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kpete

(71,988 posts)
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 12:05 AM Jan 2012

PAIN: The David Gregory Solution - By Charles P. Pierce

Pain: The David Gregory Solution
By Charles P. Pierce
at 11:17AM

Before we leave the weekend's debates behind, and in keeping with the blog's first rule of economics — Fk The Deficit. People Got No Jobs. People Got No Money. — I would be remiss not to mention the performance on Sunday of Dancin' Dave Gregory, chronic Vineyard vacationer and Beltway King of Pain. He reached an entirely new level of smarm when he asked Jon Huntsman the following question:

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Three programs that will make Americans feel pain, sir?

Jesus H. Christ on a banana boat, you usually have to pay $250 an hour to a nice lady in leather pants to beg for this much pain.

Not his, of course. Nevertheless, Pain is the only solution. However, if the United States goes down the road to austerity, passing the bleached bones of the British, Greek, and Irish economies lying it a ditch along the way, David Gregory and the 31 people whose opinions he values are not going to feel a bit of pain. Pain is for other people. Pain is for the woman who puts the mint on his pillow in the early evening. Pain is for the driver who took him to dinner last night. Pain is for the doorman at the hotel, and for the lady in the gift shop, and for the lesser orders to whom David Gregory, Beltway King of Pain, will explain the simple facts of their miserable lives. Pain is for the people who don't have television programs. Why don't they drop all the pretense, buy a bunch of wigs and knee breeches, and move to Versailles?


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/david-gregory-meet-the-press-debate-6635389#ixzz1j1aVk8zW

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PAIN: The David Gregory Solution - By Charles P. Pierce (Original Post) kpete Jan 2012 OP
But what about his hair? A-Schwarzenegger Jan 2012 #1
what about it? kpete Jan 2012 #2
That's just ... A-Schwarzenegger Jan 2012 #3
I hear they've still got a few working models of the guillotine scattered around the place. nt DCKit Jan 2012 #4
The crisis will begin to ease when people like Gregory feel some pain Doctor_J Jan 2012 #5
 

DCKit

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4. I hear they've still got a few working models of the guillotine scattered around the place. nt
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 12:17 AM
Jan 2012
 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
5. The crisis will begin to ease when people like Gregory feel some pain
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 12:46 PM
Jan 2012

specifically, around his neck, in a very public exhibition.

All that is needed to turn the country around is a VERY thorough purge of Big Media.

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