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Sunday, July 19, 2009

David Gregory is a Whore
Posted by Jill | 8:51 PM
Get the feeling I'm a bit angry these days? Sounding a bit like my blogbuddy jurassicpork, whose bandwidth-devouring post I'm going to leave up because it's worth the download time? Well, why the hell shouldn't I?

Mr. Brilliant and I were talking this evening over burgers and uncharacteristically crappy "chopped and formed" onion rings at The Mountain House this evening (being too lazy, tired, and spent from overwork to grill anything at home) about how Walter Cronkite wasn't an investigative journalist but still managed to almost singlehandedly turn America around on Vietnam; about how Rachel Maddow is rapidly becoming an investigative journalist; about why the incredibly charismatic and schticky Greg Palast can't get work in this country; and why newspapers have only themselves to blame (*cough* Judith Miller *cough*) for their own downfall. Then after working a few more hours, I checked what's going on and found this:

There's a bevy of information in there, but one exchange that jumped out at us was the one between Sanford's press secretary, Joel Sawyer (who just today announced he's quitting -- good for him!) and David Gregory, the host of NBC's Meet the Press. In courting Sanford's office, Gregory wrote that "coming on Meet The Press allows you to frame the conversation as you really want to."

All the networks aggressively wooed Sanford's office in the period during and just after his disappearance, in an effort to convince that their show offered the perfect forum for him to address the controversy. CNN's John King told Sawyer he had always appreciated Sanford's "kindness, candor, and hospitality," and added, in a transparent attempt to bond, "I'm all for anonymous escapes myself." George Stephanopoulos offered his show, ABC's This Week, as a "civil forum to address this week's events." And producers for CBS's Face the Nation, ABC's Good Morning America, several Fox shows, and many others gave Sanford's office the hard sell too.

But the emails of Gregory -- who in the past has been known as a pretty aggressive questioner -- make particularly clear just what a get Sanford was seen as, and how far the networks were willing to go in promising a safe landing place for the governor.



Think about it: Barack Obama has been President for all of six months, and the hacks of television news are already sucking up to the guy they figured would be the next one -- a hypocritical asshole who thinks with his dick, who has absolutely no moral core, and who thinks nothing of letting poor students rot in subpar schools while he spends thousands of dollars of state taxpayer money to fly his dick down to Argentina for a little in-out in-out.

This is the guy for whom David Gregory, who I'm sure had much to say about how Walter Cronkite inspired him, was willing to pimp out Meet the Press. Not that Russert was any less of a fellater of Republicans; after all, he knew damn well that it was Dick Cheney who outed Valerie Plame. But if Gregory's dance with Karl Rove a few years ago didn't tell you who he'll lay down for, his making a nice cushy bed for Mark Sanford on Sunday mornings ought to.

David Gregory, you aren't fit to shine Walter Cronkite's funeral shoes.

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Anonymous Politics After 50 said...
Such a lovely, succinct, refreshing and accurate post title. Thank you. Thank you very much.
7/20/09, 1:05 AM  
Blogger jurassicpork said...
I'm surprised Gregory didn't throw in a backrub and a blowjob.
7/20/09, 8:08 AM  
Blogger Steve said...
Kinda makes you wonder what Davy's been tweeting with Sarah Palin.
7/20/09, 10:54 AM  
Blogger missy said...
Is in-out, in-out a subtle reference to Rikky & Pete, by any chance?
7/20/09, 1:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hell, that lousy little two bit lying turd couldn't shine my shoes. I'll always give work to the one who needs it most.
7/20/09, 2:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why the silence from the MSM when they concerned-troll about the White House staff "planting" a question for Obama's press conference (actually, they made sure he called on a specified "questioner", but he/they didn't know the question)?
7/20/09, 4:40 PM  
Blogger Melina said...
I never expected much from Gregory in this position. First of all he is a song and dance man from a showbiz family...we know about those! Then he is somehow able to set aside politics and be friends with Karl Rove in real life...???
As WH correspondent he asked Bush a hard question or two and it stuck out like a blinding light from heaven in that numb press room....but does that make him a hard hitting journalist? in that press corps, during that time, no!

I stopped following Gregory on the Twitter because he was talking about his hair...he is much more inane than Schuster, though I'm starting to think that all of twitter is inane anyway...

I keep returning to him dancing on stage with Rove at one of the silly correspondents affairs.
I consider what went on during the past 8 years and the press' complicity in it much more seriously than the likes of Gregory, obviously. And for obvious reasons Gregory doesn't want the American people to ever be faced with the truth; doubtless he is implicated along with the rest of the M$M, and worse because he keeps showing himself to be a team player and a water carrier for the talking points, regardless of the truth.
And now there is proof on paper ...
They never should have given him that job. If thats the M$M's idea of the new guard, they shoulda thunk it out better...Willie Geist could do the same job as far as I'm concerned.
7/21/09, 8:39 PM  
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