http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/abcdisneynews/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:00:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417851/posts The New York Times broke the story online yesterday that ABC economics reporter Bianna Golodryga, a regular contributor to Good Morning America, will marry Obama budget chief Peter Orszag next fall. They broke the happy news on the first half-hour of GMA Tuesday after Golodryga subbed in at the morning news desk and finished the newscast with Bristol Palin's custody suit with her ex-boyfriend and Playgirl model Levi Johnston. She quipped of Orszag: "There was no Playgirl shoot in his portfolio." Jackie Calmes reported the pairing yesterday: NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417851/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:00:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410444/posts The health care debate began for real in June when ABC devoted an entire hour to Obamacare in a special edition of ABC's Prime time hosted anchor Charlie Gibson and (now incoming anchor) Diane Sawyer. Called "Questions for the President: Prescription for America" the special aired on June 24, 2009, from the East Room of the White House. Basically Obama was given solo airtime to pitch his health care agenda both in prime time and later that evening on Nightline. To make matters worse, Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR) a group that opposes Obamacare tried to air commercials giving the... National Center/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410444/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:05:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407315/posts Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz presented quite a paradox in a Charlie Gibson profile Monday. The retiring ABC World News anchor said that "it’s time to move on" since objectivity is "less of a marketable commodity." But Kurtz also underlined how Gibson dared to keep airing live coverage of Ted Kennedy’s funeral until they were able to broadcast the reading of Ted Kennedy’s letter to Pope Benedict. These passages came late in the article: Gibson worries whether broadcast networks will be able to support sizable editorial staffs in an era of declining audiences, when cable news channels are louder... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407315/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:40:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404838/posts Michelle Obama was even more fascinating than her presidential husband in 2009, according to Barbara Walters. Walters named the first lady the year's most fascinating person, in her one-hour special "Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People," which aired last night on ABC. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404838/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:39:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390155/posts Psalms 109:8, Anti-Obama Web Cry: 'Let His Days Be Few; and Let Another Take His Office' A nice sentiment? Maybe not. The psalm reads, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." Presidential criticism through witty slogans is nothing new. Bumper stickers, t-shirts and hats with "1/20/09" commemorated President Bush's last day in office. But the verse immediately following the psalm referenced is a bit more ominous: "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow." The slogan comes at a time of heightened concern about antigovernment anger. Earlier this year, the president's senior adviser, David... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390155/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387630/posts ABC’s Good Morning America finally picked up on the deep bow President Obama performed for the Emperor of Japan over the weekend. Co-host Diane Sawyer ran through how other U.S. Presidents have greeted either Emperor Akhito or his father, the late Emperor Hirohito over the years — some bowing, some not. Sawyer claimed that Americans are “not trained to greet royalty” and “it’s just too confusing.” Actually, the government employs lots of experts on culture and protocol to make sure that our presidents are fully “trained” on what to do when they represent our government overseas — which is not... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387630/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:31:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385017/posts Investigators are digging up a rural Missouri property looking for notes they say six children buried in glass jars documenting years of nightmarish sexual abuse allegedly at the hands of their grandfather, father and three uncles. The children reportedly wrote the notes between 1988 and 1995 because they claim they were told doing so would make their memories go away, police said. Police who are excavating the 55 acre property said they are also looking for bodies, although they would not say whether they were looking for bodies of adults or children. The five men, three of whom were lay... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385017/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:36:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2380079/posts Robert Zemeckis’s A Christmas Carol opens today to a chorus of negative reviews and a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. A particularly harsh assessment comes from Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal: To put it bluntly, if Scroogely, Disney’s 3-D animated version of “A Christmas Carol” is a calamity. The pace is predominantly glacial—that alone would be enough to cook the goose of this premature holiday turkey—and the tone is joyless, despite an extended passage of bizarre laughter, several dazzling flights of digital fancy, a succession of striking images and Jim Carrey’s voicing of Scrooge plus half a dozen... Cartoon Brew http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2380079/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:10:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350662/posts “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and and when they let him out he was like ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me a hundred years in jail I’m not staying,’ so that’s why he left.” (video clip at link) Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350662/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:24:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2340237/posts Here is unbelievable audio that ABC News Anchor Charlie Gibson saying he has not even heard about the ACORN undercover video scandal! He was asked about it this morning on radio station WLS-AM Chicago. Gibson laughed when asked and said "I don't know about it." He then said condescendingly, "Maybe that's just one you leave to the cables." . . . (AUDIO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2340237/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336580/posts Republicans Distance Themselves From Heckler Who Shouted "You Lie!" During Obama's Speech President Obama said he accepts the apology of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., who interrupted the president's speech last night to yell, "You lie!" after a line about how health insurance would not be provided to illegal immigrants. Share The president brushes off Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during health care speech. "I'm a big believer that we all make mistakes," the president told reporters today following a meeting with his Cabinet members. "He apologized quickly and without equivocation, and I'm appreciative of that." ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336580/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:50:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335081/posts ABC's World News on Tuesday night bemoaned the impact of conservatives and citizen journalists in derailing President Barack Obama's agenda. Pivoting from the reaction to Obama's address to students, anchor Charles Gibson observed “today's speech was really the latest target of some conservative groups taking on the President” and “their tactics are having an impact.” Reporter Dan Harris asserted “the conservative echo chamber is not new, but,” he fretted, “this White House is operating in a vastly accelerated media environment where you no longer need to be in the presence of reporters to make news, as we saw with the... NewBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335081/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 01:46:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330398/posts The following is a memo from ABC News president David Westin to ABC News staff today: Today, Charlie Gibson announced to his colleagues at World News that he has decided to step down as anchor effective at the end of this year. I attach below Charlie's full email. I have asked Diane Sawyer to serve as the next anchor of World News, and she will assume that position in January. -snip- KTNV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330398/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:53:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329003/posts ABC News Exclusive: National Security Adviser Says President Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did August 31, 2009 6:00 PM Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission. “This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329003/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 00:07:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2320561/posts When George W. Bush was President, ABC and Charles Gibson, like most media members, couldn't get enough of anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan. Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, the host of "World News Tonight" is no longer interested in Sheehan, even telling WLS radio in Chicago, "Enough already." I guess she served her purpose as reported by the Washington Examiner's Byron York Thurday: In an appearance August 18 on WLS radio in Chicago, ABC News anchor Charles Gibson was asked about anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan's plans to travel to Martha's Vineyard next week, where she will protest... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2320561/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:35:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318169/posts Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-Tex.) will be back in the spotlight this fall, but not because of political involvement. The conservative Texan will be a contestant on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars." ABC announced this season's cast today on Good Morning America. DeLay will join the likes of singer Macy Gray, former supermodel Kathy Ireland, former NFL star Michael Irvin, and Donny Osmond. This should be….weird. The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318169/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:56:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316054/posts Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama, especially as the debate over health care intensifies and a pattern of threats emerges. ABC news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316054/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:26:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304725/posts In an open letter sent today to ABC President David Westin, Media Research Center President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell questioned the ethics of ABC as a "news" network and wondered "how in the world can anyone take ABC seriously" after it was announced that ABC News has hired Democrat donor Dr. Richard Besser to be their new Senior Medical Editor. The letter appears in its entirety below the fold. NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304725/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:43:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277700/posts I heard ABC News report on the radio at 2:00 PM today that made me sick. They had "sources" that stated that the "Neda" video of her being shot and dying on the street "was definitely not from an Iranian security force" and "appeared to be staged to get international attention". I guess I can't be too surprised. The liberals at ABC News are running propoganda broadcasts for Obama, so why not for the Iranian dictators? Besides, that fight for freedom in Iran is none of our business. ABC and the rest of the American left need to squelch it... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277700/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:22:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276875/posts Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer popped up on Sunday's Reliable Sources and swore that ABC's much-scrutinized health care special with President Obama "won't be an infomercial." She also seriously touted the objectivity of the network, cheering, "I know that our network has worked very, very hard to be completely-completely responsible and fair and serious about big issues." NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276875/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273705/posts June 17, 2009 ABC You Later J.C. Arenas With their decision to broadcast a primetime special that will highlight the Democrats' relentless pursuit towards government-ran health care and exclude the views of those whom oppose their effort, ABC has signaled they no longer believe in the concept of press independence and the public's right to choose. Once upon a time the press wasn't simply an advocate for a particular brand of politics, it was their responsibility to be a watchdog of our government and report the facts and subsequently the general public could weigh those facts and form some sort... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273705/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272755/posts ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm! Highlights on the agenda: ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House. The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on... Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272755/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263390/posts Earth 2100 on ABC. What a sky-is-falling fearfest. Cast of usual charachters: Academia, Media, etc going year-by-year on how "climate change" is leading to total destruction of everything as we know it. Of course the "American way of life" is to blame. ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263390/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 01:20:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263404/posts So, the full-frontal-nudity-enviro proganda assault begins. Are we really surprised by such a one-sided propaganda flick? If an alternative docu-drama was made, care to guess what lame excuse(s) ABC would give not to show it? me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263404/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 01:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259326/posts “Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman,’” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., blogged today. “Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. A white man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.” He also tweeted similar comments, in so doing joined the ranks of conservative voices such as Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh accusing Judge Sonia Sotomayor of being a racist for her 2001 comments. The conservatives are decrying a comment made by Judge Sotomayor in 2001,... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259326/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 21:03:02 GMT