Posted on 02/13/2006 6:59:37 PM PST by johnmecainrino
Gregory in the Gaggle: "I'll Calm Down When I Feel Like Calming Down" Today in the gaggle, via the Chicago Tribune's D.C. blog:
"There were no cameras rolling in the Monday morning 'gaggle' today, the morning after news belatedly broke about Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a hunting companion on Saturday. The broadcast sessions of press encounters with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan are saved for formal afternoon briefings, with the morning gaggles serving as more informal warm-ups. And David Gregory, the chief White House correspondent for NBC News, was warmed up.
Why was the White House relying on a Texas rancher to get the word of Cheney's hunting accident out over the weekend, asked Gregory, accusing McClellan of 'ducking and weaving.'
'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,' the newsman said, his voice rising somewhat. '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, pointing a finger at McCellan at his dais. 'If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.'
'Calm down, Dave, calm down,' said McClellan, remaining calm throughout the exchange.
'I'll calm down when I feel like calming down,' Gregory said. 'You answer the question.'
'I have answered the question,' said McClellan, who had maintained that the vice president's office was in charge of getting the information out and worked with the ranch owner to do that. 'I'm sorry you're getting all riled up about.'
'I am riled up,' Gregory said, 'because you're not answering the question.'"
This barking moonbat is just mad because he realizes there is no way to turn this into a "Get Bush" or even "Get Cheney" scandal. Fun to watch actually.
Rabid dog.
There are quite a few members of the White House press corps who should have their press passes revoked. Gregory, Moran, Thomas, just to mention a few, they are rude and obnoxious.
This is getting good. These people must be screaming at the walls at night: There has to be a scandal in here somewhere we can USE!!!
David Gregory...stupid, hateful, ugly. And he's not very smart. What a combination.
What a freakin' drama queen!
Agreed. If a reporter had done this while clinton was president, he not only would have had his White House press pass revoked, clinton would have called up his boss and gotten him fired.
Clinton did it to four or five reporters who crossed him.
I wonder who that lady was that asked if Cheney was going to resign, or the one who asked if the situation would have been more serious had the man died...
I love watching the "Gaggles",it's great to get all the old media in one place and watch them make total a$$es of themselves.
'Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,' the newsman said, his voice rising somewhat. 'Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.'
Ding,ding,ding, ding, ding.
We have a weiner.
Whatta maroon. What he really meant was that he was riled up because he wasn't getting the answer that HE thought was right. Doesn't matter what the truth was.
Again, this just points out McCleanen should have never been allowed to be press secretary. Someone with some testicular fortitude would have served that jerk a giant cup of Shut up!
Oh. Never mind.
Oh, I think Scott McLellan handled it just fine. Why get involved in the rant? Just let the idiots rave on.
David Gregory: "I'm cool because my first and last names are interchangeable, just like that other homo, Anderson Cooper. Who I really dig, by the way."
Gregory is so French...
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