Please Email Stretch Gregory and DEMAND that he asks some GD follow up questions to Willard on MTP

[winstars]

Rachel tonight was very clever in talking about how its sorta BETTER JOURNALISM when a reporter asks a follow up question(s)... Duhhhh... She talked a lot about other reporters doing so and their success in getting a better interview because of it. I thought they taught this in Journo school on the first day but I could be wrong??? But was she actually trying to put Stretch on the spot to do the right thing Sunday? Is "Dances with Rove" too far gone to influence? Probably but it made me feel good to email him (or whoever reads the his emails) a simple request to be GD reporter and not a stenographer or cheerleader or piece of furniture that just lets Rmoney spout his incredible BS endlessly. You could tell that Rachel tonight was completely wishing that she could be the MTP host this Sunday. We all know she would be great for that show but will never get the gig because Comcast is basically too stupid to get it!!! I thought this is what she would want me (us?) to do.

Drop him a line here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/ns/meet_the_press-more/t/meet-press-mailbox/#.UErVu46Oo5c

If someone has a better address please post, bothering this "journalist" with our sincere hopes for his show can't hurt... We have a whole day to try...

[calimary]

1. Here's what I sent:

Dear David -

I hope you won't be throwing softballs to Mitt Romney on Sunday. You haven't held many GOPers' feet to the fire since 2004 when you grilled Scott McClellan about Dubya's dubious Texas Air National Guard record. Eight years of softballs have gone by since then. Did someone in the RNC get to you?

Please - don't think of your access to the next private Crossroads GPS reception. Think of your audience. You have an obligation to the voters of America, who deserve the straight truth and NOT talking points or avoidance tactics or Whoppers of Mass Distraction. MAKE HIM ANSWER! And DO NOT forget - we average taxpayers are still waiting to see the rest of his tax returns!!!

Thanks much.

[winstars]

2. Nice!!!

[MADem]

5. Maybe he's paranoid. Fearful. Looking over his shoulder in terror!!!

After all, Tim Russert died suddenly. One minute he was doing voice overs for his next show, next minute he was dead.

The conspiracy theorists love to bring that up, the whole "lie down with GOP dogs, get up with fleas, scratch for a few years, go to the Dems and try to be cured of your flea infestation with a huge Plame confession, and then suddenly end up dead. Oh, and your kid gets a job with the network, even though he's without talent or resume."

I'm not saying I find this theory at all credible .... but he might!

[Cha]

8. Wow, calimary..that's

brilliant! Thank you!

[jberryhill]

3. Like "You want fries with that?"

Or, "Is there anything else I can get you, Mr. Romney?"

[Cha]

9. It will be the softest of balls in the Universe.. being

the only way he'd get the interview in the first place.

And, if it were Pres Obama.. Gregory's fangs would come out already sharpened..like a fooking vampire bat.

[MADem]

4. Isn't the Willard thing a PRE-RECORDED interview in his lair (Loser Healey's house in VT)?

I don't think it is to be a live effort...I planned on looking for obvious breaks in the video if I got the stomach up to watch the thing....

[Cha]

7. Good luck with that.

[winstars]

10. Depressing but maybe true: "recorded Saturday morning at his mountaintop lair"... Reality bites!!!

[MADem]

12. I guess he came down from the VT lair to NH--but it IS pre-recorded.

Romney is taping the interview in New Hampshire this weekend, ahead of a Sept. 9 airdate.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/romney-to-meet-the-press-this-weekend-134540.html

[Cha]

6. K&R! 'Cause you know he won't

even with a One Million Strong Petition. Well, Maybe..

[Surya Gayatri]

11. To: David Gregory, Subject: Meet the Press

Sir,
Please be the good journalist you have shown yourself to be on occasion.

Be worthy of the profession and hold Governor Romney to account on the issues and policies.

When he tries, inevitably, to run away from his record, hold his feet to the fire by asking follow-up questions.

You owe it to the American voter.

Thank you,
Surya Gayatri