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<p>MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair... David Gregory will anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night.... Developing...</p>

“Why shouldn’t people know the person who is reporting on [President George W.] Bush, say – didn’t like Bush?” Telushkin asked. Gregory responded by saying that knowledge, not the journalist’s ideology, would “slant their coverage” and people should be assured journalists abide by governing principles, even if they’re not explicitly stated. ...Bill Clinton was in attendance and was photographed with Wright. However, Gregory declined to use it. “I stopped,” Gregory said. “I had just come from my study session and said, ‘No, that would be oppressive to remind Bill Clinton of his past on my program. And so, I elected...

On this morning’s Today show, NBC’s David Gregory challenged Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards about his vote for the Iraq war, his relative lack of experience, and his divisive us-vs-them rhetoric. But Gregory had absolutely no reaction when Edwards grandly claimed that his phone call to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the hours after the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto “was a calming influence” that helped stabilize an “international crisis” and was proof he is “ready for the Presidency.” “We just had this, this international crisis in Pakistan that is still ongoing. And my response to that was...

Overheard on a Wednesday plane to New Hampshire for Thursday's Democratic debate on MSNBC: A frustrated Chris Matthews on the phone, loudly complaining about David Gregory being on his show. "I'm in charge of my show and I don't want him on my show," our source paraphrased him saying.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's go to the president's press conference. The first question I want to play for you is from David Gregory, who I have a new nickname for: Brave Dave. Here is the question from David Gregory. It's about Iraq, that happened mere moments ago at a Rose Garden press conference. GREGORY: Mr. President, after the -- mistakes that have been made in this war, when you do as you did yesterday, when you raised two-year-old intelligence talking about the threat posed by Al-Qaeda, it's met with increasing skepticism. The majority in the public, growing number of Republicans...

David Gregory has long been accused by Republicans of being a left-wing hatchet man disguised as a reporter. Add to that, Gregory certainly does appear to love the limelight as his questions at presidential news conferences, or really any time the cameras are roiling, turn into long-winded filibusters. Many news observers from the right and left agree, for David Gregory, it is all about Dave. If you can accept that, that would make him a really good radio talk show host to replace ousted shock jock Don Imus. (That would also make him a really bad reporter). Now a report...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer leaked the identity of a CIA operative to Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus during a 2003 phone call, Pincus testified Monday as the first defense witness in the CIA leak trial. Pincus was one of the first reporters to learn the identity of Valerie Plame, the wife of former ambassador and prominent Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson. Pincus said he learned her identity July 12, 2003 but did not immediately write about it. Plame was outed by syndicated columnist Robert Novak two days later. Pincus testified on behalf of Vice...

President Bush's ex-spokesman invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked in front of a grand jury about the illegal outing of spy Valerie Plame, prosecutors revealed this week. Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer sought and received immunity from prosecution for unmasking the secret agent. Armed with this immunity, Fleischer is now expected to testify Monday in the perjury trial of Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Fleischer is expected to tell the court that Libby, formerly Vice President Cheney's top adviser, told him on July 7, 2003, that "he had some information that was hush-hush," said special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. What was hush-hush...

BREAKING, BIG: We are relying on the live-blogging of the Libby trial by the always-astute EmptyWheel, who is covering the opening statement of Libby's attorney, Ted Wells, but we have a potential blockbuster absolutely guaranteed to get exactly zero headlines. Ted Wells drops the news that David Gregory of NBC received a leak about Plame from Ari Fleischer on July 11: Now shows Ari dislcoses to David Gregory on July 11 that Ambassador Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. Fleischer tells that before Libby was ever indicted. "I told David Gregory." Talks about time difference, says Ari leaked to Gregory...

From today's WH Press Briefing (emph. added): DAVID GREGORY QUESTION: From a security point of view, does the president believe that it is the primary role of the U.S. military to be responsible for reducing the sectarian violence? And if that's the case, or if it's not the case, how does that inform his decision about what the U.S. troop posture should be: heavier on combat than on training? TONY SNOW: OK, before I get to that, I want to address something else. Because you and I had a conversation last week that got a whole lot of play in...

