Here’s a disgusting little “BREAKING” press release we just got: “Hey guys – Wanted to make sure you saw these first pictures of Gabrielle Giffords since the tragic shooting. Please link back to story and video below if you use.” We sure will, ABC News! Wow, you really tricked that congresswoman who got shot through the head, huh? Bet she wasn’t expecting your paparazzi around that corner sticking a camera in her wounds! You should be very proud of this accomplishment!
Here’s them bragging it up on their website:
Giffords was spotted leaving the hospital in a wheelchair and with her face covered before being driven to the airport. At the airport, she walked under her own power and without assistance from the car to the plane stairway and slowly up the steps.
Giffords’ staff has tried to keep her out of view from the public
HAHA, NICE TRY, STAFF MEMBERS WHO GOT SHOT AND WORK FOR A PERSON WHO GOT SHOT! You thought news organizations would be respectful enough of this tragedy to not try to stick their cameras under the things you used to cover her face? WRONG! ABC News has no such scruples! Journalism!
Ugh, but isn’t it annoying ABC News’ photog spies had to shoot this photo from so far away? We want to see what clothes this recovering shooting victim is wearing! Tell us, ABC News, is Giffords’ outfit a hit, or is it a fashion faux pas?! What do you think an elected official recovering from the hole shot into her brain should wear when she’s watching her husband’s shuttle launch, fashion experts? And more importantly, where are the upskirt photos?! We want to see what her vagina looks like!
Gross.
We’re just going to tell ourselves this is what is really going on here, because otherwise humanity may be irredeemably ugly:
Yeah, that’s it. That’s all that’s in the circle. [HERE IS YOUR LINK. PROUD OF YOURSELVES?]
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And tears of joy run down my face.
What do you think an elected official recovering from the hole shot into her brain should wear when she’s watching her husband’s shuttle launch, fashion experts?
Nothing from Sarah Palin line at Target.
You're right on the surveyor's mark!
BLOOD LIBEL BLOOD LIBEL BLOOD LIBEL BLOOD LIBEL BLOOD LIBEL BLOOD LIBEL BLOOD LIBEL BLOOD LIBEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A plain white tee with "FUCK YOU JARED LOUGHNER I WIN"
"And I look better with a shaved head, too" on the back.
OH SNAP. Tom Gunn approves.
Cowboy boots named Fuck and You.
She's a lot blurrier than she used to be, poor thing.
She's just a safer distance is all…
But what does she think of Obama's birth certificate?
She is from Arizona… and they all think its fake.
But who wore it best?
I'm glad to see Gabby doing better.
ABC go to hell!
If that IV bag contains more than 3 oz, she's gonna have to leave it behind
I'd be packing that thing with screwdriver mix. It is Florida after all. She should take advantage of the local produce.
Isn't that where Terry Shiavo was from? After that, I wouldn't trust the IV.
Gabby! You go girl!
Looks like someone just sewed up an award for the WH Correspondents' Dinner.
get f'd Politico! No one out-TMZs ABC.
Nice to see ABC's national news stooping to the level of the local news, where reporters love to stick their cameras in the face of people whose children or spouses were just brutally murdered. Stay classy!
If it bleeds, it leads.
I stopped watching the local news after they interviewed a mother whose house had just burned down with all of her children inside. "So, how did this make you feel, ma'am?"
What else can they do since they caved so instantaneously on their coverage of the real issue; the embarrassingly easy availability of guns in this country. Nope, can't talk about that since to even raise the issue is to take a side in the debate that the gun-rights nuts clearly control.
Thank Dog she wasn't driving a Hoveround.
Our fucking media is an enrichment of embarrass-es.
Can't we get back to serious journalism? Like that time that fat chick was running out of a Federal court house flailing a red towl so we'd know if Martha Stewart was guilty?
(sorry I couldn't find the you tube of that, but it was pretty stupid).
This weekend our media should be back to the real journalism of all royal wedding, all the time.
Yippee… I can't wait… to work in the yard and play with the dogs.
I know her recovery is proceeding extremely well but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to send her up in the space shuttle for six weeks.
Hey Baby metamarcisf, I saw you over on Breitbart earlier, I upfisted you, because I knew they would be brutal.
Upfists all around, for our men and women overseas!
Nothing says "Get Better, Gabby!" like fighting over who gets to take a picture of her with her skull missing.
Is she joining her husband for the ride into space? That would be way cool.
That and bitching about her taking all that time away from work. Taxation without representation, also.
