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?”
But as far as they are concerned, if you don't live in Manhatten, DC, LA, San Francisco or Chicago you live in a trailer park and your local paper is full of stories about Aunt Edna's casserole party.
Some of these clowns like Gregory probably couldn't secure a job interview with the Corpus Christi Caller Times if they sent a resume. They are perfect left wing looney Democrats and they continue to show how little they are tethered to reality by their adolescent behavior.
Another way to look at it...a Corpus Christi paper got the story because Mrs Armstrong "trusted" the reporter there. There was a relationship with the paper and the reporter how do you have a relationship with an obnoxious ego driven twit like Gregory.
"Corpus-Christi" means Body of Christ. And Gregory is closer aligned to a spawn of satan in Joe Six pack American.
The same question I was going to ask but you beat me to it.
Listening to reporters repeat the same story about the hunting accident day after day is like listening to someone tell the same joke 50 times. People get tired of hearing about it after awhile but you can't tell a reporter that.
Hey, Gregory! You ain't no proxy for me, bub.
Hey, he'd be good duel fodder ;)
And exactly to whom did the little creep make this non-apology? I'd say he owes a big one to Dick Cheney.
The media digs deep while the American people stand by and watch.
Hicksville is in NY. Nassau County. Not even 10 miles east of NYC. :^D
Thanks, I can't listen to fat Tim, but I'm willing to read.
Isn't that cannibalism?
The "proxy" comment screams "entitlement". Do Gregory wants an affirmative action program for reporters who can't unstick their ass from their chair or their elbow from a bartop?
Grandiosity on this scale is a personality disorder...
Sen. Alan Simpson said on FOX this am,
Miss that man!
Gets right to the point..........wish his star had risen higher.
Mary Matlin went for the throat, and she was successful. It was a thing of beauty.
But .. Gregory will never have the guts to appear on FOX - and instead he picks his own networks show [with lousy ratings] where he can hide.
Coward!!
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