TCG has always thought that John Gibson is an underestimated member of the Fox News team. He has a clear voice--editorially as well as physically--and no inhibitions as to speaking out. That's one reason why Gibbie's radio show is so much fun, because he and his producers are so deft at mixing and juxtaposing tape, with John cutting in, cuttingly.
Here, for example, he takes to the radiowaves to clobber a deserving target MSNBC's Dan Abrams, the architect of the #3 channel's leftward lurch--a leftward lurch that left the channel #3.
Yes, it was Abrams who unleashed Keith Olbermann to begin his lefty jihad, and who encouraged Chris Matthews to drink more before he started speaking.
And because Abrams, Olbermann, and Matthews are all liberals, they get kid-glove treatment from the MSM and the lefty blogosphere.
The only problem, of course, is that in The Cable Game, it's ratings that ultimately matter, not buzz. And Abrams couldn't deliver on ratings. Which is why Abrams has been demoted, just as Gibson sez. It's back to on-air only for Abrams, no more management duties.
It's amusing, of course, to see Abrams' replacement at MSNBC, Phil Griffin, talking through his hat when he told The Hollywood Reporter's Paul J. Gough last month, "I don't think MSNBC has been in as good a position in some time." Huh!? What's new at MSNBC nowadays? And what's good about its position? The network has been in third place for 11 years, with no prospect for improvement in sight.
Abrams didn't help things one bit--indeed, he probably hurt the network, by stamping it as Bush-bashing, as well as amateurish and dumb.
