Has David Gregory ever heard a GOP talking point that he

[chieftain]

doesn't salivate over. Tonight he can barely disguise his glee in McCain's lame Carter reference. Maybe Davey should change his headline segment to "Here's what my dance partner Karl Rove told me to flog today".

[BlooInBloo]

1. He gets off on being one of the kewl kidz making fun of Democrats....

no matter how much it hurts the country. He just wants to be kewl SOOOO BAD.

[spanone]

8. it's hard to be kewl or have any journalistic credibility when you co-host the today show

[BlooInBloo]

11. Heh - what is this "journalistic credibility" of which you speak? (snarfle!)

Besides - he's got himself a show on msnbc now - so apparently his snark-at-Democrats is working just fine.

[LSparkle]

2. What the fuck ever happened to him?

I remember the "good old days" when he was making Shrubya apoplectic
by asking tough questions and addressing Jacques Chirac in French.
It had to be some voodoo connected with that dance with KKKarl ...

:argh:

[chieftain]

4. He had a lean and hungry look that Jack Welch loved to

see in his "news" people. Wave a TV program under their nose and they will follow the corporate message wherever it leads.

[LSparkle]

5. Makes me appreciate Olbermann ever more ...

He hasn't cracked under the pressure -- he's only become
more ferocious (Special Comments, etc.).

[miles 2 go]

10. What an idiot. He is NOW coming out for the * brigade

He used to seem a bit better than the average media type that we have to endure. Like he drank the kool aid but didn't swallow.

Everyone else has started turning away from the shrub and this idiot just now jumps on his bandwagon. He thinks he's being one of the cool guys, but he's just an idiot who is behind the times. He's just chasing the other guys now. Someone should inform him.

[ErinBerin84]

3. I was just about to post something like that

Rachel Maddow and Harold Ford JR were hitting McCain on his tax cuts for the rich flip flop, and Gregory visibly freaked out and launched into a huge diatribe/defense of McCain's position, disquised as a question to Smerconish, and he replied "uh....I think that's too complicated, flip flop resonates better...." And Jesus Christ, if Gregory isn't pushing the Jimmy Carter thing. Wasn't that in the last segment too? And when the guests are saying that the comparison is outdated and ridiculous, he said "yeah, well, just like how some people say that it isn't fair to compare John McCain to George Bush! Just like that!" Could he be more transparent?

[chieftain]

6. Not even if he was wearing a McCain button on the outside of

his lapel as opposed to his boss and mentor Russert who wore his W button inside his lapel to let only Welch know he was on the "right" team.

[spanone]

7. he leans farther to the right than any of his guests

i was watching him and thinking of his role in the white house press corps. was he a mole? ask the 'tough' question, but not the 'really tough' question....the thought definitely occured to me

[stillcool]

9. He's just keeping it balanced...

One side tells the truth, and the other side argues that the truth isn't true. Or..one side lies, and the other side counters that lie with another lie. That's infotainment!

[chieftain]

12. Idon't see him balancing Buchanan and Scarborough when

they are on spouting the RW line.

[spanone]

13. no, he definitely leans a long way to the right....he doesn't keep a balance

[stillcool]

14. Maybe I needed a sarcasm tag?

One side tells the truth, and the other side argues that the truth isn't true. Or..one side lies, and the other side counters that lie with another lie. That's infotainment!

[chieftain]

15. Or maybe I ought to be sharper. I liked your word infotainment.

The entertainment culture is destroying jopurnalism at the point we need a free and agressive news media the most.