Word: gumbel
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...sexless frat-boy doctor, a truck driver and a real pill (with admittedly impeccable balance). All across the nation, CBS' ratings with the 18-34 male demographic are, uh, deflating as we speak. And they sagged further on Thursday morning's "Early Show," when Colleen told a smitten Bryant Gumbel she had turned Playboy down. (Obviously a woman of dignity and taste, with the possible exception of that fling with Greg...
...Here's how L. Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Media Research Center, described what happened next: "After the interview ended the camera inadvertently came back on the unsuspecting Gumbel... Though the audio was turned off halfway through the sentence, a sneering Gumbel let it be known what he thought of Knight's moral values: 'What a f---ing idiot...
...Bozell, a conservative critic of liberal media biases, has taken out newspaper ads comparing Gumbel's insult to the racist remarks that got Jimmy the Greek fired from CBS years ago. Gumbel, says Bozell, is guilty of religious bigotry. If he is not fired, then at the very least, Gumbel should apologize for what he said. Neither Gumbel nor CBS has done...
...Bozell makes his usual point about media bias. It seems a little off, however, that he should indulge in pious victimology (painting Knight as the victim of Gumbel's religious intolerance). In a better world, Bozell would straightforwardly return the insult. He might paraphrase Groucho Marx's line: "Gumbel looks like an idiot. He talks like an idiot. But don't get me wrong. He really is an idiot." Instead, Bozell has mounted a campaign that, in essence, accuses Gumbel of a hate crime...
...discuss personalities. How is Bryant Gumbel different from, oh, John Rocker? Both are performers in the public eye who have been guilty of invective. Rocker happens to have a more vivid prose style than Gumbel, and, shall we say, a more encompassing sociological vision. But Gumbel, dismissing Knight as a "f---ing idiot" on grounds of Knight's religious convictions, works in the same ball park...