Teabaggers yelling "Government cover-up!!" in 3….2….1…..
They already have.
Right. Look at the breittard sites. There's a whole lot of kvetching about how much this is costing the tax payers.
Even the ABC News comments have morans screaming about how she should resign now and stop wasting tax payers dollars.
Let's hear it for our new found civility!
"because otherwise humanity may be irredeemably ugly." Jack, I think the ship has sailed on the whole humanity thing.
Pointing out that Sarah Palin uses her son as a prop provokes media outrage, but that same media jockeying to photograph someone who got shot in the head is OK. Gotcha.
Great news coverage ABC, but, uh.., from the picture, how do I know that's not Winston Churchill?
even with her current brain condition, Giffords has more mental capacity then the whole Birthers combined,,,
In a way this is at least consistent, on the part of the press. Ever since the invention of Sarah Palin, the media has begun to cover random mental patients, frauds, and imbeciles as if they were real policy experts who have political relevance. Now here we have an example of the media covering a real politician as if she was some random coked-up celebutards, or the chubby charity-grifting daughter of a snowbilly grifter. Its an homage, really, that Gabby is now getting the same treatment the press used to reserve for people like Princess Dianna, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and festering pile of shit Donald Trump.
Was Gabby wearing a new dress?
"Making Peter Jennings Proud"
Does this really need restating: ABC's current schmaltz is a recipe to make zombies' Peter Jennings posthumously puke, Frank Reynolds twist in his grave and Max Robinson blanche whiter than Frank's albino ass. (My triumvirate of talking heads from when I last took teevee news such as ABC seriously, circa mid-80s, ladies & gents.)
Who would have thought that the channel that now has decided to have a "journalist" who started out as an official Nixon apologist is no longer credible? Good job, Disney!
Anybody wanna bet she's packin'?
Bullshit! I couldn't see shit in this video. I want to see a signature of Gabby to prove it. Why won't ABC show it? Donald, get on it.
THIS IS ALL JUST A PUBLICITY STUNT TO MAKE THE KENYAN USURPER LOOK GOOD! WHY ARE MY TAX DOLLARS GOING TO FUND THIS? WHY DIDN'T SHE TAKE THE BUS? TRUMP2012!!!!!!!
We're so used to it. Shit just writes itself, Dok.
SOROS IS BEHIND THIS! HAARP CHEMTRAILS ARE BEAMING GRAMMAR INTO MY HEAD! I THINK 2 1/2 MEN IS CUTTING-EDGE COMEDY!
You've been practicing, I see.
I think he lives in Idaho. it's a necessary camoflage.
I was with ya up til that last bit…
Looks more like an aging Elvis surrounded by Sonny, Red and the boys.
"Giffords was spotted leaving…" followed by a description of how she appeared and what she was wearing.
Pretty much how every sentence, ever, in a tabloid starts. Now if only they'll end it with a diagnosis from a "doctor" with no connection whatsoever to Giffords, talking about how her recovery is going, in his professional opinion* as someone who has never spoken to or been in the same state as Giffords.
* = he went through one semester of pre-med biology as an undergrad before dropping out. Or, alternatively, he married a plastic surgeon.
I'm pretty sure we could get that long distance X-ray diagnostician and douche-bag Bill Frist (R-TalkingOutMyAss) to give us the complete run-down, using only that blurry pic. After all, he diagnosed Terry Sciavo from a video. Man's a fucking genius.
While high on gorilla testosterone. Never, never forget about the gorilla testosterone.
Well done, ABC. I'm so glad the founding fathers included that Freedom of the Press thingy. This is exactly what they had in mind when they came up with it.
Thanks ABC showing your heartless "Lamestream Media" credentials. Now let the wingnut bitching games begin…
Hmmmmm. So, when will ABC pump out the animated reel of Gabby exiting the car and navigating up the steps.
"Out of the car. Up the steps. Let's look at that again. Out of the car. Up the steps. Now we will turn to our special hole in the head expert. Moe, can you walk us through this?"
"Sure Biff. As you can see, Mrs Giffords is getting out of the car. Then she begins to walk up the steps. Let's play that again, just so I can make my point. Out of the car. Up the steps. Now, in slow motion. Out. Of. The. Car. Up. The. Steps."
"So Moe, you would say she is well enough to make it out of the car and up the steps. Did Mrs. Giffords rehabilitation focus on getting out of cars and walking up steps?"
"I can say for sure………………………………….."
GAH!!!!!
You win… fucking great! I peed some… sum?