Yesterday, an exchange between White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow, and NBC White House Correspondent, David Gregory, took place at the WH Press gaggle. Gaggles are not broadcast; thus, no video usually exists for them. As a public service, Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade reenacted the Gregory-Snow exchange. For your interest and edification, that video does exist: Fox&Friends' Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade act out the script of the finger exchange between NBC's David Gregory and Press Secretary Tony Snow at the press gaggle on September 5, 2006. Filename: Fox&Friends Do Gregory&Snow.wmv Filesize: 3.8 KB Note: Arrow...

Newsman to Tony Snow: 'Don't Point Your Finger At Me!' By E&P Staff Published: September 05, 2006 4:15 PM ET updatted 4:30 PM ET NEW YORK A not especially eventful press briefing at the White House today turned rancorous with NBC's David Gregory telling Press Secretary Tony Snow, "Don't point your finger at me," and Snow accusing the newsman of being "rude" and delivering Democratic talking points. Earlier, speaking to reporters, Snow, continuing the administration's media focus on the war on terror, accused "some in the Democratic Party" of saying "we shouldn't fight the war" and "we shouldn't apprehend al-Qaeda"...

Many want to know about Gregorian Masses -- especially for deceased loved ones -- so let us begin at the beginning:Gregorian Masses date back to the end of the sixth century, when they were instituted by Pope St. Gregory the Great, a doctor of the Church. It is why these Masses take their name from him.He established them when he was Abbot of St. Andrew's Benedictine Abbey of Monte Celio in Rome -- and a rather strict one, I might add.  In one of his most notable works -- called Dialogues -- Pope Gregory spoke of a monk named Justus. "See...

A 15-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old was seriously wounded today when a homeowner shot them while defending himself from a home invasion, Longview, Texas, police said. No charges were immediately filed against the homeowner. Police this afternoon said they were still investigating. The homeowner told police he was asleep about 3:30 a.m. when he heard the sound of glass breaking. He got a gun and found several people in the living room. Police said the homeowner told them one of the intruders was holding something he thought was a gun, so he opened fire. Trenton Joseph Houghton, 15,...

Less than a day after the website FireDavidGregory.com launched, it has collected nearly 1,000 signatures for a petition calling on NBC to fire its chief White House correspondent. As of 1 p.m. Saturday, the petition had 905 signatures. The petition is addressed to NBC Chairman Bob Wright, and it asks that he “immediately fire Mr. Gregory or ask him to resign.� As HUMAN EVENTS first reported yesterday, the petition was inspired by two recent incidents involving Gregory that made him “part of the stories he is supposed to cover.� The petition says, “This is not the proper role of a...

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...

Just how stoned was David Gregory yesterday on Imus? Will this story have never happened by sometime tomorrow? Will the old media be successful in covering for him? Or, will David get handed a cup when he comes home?

MIDI - BOTTLE OF WINE (scroll down for the MIDI file and click on it) Bottle of wine, Gregory's fine...Imus says call in when you're sober Yes, he was drunk...he is a skunk...for him it soon may be over He called Scott "jerk" while he was at work At news conference time, he really is slime He thinks it all is about him India's language is wonderful...hey, David, you are so full of bull Bottle of wine, Gregory's fine...Imus says call in when you're sober Yes, he was drunk...he is a skunk...for him it soon may be over He...

If only the Danish cartoonists had drawn a picture of Dick Cheney shooting ... Well, we have to be careful here, don't we. The way things are today, one could get in trouble for describing a hypothetical, nonexistent drawing. The very mention of the sinful syllables "Danish cartoonists" is sufficient to set 16 cities in Nigeria aflame. So let's just put it like this: If a Danish cartoonist had drawn an image of Cheney unloading a blunderbuss at (THAT PARTICULAR PERSON. YOU KNOW. HIM.), the press might finally have a cartoon they could show. White House correspondents would put it...

Commentary: Plus, Dick Parsons has no more excuses NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - It has become a tradition that's almost as old as the White House itself: America loathes the White House press corps. This is especially true when the journalists preen for the television cameras, yell at the press secretary to achieve a dramatic effect, act bratty and petulant, appear openly disrespectful to the president and the vice president and generally behave like unruly five-year-old children playing in a sandbox. If you needed a reminder, consider the circus that ensued last week as the media did its best to nail...

