Gregory omitted White House interview preconditions for a third time

[The Count]

Gregory omitted White House interview preconditions for a third time

On the March 23 edition of NBC's Today, NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory -- for the third time in four days -- omitted the preconditions stipulated by the Bush administration for allowing White House senior adviser Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, and other current and former staff to be interviewed by congressional committees investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

* that interviews be conducted behind closed doors;

* that they not be televised or transcribed;

* that there be no "subsequent testimony";

* that no subpoenas be issued following the interviews;

* and that committee members ask no questions concerning internal White House communications. http://mediamatters.org/items/200703230005?src=other

[terip64]

1. I like this guy but he gets no free pass. WTF? K&R n/t

[gatorboy]

2. Gregory seem to go downhill when he started hosting Tweety's show.

[radfringe]

5. he forgot?

I think he's been hanging around the white house too long - all those pesky memory problems seem to be contagious

[blm]

18. More like the typical ruination of EVERY journalist who wants to climb NBC ladder

and gain the paychecks that go with it - the Jack Welch integrity-eating ladder.

[ShortnFiery]

6. I regret and I hope that I'm wrong but Gregory ...

is showing signs of someone who's in the process of being assimilated into The Unitary Executive's Collective. :scared:

When will we all be forced to say "2 + 2 = 5"? Many of us can resist with the aid of free news sources such as Democracy Now, Al Jazeera and numerous on-line sources. Let's hope that we can still reach the lion's share of The American People who are LIED to every day by our Corporate Media Whores. :(

Again, I hope that I'm wrong but there's many ways of intimidating, blackmailing and coercing compliance with Dear Leader's Unitary Executive. Especially if you OWN the controls of the M$M and have one channel (FOX) that's dedicated to Dimson's collective 24/7.

[Robbien]

3. The WH is probably making it a condition of his continued favored press status

You write that stuff and you are dis-invited to the cool parties.

[ShortnFiery]

7. And Tweety is the #1 Political Elitist Socialite Media Whore, Most Extradinaire. :P ...

Yes, the pieces are beginning to fit. :thumbsdown:

[Cha]

22. So that makes david gregory a

whore of the worst kind..a traitorouswhore to your country.

[radfringe]

4. * additional conditions have been added

* Senators or Representatives have to stand on their heads while asking a question

* Questions must be in 128bit encryption format (with conversion equivalent in Morse code) and tapped out by head-banging against a brick wall

* Senators or Representatives are not allowed to listen to the answers, as they may possess keen memory retention abilities, and said keen memory retention would constitute a form of transcription

[tblue37]

8. They also must hold their hands on their asses and

whistle "Dixie" while standing on their heads.

[dweller]

9. Limited to pantomime

dp

[Canuckistanian]

20. And questions will be answered in charade form

However, questions about advising the president will be provided by interpretive dance alone.

[tom_paine]

10. I have noticed this, too. Gregory has become a Loyal Bushie.

Those facts that are not in compliance with Fuehrer's wishes for what his Subjects should hear are not to be spoken.

[glitch]

12. He picked a hell of a time. What kind of rat swims to the sinking ship? nt

[Mind_your_head]

14. That's what I was wondering as well...

Add this to the "things that make you go hmmmm" file.

[radfringe]

13. RE: Loyal Bushie

there use to be a time when loyalty was determined by what you would do for your country, and doing what is right for your neighbor, friends, family and even strangers

now your loyalty is gauged by what you do for one man, and doing whatever is necessary to enrich and protect that man

[EST]

11. Reporters keep on claiming they have no agenda.

 Assuming they are telling the truth-at least some of them-there must exist one of a couple of things. Either they are dumb as hell-which is difficult for me to accept-or they have they have their heads down and locked, so totally involved in a single-minded pursuit on one and one only train of thought that they cannot be generalists.
 They can't see anything outside of whatever idea they are currently obsessed with and get an overall view of the theater they working in.

