[wagglebee]

The White House press corps is so out of touch with reality, they make the rest of the media seem objective.

[Tall_Texan]

"Does the vice president have a responsibility to the American people to inform them of his public and private activities?”

Mr. Gregory, where was this concern when Al Gore was holding fishy fundraisers with monks? Wouldn't you consider illegal fundraising more important than a hunting accident? Our proxies had to be led kicking and screaming to cover a bare minimum of that story. So, Mr. Gregory, please spare us the b.s. about you being a proxy for us. It only makes you look even more petulant and silly than you already are.

[Positive]

"It’s a question of, "Does the vice president have a responsibility to the American people to inform them of his public and private activities?”"

Oh it's a question hunh?

May I ask who asked that question?

Who was asked?

What's the answer?

That "and" in that hypothetical hyperbolic bombastic question, requires an "either/or," not a "yes or no" answer.

[Pharmboy]

In all humility, I must take 0.00001% responsibility for his (halfhearted) apology. Last week I sent an email to NBC News letting them know (in a VERY nice way) that Mr. Gregory was out of bounds and was in need of reassignment.

[Revererdrv]

If the White House Press Corp is the Cream of the Crop, the entire news media is lost in the dark. It all seems like Sat. Nite Live entertainment anymore!

[Cricket24]

Idiot!

[Jeff Gordon]

Indeed, Gregory mad an ass of himself last week. Since when has the news become "all bout" the whining reporters?

[Chode]

HA ha...
and the RATS take another one in the...

[Thumper1960]

Where was this "reporter" when a married CEO of a multi-trillion dollar organization was getting oral sex, in his office, from the equivalent of a gal from the typing pool? (Blatant sexual coercion and power politics)

Yeah, the public and private actions of everyone is demanded from the "press" for distribution to "the American people" only when it serves and suits the "proxy of the American people".

[1rudeboy]

Does anyone have a transcript of this press conference? How about a video stream?

[jporcus]

I have to give a lot of credit to Mary Matalin - she is good. Very sharp woman, very articulate, and very strong (took no baloney from Gregory or Dowd, who was absolutely pathetic).

Keep it up Mary - you have many fans.

[muir_redwoods]

When will these nitwits understand that all they do is report the news. It was perhaps once important but it is only a trivial extension of the fringe of politics these days. It became trivial when they politicized it and robbed it of the one thing of value it possessed, objectivity.

As with the judiciary, once politicized, it became a thing of derision and nothing any longer of any importance.

[finnman69]

http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/19/mtp-cheney/

On Meet the Press this morning, the roundtable that included Mary Matalin, David Gregory, Maureen Dowd, and Paul Gigot, discussed the importance, or lack of importance, of the Cheney hunting incident. David Gregory, the White House Press correspondent, apologized for the on and off camera fit he threw with Scott McCllelan, noting his wife made him do it. Matalin duked it out with both Gregory and Dowd at several points because the former noted the bias the press has towards this administration. Dowd kept trying to excuse that because they are so secretive, and David hid behind the “it’s my job” argument. Matalin, who finally got fed up with Gregory and the press hiding their bias, said that “you [the press] went on a jihad”. Thank you, somebody had to say it, and I am glad it was Mary Matalin.

[Greg o the Navy]

I saw Gregory's performance and was appalled. Could someone remind me why he wasn't tossed in jail for disorderly conduct? Such a move would send a clear message to the gutless vermin that passes for a White House Press Corps.

[RavenATB]

The fact that he had to have a third party tell him he was acting like an a$$hole speaks volumes as to what kind of guy this little a$$hole really is.

He thought it was normal to act like that, until someone else told him how normal, decent American people would interpret his bile slinging. So, he goes on national TV to apologize for being an a$$hole, in the hope that some day his photo doesn't end up in the encyclopedia, next to the word, "A$$hole".

A typical liberal...an a$$hole.

[claudiustg]

---But Gregory quickly reverted to type...---

Rule #1: The Dims never learn.

[Osage Orange]

I know a proxy...and David you ain't one.

[Theo]

At least he didn't give a non-apology apology: "I'm sorry *if* anyone was offended...."

[JoeGar]

When the reporter has become the story, he's screwed the pooch.

[TommyDale]

He was probably told by the White House that if he didn't apologize, he would be put in the far back corner and never recognized for questions again.

[N. Beaujon]

apologizing for his arrogant behavior...

The understatement of the year.

"I think I made a mistake,” he told host Tim Russert. "I think it was inappropriate for me to lose my cool .. I don’t think it was professional of me. I was frustrated, I said what I said...it created a diversion from some of the serious questions in the story

This is what you call "criminal non-apology". What does he think we're all idiots....like his collegues in the Press Corp.? What an insult.