A Day With the White House 'Gaggle' Written by Vincent Fiore Monday, February 20, 2006 Lately, a typical day in the life of the mainstream media sounds something like your average trial-by-mob assemblage. For our purposes here, the setting will be the White House press room. On “trial” is the entire Bush administration. Specifically, the main topic of discussion is the recent accidental shooting of a fellow hunter and friend by Vice President Cheney. White House press secretary Scott McClellan holds what is commonly referred to as the “Gaggle,” a near-daily briefing given to the chief White House correspondents of...

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...

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Sorry Democrats, your latest attempt to lynch the Bush Administration fell short, again. In the classic style of today’s left wing attack machine, they overreached and the media got left with their pants down. How embarrassing it must have been to find out that Dick Cheney took the correct steps to make sure his friend received the proper medical care, the police were notified, and that the supposed cover up amounted to the local paper scooping the White House Press Corp. It is a case of reporters who have become accustomed to having the news spoon fed to them. Where...

" [T]he debate playing out in the blogosphere, cable airwaves and on talk radio pits the Vice President against an allegedly left-wing, overly cynical, prissy White House press corps in a tizzy because it wasn't the first to know and angry because it hates the President and Vice President anyway. " That's exactly right. And it comes from NBC's David Gregory. Gregory goes on to announce that this description is "nonsense," but of course Gregory has not allowed himself to be questioned outside of his network. He doesn't return calls and he won't make himself available for questions about what...

It's been a rough and tumble week in the White House press room over the Cheney hunting story. Many viewers have written me with praise and plenty of criticism about my questioning of press secretary Scott McClellan. Let me say at the outset that I was wrong to lose my temper at Scott McClellan. I've worked well with Scott since we first met during the 2000 campaign. Monday, he suggested my aggressive questioning about the disclosure of the hunting accident was a stunt for the cameras. He said this during a morning OFF CAMERA briefing, which undercut his point. Furthermore,...

NBC REPORTER TO WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN: 'DON'T BE A JERK' Tue Feb 14 2006 08:54:18 ET NBCNEWS chief White House correspondent David Gregory warned President Bush's spokesman on Monday not to be a "jerk!" The heated exchange came during a press gathering at the White House. Gregory asked White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan about the Cheney hunting accident. 'David, hold on, the cameras aren't on right now,' McClellan replied. 'You can do this later.' 'Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,' Gregory said, voice rising. 'Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you...

The most heated public moment occurred during McClellan's off-camera "gaggle" with White House reporters yesterday morning. It featured NBC's David Gregory, one of McClellan's most persistent inquisitors over the last year, who raised his voice while asking a question about the incident. "Hold on," McClellan interrupted, pointing out that "the cameras aren't on right now. You can do this later." "Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras," Gregory replied. "Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question." "You don't have to yell," McClellan said. "I will yell," said Gregory, jabbing his...

Beth Wilkinson (NBC, David Gregory's wife) is a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington. A top counter-terrorism official in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration.

The Death Penalty in Georgia William John Hagan Houston Home Journal This week I was assigned the unpleasant duty of reporting on the murder of 16-month-old Christian Edward Martinez. For those of you that didn’t read my article in Tuesday’s newspaper, I’ll briefly bring you up to speed.(Original report at: http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/963/public/news653608.html ) Christian was murdered last August, and authorities believe the killer was Gregory Class. The details of this case are sickening, so if you have a weak stomach I suggest you turn a few pages and read the more comforting words of your daily horoscope. For those who want...

The Death Penalty in Georgia William John Hagan Houston Home Journal This week I was assigned the unpleasant duty of reporting on the murder of 16-month-old Christian Edward Martinez. For those of you that didn’t read my article in Tuesday’s newspaper, I’ll briefly bring you up to speed.(Original report at: http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/963/public/news653608.html ) Christian was murdered last August, and authorities believe the killer was Gregory Class. The details of this case are sickening, so if you have a weak stomach I suggest you turn a few pages and read the more comforting words of your daily horoscope. For those who want...

