Charlie Gibson: Dan Rather Wearing Mary Mapes' Underwear

Update: Ed Driscoll also has additional links here.

Fascinating. You might recall how wrong Charlie Gibson was when he sandbagged Sarah Palin on the Bush Doctrine but didn't even know what it was himself. I dubbed a very short clip of it below. Then listen to Dan Rather wearing Mary Mapes' panties here and find out just how uninformed he is ... when he wants to be, of course. Pathetic. The MSM anchors have no credibility anymore.

While listening to Don Wade and Roma this morning on WLS AM Chicago, they had Charlie Gibson on as their usual Tuesday morning guest. Don asked Charlie, why, after the senate last night voted to halt funding to ACORN and after three of those video tapes of ACORN employees helping the pimp and prostitute set up shop, there was no mention of it anywhere on the network news. Charlie gave out a most uncomfortable laugh and said that that was the first he heard of it!

Comments

[penny]

It's breathtaking how pathetic these old MSM dinosaurs are. I take him at his clueless word that he was totally unaware of ACORN's stunning implosion over the past week. Like so many of his MSM ilk the internet age has passed him by.

Does this guy have kids that could help him out?

[Mark Buehner]

The cables? Are those related to the tubes that run the internets?

[MICHAEL SPENCER]

This just shows you how most Americans could care less about Acorn. Acorn has no effect on their day to day life and FOX lost credibility on the issue by not telling the truth about registration fraud, which happens, and voter fraud, which almost never happens, and by subtly, like Bush stating Iraq was involved in 9/11, inferring that Acorn committed voter fraud. Which was false and for this reason, most media do not cover Acorn. Fox has muddled the story stream by its lies.

[Mike G]

I doubt he hears of much of anything that isn't typed and put in front of him to read aloud.

[Steven Koch]

Hmmm... I think this just shows you how Charlie Gibson is uninformed. Most Americans would, in fact, care that the Federal government is giving millions of their tax dollars to a partisan and criminal operation. The MSM does not cover ACORN because they are partisan as well.

[Jim Treacher]

Somebody needs to ask Charlie Gibson to define the ACORN Doctrine.

[Rob]

Dog ate his homework.
Or something.

These guys choose not to know.

[Mike G in Corvallis]

So why should we depend on an ignorant, uninformed person for our news?

[Hulon]

Gibson is the best newscaster we have! He just knows there is no story there, although you Hitlers would love to find one. ACORN has helped many people and it will continue to do so no matter what kind of evil lies and doctored video tapes are bred by the right-wing nuts!

[rrpjr]

ACORN was slated to receive $8.5 billion in taxpayer dollars from the Stimulus, and was asking for more. If Americans "didn't care" that ACORN was a criminal enterprise or that their new president was not only a former employee but one of its legal trainers, it's because the MSM didn't care to tell them. Now the entire MSM is having their gross negligence mushed into their faces, thanks to two determined kids.

As Andrew Breitbart, showing the proper outrage, said today: Charlie Gibson should be booed out of any public place he ever visits again. But his chortling contempt for the people, the nation and his profession should come as no surprise. His humiliation is at least some justice.

[Joseph Brown]

Gibson and the rest of the MSM skanks are so far up the won's fourth point of contact the only way they see daylight is when he opens his mouth to tell another lie.

Hulon, I can hear the wind whistling thru that empty place in your head. You should'nt play on daddy's computer like that.

[Old Wife]

I think Charlie knows EXACTLY what he was instructed to say--he wanted to keep his job for a few more years, so he can retire and be one of the lefties and be accepted in their martini circles.. He knew...but he was given theword from the Execs up higher. Friends of the LEFT keep their mouths shut.

[js]

So we have two choices. Either he is ignorant of whatever is not put on his teleprompter, or he's a lying bag of pus.

Or both.

[Flash Hole]

"Charlie gave out a most uncomfortable laugh and said that that was the first he heard of it!"

The guy's full of crap.

[tcobb]

The worst thing about con artists is not the actual lies they tell. Its the outrage they display when their victims or would be victims point out to their face that they are, indeed, liars. Its not a wolf in sheep's clothing kind of thing, its a rabid weasel in sheep's clothing kind of thing.

I, for one, have had my fill of rabid weasels.

[templar knight]

Hmm...I agree with the lying bag of pus, js, and would put Hulon in the same category.

[Reggie1971]

Thank you Professor Gibson. I'm sure you don't want to hog all the good stories to yourself, which is why you'll let that new fangled "cable" television get a crack at it. You're generosity knows no bounds.

[Reggie1971]

Says Hulon:

"Gibson is the best newscaster we have! He just knows there is no story there"

Why none at all! All sorts of legitimate political organizations offer to help set up child prostitution rings for people who walk in off the street. It's so common that I can see why Gibson wouldn't even notice it.

LMAO!

[Rich K]

Well I see we have at least two CG fans here so if you read this Charlie Buck Up,You do have fans out there.

[Hulon]

Those tapes were staged, with actors playing ACORN workers. It was all paid for my Glen Beck and Fox News. Surely you people are not so dense!

