David Gregory Is An Asshole..........

just listening to him interview Axlerod and he is trying to make a story where there isn't a story. Why they picked Gregory for MTP is beyond me?

A perfect little corporate stooge. Exactly what GE-TV was looking for.

:thumbsdown: to gregory and the suits at GE-TV.

"non assholes need not apply" position.

thats why they picked him.

Jed has the video:

Sun Dec 28, 9:37 AM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison

MC Rove, Featuring David Gregory
Since MTP is now all but unwatchable, I present to you David Gregory in a far more entertaining (and illuminating?) moment: serving as a backup dancer for MC Karl Rove last year.




http://www.jedreport.com/2008/12/mc-rove-featuring-david-gregor.html

were not very good.

Maybe internal politics at NBC?



Cher

:P :silly:

how many many more follow up questions were asked to Axelrod than were asked to Condi last week? Surprise, Surprise. Also, Rich Lowry sounded like a moron as usual.

on his reclining chair after he saw a twinkle in her eye after winking at him...

I wonder myself how Blago knew he'd get nothing but appreciation from the Obama administration. (And Obama deserves credit for that, by the way. That means the administration has some ethics.)

if I just watched it today, but it pisses me off that he treated the interview with Condi last week much differently.

that interview would have been very different.)

Secondly, Condi was not directly involved with any pressing government scandal, other than being a part of the Bush administration, but that's a given. Sadly, Blago has threatened to taint a lot of people. I wonder who is backing Blago that he feels safe enough to take on the administration.

that Gregory let Condi get away with way too much in the interview, I don't care that she's "on her way out", since the Bush policies will have a greater effect than the Blago gasms. One question about torture would have been nice.

for years. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that like many others he's actually getting paid by the WH.

Welcome to DU I guess.

and other non-progressive issues

just noticing...

If I'd been Rahm, given what Blago said to Valerie, I would have thought Blago was just asking for a post in the new admin when he said "I guess all we'll get from this is appreciation" (to which, as was reported last week Rahm said "yes") not money.

I don't remember him grilling anyone in the Rove admin about committing treason by outing Valerie Plame.

Republicon whore

Next to Helen Thomas, Georgery had the worse relationship with the Bush White House Press Staff. He and Tony Stow got into it several times.

over the last 4 years. I'm holding my breath

I challenge you to go back and watch the beginning of the first segment of the roundtable discussion.

He actively defended Bush and Cheney.

And yes, the Obama administration WILL have ethics....not just "some" but "a lot" unlike the outgoing administration which had absolutely NONE.

Do you think Gregory will ever ask questions about General Electric's weapons profiteering or Microsoft's sloppy, insecure operating system? Fuck no! They OWN HIM.

Wow, what a great dancer he is too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw

he quoted a GE CEO during panel time too...it was just a "the economy is bad" type of quote, but it still makes me laugh when NBC/MSNBC makes references to GE so casually.

He doesn't have that job because he has any journalistic or interviewing skills.

He took the correct side in the MSNBC culture wars during the convention (the Olbermann/Maddow/Tweety side did NOT win).

Brokaw is a RW tool as far as I'm concerned.

press corps, he was one of the only ones who held the Bush Admins feet to the fire.
He and Helen Thomas could be counted on to ask the questions that the others were
too afraid to ask.

He hasn't been the same since he danced with MC Rove.

Bush ridiculed him for speaking French.

I too noticed how he went from being one of only 2 or 3 that acted like a reporter w/ this admin from the start. But after the French thing he seemed to do a 180.

I also thought he did a few very good interviews w/ some hard core neocons on the Road to The White House show, so I wasn't too upset about him getting the MTP position. But so far he's really been a disappointment.

I still think they should have picked John Harwood.

was not holding their feet to the fire.

.... I love Axelrod, I truly truly do, but Gregory was running over him in that interview. Ax is just too nice.

After the now infamous handling Robert Gibbs did to Hannity after one of those debates and since he IS the incoming press secretary, I dont understand why he's not as the "voice" of the administration.

