A compilation of Bryant Gumbel questions:
“Can you deny that he distorted Mr. White’s record and basically engaged in what some would kindly call character assassination?”
– CBS’s Bryant Gumbel to John Ashcroft adviser Charles Polk, on Missouri judge Ronnie White whom Ashcroft had opposed for appointment to a federal court, January 16, 2001 Early Show.
“If he’s [Ashcroft] so much of an…
Full presentation of the “Damn Every Conservative We Can Think of to Hell Award” at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001,” held Thursday night, January 17, 2002. https://www.mrc.org/gala-dishonors-awards/2002
“Nineteen days after the presidential election, Florida’s Republican Secretary of State [Katherine Harris] is about to announce the winner — as she sees it and she decrees it....
“The believed certification — as the Republican Secretary of State sees it — is coming just hours after a court ordered deadline for counties to submit their hand count and recount totals....
“She will certify — as she…
Full presentation of the “The Sore Losers Award (for Refusing to Concede Bush’s Victory in Florida)” at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001,” held Thursday night, January 17, 2002. https://www.mrc.org/gala-dishonors-awards/2002
Full presentation of the “Damn Every Conservative We Can Think of to Hell Award” at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2001,” held Thursday night, January 17, 2002. https://www.mrc.org/gala-dishonors-awards/2002
“The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don’t have an opinion on that and it’s important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now....I can say the Pentagon got hit, I can say this is what their position is, this is what our position is, but for me to take a position this was right or wrong, I mean, that’s perhaps for me in my private life, perhaps it’s for me…
“The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don’t have an opinion on that and it’s important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now....I can say the Pentagon got hit, I can say this is what their position is, this is what our position is, but for me to take a position this was right or wrong, I mean, that’s perhaps for me in my private life, perhaps it’s for me…
“We all know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist....
“To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack."
– Steven Jukes, global head of news for the Reuters News Service, in an internal memo cited by the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz in a September 24,…
Diane Sawyer: “Watching you and watching you cover the news over the past year, you are so much about passion for politics, and it doesn’t matter to you, I mean — I really mean this.”
George Stephanopoulos: “Thank you.”
Sawyer: “You’ve been completely non-partisan in covering the news.”
– Exchange on ABC’s Good Morning America, July 24, 2001.
“After pepperoni pizza and banana milkshakes once, I dreamed about Bill Clinton.”
– ABC’s Diane Sawyer talking with her Good Morning America co-host Charles Gibson about a study which claimed that Republicans have three times as many nightmares while they sleep as do Democrats, July 10, 2001.
https://www.mrc.org/gala-dishonors-awards/2002
