I just wasted another hour searching for a intelligent discussion on this week's MTP. To no avail.
The constant echoing of Fox News talking points, with no counterpoints allowed, once again stepped on my sensibilities.
Thus the whimsical topic for today's post.
Before you vote in my Poll, take a gander at some Gregory's greatest hits on Google:
[David Gregory Republican]
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David Gregory Auditions For Fox News On Meet The Press
Oct 02, 2012
I stopped watching Meet the Press on a regular basis shortly after Tim Russert passed away. But I feel obligated to watch when we get near an election, just so I can keep an eye on what is going out to national audiences on the broadcast networks. It became obvious to me a long time ago that David Gregory is on an endless audition for the next Fox News gig.
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Question 1 (to be analyzed)
GREGORY: “I want to talk about some issues including a foreign policy crisis in Libya…”
As you can see, Gregory calls the attack on our embassy a “foreign policy crisis”, which plays right into the Republican party’s attack by pointing at the President, rather than portraying it as a senseless act of violence against America. Gregory goes on…
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Question 2 (more of a follow up)
As David Plouffe is explaining to the rabid host how forthcoming the Obama administration was as new information came to light, Gregory interrupts with this…
GREGORY: No, but there’s also the question about whether you call this what it is on the day that it happens. Jay Carney said it was self-evident that this was a terrorist attack. These are people who came to a demonstration with weapons and security was an issue at the compound. Why not call it what it was?
I sensed that David Gregory wasn’t liking the fact that Plouffe was spelling out the reality of how these things work because like a petulant little child he responded, “No, but there’s also….” in a combative way, once again showing his bias and agenda with his line of questioning. [...]
David Gregory Repeats Republicans Talking Points on Stimulus and Unemployment Numbers
May 6, 2012
While discussing the fact that the United States has been slow to recover from the recession, David Gregory parroted the Republicans' talking point that you can't claim the stimulus plan worked because it failed to keep unemployment below 8 percent as the administration claimed it would. [...]
NBC Defends David Gregory Speaking Before Group That Lobbies for GOP Causes
May 15, 2012
Gregory is delivering today’s keynote, and is joined by other conference speakers including former GW Bush adviser Karl Rove and political consultants Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg.
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National Federation of Independent Business. The group, while bi-partisan, lobbies on behalf of Republican causes. ThinkProgress reports, the NFIB “spent over $1 million on outside ads in the 2010 campaign -- all of it backing Republican House and Senate candidates.”
thinkprogress.org
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But the first name and photo on the invitation for the $150-per-person event -- Tuesday’s “keynote address” speaker -- is NBC’s Meet the Press host David Gregory. He is marketed by NBC as an anchor and “trusted journalist.”
The Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics states:
Journalists should:
— Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
— Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility.
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NBC MTP Host Headlining Republican Advocacy Conference
by Black Max -- May 12, 2012
Is David Gregory a democrat of a republican?
he looks republican, very republican !! he's been at big REPS parties, (RUSH LIMBAUGH'S wedding )
NBC has a problem and his name is David Gregory, host of ‘Meet the Press’
by David Phillips -- Oct 01, 2012
David Gregory Misquotes Obama
http://youtu.be/...
and who could forget this gem, a David Gregory favorite of him partying it up with Conference Lobbyist pals:
This is what stands-in for an 'Impartial Journalist' in today's watered-down version of Meet the Press -- once the industry setting standard, for News and Analysis.
The only question remaining, in my once-again-insulted mind, is
When is NBC going to rename the veteran news analysis MTP show, to reflect what is has now become: "Fox-Lite -- for the rest of us" ?
NBC -- they can Keith Olbermann over BS -- and give us this guy, Gregory instead.
A new "Fair and Balanced" tag line can not be that far off. Scarborough willing, of course.