Gregory suggests WH interaction with Pitney was anti-democratic
June 28, 2009 1:56 pm ET
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DG won't be on MTP long; he stinks at this the job and most everybody knows it.
I thought this exchange was funny too. Republican values - who knew?
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/28/milbank-pitney/
This is especially dangerous when people are being swayed about the cost of healthcare reform. For a third of this show he only had on two republicans... so they are supposed to debate the same side? Then when he has the panel of four he argues with the Democratic supporters. He doesn't ask David Axelrod a question and then follow up with a tough question (as you might expect). He argues with Axelrod about his answers. Gregory is always the one on the show that represents the republican point of view best. The republicans could just sit back and let him go.
This whole argument is just stupid. Nico had/has some of the best most up to date coverage through the eyes of the people there on the ground. His question was also probably the best one in the whole news conference.
David Gregory reporter participated in the presser just before the Iraq war started: At one point....Bush awkwardly referred to a list of reporters whom he was instructed to call on. "This is scripted," he joked. The press laughed. But Bush meant it was scripted, literally...spokesman Ari Fleischer later admitted he compiled Bush's cheat sheet, ... even after Bush announced the event was "scripted," reporters, either embarrassed for Bush or embarrassed for themselves, continued to play the part... For TV viewers it certainly looked like an actual press event.
Before the cameras went live, White House handlers, in a highly unusual move, marched veteran reporters to their seats in the East Room, two-by-two, like school children being led onto the stage for the annual holiday pageant...Elisabeth Bumiller defended the press corps' timid behavior: "I think we were very deferential because ... it's live, it's very intense, it's frightening to stand up there.... "There was a very serious, somber tone that evening, and no one wanted to get into an argument with the president at this very serious time."
Oh, yeah, David, calling on Nico Pitney could bring down the Republic. What a joke the press corps has become.
Total transparency. And the question wasn't softball.
What accounts for these kind of phony issues? is it stupidity, dishonesty, or what?
That's red wine up the nose funny!
[is that RWUTN]
Good thing it was only two buck Chuck and I'm in an old surfing T-shirt.
Of course... Tim Russert was no Edward R. Murrow...
It is rather sad just how far down into the crap-hole that our media has fallen!
G W Bush would never have done it for different reasons!!!Wish he had taken a question from inside Iraq!!!
Washingtonian’s Sallie Brady in June 2003—the slightly odd social practices of “the Nantucket NBC crowd, one of the cliques that fuels the isle's social engine.” In her profile, Brady discussed topics your press corps tends to avoid—and she mentioned those Nantucket nuptials:
BRADY (8/03): [Tim] Russert is part of the Nantucket NBC crowd, ...It was Jack Welch, the story goes,... who drew network folk to Nantucket.
Russert and his wife, Vanity Fair writer Maureen Orth, began summering on Nantucket in 1992. .....Russert's boss, NBC CEO Bob Wright, is also on the scene. Add to the cocktail chatter the latest tidbits from the Oval Office, care of White House correspondent David Gregory, who was married on Nantucket and returns with his wife, Beth, for vacations.
NEW YORK TIMES (6/11/00): Beth Ann Wilkinson, a lawyer, and David Michael Gregory, a television reporter, both of whom work in Washington, were married on Nantucket Island yesterday. Judge Merrick B. Garland of the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit officiated at the Summer House [no relation], an inn in Siasconset, Mass.
NBC CEO Bob Wright, is also on the scene.
See here:
KURTZ (3/14/06): In his personal life, Gregory also rubs shoulders with newsmakers. At a baby shower for his wife ... Michael Chertoff, then an assistant attorney general, disappeared into another room with a Justice Department colleague while Gregory tried to figure out what was going on. It turned out they were finalizing a plea agreement with John Walker Lindh, the American captured while fighting for the Taliban. Wilkinson last month became general counsel of Fannie Mae, and the couple now have 8-month-old twins as well.
The millionaires also have really good health care, which is why they might not care so much about you.