What the hell has happened to MTP?

[Hawaii Hiker]

David Gregory, who is becoming more unlikeable & unfair by the day, had a roundtable on this Sundays "Meet The Right Wing Press"....They run clips of McCain attack ads, then the panel talks about them - and they don't run any Obama ads...More free air time for McBush, none for Obama...

They then talk about the Edwards affair, yet absolutely ZERO mention of McCain cheating on his first wife & subsequently marrying Cindy WHILE still married to first wife (as the LA Times mentioned in recent story)...Another free pass for the ill-tempered senator from Arizona...

It really is amazing Obama is up in the polls, as he receives no where near the favorable press as McCain does....If McCain wasn't getting such a free ride from the press, Obama would be up 20% or more in national polls.....

Maybe I'll start watching the "E" Channel for news, they can't be any worse than the MSM....

:banghead:

[Peacetrain]

1. I had to turn it off.. I thought I was watching Fox

[kitfalbo]

11. ABC

That was worse this morning

[Enrique]

34. any discussion of McCain's ties to Big Oil?

or of McCain's role in the DHL case, with implications for the crucial state of Ohio?

Both of which were featured in Obama ads?

[my3boyz]

2. I'm sure Tim Russert was rolling over in his grave with that POS hosting his show.

Tim Russert was tough but he did show both sides. Why in the world would they put Gregory in there to pollute the studio?

[Coexist]

3. then don't turn on This Week - its obnoxious conservative-a-palooza

at the 'roundtable'.

[Peacetrain]

6. Maybe you can explain this to me Fl.

Why is it, when a democrat or liberal canidate starts to pull ahead, this so called liberal media works 24/7 to kneecap that canidate. But they cannot bolster the republican lies enough. :shrug:

[Coexist]

7. I wish I could.

I can't

[Peacetrain]

15. Me either..

I have seen this so many times, (shows my age ;). Every single time.

[The River]

14. It Took About 2 Minutes

of the drivel for me to remember it's on ABC.....

Another Biased Corporation

I guess I should reprogram my set so it becomes

Another Banned Channel

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

16. How does 5 Repukes equal a "roundtable" anyway?

Shouldn't they have at least a pretend "democrat" in there for appearances sake? Or are they still trying to claim Cokehead Roberts is a "liberal"? :eyes:

[otohara]

17. Cokies Remark About Hawaii, Grandmother, Sister

what a wretched person she is.

"I know Hawaii is a state and his grandmother can't travel and his sister is there, but it looks like he's gone off to some "foreign" place."

[Bill McBlueState]

19. wow

I'd expect that from a garden-variety moron who's never left his home county, but you'd think they'd try to find higher-caliber thinkers for the Sunday morning talk shows.

[chieftain]

4. Gregory saw how well Russert did financially by deserting his

Democratic roots. Adapting to the General Electric bias is no problem for a hot house flower like Gregory. He is making a strong play to be Tim's successor by kissing Jack Welch's ass. I doubt he will be as successful as Tim in maintaining an air of objectivity while torpedoing Liberal candidates. David, of the lean hungry look, has demonstrated on his MSNBC show how he is anxious to carry water for the Grand Old Party and their less than grand old man.

[dkf]

5. David Gregory needs to move to Fox

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Seriously. They're all the same.

[AlinPA]

8. I don't think too many people watch Meet The Press. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

18. around three million viewers, the hightest rated of any of the sunday shows

it carries the most weight (especially when Russert was still mouthbreathing) of any of them, and is the opinion leader, very much driving the political dialogue for all the kook kids inside the beltway. it's one of the KEY sources of the phony narrative that gets assigned to all political players. once that narrative gets written, it's almost impossible to change, and it's why McCain has it made with the press, even moreso than the fact that corporate media is always in the tank for the repub candidate

[AlinPA]

27. 2M is a lot. Good review. Thanks. a.

