Breakfast w/Greg: Diane Sawyer new ABC anchor; Keith Olbermann on Carrie Prejean’s revenge lawsuit

Happy hump day!

So happy to hear the Diane Sawyer has been named to succeed a retiring Charlie Gibson as anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight.

I’m a huge fan of this woman who brings such intellect, grace and charm to all she does. Sawyer has more than paid her dues as the host of Good Morning America for the past decade which she has juggled with news magazine anchoring and investigative reporting.

Gibson, who has anchored since 2006, decided to step down “after long conversations with ABC News president David Westin,” according to the New York Times.

“Diane Sawyer is the right person to succeed Charlie and build on what he has accomplished,” Westin said. “We are fortunate to have a journalist of Diane’s proven ability and passion to step into the important position of anchor for World News.”

With Katie Couric now firmly established as anchor of CBS Evening News, suddenly Brian Williams is the only male anchor remaining of the “Big Three” network newscasts. While Couric is the first solo female anchor, three women have been co-anchors starting with Barbara Walters (with the grumpy Harry Reasoner) in 1976 at ABC followed by Connie Chung who was paired with Dan Rather for a few years on CBS and badly treated in th end, and Elizabeth Vargas whose stint co-anchoring ABC’s newscast with Bob Woodruff was cut short when Woodruff was involved in a near-fatal roadside bombing while on assignment in Iraq.

The change at ABC will happen in January and, I think, this will mean a promotion to co-anchor for GMA’s dashing newsman Chris Cuomo who would sit alongside Robin Roberts.

PREJEAN’S REVENGE LAWSUIT: I’m trying to keep a positive attitude even though there are so many ridiculous things going on in the world. Take, for instance, this Carrie Prejean lawsuit.

The dethroned Miss California USA has a lot worse problems than her anti-gay marriage views. This girl does not know a thing about taking responsibility for her own actions! She has consistently blamed everything and everyone for her travails from her implants to her topless pictures to losing her crown because she apparently didn’t want to do her job.

And the lawsuit she’s filed in LA Superior Court this week claiming religious discrimination and blaming everyone and their mother for making her the butt of jokes is just the latest example of her blame game.

Keith Olbermann, who is mentioned in this silly suit, discussed it on his MSNBC show last night with Michael Musto who gleefully continued to make fun of this right wing darling.

Began Keith: “When she told Perez Hilton she was against opposite marriage, Carrie Prejean was praised by the right for choosing truth over the tiara. But When Miss California became opposite employed, the tiara stopped looking not so bad after all.”

She’s got a book coming out in November and the lawsuit, Olbermann said, “presumably keeps her in the spotlight until then.”

You just know her book tour is gonna be nauseating. Here is the Olbermann clip which is worth watching just to see Musto’s barrage of Prejean dumb jokes: “This is the kind of girl who sits on the TV and watches the sofa.”
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