David Gregory's Testicles Descend on Live TV
David Gregory, providing a hell-freezing-over signal that yes, maybe the media needed a disastrous hurricane to call out this President on his bullshit, had some words for White House Information Minister Scott McClellan.
Lest you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years, you may have noticed the most popular mutation of Republican philosophy to emerge from the latest Klan meeting is that of marketing political ideas as if your audience was a group of 3rd graders. This is achieved in part by using catch phrases and slogans with bumper-sticker level ingenuity to get people distracted or otherwise unable think past said marketing to the real issue.
“Fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here,” comes to mind. How about, “ongoing investigation” used upwards of 20 times by McClellan during a press conference about Rove’s involvement in outing a CIA agent.
Or perhaps, “They hate us for our freedom,” is something that makes the American public vulnerable as if Bush has placed a roofie in the bloodstream of the American thought process.
After all, we’d all shit our collective pants if Bush actually held a press conference that intricately or otherwise judiciously described a particular current event at an adult level of comprehension.
The latest catch phrase you will hear from the Republicans regarding the embarrassing hurricane relief effort is that they’re “not going to play the blame game.”
Right. As if finding out why hundreds of American citizens starved, drowned or dehydrated to death is some kind of silly game, and damnit, they just won’t stoop to your level of playing it. The rest of us, which apparently now includes David Gregory, call it something else: old fashioned, goddamned accountability.
Oh, and to those of you fucking morons who still think the media has a liberal bias…You may note the fact that the media speaking out, starting to finally ask tough questions or otherwise doing something called “re-PORT-ing” is making headlines all by itself. People are almost shocked at the emotion reporters have put into this story and the level of disgust those who actually reported from ground zero felt as they reported it, and that very fact proves the media has been absent, lazy, or otherwise catoring to this President’s administration up until now. I’ve heard the phrase, “we have our press corps back” from a number of people. In other words – the media finally getting tough with the White House Press Secretary for the first time in years tells you all you need to know about your liberal media theory.
But I digressed. In case you missed the one non ass-kissing exchange between a White House Press Secretary and a reporter for the last five years or so, Don Imus recapped it very well on his show recently, which can be seen here.
(Note: despite looking like the gayest member of the Village People, and perhaps not having a single listener who doesn’t remember food rationing during WWII, Imus actually isn’t afraid to go after the Bush Administration from time to time)
Lest you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years, you may have noticed the most popular mutation of Republican philosophy to emerge from the latest Klan meeting is that of marketing political ideas as if your audience was a group of 3rd graders. This is achieved in part by using catch phrases and slogans with bumper-sticker level ingenuity to get people distracted or otherwise unable think past said marketing to the real issue.“Fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here,” comes to mind. How about, “ongoing investigation” used upwards of 20 times by McClellan during a press conference about Rove’s involvement in outing a CIA agent.
Or perhaps, “They hate us for our freedom,” is something that makes the American public vulnerable as if Bush has placed a roofie in the bloodstream of the American thought process.
After all, we’d all shit our collective pants if Bush actually held a press conference that intricately or otherwise judiciously described a particular current event at an adult level of comprehension.
The latest catch phrase you will hear from the Republicans regarding the embarrassing hurricane relief effort is that they’re “not going to play the blame game.”
Right. As if finding out why hundreds of American citizens starved, drowned or dehydrated to death is some kind of silly game, and damnit, they just won’t stoop to your level of playing it. The rest of us, which apparently now includes David Gregory, call it something else: old fashioned, goddamned accountability.
Oh, and to those of you fucking morons who still think the media has a liberal bias…You may note the fact that the media speaking out, starting to finally ask tough questions or otherwise doing something called “re-PORT-ing” is making headlines all by itself. People are almost shocked at the emotion reporters have put into this story and the level of disgust those who actually reported from ground zero felt as they reported it, and that very fact proves the media has been absent, lazy, or otherwise catoring to this President’s administration up until now. I’ve heard the phrase, “we have our press corps back” from a number of people. In other words – the media finally getting tough with the White House Press Secretary for the first time in years tells you all you need to know about your liberal media theory.
But I digressed. In case you missed the one non ass-kissing exchange between a White House Press Secretary and a reporter for the last five years or so, Don Imus recapped it very well on his show recently, which can be seen here.
(Note: despite looking like the gayest member of the Village People, and perhaps not having a single listener who doesn’t remember food rationing during WWII, Imus actually isn’t afraid to go after the Bush Administration from time to time)
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