Petition: NBC Should Fire David Gregory

HumanEventsOnline.com ^ | Mar 3, 2006 | Robert B. Bluey

[boryeulb]

A new website -- FireDavidGregory.com -- debuted today calling on NBC to oust its chief White House correspondent, David Gregory.

The website includes a petition that outlines two recent incidents involving Gregory that propelled him into the national spotlight. The first was a boisterous encounter with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, and the second was Gregory’s odd behavior yesterday on Don Imus’ program.

“These two episodes illustrate serious breaches in journalistic integrity,” the petition reads. “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.”

The petition asks NBC Chairman Bob Wright to immediately fire Gregory or ask him to resign.

Video of Gregory on Imus’ program -- Imus accused him of being drunk -- is prominently displayed on the website. There is also a clip of Gergory at the White House briefing when he yelled at McClellan about the handling of Vice President Cheney’s accidental shooting.

“In the past month, Mr. Gregory has become part of the stories he is supposed to cover,” the petition says. “This is not the proper role of a journalist, especially someone as powerful of Mr. Gregory, who covers President Bush and the White House.”

[lexington minuteman 1775]

More evidence the liberals are imploding, or drowning in their own scotch.

[Ditto]

“Mr. Gregory has done damage to NBC News' reputation and the reputation of journalism as a whole.

Sorry, but I don't agree. You can't damage what does not exist.

[USNBandit]

Why try to get rid of him? Gregory is a perfect example of the MSM. Sometimes bitchy, sometimes drunk, always wrong.

[cchandler]

Why would we want to get rid of David Gregory? The guy is pure entertainment, and his 'gotch journalism' helps to make the case for liberal bias.

[Sir Gawain]

David Gregory is the missing link. Monkey boy.

[bray]

What Reputation at DNBC??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[hang 'em]

Only Carl Rove can fire Gregory.
<:o

[teletech]

Anyone care to place any bets on how far this will be received by NBC?

[teletech]

strike the word "far".

[DollyCali]

well, at LEAST reassign him.. or the head of WH press corp should demand his replacement perhaps?

[Fintan]

Isn't this like firing the clown from the circus?

[zerosix]

Sorry, but I totally agree with Rush's theory in that we want these people out in front each and every day ranting, pouting before the camera, or crying on cue, ala School Bus Nagin and Blanco.

In the case of Gregory and NBC, the more the public gets to witness Gregory's spoiled brat elitism, the sooner the death knell of NBC.

[jdm]

now we need a petition to get rid of Ruth Bader Ginsburg... for sleeping in court.

[theDentist]

I dunno. I think he's perfect right where he is, a shining example of the best that network has to offer.

[LasVegasMac]

his 'gotch scotch journalism'..

[Lady Jag]

You can't damage what does not exist.

Amen.

[OldFriend]

Hell no. Leave him there. I like it when a member of the MSM makes himself a pinata.

[AbeKrieger]

Every time I get drunk and call Imus, they never let me on the air.

[caisson71]

No, no. NBC should promote Gregory! He is a classic example of what the MSM is about. Keep him there, promote him and give him a pay raise until NBC News is no more.

[danamco]

Oh, please NO, don't fire him, he is some of the best weapon we can have on OUR side as a member of the "drive-by" LSM!
The more these self-anointed idiots speaks = "performs" the better for us!!
These brain-dead talking heads are Godsends to us!!!

[jdm]

"Every time I get drunk and call Imus, they never let me on the air."

That's because you need to be high.

[BW2221]

Watch for NBC to can Gregory's sorry butt. The fact that so many FReepers want to keep him proves what an embarrassment he has become.

[Wasanother]

I agree, make him CEO of NBC. It would be the nail in the coffin for at least NBC.

[b4its2late]

NBC will promote him.

[bubman]

Can we stop using MSM as an abbreviation for the far left media?

There is nothing 'mainstream' about the media. Their bias and overall disdain for mainstream america is contemptible at best. Most americans (and canadians for that matter) would in almost every instance have nothing in common with the left wing media.

They say they share our values but in truth they simply despise the rest of us. Elitist bastards if anything.

I would simply call them the Lame-stream media or LSM for short. Anyhow their days are numbered.

[don'tbedenied]

"Watch for NBC to can Gregory's sorry butt. The fact that so many FReepers want to keep him proves what an embarrassment he has become."

You're probably right but darn it I agree with the other Freepers we need boneheads like Gregory, its the slick ones that are the most dangerous.

[Steve_Stifler]

How about instead of firing him, we force him to date Paula Abdul? That ought to produce some interesting offspring.

