{"id":1590,"date":"2005-07-13T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2005-07-13T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T16:23:46","slug":"john-gibson-hating-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"John Gibson: Hating America&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JohnGibson_HatingAmerica.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">Perhaps he&#8217;s desperate to be as popularly hated as his colleague Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Who knows for sure? But Fox &#8220;News'&#8221; John Gibson has been desperately and shamefully attempting to grab headlines lately. At any and all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday after the bombings in London, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200507080002\" target=\"_blank\">Gibson appallingly said<\/a>, &#8220;This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics &#8212; let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That, the day after he&#8217;d said about the choice to hold the Olympics in London in 2012: &#8220;If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn&#8217;t worry about terrorism. They&#8217;d blow up Paris, and who cares?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gibson, irony-of-ironies, wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060580100\/102-8960381-1228951\" target=\"_blank\">a book<\/a> recently attempting to answer the question of why the world hates America. As far as we know, however, he didn&#8217;t include a chapter simply entitled &#8220;Me&#8221;. But he should have.<\/p>\n<p><i>(The rest of Gibson&#8217;s America Hating Fox compatriots were equally despicable vis a vis the London Bombings last week. In case you missed any of it, MediaMatters has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200507080005\" target=\"_blank\">a round-up of all the good hating from Fox<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But Gibson outdid even himself in the way of slimy smears on behalf of his paymasters at the Republican Party and the Fox Republican &#8220;News&#8221; Channel by leading the way yesterday with what is quickly becoming the desperate Spin du Jour in the PlameGate\/Karl Rove matter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2005\/07\/12\/fox-news-anti-national-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Willis was there&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Fox News: Anti National Security<\/b><\/p>\n<p>FOX News anchor John Gibson just said onair that he thought Karl Rove deserves a medal if he outed Valerie Plame. Let me repeat: John Gibson, anchor at the FOX News Channel, says he believes that we ought to expose our covert government agents and harm national security\u2026 as long as it benefits Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>These people are sick, and a danger to America.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>None worse, Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2005\/07\/12\/fox-news-anti-national-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">the full video<\/a>. Prepare to be wholly disgusted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps he&#8217;s desperate to be as popularly hated as his colleague Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Who knows for sure? But Fox &#8220;News&#8217;&#8221; John Gibson has been desperately and shamefully attempting to grab headlines lately. At any and all costs. Last Thursday after the bombings in London, Gibson appallingly said, &#8220;This is why I thought the Brits should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}