To understand just how filled with abject and irrational hate the employees of the Media Research Center have for anyone who not as right-wing as they are, check out this Jan. 10 rant by Curtis Houck complaining that Gayle King’s 12th year at “CBS Mornings” was observed:
Tuesday’s CBS Mornings marked 12 years for Gayle King as a co-host of CBS’s morning shows, first CBS This Morning and now CBS Mornings. Given how the third-place show centers around King and subservient co-hosts who worship her very presence, it was no surprise it was came up multiple times on the show with a lengthy video of her celebrity friends and accolades of how its an “honor” to sit next to a “consummate professional.”
As NewsBusters has highlighted on a near-constant basis, it’s comical to think of her as a journalist given her status as both a Democratic donor and Obama family friend who’s vactioned with them (and saw no problem with it).
Yes, Houck couldn’t even let this mild feel-good segment pass without taking a dump on it. Also, at no point did he quote anyone calling King a “journalist” or describe her as anything more lofty than the co-host of a morning TV show. He then progressed to whining about King’s dress and that she was complemented on it:
King couldn’t even get past the opening welcome before wishing herself “happy anniversary.” Following the “Eye Opener,” co-host Tony Dokoupil made sure to point out to viewers that King had on her yellow dress she wore on her first day at CBS and for every anniversary since. So, of course, both he and co-host Nate Burleson had to congratulate her.
Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers even teased his What to Watch segment with a “happy anniversary” to King, adding the “[d]ress looks just as good as it did day one.”
Fast-forward to the second hour and they devoted an entire five-minute-and-48-second segment to her anniversary.
“Today is January 9 and we are walking on sunshine because we got one more reason to celebrate the one and only Gayle King. Today, January 9, anniversary number 12 here at CBS News,” Dokoupil began with Walkin’ on Sunshine playing in the background.
Gushing her yellow dress is “quickly becoming vintage,” King retold why she wore it and has since, but that talk shifted when Duthiers brought out cupcakes before a video of past interview subjects/celebrity pals to congratulate her[.]
Yes, this is how petty and mean Houck is — that this trifle of a segment must be attacked as part of his employer’s war on non-right-wing media. He would never criticize anything on Fox News with such venom, even if the fluff factor is the same.