Posted on 03/02/2006 5:56:20 AM PST by new yorker 77
GREGORY'S GIGGLES: NBCNEWS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER CALLS SHOW 'DRUNK' Thu Mar 02 2006 08:52:09 ET
NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, who apologized last week for calling White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan a "jerk," called into MSNBC's IMUS Thursday morning -- apparently drunk!
Gregory is traveling with the president in India.
IMUS: Let's go to the White House correspondent David Gregory.
DAVID GREGORY: I'm OK.
IMUS: You can calls us later if you want.
GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]
IMUS: Are you drunk?
GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter]
IMUS: Are you all right David?
GREGORY: India is a wonderful language and i've been learning, where's my little sheet here. I've been learning some new phrases to come home. But any way, that being one of them and i just think it's nice.
IMUS: It is.
GREGORY: Thank you.
IMUS: Having a lot of fun there. What's wrong with you?
GREGORY: I just think it's funny. [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]
CHARLES: He's drunk.
IMUS: He is drunk!
CHARLES: Oh god.
IMUS: Why don't you compose yourself and get back to us. You want to?
GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]
IMUS: What are you in some harrem?
IMUS: What? David?
GREGORY: No, i'm fine.
IMUS: We need a camera.
Oh my lord.
IMUS: Somebody's got --
GREGORY: i was -- remember that movie "Arthur" with Dudley Moore where he just thinks funny things and that's what was going on. If i could find this sheet, actually i just found it. Anyway.
IMUS: You have any news? [Laughter]
IMUS: we got to go, we'll get back to you.
GREGORY: I'm sorry.
IMUS: That's all right.
IMUS: Well, call us back will you?
GREGORY: Anyway. There are serious things going on here which i know you're very interested in.
IMUS: We don't have any time for them now. Quickly.
GREGORY: Big deal between India and the United States. The upshot is we're going to provide nuclear know-how and fuel to india which they need for their economy to grow. But since they never signed the nonproliferation treaty it's a real turn around and critics worry that it sends the wrong message to other parts of the world.
IMUS: Ok.
GREGORY: I would add, i would add that this is how you say thank you.
IMUS: What is it again?
[Speaking foreign language]
IMUS: Well that's great. But we have to go. It's always nice to hear from you.
GREGORY: I'll call you after dinner.
IMUS: NBC Chief White House Correspondant from New Delhi, India. Clearly drunk.
What's going on?
LOL
The man is a disgrace. Guess he can't take the pressure he has been under. Too bad. Him and his ilk put that kind of pressure on Presidetn Bush every day. Difference: The President can take it cause he knows he is right. Gregory...just proved on the Imus show what a nobody he is. I now look forward to: "The REST of the story."
Let's see how the MSM likes things taken 'out of context'.
What a peckerwood! Can't hold his liquor!
If the Imus show called HIM unexpectedly, he would be given a pass for being drunk and saying strange things on his own time. But he called the show in his official capacity! That's crazy
I wonder if he was dancing?
???
What's the frequency, David?
Not surprised
I predicted rehab is in his future after his last blow up, it is an obvious excuse for his lack of self control.
There's an audio link at Drudge.
I doubt if he was drunk on alcohol... I think he was smokin something....
I predict rehab also. The guy is embarrassing NBC now and Imus will not let this go.
That sneaky Karl Rove, slipped a case of hootch into Gregory's luggage!!!
Sounds like he was snorting some curry.
"Clearly drunk."
LOL!
ROFL. I'm betting he'd never been to India before, and he underestimated the power of the local hooch. He's got my sympathy though, because he will probably get yanked from this plum job because he was simply trying the local cuisine and got caught by the ever-present desire of locals to get foreigners toasted, just for giggles.
To drunk to fly, leave his sorry ass there.
He's always drunk. I'm thinking he must be high on something, maybe cocaine. It's a lot cheaper there. He probably loaded up.
Serves the jerk right for his behavior in the past.
Karl Rove is a genius.
If I were a GE stockholder, I'd be calling for an immediate board meeting to dump all stock in NBC.
Drunk before dinner. That's a sign of a pro.
SD
It's always Happy Hour somewhere on the planet. Does that help?
So he had a few drinks before dinner. Is he supposed to never relax? After all, it was nite time where he was.
Isn't Gregory under the care of a shrink?
Drunk would be an improvement for Gregory.
Either he's on the clock or he's not. If he was intoxicated he should have informed the producer and declined the interview. Their is no excuse for this period!
I'll give him as much slack as I'd give a FReeper posting drunk. :)
What is the phone booth a reference to? I don't know much about Imus.
Yeah to be so drunk to the point of giggles is highly unlikely, particularly in light of his desire to share the nuclear information. The only way I could see that behavior being the result of alcohol is if he's never had alcohol, ever. My first thought was some sort of drug.
Matthews and Gregory both belong in rehab.....sooner rather than later.
I ahd heard that POS with a mouth was going to be on IMUS. I would rather looks at Hillary.
Every now and then, Imus and I are on the same wavelength.
He was arrested in the 1980's for urinating in a phone booth while both drunk and high.
It was probably the noxious fumes from the Bombay Duck.
You have sympathy for David Gregory???????????????????
A few drinks before dinner doesn't give you the giggles. I haven't listened to the audiotape yet, but I honestly can't believe this behavior is the result of liquor.
This isn't the 'Golden Age' of White House reporting.
Why doesn't NBC just fire this jerk?
Either they don't think he hurts their image as a repsonsible news source or they just pain hate Bush's guts.
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