GIRLYMAN!
Posted on 02/19/2006 5:14:27 PM PST by wagglebee
NBC White House correspondent David Gregory ate a little crow Sunday on this "Meet The Press," apologizing for his arrogant behavior during White House press briefings dealing with the shooting of a hunting companion by Vice President Cheney.
Reacting to the storm of criticism leveled by the public at the Washington press corps for complaining that they were not told immediately about the incident, leaving the job of reporting it to a small-town Texas newspaper, Gregory apologized for his boorish behavior.
"I think I made a mistake,” he told host Tim Russert. "I think it was inappropriate for me to lose my cool with the press secretary representing the vice president. I don’t think it was professional of me. I was frustrated, I said what I said, but I think that you should never speak that way, as my wife reminded me, number one. And number two, I think it created a diversion from some of the serious questions in the story, so I regret that. I was wrong, and I apologize.”
But Gregory quickly reverted to type complaining that another guest, Mary Matalin, "and others in the White House have been eager to stoke this as a false debate between the vice president and the White House press corps, attempting to cast this as the White House press corps is a ping-pong in the culture wars.”
Then, in a comment that once again revealed how remote the Washington media has become from the American people, he made the astounding comment that "No matter how you feel about the White House press corps -— and we’re worthy of criticism, and we can take our lumps —- this is about how the vice president chooses to communicate to the American people. We are a proxy for the American people. Whether you have faith in us or not, and we do make mistakes, we are still a proxy. This is about how the vice president chooses to communicate to the public. My view is not that I should have been informed or others should have been informed. It’s not about that. It’s a question of, "Does the vice president have a responsibility to the American people to inform them of his public and private activities?”
I was watching and he didn't go far enough for me. What a whiny namsy pamsy loser he is. And what is up with that hair?
"What's the difference between a press room and a porcupine?"
Surely this is scrappleface and not a real story. This has to be satire.
No reporter can be this arrogant.
If this is true, then the man should be fired for "stupid" comments made to a mass audience.
"Don't tempt me... LOL"
Too late, you already tempted me.
When I think of pay per view dueling, I think of Don King.
Maybe it's just me.
I want to see Cheney do a presser w/12 guage! Questions? Yes david.....uh huh....uh huh...uh huh...BANG! Next question?
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
LOL, what a crying baby.
AP picked up the story immediately after the Corpus Christi newspaper filed it and my nephew called my brother and he called my wife and she asked me if I had seen it...SHE WOKE ME UP in the middle of the night ...and I said no.
David Gregory is not my proxy.
So he's sorry, but not sorry.
Monitor # 779 to David Gregory: At 2307 GMT Sunday 19Fe06, VP Cheney scratched his left buttock.
"We should really bring back dueling...it would make people like Gregory more civil."
Chalk up my vote for this and also my nomination for the first go-around. TV could make this a weekly series with an internet vote for who's on next week. In the premiere I'd like to see David Gregory and Helen Thomas have a go at it with heads only exposed as targets.
Gregory's comments are so absurd, that I don't even know where to start my rebuttal.
Let's just say, that I NEVER gave him permission to be my "proxy". And I encourage him, and his other delusional cohorts in the White House Press Corps to continue to act like childish, immature, obnoxious brats.
Keep it up, Mr. Gregory!! You are EXACTLY what we need in time for the 2006 mid term elections!!
BUT....he looked positively ADULT next to Maureen Dowd!! YIKES....the woman is PATHETIC......the crack about the cute pink tie was what a THIRD GRADER would say!!
His wife is Beth Wilkerson a lawyer.
OMG! Has there EVER been a show more embarrassing than the Maury and Connie Show????? OMG!! It's INDESCRIBABLY HORRIBLE!!
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