DAVID GREGORY'S WIFE IS A VP FOR FANNIE MAE

[ourbluenation]

Get him off the air now, msnbc. He cannot be impartial on these bail out discussions.

[Captain Hilts]

1. INTERESTING!!!

[SeeHopeWin]

2. You know for sure?

[spinbaby]

10. Here's possible verification

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688588/

At the bottom of the page:

Gregory lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Beth Wilkinson, an executive vice president and the general counsel of Fannie Mae, along with their three children.

[babylonsister]

3. Yikes! Do you have a link? We could all send m$nbc a piece of

our minds and get his partisan ass off the air, at least for the duration of this.

[Ian David]

4. D.J. Dancing David Gregory is a giant bag of douche. n/t

[Cha]

5. Linkypoo?

Not that I doubt it. A$$hole. Conflict of fucking interests.

[nc4bo]

7. Wiki, the NYT wedding notice and FannieMae website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gregory_(journalist)

The wedding notice:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E2DA103FF932A25755C0A9669C8B63

fannie mae website:

http://www.fanniemae.com/aboutfm/executives/wilkinson.jhtml?p=About+Fannie+Mae&s=Executives

[Cha]

20. Wow, thanks

nc4bo!

[maxsolomon]

6. Jane Pauley's husband draws Doonesbury

Though I see your point, you can see that marriage to a partisan figure doesn't neccessarily stop a Media Whore from doing media whoring.

[Ian David]

8. She USED TO be with Fannie Mae until 4 days ago.

Beth Wilkinson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Beth A. Wilkinson is a prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer, who successfully argued for the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. She has also been a critic of unfair administration of the death penalty. She also served as Fannie Mae's executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary from February 2006 until September 2008. She resigned her position at Fannie Mae along with three other senior executives on September 19, 2008, after the troubled mortgage giant was taken over by the government.<1>

Her compensation at Fannie Mae was not disclosed when she was hired.<2>

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Wilkinson

She's probably still collecting severance and getting their health insurance through COBRA?

[ellacott]

14. She only quit 4 days ago

He needs to include a disclaimer if he's allowed to be on the air.

[faithfulcitizen]

25. hmm, now that sounds like a story. Maybe someone from MSNBC should look into it.

:)

[nc4bo]

36. Just wow. nt

[AtomicKitten]

9. Link? This could get interesting.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. A previous poster had the link although the "( )" isn't liked by the message box

but you can use that link anyway to click through to the wiki page where it says:

Since June 2000,<2> Gregory has been married to former federal prosecutor and former Fannie Mae general counsel, Beth Wilkinson. They met while Gregory was covering the Oklahoma City Bombing as a reporter and Wilkinson was serving as prosecutor on the case.<3> The couple have a son and twin daughters.

[AtomicKitten]

18. wow, that's a steaming pile of conflict of interest

[BumRushDaShow]

23. You bet.

And I always wanted to compliment you on your sig graphic. Everytime I see it when you post I just crack up. Literally that picture is worth its weight in gold! :rofl: :applause:

[AtomicKitten]

33. if you visualize it, it will be so

:hi:

[Neecy]

11. he's been really odd today

It's like he's so frantic to push this agreement that he's browbeating anyone who expresses even the smallest doubt. GE must want it.

[rvablue]

12. NO FREAKIN' WAY!

Journalistically this is a huge, huge problem.
Not that cable TV follows any of the tenets of journalism.
If his wife is drawing a paycheck from them, he should not be involved or moderate any discussion involving them.

[endthewar]

17. Agreed. One would think that this would be obvious to them.

Gregory should have just recused himself or called in sick or something. This is despicable.

[NoodleyAppendage]

13. KICK. Talk about conflict-of-interest. Ole' "Stretch" is turning out to be faux. n/t

J

[chill_wind]

15. Link right here: MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688588/

[Barack_America]

19. Oh, but doesn't that just explain so much...

Agreed. Off the air now. How could he possibly be impartial when reporting on this mess?

[nc4bo]

21. Love having MSNBC on speed dial. Makes communicating such a breeze. nt

[panAmerican]

22. Happy to K&R! And all the time he repeated Obama couldn't relate to the little guy

Having a degree from an elite university is nothing to be ashamed of. Even while we were growing up in another country, our parents always told us to shoot for the best - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. They never relented on requiring academic excellence from us, even when we did come home with the best grades in the class.

It's a shame that we have a whole class of punditry downplaying the importance of academic achievement, out of fear that the lower classes will mistrust the high-achiever who became successful on his own merits, unlike the legacy kids who litter Ivy campuses. As if they gave a sh!t about the little guy anyway.

Good job unearthing this gem!

[ourbluenation]

24. LINK

http://www.fanniemae.com/aboutfm/executives/wilkinson.jhtml?p=About+Fannie+Mae&s=Executives

[mtnsnake]

28. Your link doesn't show squat about her being related to Gregory

[ourbluenation]

29. simmer down - it's his wife.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E2DA103FF932A25755C0A9669C8B63

[mtnsnake]

31. my apologies then

[ourbluenation]

44. no worries.

:hi:

[Overseas]

26. Well, isn't that special ! Yet another for the heap of reasons not to watch him. //eom

[huckleberry]

27. Greenspan's wife (Andrea Mitchell) needs to go too! nt

[tishaLA]

35. That's my thought. She CANNOT report objectively about this

and she should probably be Fiorino-ed for the next couple weeks.

[midnight]

30. Just a little bit of information.

Beth A. Wilkinson is a prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer, who successfully argued for the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. She has also been a critic of unfair administration of the death penalty. She also served as Fannie Mae's executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary from February 2006 until September 2008. She resigned her position at Fannie Mae along with three other senior executives on September 19, 2008, after the troubled mortgage giant was taken over by the government.<1>

Her compensation at Fannie Mae was not disclosed when she was hired.<2>

Contents
1 Personal
2 Biography
2.1 Education
2.2 Career
2.3 Recruitment to Fannie Mae
3 Notes



Personal
In June 2000,<3> she married David Gregory, he is the host of Race for the White House on MSNBC and is an NBC reporter, they have three children. <4>


Biography

Education
Wilkinson graduated with a B.A from Princeton University in 1984,and from the University of Virginia Law School with a J.D.


Career
She joined the United States Army's Honors Program and served as a captain and assistant for intelligence and special operations in the office of the Army's general counsel. That office detailed her as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida to assist with the use of classified information in the prosecution of Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega. <5>

After completing her four-year obligation to the Army, Wilkinson became a full-time Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1991, prosecuting various kinds of cases including narcotics, white collar offenses, and violent crimes

[deminks]

32. "Dances with Roves" and Mrs. Greenspan need to take a vaycay.

Neither one can be believed.

Use the bailout money. There's plenty. /sarcasm off.

[progressoid]

34. Maybe he could interview her!!

:sarcasm:

[ailsagirl]

37. I never did like him...

[grantcart]

38. The hardest thing for me to believe about this OP

is that he is married at all

[AlCzervik]

39. General counsel even. She's got quite an interesting resume.

[Window]

40. Definite conflict of interest.

[AlCzervik]

41. i sent an email to them, i expect no response at all from them.

[Ian David]

42. Keith should make him Worst Person In The World. n/t

[jenmito]

43. CALL MSNBC at 212-664-3499 to complain!

[Supersedeas]

45. full disclosure for Rove's back-up dancer -- Nope not from Rove's boy

[Dinger]

46. Yup, He's a Goddamn Punk Byotch!

K & R!

[Dinger]

47. This Pic Says it All:

[ErinBerin84]

48. VERY interesting......