My Final This Week

George… You will be missed very much on the Sunday show.
I just wanted to say that I was very dissapointed to see Liz Cheney to have unbiased debate on issue. I wonder if she ever said the Carolina republican was a racist when he shouted ‘Liar’

how is calling someone a liar being racist?

Thank you George for your service to the American Public in giveing us a fair and ballanced reporting on the issues. I will miss you on Sunday but will see you five days a week on GMA.

Good luck George. I think you may be better suited for you new gig. This week needs someone tougher and willing to challenge the panel , not just let sit stupid comments without challenge. Please quit having Liz Cheney on this show she is a hack job and always seems to be rewriting her Father’s leagcy. I cannot stand to hear her speak anymore. I switch channels as she just is not relevant. Lets move away from this bias bul and make my time worth it by true conversation.
good luck and hope that ‘This Week” does betterin the future or i shall ffind a free hour sunday mornings….

The rise of conservative history manufacturing has put valid reporting in dire jeopardy. When obstreporous conservatives are allowed to foment untruths, the message that the 4th estate instills gets lost. The major NEWS networks(I don’t include FOX) need to establish certain inviolate constructs on broadcasts. When “This Week” returns, invited conservatives should be given a format that if strays into abject fantasy, will be challenged vigorously. They can SAY what they want, but will be vilified on shenanigans.

I have to agree with a number of the other bloggers. Liz Cheney has nothing of substance to say – at all. I only hope that your replacement has far fewer partisans on the round table (left and rigt) and goes deeper into the issues, similar to the PBS news hour. And George, it has always appeared to me that you are too anxious to “move around the table” during the roundtable segment rather than holding partisan commentators feet to the fire.

Good Luck George – I will miss you on this show. I have found you to be a balanced mediator of a sometimes very biased raucous group at the roundtable.
I have to agree – please do not ask Liz Cheney back. She is biased to say the least, and does not have anything interesting to add other than constant criticism of President Obama.

While I am not a fan of the tea party crowd and thought Wilson’s remarks were at teh wrong time. I have grown to believe that Obama has lied. Even Pelosi commented that he said a lot of things on the campaign trail, but what has that got to do with today.
We did not get CHANGE, we got more of the SAME!

Congratulations, George, for doing so much to raise the quality of “This Week,” and best wishes for a long, fulfilling run as host of “GMA.” Your final program as regular host of the Sunday show does leave an unanswered question, however: What, besides her last name, makes Liz Cheney qualified to participate in a roundtable with panelists of significant professional stature? Especially considering the limited time, viewers of “This Week” deserve better than predictably partisan boilerplate from a wannabe.

I too wish George S. good luck in his new position. My husband & I have watched his program for a long time. I have never written before but was so irritated that Liz Cheney was on the show, I felt I had to say something! Imagine my surprise when I found many other viewers commenting on the very same thing! What qualifications does she have to be considered for the panel? She’s her Father’s parrot and has never held a position of any responsibility. I would figure that FOX would have her on to rewrite her Father’s history but never ABC! Please don’t sink so low again! There are many other competent conservatives you could invite on the show!

Sunday mornings will not be the same without you George. Your transition from This Week to GMA must have been stressful and perhaps this accounts for the criticism being doled out. You have done an outstanding job consistently being responsible, fair, honest and compassionate.Few professional news people have these qualities. Best of luck to you and your family.

Have enjoyed This Week since the Brinkley time. You’ve done a great job and now you’ve moved on. Would love to see Terry Moran, Lawrence Grad. take over!! See you on GMA

George,
I truly am sorry your leaving the Sunday morning news show, however I dont want to critize you are the format however having Liz on your program its one slam after another for the democrats no matter what question you ask her theres always a comment about the party. Shes only repeating whatever her father has said, I think your program can invite someone else who not so bias. I watched Fox until they had Russ on, and that was the last time I watched that station.l

So sorry to see George go. I usually don’t see the first 1 1/2 hours of GMA so I won’t be seeing much of him. In my career or being a moderator of focus groups and top executives, I appreciate how George brings out the personalities of each person on his show. I guess I will shop around now and see if anyone can bring the various sides of events to the surface for Sunday viewers. With lots of problems for the American public and voters it is good to see such varied comments. I noticed the majority of comments above did not like Liz Cheney but it provides a big contrast to think about. George’s was the one show I would never miss each week.
“Thanks for the memories.”