(here is the above mentioned butt-whooping Gibbs gave Hannity)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2AaqcaMkU8

(best part was when he MADE Hannity take that piece of paper)

Sometimes I don't think Axelrod is the best spokesperson, though I love him too. And he sounded very annoyed when he said "I'm not going to answer than question"! (though I can't really blame him, haha).

lol...I love the Jason Linkins' articles on the Sunday shows each week. His take on Gregory/MTP:



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/28/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_n_153758.html#postComment


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OH GOD. "Has the president decided to put off any tax increases? Or even a middle-class tax cut, as he talked about, for the short term?" PLEASE NOTE: a "middle-class tax cut" is thus equated with a "tax increase." What Gregory is basically asking is "Surely these economic conditions are such that Obama has reconsidered the whole idea of taxing the top five percent of Americans while giving the middle class a break." By the way, were economic conditions precisely the opposite, Obama's plan would be treated with similar skpeticism, because the accepted media trope where taxation is concerned is that the sort of economic conditions that would necessitate the sort of tax plan Obama has promoted do not exist and have never existed.

Axelrod answers, humanely, "We feel it's important that the middle class gets relief now and we've promised a middle class tax cut."

Gregory, with increasing desperation: "WILL YOU HOLD OFF ON ANY TAX INCREASES?!?!?" Axelrod says that they are going to let the Bush tax cuts expire. Gregory replies: "OKAY! BUT THAT IS AN INCREASE! IT IS! SERIOUSLY! ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT! THAT'S AN INCREASE! GOOD GOD, NO! AN INCREASE! SERIOUSLY! OH MY STARS AND GARTERS! ARE YOU SURE? SURE YOU WANT TO DO THAT?"

"We'll make that decision going forward."

GREGORY: "OKAY! OKAY! OKAY, I GUESS! BECAUSE THE COMMITMENT WAS THAT YOU WERE GOING TO DEFINITELY RAISE THOSE TAXES! THAT'S AN INCREASE!"

Axelrod says, "I also want to stress that what the President-elect talked about during the campaign amounted to a net tax cut."

I have to applaud Axelrod for actually indulging Gregory's nonsense, because usually he just jumps to the indefatigable reality that despite proposing increases on SOME taxpayers, the net effect is a tax cut. A tax cut. A tax cut. A tax cut. I am pretty sure that someone on the Obama team CAME ON THIS VERY GODDAMNED SHOW and said that. I would, at this point, if I could, storm this stage with my own gotcha footage and make David Gregory watch this explanation, given by various people on the Obama campaign a MILLION BILLION times, and just ask: "David? Are you just thickheaded or something? Could we use your cranium as a powerful shield against radiation maybe? Is your skull the densest material known to man? Does it have it's own, special, gravitational field or something?"

... which is why I didn't make a whole new thread on it.

He said that his job in the admin. would be to help be the voice of Barack's policies and help "communicate it to the American People" or something along those lines.

I also suspect that Gibbs would be seen as more of an official "voice of the President" in that, when he's in office, when Gibbs speaks, he's speaking on behalf of Barack which is not EXACTLY the same thing as what a pundit would do on a Sunday morning talk show.

But what do I know.

but he can sure dance with Karl Rove!

it will get worse they are setting iup their talking points for the new year...

And yes he is.

who the host is at this point. It's "Meet The Press"....where the hell is the press? One person sitting there with an agenda isn't a good show. The show hasn't been the same since they changed the format years ago.

I do agree he is an asshole! Can't stand him!

he beat on dems as hard as repubs. David meanwhile beats on dems.

Real fair, thanks nbc....not!

that performance told them all they needed know about his journalistic integrity.

Gregory is a Repug hack look forward to years of him attacking Obama and all of his adminsitration.

And I won't ever, until they replace him with . . . ?


I need time to think that one through.

Oh yeah, K & R

He's been kissing the right ones, apparently. :eyes:

I suggest more people do the same!

the Big TIME horse's ass, one each, Joe Scarborough in the AM. :puke: :thumbsdown:

he grilled McClellan during the daily press briefings .. as well as when he used to grill Bush during his press conferences.

What happened?