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Bye-Bye Bryant: Gumbel Announced His Departure from The Early Show; Highlights of Gumbel's History of Liberal Bias -- Back to today's CyberAlert [3]
The statement also noted: "Gumbel will work with his bosses to set a date for his final broadcast." Gumbel, who in 1997 signed a five-year deal with CBS for $5 million annually, remains the host of HBO's monthly Real Sports. For the entire announcement: For the AP story by David Bauder: For the Reuters story:
In his statement posted by CBS, see Item #1 above for the link, Gumbel maintained: "While I am naturally disappointed that the show didn't fare better in the ratings, I am pleased with the quality of the broadcast we created." Gumbel's liberal slant as documented over the years by the MRC. First, the compilations of quotes already collected onto Web pages by the MRC's Liz Swasey, many with RealPlayer video clips. Second, direct links to some of his most obnoxious outbursts or skewed interviewing during his Early Show term since the fall of 1999: The compilations: > Gumbel's Morning TV Bias, with
video clips of bias up top: > Top 10 Gumbel Stumbles: Videos and
transcripts of Bryant Gumbel's most biased Today, Public Eye and other
on-air moments, 1989-1999: > Gumbel Anthology: Forty-six of the
most bias Gumbel quotes from his on-air performances and interviews,
1989-1999: > Bryant Gumbel on CBS: Videos and
transcripts of Bryant Gumbel's most biased Early Show moments, Nov.
1999 to May of 2001: > Direct links to some of his most egregious examples of bias from his days co-hosting The Early Show, many illustrated with RealPlayer video clips, starting with the most recent: -- March 13, 2002: Prompted by the guilty
murder verdict returned against Andrea Yates, CBS's Bryant Gumbel
charged: "Texas justice is an oxymoron." -- February 20, 2002: Ashamed of American patriotism. Bryant Gumbel agreed with the sentiment that "they shouldn't be keeping a medal count" by nation since "this is not about nationalistic efforts." http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020222.asp#1 [11] -- January 30, 2002: When Jordan's King
Abdullah refused to denounce the Bush administration for shunning
Yasser Arafat and not helping the Palestinians, Gumbel repeatedly
pressed him to do so. Plus, Gumbel
wanted to know "how big a mistake" would it be for the U.S. to move "aggressively against
Iraq?" -- November 30, 2001: Gumbel tried to link President Bush to the collapse of Enron, but the guest wouldn't buy it. "They were George Bush's biggest campaign contributor. Does any of this reflect on the President at all?" The guest replied: "No." Gumbel pleaded: "No way, none, none whatsoever?" http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20011203.asp#5 [13] -- October 4, 2001: When a British columnist was insufficiently anti-Bush and Blair, Gumbel scolded him: "You're soft peddling your words this morning...you've also said, for example, that 'playing the world's policeman is not the answer to the catastrophe, it's what led us into this.' That 'America and Great Britain must draw in its horns and stop propping up favored states.'" http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20011005.asp#3 [14] -- September 4, 2001: Bryant Gumbel still holds some bitterness toward Al Gore. In an interview about Janet Reno's run for Governor of Florida, he asked: "Do you see her running on the many accomplishments of the Clinton administration or actually running from Clinton, a la Al Gore?" http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2001/cyb20010905.asp#4 [15] -- March 23, 2001: Gumbel complained that
the dive in the stock market was due not only to President Bush
talking it down but because the markets miss Bill Clinton and Bob
Rubin. -- February 27, 2001: Gumbel questioned
Republican Congressman Chris Shays on why Congress would waste its
time investigating Clinton's last minute pardons. -- January 19, 2001: Gumbel to Missouri
Supreme Court judge Ronnie White:
"What do you think Senator Ashcroft's distortion of your record
and tarnishing of your good name says about his character?" -- December 12, 2000. Gumbel: "And we
can't let Justice Thomas pass on this. There's no opinion of his
in here, he doesn't ask questions in court. Does he do anything
besides vote and rubber stamp Scalia?" -- August 15, 2000: Interviewing Hugh
Hefner, Gumbel worried: "In a macro-political sense, do you think
the Gore preoccupation with morality is a frightening turn for the
party?" -- July 12, 2000: Gumbel's "What a f***ing idiot" blast: FNC's Hannity & Colmes enlarged the video and went frame by frame; Cal Thomas suggested "it reveals a deeply-held perspective." http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20000712.asp#6 [21] -- June 30, 2000: A CBS camera seemed to
have caught a disgusted Bryant Gumbel blurting out "What a f***ing
idiot" just after wrapping up a hostile interview with Robert
Knight of the Family Research Council about how the Boy Scouts exclude
gays. -- May 22, 2000: Bryant Gumbel tried to
discredit the NRA's jump in membership and demanded the NRA's
Wayne LaPierre respond to the Million Mom March. But, a week earlier
before that march, Gumbel pressed organizers from the left about not
going far enough. -- May 3, 2000: Bryant Gumbel: "As
the former head of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely
hailed as the man who brought an end to the Cold War....These days he
is...trying to find solutions to the world's environmental
problems." -- February 21, 2000: To the idea that historians voted Reagan the best President, Bryant Gumbel dropped his pen, "No!" -- November 1, 1999: Gumbel Denounces MRC ad; Insist That on Political View "I Hold Them in Check" http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/1999/cyb19991101.asp [25] That's but a fraction of his recent bias. -- Brent Baker [26]
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In
an announcement posted at noon EST today on the Early Show Web page,
CBS stated:
Naturally,
the CBS statement about Bryant Gumbel deciding to step down from the
Early Show now that his five-year deal with CBS is expiring, did not
consider the impact his liberal advocacy and denigrating of
conservatives had on his inability to attract viewers to CBS after
co-hosting the top-rated Today show on NBC for 15 years.