[edpc]

Why would we want to get rid of David Gregory? The guy is pure entertainment, and his 'gotch journalism' helps to make the case for liberal bias.

David Gregory is the missing link. Monkey boy.

Both very accurate statements. Far more accurate than any MSM story could ever be.

[Steve_Seattle]

Gregory is a jackass, but I'm against this. This sounds like something the Left would try.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Can we stop using MSM as an abbreviation for the far left media?"

Based on the ads you see during their newscasts, the "Hemorrhoid Cream Media (HCM)" would be more appropriate.

[USNBandit]

Fine by me. I will now refer to the media as the LSM.

[beyond the sea]

Can we stop using MSM as an abbreviation for the far left media? There is nothing 'mainstream' about the media.

God, I feel exactly the same way. Call it the old media or we could go low and call it what it is, The Lamestream Media.

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The old established/liberal/socialist media is America's most ruthless, relentless, and destructive enemy.

[beyond the sea]

Great pics. There is quite a resemblance.

[Erik Latranyi]

Gregory is a jackass...

Please refrain from insulting jackasses or your Free Republic account privileges will be revoked.

Thank you,

The Management (aka Karl Rove)

[AlexW]

"Call it the old media "

I like the new term, "Antique Media"
It certainly is no longer main stream.
In the last year, they have really gone over the cliff.

[eeriegeno]

David Gregory is the missing link. Monkey boy.

Now that was just 'not nice'....

You have offended simians everywhere.....

[muir_redwoods]

Keep Gregory on the staff. I long for the day he is falling down drunk at the White House and his "Brethren" in the media are stepping all over themselves to get the footage onto the news first.

I heard Gregory on Imus live. Gregory was way past tipsy. He was very drunk, like a frat boy.

[dead]

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Watch for NBC to can Gregory's sorry butt.

It will never happen. NBC loves David Gregory.

[leadpenny]

LOL!

[Hardastarboard]

serious breaches in journalistic integrity

If this were a firing offense, their wouldn't BE an MSM.

[dmw]

Hi everybody! My name is Howdy "David" Doody and I'm a puppet for the DNC! Lets all sing together; It's howdy doody time, it's howdy doody time, *hiccup*, it's howdy doody time....

[beyond the sea]

In the last year, they have really gone over the cliff

Speaking of cliffs (somewhat), how could a beautiful man like Montgomery Clift and Eleanor Clift have the same name. There is no justice.

;-)

[Liberty Valance]

LOL. Angry, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life David.

[trisham]

“Mr. Gregory has done damage to NBC News' reputation and the reputation of journalism as a whole.

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LOL!

[leadpenny]

Does anyone really believe that in the competitive business of network news, and while on a presidential trip, in the middle of the day, an NBC White House Correspondent would be drunk?

In the remote possibility that a professionally ambitious reporter like Gregory was on something, do you think he would still have his job 48 hours after the incident?

If there is anything, ANYTHING, to the story, why did Drudge take it down before the end of the day?

I happen to like it that Gregory acts like a jerk and a junk yard dog sometimes. We need more junk yard dogs. I suspect that W likes Gregory or he wouldn't have been on the presidential press plane for this trip.

[bubman]

Absolutely. The LSM as the fourth estate has been an utter failure. From idealism to agitprop, the LSM has pushed for their own definition of what America should be. Liberalism has morphed from socialism after the economic underpinning of their idiology has been discredited. (You can thank Milton & Freidrich and the Chicago boys for that!) So how do you hide in broad daylight without anyone seeing you? You become the establishement. You get respectability by becoming teachers and journalists, bureaucrats and administrators. Bref they invoke the american ideal of freedom and liberty while at the same time they dismantle the very underpinnings of american society and culture. Once they are done, America will be a different place. A country unrecognizable. The old men who built this country will be cast away, their words manipulated to advance a contemporary vision of an America contrary to the vision of it's founders.

The LSM is the facillitator supported by popular appeal through a vociferous hollywood elite who unmoored by any sense of country or duty will lay waste to traditional american values.

Am I an alarmist? Well take america circa 1959 and today. You can draw our own conclusions.

Americans cannot let this happen. In the end the destiny of america will be the destiny of the world. You guys carry a heavy burden and have allies in the fight however you guys will shoulder most of the burden.

[beyond the sea]

"Am I an alarmist? Well take america circa 1959 and today. You can draw our own conclusions." --- I was 12 in '59. Yes the country then was a sweet fragrant country garden compared to the electronic/amoral/cracking parking lot it is today.

"You guys carry a heavy burden and have allies in the fight however you guys will shoulder most of the burden." --- "you guys" --- who guys????