Anti-Obama Anchor Gets Palin ExclusivePaul Hogarthbyline‚ Sep. 10‚ 2008After refusing to join Barack Obama, John McCain and Joe Biden on the Sunday morning talk shows this week, Sarah Palin has agreed to her first media interview—with ABC’s Charlie Gibson. Gibson will fly to Alaska and spend two days with Palin to produce an exclusive, selectively edited human-interest story so we can learn more about the “hockey mom.” The McCain camp rewarded Gibson with this scoop after the anchor’s notorious moderating of a debate during the Democratic primaries—where he launched numerous attacks masquerading as questions against Obama (such as “Does Reverend Wright love America?”) ABC won’t be moderating any more debates for the general election, giving Gibson a perfect motive to feel shut out and “get back” at Obama—by puffing up Palin. Meanwhile, complaints of “liberal bias” have pressured MSNBC to demote Keith Olbermann—even though his show consistently has the network’s highest ratings. If we tolerate Fox News (and now ABC) for having a blatant conservative bias, what’s wrong with liberals having their own network? |