Both love and duty today fashion my homily for your charity. It is not only that I wish, because of my love for you, and because I am obliged by the sacred canons, to bring to your God-loving ears a saving word and thus to nourish your souls, but if there be any among those things that bind by obligation and love and can be narrated with praise for the Church, it is the great deed of the Ever-Virgin Mother of God. The desire is double, not single, since it induces me, entreats and persuades me, whereas the inexorable duty...

A 16-year-old who admitted helping two other youths dismember and dispose of a former Texas girl's body has been sentenced to a juvenile detention center...

April Fool's Day is one of the most light hearted days of the year, yet it stems from a serious subject—the adoption of a new calendar. A Traditional New Year's Ancient cultures, including those as varied as the Romans and the Hindus, celebrated New Year's Day on April 1. It closely follows the vernal equinox (March 20th or March 21st.) In medieval times, much of Europe celebrated March 25, the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the new year. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to replace the old Julian Calendar. The new...

Embattled San Jose City Councilman Terry Gregory resigned this morning as part of a deal with prosecutors after he was charged with 11 misdemeanors related to his conduct in office. Shortly after the charges were announced, Gregory held a City Hall news conference announcing his resignation. Gregory said in a statement that he accepted ``total and full responsibility'' for his actions and was ``prepared to do what's right in facing the consequences of of any mistakes that I have made.'' He also said he is ``at peace'' with himself because he has ``always worked only for the betterment of our...

The South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council and the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce on Thursday joined a growing chorus of community groups and elected officials urging embattled San Jose City Councilman Terry Gregory to resign. The chamber's announcement came Silicon Valley-style, in a blog written by Jim Cunneen, the group's president and CEO, who published his views on a new political Web log site called San Jose Inside (www. sanjoseinside.com). In the blog, Cunneen also offered the chamber's help in funding a petition drive to recall Gregory if the councilman, who represents District 7, does not resign. Phaedra...

A former aide to San Jose Councilman Terry Gregory testified Wednesday that on days his boss would get wound up intimidating big-box retailers for donations or browbeating city planners to sink projects he opposed, his staff used a code word warning that Gregory was on the warpath. ``The staff code word was `purple.' He had `purple' days,'' said Craig Mann, Gregory's former chief of staff, in front of a special ethics task force investigating allegations the District 7 councilman solicited and accepted gifts and donations, and committed dozens of violations of city and state fundraising laws. In his most revealing...

San Jose Councilman Terry Gregory -- accused of strong-arming local business leaders for free meals for himself and cash donations to his district -- urged a prominent East Side businessman to lie if he was questioned about the gifts, the businessman testified Monday. Tropicana Shopping Center property owner Dennis Fong told members of a special ethics task force investigating Gregory that he had given the councilman free meals and wine. But Fong stunned members when he said that Gregory had urged him to lie -- to say, if asked, that he had paid for a portion of the $300 to...

A City Hall investigation that could bring censure hearings against besieged San Jose Councilman Terry Gregory gathered steam Friday when a task force issued subpoenas to compel witnesses to testify about allegations of Gregory soliciting gifts from businessmen. The city council's ethics task force, charged with examining accusations that Gregory sought and received gifts and pressured companies to give contributions to a special events fund, voted to issue subpoenas to: • Dennis Fong, majority owner of the Tropicana Shopping Center. In May, a Mercury News editorial reported that Fong gave Gregory a free case of wine, valued at about $1,400....

A San Jose ethics investigation released Thursday concludes that Councilman Terry Gregory broke city laws by accepting free wine and baseball tickets and failing to properly report campaign contributions. The findings by a San Francisco law firm hired by the San Jose Elections Commission are the first official confirmation of alleged misconduct originally revealed in May in a series of Mercury News editorials and news articles. Similar investigations -- a criminal probe and an examination of a wrongful termination claim filed by Craig Mann, Gregory's former chief of staff -- are being conducted by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's...

Almost six months after reports surfaced alleging that San Jose Councilman Terry Gregory solicited lavish meals and gifts in violation of city law, an investigation proposed last week by Mayor Ron Gonzales promises the first answers to questions about whether Gregory has done anything wrong. Who gets to hear those answers, however, is entirely unclear -- and may largely be up to Gonzales and City Attorney Rick Doyle if they determine Gregory acted in ways that expose the city to legal liability. Gonzales' investigation has sparked unfavorable comparisons to the city's early efforts in August to investigate questions about its...

