NBC's David Gregory inducted into "Pandering Poobahs of Positivity Club"

[KoKo]

STRETCHING THE TRUTH! George Bush lied in Josh Wright’s face. And David Gregory knew not to tell you:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2005

STRETCHING THE TRUTH: Is it news when a president baldly deceives a panel of decent, average Americans? To the Washington press corps, that just isn’t news—if the president’s name is George Bush. On Tuesday morning, Bush baldly misstated elementary facts about Social Security at his hyped public forum (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 1/12/05). Indeed, how contemptuous was Bush’s performance? In yesterday’s post, we left out the part when he lied in the face of a 27-year-old dairy farmer from Utah. The young dairy farmer’s name is Josh Wright. Try to believe that Bush said it:


SNIP............

IN HONOR OF MARSHALL’S SUPERLATIVE WORK: Josh Marshall has done superlative work in assembling his list of the Fainthearted Faction—Democratic members of Congress who won’t step up on Social Security. Today, we start a list of their press corps auxiliary—scribes like Gregory, who simply won’t tell you when George Bush lies in the face of the people. We’ll add to the club as the days go on. Tomorrow, we induct John Roberts:

Pandering Poobahs of Positivity
1) David Gregory, NBC News (Gregory’s pet name is “Stretch”)

http://www.dailyhowler.com/

[Demit]

1. David Gregory was the reporter who posed a question in French to

Jacques Chirac at that press conference with Bush--and was publicly humiliated by Bush for it (although that only made Bush look like the cretin that he is). He was generally respected as a journalist. I wonder if this pandering now has anything to do with that incident?

[KoKo]

2. Seems he's drunk the Kool Aid. I noticed he was on Don Imus' show

quite a bit. That's usually a sign that they've been "taken over."

I used to like Gregory, but he works for the Corporatists. And with a second Bush term, I think he had to think about his career..

It's important to keep at the Press though. I think "Grand Poobah" award is kind of stuffy. "Media Whore" strikes me as the better term. I miss that the old "Media Whores Online" site is gone. They made the point the best but some folks found the term "Whore" used for Media to be offensive. So now I guess "Poobah" is the best we can get.

[Demit]

3. well, you do know it's just a take on "nattering nabobs of negativity"--

right? When Safire was a speechwriter for Nixon/Agnew?

[KoKo]

4. kick.......