Thank God for your departure! I have had about enough of your weak right wing bias! When Guilliani can bold face lie to you about attacks on America without you even challenging him, and when you can have the likes of Liz Cheney acting like an authority on anything on your program and giveng her the satisfaction or crediblility of being someone who knows anything, is totally irresponsible un professional and destructive for America! If you call this good media I say good ridence and don’t let the door hit you in the rearend as you leave! Amnerica deserves much better than this and had better start listening to the progressives or we will go backward as a nation!

Thanks George. I’m glad you have given Liz Cheney an opportunity on This Week. She is the answer to the libs’ Katrina vanden Hueven, the socialist maven.
Overall, you have kept the show interesting despite your clear liberal bias — usually happening when you think that there are some winning conservative points and you quickly change the topic. Your defense of all liberal politics has been grating but not to the point that I stopped watching. I just understand your loyalty to your “base.”

I have to agree with what others were saying in that Sunday mornings on “This Week” won’t be the same without you. You are a gifted journalist who goes for the “jugular” everytime in asking those tough no-nonsense questions. It will very hard in finding someone like you to fill your shoes on the show- perhaps Jake Tapper or Terry Moran who have filled in for you before would excellent choices to replace you-maybe even someone like Cokie Roberts who knows Washington inside and out due to the fact she came from a congressional family. Good luck on GMA – I will look forward to seeing you every morning Monday thru Friday. I hope you, Ali and the girls will adjust to living in New York.

George,
Good luck with the transfer to GMA. I always thought “This Week” was bright and informative, but I agree that it lacked a summary portion or an analysis by the moderator which could lessen the noise from some off-base comments and underline the wisdom of factual, insightful comments. Your roundtable gave all ideas, even those lacking credence, equal weight, which was unfortunate in that they were not sufficiently challenged elsewhere in the show.
You have to be careful in walking the nice-guy/journalist tightrope mornings on Good Morning America. Though you want to be nice to appeal to people in the a.m., you can see how being nice can let ppl like Guilliani (sp?) make an outlandish, unchallenged statement. You still have to be critical while being fair and sufficiently “tolerable” to the just-waking-up crowd.

I am not going to watch the show any more with Liz Cheney on-no matter who is in George’s seat. I did enjoy every show until the reckless and un-American Liz Cheney joined the panel. Good luck George.
ED>>>>>> WOW cant handle the truth LOL. Now you know how I feel about Al Hunt who is ??

I vote for Jake Tapper ABC! He asks the hard questions.

In response to a question when George S took over hosting This Week, George Will said he thought George S was up to the job. I agree and believe he has done an excellent job using with his inside knowledge of how Washington works. Heaven knows why this change is being made but it is an unfortunate one. At least please hold onto George Will! Have heard rumors that Gwen I from PBS will take George S’s place – PLEASE, PLEASE do not do that to your viewers, ABC.
Won’t see you in the morning but good luck on GMA until you move back into a more appropriate position.

So disappointed this morning when you talked about partisianship, terror and Obama you didn’t see your way clear to add Giuliani’s comments on GMA and somehow vindicate your professional reputation – so, I suppose we will wait until tomorrow to see if you confess your sins,or if you think everyone has forgotten over the weekend of your huge mistake.

Sorry to see you leave This Week, but I really like you on GMA – I think your talents are above what they need, but I think you are doing a great job in spite of it. Nice to see the human side of George come out.

Having guests who offer criticism of current officeholders or parties, etc. is all well and good. But having guests who have a clear political agenda that they push on the show is shameful. All Liz Cheney does is attack. She has no analytical or expert credentials, is neither a journalist nor a scholar, nor expert in any field. She is purely a self-styled political attack dog who adds nothing to the discussion except her opinions, which are usually from way out in right field. She belongs on Fox, and not this show. How sickening to see ABC cater to the those in the audience who want nothing but attack soundbites and “slams” against the people they hate. And if anyone else does nothing but push their agenda on the show, they, too, should be kept off. And guests should be held to a certain etiquette. Don’t constantly interrupt, dominate the discussion, go on and on without listening to anyone else. That’s Liz Cheney. Get her off!

This week with George was well balanced, objective and intelligent, until Liz Cheney showed up to ruin it on George’s last day. How did this happen is beyond me!! ABC, please don’t ruin one of your best running news programs.

I watched the show when David Brinkley was the anchor, and then Sam and Cokie, but George is the best. What will I do now?

You will be missed on the Sunday show which I have watched for some time. I also watch GMA so this is not good bye. Hopefully you can bring your well developed expertise to GMA. The show could use a little more of the serious news stuff. As for the Liz Cheney comments I would like to say Bravo! For having a conservative point of view. We need to have liberal, moderate and conservative points of view. Liz is bright and expresses her point of view well. Again, bravo and thanks for giving all points of view. It’s rare to find this.

