Posted on 02/13/2006 6:59:37 PM PST by johnmecainrino
Gregory in the Gaggle: "I'll Calm Down When I Feel Like Calming Down" Today in the gaggle, via the Chicago Tribune's D.C. blog:
"There were no cameras rolling in the Monday morning 'gaggle' today, the morning after news belatedly broke about Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a hunting companion on Saturday. The broadcast sessions of press encounters with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan are saved for formal afternoon briefings, with the morning gaggles serving as more informal warm-ups. And David Gregory, the chief White House correspondent for NBC News, was warmed up.
Why was the White House relying on a Texas rancher to get the word of Cheney's hunting accident out over the weekend, asked Gregory, accusing McClellan of 'ducking and weaving.'
'David, hold on… the cameras aren't on right now,' McClellan replied. 'You can do this later.'
'Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,' the newsman said, his voice rising somewhat. 'Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.'
'You don't have to yell,' McClellan said.
'I will yell,'' said Gregory, pointing a finger at McCellan at his dais. 'If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.'
'Calm down, Dave, calm down,' said McClellan, remaining calm throughout the exchange.
'I'll calm down when I feel like calming down,' Gregory said. 'You answer the question.'
'I have answered the question,' said McClellan, who had maintained that the vice president's office was in charge of getting the information out and worked with the ranch owner to do that. 'I'm sorry you're getting all riled up about.'
'I am riled up,' Gregory said, 'because you're not answering the question.'"
This barking moonbat is just mad because he realizes there is no way to turn this into a "Get Bush" or even "Get Cheney" scandal. Fun to watch actually.
Rabid dog.
There are quite a few members of the White House press corps who should have their press passes revoked. Gregory, Moran, Thomas, just to mention a few, they are rude and obnoxious.
This is getting good. These people must be screaming at the walls at night: There has to be a scandal in here somewhere we can USE!!!
David Gregory...stupid, hateful, ugly. And he's not very smart. What a combination.
What a freakin' drama queen!
Agreed. If a reporter had done this while clinton was president, he not only would have had his White House press pass revoked, clinton would have called up his boss and gotten him fired.
Clinton did it to four or five reporters who crossed him.
I wonder who that lady was that asked if Cheney was going to resign, or the one who asked if the situation would have been more serious had the man died...
I love watching the "Gaggles",it's great to get all the old media in one place and watch them make total a$$es of themselves.
'Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,' the newsman said, his voice rising somewhat. 'Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.'
Ding,ding,ding, ding, ding.
We have a weiner.
Whatta maroon. What he really meant was that he was riled up because he wasn't getting the answer that HE thought was right. Doesn't matter what the truth was.
Again, this just points out McCleanen should have never been allowed to be press secretary. Someone with some testicular fortitude would have served that jerk a giant cup of Shut up!
Oh. Never mind.
Oh, I think Scott McLellan handled it just fine. Why get involved in the rant? Just let the idiots rave on.
David Gregory: "I'm cool because my first and last names are interchangeable, just like that other homo, Anderson Cooper. Who I really dig, by the way."
Gregory is so French...
Il parle francais aussi, je pense.
What a whiner. So typical. So boring. Damn irritating. Gregory needs a spankin'.
For once I'd like to see McClellan politely excuse himself from the dais and casually walk up to the offending prick and knock the snot out of him (or her...whatever the case may be)...."Next question????"
Bernard is going to work overtime to get this clymer on Imus Tuesday.
Je pense, donc, je sois. :)
"Oh, I think Scott McLellan handled it just fine. Why get involved in the rant? Just let the idiots rave on"
Are you kidding me? Most here on FR and I bet if you asked people like Rush or any other conservative that watches the PR machine from this White House, they would have told you this guy should have NEVER been apointed Press Secretary. He is not quick on his feet and he rarley throws if back at them.
Sorry, but the "new tone" is over as if it ever began. Ari Fletcher did a good job and thank god he was around post 9/11. Love them or hate them and most of us here on FR despised them, but the Clinton PR team was quick on it feet and they would have slammed little David around like a rag doll. They would have called him a dolt on live TV.
I have a serious question: What gives David Gregory any more right to the information than a local newspaper?
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LOL, perfect.
You said the name.
Now I have to post this:
By the way, I stole that pic from you. Sorry about that.
Hahaha ... good one!
I think that has to be just about the stupidest question I have ever head asked by the white house press.
There have been some real stupid ones too !!!
Of all the evil, cruel and maniacal deeds liberals have thought Cheney has done, from personally destroying the planets environment to being accused of sacrificing our soldiers lives and innocent Iraq civilians for blood money and personal financial gain.
To ask if he would resign over accidentally shooting someone with bird shot takes the cake.
The most evil man in the world resigns because of a hunting accident??? I don't think the moonbat left would accept it.
They are delusional
Didn't Clinton have Britt Hume removed for far less than Gregory's tantrum?
Nothing.
I kid you not - Dick Cheney, "the shooter"! Somebody in the gaggle actually said that!
Personally, I'm glad that this horrific incident has bumped the vicious assault by Britney Spears on her own child off the MSM's radar screens. We might a' had to hang 'er, boys. ;-)
Eventually these "journalists" need to be put in their places. Never before in history of mankind that there is are people who overrate themselves so much as journalists do. The President, the White House and any other politicians does not owe the journalists any answer. 90% of journalists are very stupid to start with, if they were that smart they would not have majored in such "low IQ" requirement major as journalism. However the hate fro President Bush has really driven these moronic journalists insane, they are out of bound and they are like spoiled kids who lost any respect for their parents. The journalists must be mocked and shown how stupid they are. They must be rebuked every time they ask a dumb and hateful question.
90% of journalists are stupid and they have a low IQ.
Obviously you've never seen him dance.
I thought the press were supposed to be objective...yelling at the president's press secretary? David--you're a bigger *sshole than I thought back when you asked that question in French to the Frenchie.
Britt Hume should be press secretary. Maybe he could fill in as a sub every once in a while.
"90% of journalists are stupid and they have a low IQ."
You hit the nail on the head. Compare an "episode" of Meet the Press from today with one from the 1950s. Compare a Time or Newsweek article from today with one from 40 years ago. There's no comparison. The older versions were generally filled with thoughtful even-handed analysis. In the 50s, Time and Newsweek were written at a high school reading level.Today, they aim at a 5th or 6th grade level.
The journalists and writers are, indeed, "stupider" and that's the trait they communicate best.
You know, I read that we get the most defensive about things we know we are doing but don't want to admit.
In light of this performance, I'm going to accept that theory.
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