The difference between MTP with Tim Russert and with David Gregory

[jenmito]

I just noticed this weekend that Gregory played clips of Obama to McCain and invited him to criticize him when Russert would've played clips of MCCAIN with McCain there and asked him to explain himself. Boy have things gone downhill over there.

[ErinBerin84]

1. I agree.

Tim Russert could piss me off, but I found him watchable and he was good for the thing you pointed out occasionally. Meanwhile, David Gregory is just hopeless at this point.

[jenmito]

7. It was sickening to watch Gregory playing clips of Obama to McCain and then

just about trashing him WITH McCain with the questions he asked.

[Supersedeas]

23. prompting and leading the witness--like Rove's backup dancers has a schematic for each show

[asjr]

17. I used to rail at Russert, but now that

Gregory is on I miss Russert. I always get the feeling that Gregory has a smirk in his voice when he is interviewing Democrats.

[alsame]

2. I can't even watch MTP anymore. I wish Farid Zakaria

had that show.

[jenmito]

8. It doesn't seem like that type of show is Zakaria's style.

Maybe David Shuster should've gotten it and Ed Schultz could've taken 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[alsame]

15. Yes, Shuster would have been much better. At least he calls

people out and challenges the BS. Maybe if MTP ratings sink, they will replace Gregory.

[jenmito]

18. Yup. He has played video clips of Repubs. contradicting themselves on

his show in his Hypocrisy Watch segment. MTP would be right up his alley.

[karynnj]

28. I don't - whil I am compltely unimpressed with Gregory,

I really have a problem with Zakaria. Zakaria is very smooth, very very smart, but he seems to b a neo-con. He is far harder on Democrats than he is on Republicans - and this goes back at least until 2004 - where he often questioned Kerry's motives, but never Bush's. He was the WORST at the time of Kerry/Feingold, which he said Kerry knew was wrong - which is, of course, the opposite of the truth.

[alsame]

29. I didn't know that. I've been watching his GPS Sunday show on

CNN and he seems to generate intelligent, informed discussions, not the 'gotcha' game. I hadn't seen too much of him before that.

[karynnj]

30. I agree that the format on GPS is great - leading to very good discussions

with serious people who are not spouting sound bites. I wish there were more programs of that type.

[DrToast]

3. What is "Night and Day"? I'll take 'Political Talk Shows' for $500, Alex.*

*

[jenmito]

9. Exactly.

[firedupdem]

4. You are so right jen...

I can't watch it anymore. Gregory is a right wing tool.

[jenmito]

12. Thanks, firedupdem...

Me, neither as of this past week.

[ksoze]

5. Russert = MTP (Meet The Press) --- Gregory = BTP (Beat The Press)

[FrenchieCat]

6. Gregory = BTP (Beat The President) you mean.

[Thrill]

10. Gregory doesn't hide his bias

[geiger]

11. Gregory let Geithner get away with not answering question after question

and he even Geithner change the subject to his loyalty to the President. I don't know if Gregory knows what he's doing or not, but Geithner sure looked weak and got away with it.

[jenmito]

13. I think he was a lot more aggressive with Geithner than with McCain who he

treated as his buddy.

[geiger]

16. I think in the case of the Geithner "interview" it may be more a matter

that noone knows what questions to ask or what is really going on, and maybe people really don't want to know what's going on.

so-called journalists want to make themselves part of the story, and the average person can't or won't put their brain to work.

[11 Bravo]

14. Russert was routinely excoriated as "GE Russert" at DU and Gregory was praised to the skies...

when he aggressively questioned Fleischer and McClellan. Bottom line, he's a fucking hack out to make a buck. He wasn't the reincarnation of Edward R. Murrow then, and he's not evil personified now.

[jenmito]

20. I never considered Russert anything but respectable in his job. Gregory WAS

aggressive in questioning Fleischer and McClellan. It all seemed to change after he danced with Rove at some event-the one where the press and admin. party together. I have a mindblock as to the name.

[Drunken Irishman]

19. I sleep in the wee hours of Sunday morning, but my mom watches it after church.

She's done. She can't stand David Gregory.

[jenmito]

21. Good for your mom!

She gets it! :)

[Zen Democrat]

22. NBC should be embarrassed by Gregory. He's not up to the Russert seat.

And I wasn't a fan of Tim Russert after he went All Monica - All The Time in 1998. I think NBC should have gone back to the original format of MTP with a moderator and panelists to ask questions of the guest -- instead of the guest/moderator and panel/moderator division they now have. Bring 'em all in together to go after it -- that's the only way this show will survive. "Stretch" will never do it for me.

[Reterr]

24. Gregory seems to have it in for Obama

He strikes me as a Repuke tool. His panels are some of the least balanced ones I have seen on MTP in years.


Can't stand the guy...He should get back to rapping with Rove :eyes:.

[Barack_America]

25. MTP with Tim Russert: I watched it.

MTP with David Gregory: I don't.

Not once have I watched that program since Gregory took over.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

26. no...Russert sucked, too

had double standards for interviewing Publickers and interviewing Democrats.
Let's not allow his canonization by the media to distort reality.

[FrenchieCat]

27. True.

Watching the Timmeth was painful. I turned off the TV during his 2 week long wake. I have never watched the new guy. Gregory can't even pretend that he's a heavyweight. At least, Russert played it up.