 For instance, if they are doing a story that even peripherally involves KKarl Rove (and what doesn't?) they treat it as though Mr. Rove is a perfectly honest man, who is just sorta caught up in this particular peccadillo.
 Yet, I can quite easily call up from memory a long litany of under handed Machiavellian, out and out criminal activities he has been involved in from the time he was in high school.
 Nobody springs on stage as a pathologically crooked actor, doing his vile role, without there being, literally, thousands of under the radar misdeeds that simply haven't been uncovered and may never be.
 A murderer who does only one murder is usually pretty easy to catch; he hasn't had the practice to cover himself and throw the detectives off the track to the point of muddying the trail beyond easy solution.
 Although it comes naturally to Rove to lie and deceive, he could not be as slick as he is without a lot of practice.

 They seem to be unable to connect the dots or else are so caught up in their own version of even handedness that it becomes ludicrous, or would be if it weren't so tragic.

 Like senator Specter, they choose to believe, or seem to, that this crew aren't possessed of a long history of crookedness, that they are fully trustworthy-except for this one instance.
 This particular avenue of strained "liberalness" is just silly. It's obvious to me; why the hell is it so opaque to them?

[Straight Shooter]

15. bush spanked Gregory at a press conference and he hasn't been the same since then

The press conference about spying without a warrant, when bush said to Gregory, "You're looking particularly beautiful today." Then bush insulted how long it was taking Gregory to get untangled from his wire before asking the question. Then Gregory asked about warrantless spying on citizens, and bush went into his Little Lord Pissypants tirade and said he would stop the program completely, not even spying on suspected terrorists, if he couldn't spy on anybody he wanted. It was one of the worst spectacles we've ever seen of bush.

Somebody must have given Gregory a talking-to. He was becoming a watchdog, but he's turned into a lapdog.

[NNN0LHI]

16. Sounds like Rove has been making more phone calls to Russert to whip him into line

We all know that is going on now thanks to the Libby trial. Even Russert testified to that.

Maybe we should email Gregory and ask him if he got the word to not be honest about this?

Don

[monmouth]

17. Would Gegory want the Tony Snow job?? I truly doubt Tony will be back n/t

[WinkyDink]

19. Pod-Gregory. He fell asleep at the wrong time......

[bbgrunt]

21. yes, this is very odd. I hope it isn't contagious because I LOVE David Schuster.

[Justice Is Comin]

23. He might have been a paper tiger all along.

He's not winning any points with me for months now.

[loudsue]

24. But look at what the HISTORY is:

David Gregory is the one who humiliated bush in France, because he spoke French to Chirac at the press conference. Bush made some smart come-back in spanish, then saying something like "see! (nya-nya-nanner-nanner) I know a foreign language too!"

David Gregory has asked bush some really tough questions in the past -- embarrassing ones for bush.

Now, you have to remember the context here: the bush family ARE a mafia. And what do mafias do? They either Wellstone someone, throw them out of a high rise building window, or they threaten their family, or the target ends up with a horse's head (figuratively speaking) in their bed. They've done it to too many people in the past.

This is what they did to Ross Perot during the presidential election season of 1992.

And I have to remind people here: Ross Perot was a VERY powerful man, financially and politically. And if they scared the beejeezus out of HIM, then who is David Gregory to stand up to them?

I've watched David Gregory for too long. The whole thing smells to me like the bush family mafia had had enough of him, and did something about it. Since David Gregory is really just a working stiff like the rest of us, my guess is that, since he still needed a job in journalism, he just made the most of the situation.

Maybe I'm giving David Gregory too much credit, but I don't think so. His views about bush were too genuine. He REALLY hated bush. And in the current climate, it just doesn't add up that he'd "see the light" (which is really the "dark" in this case) in the other direction if there wasn't a really good reason to do so.

When I see situations like this, it just reeks of threats from the bush/rove cabal.

But, maybe that's just me....


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