Posted on 03/03/2006 11:32:55 AM PST by PhiKapMom
Petition for Fire David Gregory.com
Bob Wright, Chairman
NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Dear Chairman Wright:
We, the undersigned, are becoming increasingly concerned about the well-being of NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent David Gregory. He has become increasingly ill due to Bush Derangement Syndrome and has turned to alcohol in an attempt to sustain this illness.
In the past month, Mr. Gregory has become part of the stories he is supposed to cover. This is not the proper role of a journalist, especially someone as powerful of Mr. Gregory, who covers President Bush and the White House.
Consider:
On February 13, Mr. Gregory yelled at White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan in an exchange about Vice President Cheney’s handling of his shooting accident. Mr. Gregory said: "Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question."
On March 2, Mr. Gregory was a guest on Don Imus' program. He was on the phone from India, where he was traveling with President Bush. Throughout the interview, Imus tried and was unable to conduct an intelligent conversation with Mr. Gregory, who appeared to be intoxicated.
These two episodes illustrate serious breaches in journalistic integrity. Mr. Gregory has done damage to NBC News' reputation and the reputation of journalism as a whole. Journalists should report the story, not become a part of it. Mr. Gregory, who was unable to control his emotions at a White House press conference and behaved inappropriately on a nationally syndicated radio program, is unfit to work for NBC News.
Therefore, in an effort to save NBC from further embarrassment, we ask that you immediately fire Mr. Gregory or ask him to resign.
Thank you.
He was probably smoking some local hashish.
Done!
Whatever it was, he was on something and he didn't have a clue. Love how NBC came out and said he wasn't drunk but nothing else! :)
Done
Thanks -- great feeling even if NBC ignores!
I'm in.
Done, thanks for the opportunity.
Done. I signed it twice. Once for my husband and once for me.
I heard a part of David Gregory's remarks from Imus. Fire David Gregory. Why not. Sounds good to me. LOL
My pleasure.
LOL! OK, will do right now.
LOL! Take a look at this! ;*)
My pleasure...
Not sure I want him fired. Now that he has shown everyone that he is an egotistical and immature fool, it might be fun to have him around for a while longer-- just for laughs, so to speak. :)
Now that David Gregory has called into Imus drunk, I like him. It was funny with his lame allusion to "Arthur"
No please - let them keep him. He helps to accelerate the dearly deserved death of the MSM!
"Throughout the interview, Imus tried and was unable to conduct an intelligent conversation with Mr. Gregory, who appeared to be intoxicated."
I'm not certain Imus has ever tried to conduct an intelligent conversation with anybody.
Don't you need three strikes? I don't think two strikes is enough, just in the sprit of free play.
David Gregory will be offered a job at CNN soon enough. He is their kind of guy.
Course he may have to censor some of Blowhard O'Reilly's phone conversations if good ol' Bill starts talking dirty to him as he has been known to do in publicized past phone conversations.
NBC will probably give him a big raise and and make him
the anchor for the evening news.
I prefer to not even recognize that NBC exist.
I doubt that I have seen a program from NBC in over 20 years.
I completely agree.
Give Sheehan, Sandoval, Bennish, Churchill, etc they own show and watch as the village idiots tank their Liberal positions.
I've watched some White House Press Conferences....This is just not something that is possible whether alcohol is involved or not.
Seems like Gregory has a good libel claim against that website.
There is no proof that he was on alcohol. True, pressing a legal claim might subject the question to more scrutiny and publicity than Gregory would like.
I didn't hear the conversation, but however he sounded, he could claim some other reason for his apparently noteworthy performance.
But stating he has "turned to alcohol" without even using a qualifier (i.e. "allegedly" or "some say") definitely seems to open up the website to a claim.
David Gregory is not the only correspondent to slur his words and act wacky on the air. Remember Tom Brokaw a few years ago, or even Bernie Shaw at CNN during Desert Storm? He crawled under his desk and sounded like he took Jack Daniels with him.
Intoxicated with liquor, drugs or power -- it doesn't matter. In any event, it just further undermines what tiny fragment of credibility they have left. Leave Gregory there to be a fool.
Both Imus and Gregory could be stone-cold sober and rested and not be able to carry on an intelligent conversation.
I have seen David Gregory, and he is no drunk, ma'am.
His "performance" indicates that he is a pot head though :)
Bump 'n Done
I think Mr. Gregory is right where he belongs. And if NBC starts firing everyone who is an embarrassment, where will it end? If it can endure Matt and Katie, why single out David Gregory?
LOL!!! I am sitting here laughing at the responses!
Very well stated! Even NBC denied he had been drinking -- it was what was left out that I cracked up about!
I would argue top the contrary. The first line of the letter is, "We, the undersigned, are becoming increasingly concerned about the well-being of NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent David Gregory."
If Gregory claims that the remark regarding alcohol abuse is to be perceived as true, then he has to acknowledge that the above remark declaring its concern for him is intended to be perceived as true as well. Likewise, If the above remark is intended to be perceived as satire or parody, then a reasonable person would be expected to hold the remark regarding his alcohol abuse in the same light...I think the petition site would be entitled to the same protections that Flynt enjoyed when parodying Falwell. Gregory, holding a major network appointment to the position of WH correspondent can not claim to be anything other than a public figure.
Thanks for the opportunity.
NBC will never fire Gregory but it is fun to have them get a petition like this! Don't imagine NBC expected any reaction to the Imus show with Gregory especially a petition to fire him! :)
I have no idea who owns the website but if I were Gregory, I wouldn't go after them. I would say from the wording of the letter that it had been vetted. Gregory could open a whole can of worms and I don't think he wants to go there as a public figure.
President Bush should require all members of the White House Press Corps to submit to drug tests.
I emailed this to my entire address book. Hopefully it will make some waves if enough people sign it.
Why get rid of a liberal jester? He's better when he can be seen again and again by the masses. (I don't need to watch)
Aw, come on folks. Agreed, Gregory is biased. But when you can't object to his bias with implying that he is mentally ill, you lose all credibility. There is no basis to claim Gregory has "turned to alcohol" (which implies that he is an alcholic.) Even if he was drunk on Imus (and I dont think he was), one incident of drinking cannot establish anything.
Let's not libel people just because we disagree with them.
If not fired, he should be,at least, removed from the White House press corps.
I signed the petition because I trust the FREEPERS to do the right thing...BUT, in defense of this guy everyone is saying that he was drunk on the phone while calling from India...Couldn't he just have jetlag???? Trust me when you go that far from the states it can be tiring when you are talking to people back in the states those few days. I was stationed in Korea and I know that I sounded tired the first couple days at least...actually maybe a week. However, if you guys are really against this guy, he must be pretty bad.
Thanks for the info. I signed, but how many are now on the petition?
Signed. Hope it does some good.
Bill
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