david gregory interviewing * on tweety; swallows HUGE lie on SS

[Gabi Hayes]

*ass said SS will be "BUST" in 2042

WHY did Gregory let that slide, when SS will be funded at a level at that point to fund payments around seventy percent of what they are now?

isn't that correct?

how does that make SS BUST at that point?

he just let Bush slide with that one

what a puss

[Gabi Hayes]

1. over already....tweety asks him a few questions he didn't ask *

Gregory gives answers he says are Bush standards

NO critical evaluation whatsoever

pathetic

Hersh on next

[Gabi Hayes]

2. switching to Eric Alterman on AAR

much easier on BP

[spanone]

3. Gregory has been tailing bush* since the the 2000 primaries.

He's way too close. bush* calls him Stretch. Chummy eh?

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Actually it is even worse than that

since the 70% is calculated from the the wage inflated benefits in 2042, which in real constant dollars would still be larger than today's benefits (real constant dollars only taking into account price inflation). Actually Bush is so full of it on this issue that it is hard to keep up with his lies, but the press sure is not making much of an effort.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. exactly....thanks for that. even George Will is admitting that another

key lying point of theirs is the garbage about a projected growth rate so laughably low that, in his words, will make the SS crisis less than a blip on the radar screen forty years from now

too bad Gregory didn't have any of those easily accessible facts to toss back at the chimperor

beyond words

[kikiek]

6. The Iraq war all over. Press is failing the people. Democracy is done.

[grasswire]

7. don't alienate David Gregory

He's been one of the very few who dare to question *.

The fact that he scored a private interview means they're trying to neuter him. It doesn't mean he will bend over after this.

If you want to keep him on the critical side, write to him and gently encourage him to fulfill his role of watchdog. Be polite and thankful for his professionalism in the past.

[e-mail]

[Gabi Hayes]

8. I thought about that as I wrote first ms.......he's gone too far over

he's just feathering his nest now; seems as if he's given up.

he KNOWS he'll never get another one on one if he dares challenge

no follow up that I saw....very disapppointing

will email encouragement, though, just for fun

I hold NO hope at all anymore for ANY of these pathetic corporate media hohos. they've proven there utter cravenness beyond any possible redemption

I blame mySELF for ever bothering to watch anymore