George is so far in the tank for the Democrats that it is sickening.ABC you need to try to find a host who does not fall in lockstep with every thing the Dems want to do.
Fox continues to rise in the ratings while ABC is in decline.

Good luck in the future George… I felt so compelled to comment about Liz Cheney’s performance on Sunday that I landed on this page. I am actually tickled by all these comments, my frustration echoed very well! I am a conservative sickened by the broad hysterical strokes painted by the Cheney’s, Karl Rove, Michael Steele et. all. (At least Steele has a title warranting air time). My favorite word of the week: ‘scintilla’.

So long George. I hope in your next job you get to grow some balls. You let Rudy Giuliani sit there and tell a bald-faced lie and you didn’t even correct him. And now, you let Liz Cheney ignore you when you asked about her completely false claim about Obama’s response time to the Christmas attempted terror attack. You are not the only so-called “reporter” in the mainstream media who never hold anyone to account when they lie through their teeth. Are you a journalist? If you are, act like one.

George,
I’ve always enjoyed your program, but I fail to understand what possibly qualifies Liz Cheney to be a panelist.
She is not a recognized journalist, or an elected official or a high-level appointed official. She refuses to answer the questions asked of her, and instead spews forth her venomous lies, regurgitating the same sick logic as her infamous father, the worst Vice-president in US history.
I guess I will have to find another network to watch until ABC wises up.

I miss George S. terribly already! He actually has a grasp of it all and real Experience in the field, and shoots back with logical, sensible questions that we all wanted to ask – pretty balanced. I miss ALL the good news men these days – Tim Russert being on top! ABC you screwed up. I know this new GMA gig will be more fun for George, but anyone can do that job – WHO can do George’s THIS WEEK job???? That is a special talent. You should have found a way to keep him there. Liz Cheney will put the other nail in the coffin – if you keep her around. Sounds like her father is still coaching her. She MUST go.

George,
Thanks for putting on one of the “must watch” Sunday shows -for all these years. Very sorry to hear you’ll be leaving.
If Cokie ever leaves the show -I’m going to be a complete wreck.

ABC News is a sell out to Fox TV as every week the sunday night 6 pm news features a fox news morning show guest. why? don’t you think fox is a real network? You don’t want to highlight nbc or cbs? You should. Fox is a joke and abc is enabling this faux tv news network every week. WAKE UP.
Also, get an anchor for your sunday morning shows with some guts to challenge the guests. George Stephanopolous interview with Liz Cheney was a joke. You’re just being used by her and her fake foundation. How many ads did she buy. She sure made a lot from your free air time — morons.
When George asked her about Bush not responding for six or seven days after the shoe bomber instead of obama’s three days, why did George not press his question on what bush did. he asked about bush and she answered about obama. Is George deaf,stupid or a coward?
md

Hi George,
Thank you for making This Week such a great and memorable program and always presenting the facts. On the Roundtable segments you were a terrific moderator, and a fair analyst. Watching your show has stirred my interest and awareness in the political affairs of our country.
Although I’m sad to see you leave This Week, I’m glad we’ll see you five days a week on GMA where you can let loose and show more of your personality.
Here’s hoping you’ll have lots of fun with your new assignment!!

For the people complaining about Liz Cheney – do you complain when a lefties is on the show and showing bias? No you don’t. George is doing the right thing by bringing a depth of views to stimulate debate. You people are like big babies who cannot take someone else’s view. Educate, intelligent people do not stop watching the show because they do not like one person’s poltiics. People should stop watching when the Huffington post is on. How about that? George, you will be missed!

Without George This Week just isn’t the same. I gave up on Meet the Press after Tim, now it looks like I’ll be without Sunday morning news show at all. I will not be watching.

George, you will be missed. Your show is what I do on Sunday mornings.
I will be disappointed if Jake Tapper tries to step into your shoes. He has not shown the ability to ask tough questions of both sides of the political spectrum, and does not have the knack for follow-ups that you do. He also cannot keep the Round-table from degenerating, which you handled extremely easily.
I hope ABC finds someone as talented for that very important seat, but you will be hard to follow.

I am a Republican and can do without Liz. I do love George Will. I also enjoy most of the other panelists. You are an exceptional journalist, have a brilliant mind and really leave your agenda behind. I am sure you have one but I think it changes with new info. I like that. You have a very impressive past and I am sure your future will be even brighter. ABC is fortunate to have excellent people. Diane was great and is already amazing on the evening news. You already look like you own GMA. You have a wonderful team. You can not beat Robin. Good Luck and now I will not have to be late every Sunday A,M.

So sorry to see you go…you will be missed. Much good luck on GMA.