Even though the majority of Americans polled support a ban on same sex marriage, and 45 out of 50 states have already banned it, Charles Gibson of ABC World News Tonight claimed on the air that the American public is evenly split on the issue.
A new ABC News poll found that by a 22-point margin — 58 to 36 percent — a solid majority of Americans believe “same-sex marriage should be illegal,†yet, on Monday’s World News Tonight, ABC anchor Charles Gibson declared that “the polls show Americans are fairly evenly split on this issue.†ABCNews.com headlined its story, “Most Oppose Gay Marriage; Fewer Back an Amendment,†and reporter Jake Tapper pointed out how “forty-five of fifty states have passed either constitutional amendments or laws banning same-sex marriage, including in Democratic-leaning states Oregon and California.†Nonetheless, a seemingly befuddled Gibson asked George Stephanopoulos: “Why does the White House think this is a political winner for the President if indeed we’re split?” Stephanopoulos explained that “the number of Americans who are strongly opposed to gay marriage is more than twice the size of the number who are strongly for it, and that group of voters who want to block gay marriage is three times as likely to vote on the issue.â€ÂÂ
Either Gibson is spinning in an attempt to make supporters of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage look like extremists, or he is really out of touch with the American people. In either case, he comes off looking like an idiot.
