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For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
As far as the FOX stable of GOP propagandists and conveyors
of demagoguery go, John Gibson has earned his stripes many
times over as a role model Media Putz.
Gibson not only repeatedly took the FOX fiction writer's script
of a "War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the
Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought" --
a cultural war hot button piece of manipulation -- to the airwaves
last year, but also he wrote (or had ghostwritten) an entire
book on it. We know; we saw it move quickly into the remainder
pile after January 1.
But as the Pensito
Review pointed out, Gibson, who would look just fine in a Wehrmacht uniform,
really outed himself recently. Apparently, he supports the
party line, even if it means that the national security interests
of the United States are endangered as a result.
The evidence at hand is a November
21 Gibson commentary, "Who
Should Get Medal for Outing Valerie Plame?" It is challenging
to even begin to approach the tortured, painful well-paid-for "argument" made
by Gibson that standing by Bush means honoring anyone and everyone
who rendered inoperative a specialist in tracking the illicit
sale and possession of weapons of mass destruction.
If offered enough money, no doubt Gibson would become press
secretary for the mob -- or lacking that, Bernard Kerik. His
loyalties are to the team that pays him, not to America.
Gibson boasts: "I'm the guy who said a long, long time
ago that whoever outed Valerie Plame should get a medal, and
if it was Karl Rove, I'd pin it on him myself." John would
have made a good aide to Stalin in the medal pinning department,
no doubt.
Being a FOX "star," Gibson has no time to deal with
the truth. In his grotesque commentary, he follows Cheney's
lead in asserting that Bush's Niger State of the Union uranium
claim was valid, even though it has been disproven over and
over again and acknowledged as not only false but also fraudulent
by everyone but Dick Cheney -- and FOX.
Presenting John Gibson with this week's BuzzFlash Media Putz
Award somehow seems so inadequate. It's just doesn't rise to
the level of his treachery of saying anything for a lucrative
contract.
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