GIFFORDS INTERVIEW ON ABC? HOLD ON A MINUTE

posted by Michael Chihak

Reports that U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will give her first media interview since the Jan. 8 shooting were premature at best, flat wrong at worst.

TucsonSentinel.com quotes Giffords' spokesman Mark Kimble as saying, "Congresswoman Giffords has not decided if she's going to conduct an on-camera interview." Kimble further said that ABC-TV News anchor Diane Sawyer will interview Giffords' husband Mark Kelly on camera, and "sit down and talk with Mark and Gabby" off camera.

ABC reported in a press release picked up this morning by The Associated Press that Giffords and Kelly will st for an interview on the eve of their book's publication, scheduled for Nov. 15. The book, "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope," is co-authored by Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal.