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    Diane Sawyer secures first sit-down interview with Gabrielle Giffords

    Giffords in May at the TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. (AP/File)

    Gabrielle Giffords has made a handful of public appearances since being shot in the head in January during the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona--including an emotional one at the debt vote on Capitol Hill in August--but the Arizona congresswoman has yet to do a formal television interview.

    ABC announced on Monday that Diane Sawyer has secured the first TV interview with Giffords and her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly. The interview is scheduled to air in a primetime special on Monday, Nov. 14--the day before Kelly and Giffords' memoir, "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope," is slated to be published.

    A spokesman for ABC told The Cutline that the network--which in the past has been criticized for the practice of licensing photo rights in exchange for exclusive interviews--did not pay to land the exclusive with Giffords.

    And while a portion of the proceeds from the memoir--co-written by Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow--will go to selected Arizona charities, the ABC spokesman said the network did not make a donation as part of its booking.

    For Sawyer, the interview is the latest in a string of big "gets" in 2011. In January, Sawyer landed the first interview with Donald Rumsfeld since leaving the Bush administration; in July 2011, Sawyer sat down with kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, another exclusive; and on Tuesday, Sawyer will host an ABC special on the audio recordings of interviews with former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

     

    18 comments

    • skystar  •  8 mths ago
      I wonder if she had twinge of conscience, about the healthcare that she received and denied to the public. How soon will she pick up where she left off, when she is well? I don't feel sorry for her. I feel for my loved ones and myself , being severly injured and having to possibly die without the best healthcare. It seems only the rich and powerful are deserving of that right, so they dictate. We are to feel sorry for the ones who sign away our rights for the same. She was doing wrong, when you do wrong you get punished eventually.
    • DLR  •  8 mths ago
      Ademocrat being interviewed by another Obama loving Democrat from the liberal news media. What did you expect, and interview with Fox.
    • the stranger  •  8 mths ago
      sorry she was shot, but she was pandering to illegal aliens along with the federal judge who bit the dust.
    • sj  •  8 mths ago
      if she seems a little slow...it's not because of her injury...it's because she's a Democrat....
      • Phil B 8 mths ago
        Real classy post. But considering the source..
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      What the hell is wrong with you people? I mean seriously, find a #$%$ heart.
    • bull dog  •  8 mths ago
      F--K THIS VEG.
      • Harry C 8 mths ago
        Hey Bull Dog...bend over Rover.
      • Harriet H 8 mths ago
        real tasteless act by the arizona republicans, why dont theyn have palin present the glock to the winner with the palin authorised target of giffords?
      • RAD 8 mths ago
        You should not be allowed to take up good space and air.
    • DavidM  •  8 mths ago
      I'd be interested in an interview with the whack-job that shot her. What was he thinking and why? Why do we never hear from these people? Timothy McVeigh was the fastest execution ever-I don't remember hearing his side before we sent him Upstairs.
      • Kirstin 8 mths ago
        From what I've heard about the guy, an interview would probably be a bit surreal. He's crazy.
    • NYGringo  •  8 mths ago
      I bet she does better than Palin did with Katie Couric. All she has to do is name one newspaper...
    • Fed Up With The Feds  •  8 mths ago
      Giffords is alive because she got the best medical care our tax dollars could buy.
      • Phil B 8 mths ago
        You are sick.
      • La 8 mths ago
        It's the Truth! Fed Up Just said What Needs To Be Said! How do ALL you RePukes Like it KNOW? But it's F^&*KING OK **NOT** TO PAY FOR Uninsured AMERICANS DIEING, BUT ITs OK That OUR HARD EARNED TAX MONEY SAVED HER LIFE BECAUSE SHE A SENATOR AND RICH, SO **WE** PAID HER HEALTH CARE WITH **OUR** TAX DOLLARS BUT **WE** MUST DIE FOR BEING POOR OR MIDDLE CLASS WITHOUT **AFFORDABLE** HEALTH COVRAGE BECAUSE YOU GREEDY REPUKES ALONG WITH GREEDY RICH CORPORATE HEALTH SYSTEM DOCTORS MADE IT UNTOUCHABLE FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN! HOW'S IT FELL? YOU DON'T LIKE IT DO YOU? TO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • gigi_mite  •  8 mths ago
      OMG....Dianne sawyer is such a hag. Go away already you awful olde, olde, olde hag.
      • La 8 mths ago
        She's ANOTHER MILLIONAIRE PUKE!!!!
    • mandy  •  8 mths ago
      It should be a wonderful interview with Mrs Giffords. I can't wait to watch it. I admire her determination!!!
    • RedLeg6  •  8 mths ago
      Gabbie has my sympathy. Why would anyone wish a warmed over clone of Barbara Walters on her?
    • NYGringo  •  8 mths ago
      If her brain damage were any more severe, she would have to run as a republican...
    • John S  •  8 mths ago
      I'm sorry Giffords got shot even though she's a Democrat but come on - does she remember ANYTHING about the incident? When that bullet hit her she would have been rendered unconscious and would remember nothing. This is nothing but a cynical scheme to help her get re-elected. She's not going to be very effective as a representativeso she should resign already. So what's the point of the interview liberal Sawyer?
    • WilliamF  •  8 mths ago
      WHY PEOPLE THINK TEABAGGERS ARE SEMI-LITERATE:

      "must be re-election time.....time to drum up the sympothy vote/."

      "hasnt that woman been thru enough without sitting in front of someone who looks like she is terribly constipated all the time.....she might scare her back into a coma,,dont do it gabby, best thing you could do would be to keep youur eyes closed.....
      Reply"

      "omg, another story about Giffords! enough is enough already, we in Arizona are sick of the news coverage of her, every night for six months......................"
    • dontrenigin12  •  8 mths ago
      must be re-election time.....time to drum up the sympothy vote/.
    • dontrenigin12  •  8 mths ago
      hasnt that woman been thru enough without sitting in front of someone who looks like she is terribly constipated all the time.....she might scare her back into a coma,,dont do it gabby, best thing you could do would be to keep youur eyes closed.....
    • Cate  •  8 mths ago
      omg, another story about Giffords! enough is enough already, we in Arizona are sick of the news coverage of her, every night for six months......................
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