San Jose Councilman Terry Gregory's former chief of staff alleges in a wrongful termination claim filed against the city on Tuesday that his former boss strong-armed local businesses for free meals and donations to his district and threatened an employee to ``leave quietly, or else.'' Mayor Ron Gonzales immediately announced he was launching an independent investigation into the allegations by Craig Mann, who served as Gregory's chief of staff from January to December 2003, when he was dismissed. If the city rejects the claim, Mann is free to file a wrongful termination suit. Mann contends he was fired because he...

As a San Jose City Council ethics task force debated how to treat council members accused of misconduct, a councilman said Monday he's prepared to initiate censure hearings against colleague Terry Gregory, who faces allegations of coercing local businessmen for gifts and meals. Councilman David Cortese said he hopes to jump start a council investigation on Wednesday by submitting a censure request with the council's rules committee, which sets the council's agenda. ``I have no reaction to it,'' Gregory said Monday about Cortese's plans. Gregory already faces two parallel investigations by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office and the...

Sandy Who? Two weeks ago, Republicans were filled with glee, as Democrats fell all over themselves, trying to diminish the fact that Bill Clinton’s former national security adviser, Samuel Berger, better known as Sandy, was caught stuffing classified documents and national secrets down his drawers, in his jacket, in his socks, and in a leather portfolio, in order to steal them from the National Archives, and to later destroy some of them. (Berger returned some documents, but only after he was caught, and had “accidentally” destroyed the most important ones.) Note that Berger reportedly burgled the Archives on as many...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- Authorities said Tuesday that they have found a body they believe is that of a 16-year-old Ocean County girl who disappeared more than two weeks ago. Brittney Gregory, of Brick Township, was last heard from on July 11. Authorities started searching for her one week later after they charged a family acquaintance with her murder. There is no word on a possible motive. Police have not yet announced where the body was found. Previous searches of acres of woods in Lakewood, Howell and Brick yielded nothing. Ocean County prosecutors have scheduled a 3 p.m. news conference...

Rep. Gregory's alignment with the GOP brings the total number of Republican members serving in the state House of Representatives to 47, the largest number of Republican Representatives to serve at one time in modern Mississippi history.

These pages have spent the past few months arguing that San Jose's ethics laws are lax. We've contended that they create a culture of permissiveness at City Hall. Today, a Mercury News editorial page investigation reveals that council member Terry Gregory appears to have violated numerous state and local ethics laws, possibly including soliciting a bribe. And if he hasn't violated the letter of the law, he has made a mockery of the spirit of ethics regulations. This is the story: In the Fall of 2003, the city of San Jose threw in the towel in its efforts to take...

PRESIDENT BUSH: The Prime Minister and I will have some opening comments. We'll answer two questions per side. Mr. Prime Minister, welcome. I'm glad you're here. I've really been looking forward to this meeting because I view it as a meeting between friends and allies. I really appreciate the Prime Minister's clear vision about the world in which we live. He understands the danger of terror. He understands the opportunity of trade. And he understands that we share values that will -- that are so important, the values of freedom, human dignity. We care about the human condition. I appreciate...

Most found to favor discussion of mandate By TOM HEINENtheinen@journalsentinel.com Posted: Jan. 30, 2004 Lay volunteers are surveying diocesan and religious order priests in at least 52 of the country's 195 Roman Catholic dioceses to document how many think the requirement of mandatory celibacy for diocesan priests should be openly discussed by church leaders. The effort is being coordinated by two national reform groups that advocate the ordination of married men and of women - the Chicago-based Call to Action and the Cleveland-based FutureChurch. It is another in a series of ripples that were set in motion last year when...

Remarks by the President to the Press Pool Nothin' Fancy Cafe Roswell, New Mexico 11:25 A.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs. Q Mr. President, how are you? THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some ribs. Q What would you like? THE PRESIDENT: Whatever you think I'd like. Q Sir, on homeland security, critics would say you simply haven't spent enough to keep the country secure. THE PRESIDENT: My job is to secure the homeland and that's exactly what we're going to do. But I'm here to take somebody's order. That would be you, Stretch --...