[Jakes Progress]

42. The Sunday morning shows

on the networks have been a semi-scripted for many years. Guests have the questions in advance. Powerful guests who control access have veto power over lines of questioning. The "journalists" who take part know they are lying to people. I go for bike rides or work in the shop during these shows. They are exactly the thing you say - a part of the right wing narrative that tell the country what to think. It works. Way too many people who should know better, even here on DU, have taken their political positions based on things scripted for this show.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. The press did the same shit to Gore and Kerry. Same old song and dance. I'm sick of all of them.

[Thrill]

12. I said this last week. I seriously want to start a fist fight with David Gregory

[Apollo11]

28. The next best thing is watching Jon Stewart embarrass him

You can see it here:
www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=178681&title=david-gregory

[Dr.Phool]

13. I have better things to do on Sunday mornings.

I take my dog to the dog park. The dogs there are much better informed than Gregory, or Cokie or the rest of them.

[GoesTo11]

20. The word is out for the MSM to pull all stops

With so little going for McCain, so many people to be exposed, and so many meal tickets to be cut off if Obama wins, the powerful know they have to fight Obama as if there's no tomorrow. Legitimacy of the press doesn't count for a hill of beans in this.

[AngryOldDem]

21. I really think it's time NBC pulled the plug on Meet the Press.

Open that hour up to the affiliates so that they can make more money. That would be a better use of the hour than MTP.

Personally, I am getting sick to death of them trotting out Erin Burnett at every opportunity, and touting her as an "expert." I see enough of her smugness and self-assuredness on CNBC. Enough.

[CitizenPatriot]

22. just let 'em know

they're out of date, that you are in their target demo of 18-45 years old, and that you are now getting all your info from the internet.

This is their worst fear. They can't get any traction over owning their sad ass material on the net, though they are trying to screw the writers and actors and hosts out of making any money on net stuff because they know it is all going there. What they don't get is that their brand may not translate. not everyone needs a talking head "moran" to light the way. we have a lot of money in the demo party, and we can take our eyeballs to the web only. we get our news from impartial sources. they are shit out of luck on this one.

their worst fear is to be out of date, out of touch. so make sure you drill that home with them. they are so yesterday with this stuff- who watches it? they have some eyeballs still, but in two years they won't. let them know you're from all over, the heartland, etc, and you think they are so '90's. They try so hard to be hip, that's what all the graphics are about...that's how out of touch they are. they're trying for the mtv crowd, the vh1 crowd....isn't that the youth vote? methinks Obama has that one kinda wrapped up.

good luck losers. cokie, all the plastic surgery in the world can't help you now. You're done.

[Apollo11]

29. I agree - instead of posting here we should all send out thoughts to NBC

Here is where you can send a message to Meet The Press:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/

[YvonneCa]

36. Great idea...

...and it is my usual course of action. Send copies to CNN, C-Span and PBS. The more they all hear from viewers, the better.

P.S. LOVE your sig line (and Al Gore). :)

[Apollo11]

39. Thanx

It's always good to say Hi to a fellow admirer of Al Gore! :hi:

[YvonneCa]

51. ...

...:hi:

[zulchzulu]

23. David Gregory is in love with himself and has gone downhill since dancing with Karl Rove

He and the rest of the pundits want this Presidential race to be "close". The easiest way for that to happen is to NOT do their job.

[Overseas]

24. They've got to defend the Republicans. That has been their job for years now. /nt

[PresidentObama]

25. What happened to it? Russert died, and now it sucks.

[whatchamacallit]

26. I stopped watching TV news awhile back - I've been happier for it n/t

[Apollo11]

30. To be fair, in the last 3 weeks MTP gave airtime to Obama, Gore and Kerry

In each case, they were allowed to make their arguments and get their points across.

Kerry did not do such a great job - but maybe that's just me not liking the guy.

For video and transcripts see the Meet The Press homepage:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/

Questions and comments can be sent to the editorial team:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/

I didn't see today's show (yet). Gregory is not the greatest.

[CitizenPatriot]

31. msm

when u write them, make sure they know that you aren't watching their tv or their webcast programs.

there are many places one can get that info after it's been copied and then they don't get the "eyeball count" to use to sell their advertisers. Just sayin'.

ban the tv. it's farenheit 451 for real. We can watch clips here and on youtube:-)

except for the people like KO who are doing their jobs....his numbers are going up and he's almost evenwith bill o'lielly. i only he would top over him!

