Meet The Press' David Gregory Pushes Absurd NY Post Talking Point

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201205070002

May 07, 2012 10:56 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Interviewing Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday, Meet the Press host David Gregory adopted last week's right-wing spin when he asked if Obama's trip to Afghanistan to sign a security agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzia and to address U.S. troops on the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden represented a failure for the president.

Gregory even incorporated the New York Post's page-one attack on Obama:

GREGORY: The president went to Afghanistan on the anniversary of the operation to kill Osama bin Laden with a message to America that this war is coming to an end. Headlines around the world, including this in The New York Post, which sort of was a little bit more colorful. "Ka-Bull! Now Obama spikes bin Laden football in Afghanistan," an allusion to the fact that he would not do that, that there would not be the politicization of killing bin Laden. Was all of this together in effect his "Mission Accomplished" moment?

So David Gregory asked if Obama traveling to Afghanistan to sign a long-term pact on the anniversary of a signature foreign policy and national security success, the killing of bin Laden, was equivalent to Bush's famously premature celebration of what many consider to be his biggest foreign policy and national security failure, the war in Iraq?

[WI_DEM]

1. all of those sunday shows are absurd & mostly populated by conservative white men

[closeupready]

7. Precisely why I don't watch any of them.

nt

[Horse with no Name]

2. There was a point when David Gregory was hungry for the truth

and really did some good journalism...then, he got the promotion and adopted the corporate spin.

In the scheme of things, he was a cheap date for the corporate powers.

[Spazito]

3. David Gregory lost ANY credibility he might have had...

when he did his 'Dancing with Rove' routine. He is, imo, a right wing shill who lacks skill and compensates by touting the talking points delivered to him.

I bet the ratings on Meet the Press go up when Rachel Maddow is appearing on it and MSNBC would do well to replace Gregory with her, imo.

[Uncle Joe]

4. David Gregory is an absolute 100% homogenized, pasteurized, Karl Rove dancing, neutered weenie.

He couldn't spell "integrity" if he had a dictionary to help him.

Thanks for the thread, NNN0LHI.

[truebrit71]

5. Agreed 100%

He always comes across to me as a simpering toady...

[newspeak]

6. "meet the press"

what press? Our media is nothing but propagandists and those who want to "catapult" the corporate propaganda, especially for their favored party.

[Control-Z]

8. I was going to ask which right wing talking point,

since he hit on more than one and pushed them all. I was disgusted with him (again).

[Rex]

9. Well in all fairness Gregory is a useless tool.

nt.

[madinmaryland]

10. Anyone using the NY Post as a source should be on the Saturday Morning cartoon set, and

not debating real news.

[Bake]

11. No. There were no "Mission Accomplished" banners.

And he wasn't wearing a flight suit. And he arrived on Air Force One, not a fighter jet.



Bake