Stephanopoulos Bids Eventual Farewell To This Week, Starts GMA Tomorrow

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by Joe Coscarelli | 11:30 am, December 13th, 2009

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724px-George_GMA Sunday morning on This Week, George Stephanopoulos announced his move to Good Morning America tomorrow, bright and early. At the end of today’s broadcast, Stephanopoulos took a moment to address his job switch, thanking the viewers and noting that he would continue as host “until a successor is named.”

As previously reported by Mediaite, accepting the GMA position meant that Stephanopoulos would vacate the This Week job, a trade-off that seemed to initially be a question mark for the Washington-savvy former Clinton staffer. For now, it seems Stephanopoulos can have his cake and eat it, too, at least on a temporary basis.

Below is a transcript of the host’s remarks, followed by the video clip:

That’s our show for today.

You may have heard that tomorrow I start at “Good Morning America.” It’s going to be a great challenge for me, and I hope you’ll tune in there too.

My only regret as I head to New York is that I won’t be able to continue our Sundays on “This Week” for very much longer. As all of you know, this has been a special and important forum for discussing politics and public affairs ever since David Brinkley began the program almost thirty years ago. It’s been a big part of my life too — and an honor to anchor these last seven years.

I’ll continue until a successor is named, so for now, I’ll just say thanks for sharing part of this Sunday with us.

We’ll see you next week.

abc, George Stephanopoulos, Good Morning America, This Week

homie

Stephanopoulous and daytine TV-a match surely made in heaven. BTW, I don’t see a flag-pin….
TfT

Laughing at all the photo ops where everyone has to sit or bend over to make sure that George doesn’t look like he is too small a man to do the job. Will he ever be man enough to cry on air? I guess he’ll do whatever it takes to fit in.
marquis

Notice how Mediaite isn’t reporting this tiny little big of news out today: (ya gotta remember who’s running this site, the NBC’s uber-left Dan Abrams of course)

Barack Obama’s presidential approval index number has dropped to -19.
Obama has dropped a stunning 49 points in less than one year.
In less than a year Obama has lost the independents. Only 21% strongly support his radical agenda while 49% of independents strongly disapprove.
Rasmussen reported:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19.

Today is the second straight day that Obama’s Approval Index rating has fallen to a new low. Prior to the past two days, the Approval Index had never fallen below -15 during Obama’s time in office (see trends).

The 23% who Strongly Approve matches the lowest level of enthusiasm yet recorded. Just 41% of Democrats Strongly Approve while 69% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 21% Strongly Approve and 49% Strongly Disapprove.

Real Clear Politics has more on Obama’s decline.
MikeLI631

Like commercial, Tv Network News, the traditional, commercial Tv network, morning “talk show” format, is essentially DEAD ! ANY attempts to resuscitate it, by hiring former White House “insiders”, OTHER than working Tv Journalists, is proof of this conclusion.

As the ACORN Video Scandal proved, Network Tv News is, OFFICIALLY, “in the bag” for the Federal Government, and we might as well be living in Venezuela, for ALL of the limp-wristed “news reporting”, these DINOSAURS, DON’T DO FOR THE PUBLIC !

All the moving around, and trying to give it “credibility”, they do, ABC isn’t ANY better than cable access, these days…in fact, cable access, IS BETTER !
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

@Tft: I almost made a comment about how they were leaning on the banner, the other day. Clearly they’ve found a theme for the publicity push and though I like George, I’m hoping Ms. Roberts has a good supply of Doan’s Pills lying around because it looks like she’s going to need them, before all is said and done.