David Gregory: 'I Don't Think We've Made Mistakes' On 'Meet The Press'

[Bravo Zulu]

David Gregory spoke to MarketWatch's Jon Friedman's about his first year as "Meet the Press" moderator and boldly declared his year mistake-free.

"I don't think we've made mistakes," Gregory told Friedman when asked what his missteps were.

Gregory also said that he's growing more comfortable in Tim Russert's chair.

"As the year has gone on, I feel unquestionably more comfortable in the chair and the role," Gregory said. "Unquestionably, I feel like this is my program. The successful transition is complete."

When he got the job, Gregory said, NBC Universal President & CEO Jeff Zucker (a former "Today" show producer himself) told him, "You are entitled to nothing that Tim had."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/22/david-gregory-i-dont-thin_n_433144.html

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Your picture speaks a thousand words about David Crapory. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

2. Yup KKKarl's BFF. nt.

[Raine]

3. Yeah, right

:eyes:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

4. I haven't watched MTP since before Russert died,

Why should I allow my blood pressure to skyrocket on a Sunday morning listening to nothing but Repuke propoganda??? David Gregory, Brian Williams, et all are nothing but douchebags of the highest order. They all kowtow to their corporate master GE/NBC.

[Catshrink]

5. "Meet The Press Allows You To Frame The Conversation As You Really Want"

"Meet The Press Allows You To Frame The Conversation As You Really Want"

The Charleston Post and Courier has posted online (pdf) all 570 pages of emails obtained from the office of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford.

There's a bevy of information in there, but one exchange that jumped out at us was the one between Sanford's press secretary, Joel Sawyer (who just today announced he's quitting -- good for him!) and David Gregory, the host of NBC's Meet the Press. In courting Sanford's office, Gregory wrote that "coming on Meet The Press allows you to frame the conversation as you really want to."

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But the emails of Gregory -- who in the past has been known as a pretty aggressive questioner -- make particularly clear just what a get Sanford was seen as, and how far the networks were willing to go in promising a safe landing place for the governor.

Gregory's first email to Sawyer was sent at 12:24 p.m. on Wednesday June 24 -- that is, after Sanford had admitted to The State that he had actually been in Argentina, but before the famed stream-of-consciousness press conference where he admitted to an affair. Gregory wrote:

more at link:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/nbcs_gregory_to_sanfords_office_meet_the_press_all.php?ref=fpb

[depakid]

6. What an ignoramous- hard to believe anyone watches that show

it was lame enough with Russert- now it's simply pathetic.

[spanone]

7. that line worked for his heroes bu$h* & cheeeneeey

[Fumesucker]

8. Yeah Stretch, you're fucking perfect..

You and Jeebus..

[EmeraldCityGrl]

9. Does anyone watch this show any longer? Nope.

[Marr]

10. Neither do I.

Their job is to present "The World According to Wall Street", and they do it very reliably.

I don't think guys like Gregory even realize their own bias. That's why he's in that position-- he's oblivious to the things he's supposed to be unaware of, and interested in the things corporate America is interested in.

[mmonk]

11. Yes, no mistakes, deliberate misinformation or absence of information.