Gibson, who is scheduled to interview Palin, let several McCain falsehoods go unchallenged

Indeed, during a September 3 interview with McCain, Gibson posed no challenge to several of his false, contradictory, or dubious assertions. For example, Gibson did not challenge McCain on his false claim that when Palin became governor of Alaska, she said, "No more [earmarks] for my state"; Gibson offered no rebuttal to McCain's claim that Sen. Barack Obama has never "taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue"; and did not note that ... Full Story »

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Topics: Republicans, Media and Politics, Republican Nomination, Journalism, Mainstream Media
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 10, 2008 - 5:43 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article documents Gibson interviewing McCain, and proving a soft questioner. This foreshadows the expected soft questioning of Palin, and provides a clue why the McCain campaign selected Gibson for Palin's coming out interview. The article includes lots of detailed fact checking and quotes that should have been in Gibson's knowledge base to support tough questioning of McCain claims if he truly were a first class journalist.

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