25, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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