[Apollo11]

32. Keith Olbermann is a commentator with his own point of view.

I don't think you can compare him with a reporter or an interviewer like Tom Brokaw for instance.

[CitizenPatriot]

33. well, I shouldn't be able to

that is the point

but he is the only one who is transparent about having a POV, whereas others are supposed to be neutral and objective, but clearly are getting tps from the WH or corporate, and yet call themselves "news".

And KO covers things, as in REAL NEWS, that the talking heads don't anymore.

sadly, most people in my generation are now getting their "news" from the daily report.

would that we could find a hard hitting journalist with integrity, like rachel maddows, whom we could turn to nightly for real news.

[YvonneCa]

38. Rachel is great...

...and so is Bill Moyers on PBS.

[Apollo11]

40. But Jon Stewart is the greatest

Even if he occasionally mocks Obama to prove he is "balanced" ;-)

[CitizenPatriot]

47. he does rock:-) Give Rachel her own show!!! n/t

[YvonneCa]

37. I think Kerry did GREAT. n/t

[Apollo11]

41. I expect nothing less!

I realize that it is partly because I have a problem with John Kerry and his wind-surfing joke-flubbing taser-mocking ways.

I will try to keep a lid on it ... ;-)

[karynnj]

49. This is alerable and extremely dishonest

Kerry wind surfed for about 2 hours or so in 2004. In any other race it would have been a photo op. It was the Rep Convention when the Dem campaign ends. It was a gorgeous Nantucket day and the media, Kerry staffers, and Teresa in the boat were all enjoying a pleasant outing.

In case you didn't know, another campaign had robo calls in the Iowa primary telling people Kerry was dying of cancer. This most likely had a role in his health NOT being an issue at all in 2004. It was clear he was both fit and healthy - and it was good, clean fun.

As to the taser - Kerry never mocked it. He didn't know about it until after the event and his statement was definately not mocking.

[YvonneCa]

52. I'll forgive you...

...then. :7

[TheDonkey]

44. That was when Brokaw moderated not the RW monkeyclown Gregory.

[Apollo11]

45. Brokaw is the current anchor of Meet The Press

Today Brokaw presented the first half from Beijing, then David Gregory took over for the last part of the show in the studio.

[karynnj]

48. Your bias against Kerry is showing

I have yet to here a better description of the Anbar Awakening and its time line. This is important as it is the number one example McCain uses for the surge working. The broadcast media as a whole has yet to really cover what happened there. Kerry's concise outline explained what it was, why it happened, when it happened and who was involved. This is the best counter I've heard on this.

He also made the very stark accusation that McCain was running a negative campaign with dishonest smear ads.

Kerry is Obama best surrogate.

I know you preferred HRC, but she hasn't been half as good - even when she is there.

[Apollo11]

35. The transcript has them sitting around dissing Bush

MR. GREGORY: And a resurgent Russia is something that is very much a part of the landscape for the next president. This relationship with George Bush and Vladimir Putin went south in the course of his administration.

MR. GIGOT: Yeah, Bush really misjudged Putin in so many ways, there's no question about it. He's tried to do retrieve it, even I think it was last year, bringing him up to Kennebunkport to, to have a one-on-one. It hasn't worked. This is a resurgent Russia, and I think that whether Obama or McCain is president, they're going to have to deal with it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26123239/page/4/

[TheDonkey]

43. Sounds like Smears to the White House: Sunday Edition.

[Raine]

46. Two words ... Tom Brokow

that's what happened to it. MTP hasn't been the same since Russert died, not that it was ever that great but it's really in the toilet now. :hurts:

[RNdaSilva]

50. Keith Olbermann will right the ship...tomorrow.

Rachel Maddow, and Olbermann's guests, will contribute. Dan Abrams might, might assist here.

[opihimoimoi]

53. The Ole Whispering Campaign has gone technical in an Insane sort of way

Outta control and Full On LYING CHEATIN STEALIN Mode....they have taken this mode into a new artform...

The GOP have morphed into an INFECTION....