"comforting" wingnut Charlie GIBSON to retire by end of year; Diane SAWYER to replace as anchor

When he badgered President CLINTON for awhile, CLINTON finally got his dander up and used a Southern regionalism, "O.K., if you want me to be HONEST with you..." and GIBSON replied, "What HAVE you been?!1" "Honest" as a regionalism means blunt to the point of hurting-your-feelings.

When Elizabeth VARGAS was named co-anchor, he was visibly incredulous at her patently (to him) lack of qualifications.

I think he's pals with Brit HUME---how's THAT for a slur!1

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_en_ot/us_abc_gibson_7

ABC News: Gibson retiring, Sawyer will be anchor

.... His comforting presence made him an instant ratings hit at "World News" at a time the other networks had much younger anchors. But NBC's Brian Williams eventually passed him by and has been leading in the ratings for the past year, with "World News" a solid second. ....

Sawyer will leave a hole at ABC's "Good Morning America," where she was co-host with Robin Roberts. ABC said it had no immediate announcement on what will happen on that show, which is also second in the ratings to NBC.

Gibson's biggest impact at ABC is when he stepped into the breach during times of need. He had left "Good Morning America," but the program was imploding in the ratings when ABC News President David Westin asked him and Sawyer to step in as anchors. What was originally envisioned as a stopgap of a few months turned into nearly a decade.

After Peter Jennings' death from cancer in 2005, Westin replaced him with an anchor team of Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas. But after Woodruff was seriously hurt in a wartime injury and Vargas became pregnant, Gibson was asked to take over.

"We owe him much for the leadership he gave us when we needed it most," Westin said.

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I remember reading a long time ago about the tears she shed as she was packing up her stuff to leave it.

appeared to be more of a Lib over the years than, say, Tweety, for example, so I'm willing to declare her as rehabilitated, like David BROCK. Tweety has twenty years of shafting us to make up for.