I'm not drunk enough yet to to appriciate ABC's coverage of any event.__Come to think of it I've never been that drunk.
Just to be clear for all the mouth-breathers wanting to do a boycott, we're making fun of ABC's coverage, not Giffords herself or her injury.
BMW, they are just going to pick and chose anyway. Creative editing, ya know.
Enuf already, there has to be a sense of proportion and decency even in the 24-hour news cycle ambulance chasers…
I will *not* click the clicky. I will *not* click the clicky. I will *not* click the clicky.
alot
Me too… I can't say there's not curiosity, but I will resist.
Also, just had to comment to say I love yer avatar! Alot Alot Alot!!!
I love this Alot.
The only way this could have been worse is if the photog had yelled "Who are you wearing?" at her.
She will be full on "gauze on the head" by the 6 o'clock news. Of course, how will we tell is she is feigning incoherent speech or just being Sarah????
we can dream
"Her attending the launch is a goal that we were working toward, and we have achieved that end"
Hell yes!
Love is a great motivator.
I am sure half of alaska would get sucked in by the vacuum effect filling that empty cavern she calls a skull is she wanted to go the route Gabby has traveled.
Event Whorizon II
Gawking rudely at a horribly wounded woman is just America's way of therapeutically putting behind it the real horror here, that a little girl on a field trip was killed by a dickhead who found that it's as easy to get a gun in America as it is to get a fishing license. Sorry to stick our butter-smeared faces into your business Gabby but we kind of need you to distract us here, OK?
LSM: Pix of patriots' body bags or GTFO.
Gabby's my Rep, and I feel a bit protective of her, given all of the garbage she has gone through already. I will snap with impotent rage if they continue making her personal tragedy and subsequent small victories into a ratings circus.
then you'll have to endure the "hey, why are you libs so full of hate?" BS from the reich-wing.
personally I think the shooting victims (hell, all shooting victims) should be more in the spotlight (with their permission of course; not this ABC stealth-cam). America should look in the shot face of those wounded in the insane lust for guns & gun rights.
Not if it gives them some way of attacking her competency. Gabby has the same right to privacy that anyone does……..being shot in the head by a deranged gunman doesn't change that. Let her get over the hurdle of, you know, not having over half her skull first…..then everyone can gawk, I guess.
<g>. Actually, my post is the abbreviated version of what ABC will do with this snippet. <g>
It's OK, I imagined the schematic diagram graphics of her journey in my head as well as statements like, "Would you care to speculate on these assumptions, Moe?"
For shit's sake, what does a woman have to do to get out of everyone's crosshairs?
ABC = Anything But Classy.
Think if may be more like Ambulance and Buttsechs Chasers. Their webpage looks more like the cover of the National Enquirer than LSM. The new ABC is just another wonderful example of Disney's Imagineering at work. asshats.
Go Gabby, you and Mark are America's dream team this week.
But seriously, why hasn't the Lamestream Media interviewed Sarah Palin to find out this affects her?
Bunch of Cunts.
A Buncha Cunts,pls.
"Giffords’ staff has tried to keep her out of view from the public…"
"But AH HA… we gotcha… we're the media… you know the one Sarah is always talkin' about.
Fucking dirt-bags!
I didn't realize ABC was still pretending to have a news division. How adorable!
This is Doubting Pierre Thomas reporting from Ellington Airport. Smell my finger!
Sarah's new tweet: Ain't it just like a Democrat to always be hogging the spotlight?!?!
Hasn't this woman been shot enough?
Try reading the Tucson paper sometime. The commenters have been bitching about her excellent level of healthcare and ability to represent a southern Arizona district despite having a Houston husband (NASA? what's that?) since roughly, oh, twelve hours after the shooting.
The upside is that liquor is fairly affordable here.
The man's 200 miles above the Earth (but maybe not over America?) for his job, he's above residency requirements.
Now run the tape of the Joan Rivers runway interview.
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick.
Wonkette, congratulations. For the second time today:
I AM SPEECHLESS.
A previous Wonketteer has already commented on the legacy of Jennings, Reynolds, et.al. at ABC. Those gentlemen must be spinning in their graves…
Probably didn't need the breathless coverage…but good for Gabby anyway.
Stay klassy, ABC.
Newsreaders and affiliated dickwads have been praising Jeebus non-stop for the fact that Congresswoman Hole-in-the=Head is white, blond and attractive. Made to order for America's short-attention span theater they call "News".
Ghouls will be ghouls. Hope she's got good strong locks on her trashcans. SRSLY.
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