[Mrs. Peperium]

"Those tapes were staged, with actors playing ACORN workers. It was all paid for my Glen Beck and Fox News. Surely you people are not so dense!"

Surely you jest?

If this is true, why on earth did ACORN fire Glenn Beck's actors? Where did ACORN get that kind of power? I mean ACORN is powerful but not all powerful as a 25 year -old filmmaker has so easily proven...

ACORN's death by a thousand film cuts... it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of race and flesh hustlers...

I fully expect more fingers of conservatives to be chewed off by SEIU workers in retaliation....

[Barry Langendorf]

Of course the tapes were staged, just like the moon landings and all those phony space flights. They were paid for by Fox, too, complete with sound stages and special effects. You can't fool Hulon and me!

[buddy larsen]

Those offices were really on the moon

[x11b1p]

oh and all you beck haters, remember that boycott thing that started all of this, please read this email from progressive to me when I questioned their boycott of beck and ask yourselves: was it really worth it given all the collateral damage, i mean if progressive is now spinning away from a "boycott" statement of beck, something tells me that beck is doing something correct like getting millions of people in dc and banging his ratings out of the park. The beauty of capitalism is that even one of Soros' good friends realizes a niche when he sees one. Or when it comes to making money even the biggest lib is really a capitalist at heart. How does that make you feel dems- kind of like nothing more than a AAAA battery for the DNC?

"Recent media reports have created the incorrect impression that Progressive pulled advertising in response to specific comments made on The Glenn Beck Show, but that is not the case. The fact is that we did not intentionally place any of our advertising on the show, so when we learned that our ad had aired, we corrected the error.

Our goal is to reach a broad range of drivers to make them aware of our products and services. We value feedback on our advertising strategy, but because auto insurance is a very competitive business, we don’t discuss everything that goes into our ad placement decisions. We’d like to thank you for taking the time to express your opinion."

Sincerely,

Mary O.

[Wil]

When it comes to political news, all of the MSM knowingly and shamelessly lies, every single day. They have long since given up even the slightest intention of being journalists. They are hyper-partisen spokesmen and publicists for the Democratic National Committee, hanging onto the pretense of being journalists for as many more months as possible, to inflict the most possible damage onto conservative Americans. Attempting to tell the truth or be fair never even occurs to them.

How bad has it gotten? The three American network TV news anchors each make about $1.25 million per month to read about six minutes of hard-left propaganda, lies, and bullshit on their teleprompters, five nights a week. I can not think of any possible reason why anybody should listen to them.

[Drew]

I am so enjoying this! Any sane American would find the millions of dollars in taxpayer cash being diverted to a Democrat organization engaging in *ahem* 'community organizing' (that's 'voter fraud' for you liberals out there) reprehensible. Why should my tax dollars help pay to elect lowlife Democrats I staunchly oppose?

As far as these all being staged? All I can say is the filmmakers were geniuses to have several encounters on tape before releasing any! I can imagine ACORN's top execs scrambling madly, calling every ACORN office, asking the locals "Have you recently helped a white pimp set up a brothel?"

[xerocky]

Man, I'm so sick of left wing morons crying racism.

If you're not disgusted and dismayed by the fact that ACORN has been shown to be exactly what it is by these videos, then you really have to take a long look in the mirror man.

If you don't like the "editing" and the "set up" in the ACORN vids, then kindly burn every copy of every Micheal Moore movie ever made, ok?

Also, people in the United States care about the issues that they're informed of. Who are the political left to tell people what they should or shouldn't be interested in?

[xerocky]

"Those tapes were staged, with actors playing ACORN workers. It was all paid for my Glen Beck and Fox News. Surely you people are not so dense!

Posted by: Hulon"

You do reaize that the ACORN folks in those videos have been let go right, and that you are in fact wrong? Even ACORN isn't saying what you're saying.

[syn]

ACORN=pasty-Democrat Wade Rathke's Slave Plantation.

Charlie Gibson needs the Plantation, makes him feel smart.

[bandit]

Gibson hadn't heard about it because he hadn't received the Obama propaganda department directive on it yet.

[Swamp Rabbit]

ABC= All Bambi Channel.

OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012'
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)
-It's never too early to campaign-

[Hyman Roth]

ACORN: Auctioning Children's Orifices Right Now

When the senate voted to defund ACORN, 30 examples of vote fraud committed by ACORN were cited. Now these videos. Both coasts, multiple offices with different management.

When an ACORN board member asked to have their books audited, she was canned.

It's a RICO case. An ongoing criminal enterprise. That Obama used to work for, not coincidentally.

Keep on whining, lefties. You got drilled in the keister, and there is more on the way. Stock up on vaseline.

[Hulon]

If you will notice, all the people portrayed in the ACORN tapes were black. It is RACISM!! Beck and Fox News set out to get blacks and, when they couldn't get any to do anything wrong, hired these actors.

When will you people ever wise up? Sure, you hate President Obama simply because he is black. It has nothing to do with policies, it has everything to do with skin color.