David Gregory in the Wood Shed

“ Why people hate NBC’s David Gregory [...] What’s the matter with David Gregory? And why don’t people like to watch him? I could have saved the honchos at NBC News a lot of time and trouble. The first answer is: David Gregory is a phony. The second answer is: He’s a jerk. [...] Gregory is the anti-Russert. His boorish behavior around DC is legendary, from his juvenile tantrums with the Bush press staff to his drunken radio appearances to his diva snit fits with innocent bystanders while filming news segments. One of the most telling and notorious anecdotes involves Russert himself, who reportedly reprimanded Gregory in 2008 for going ballistic on a poor waitress while the two TV stars dined at a DC restaurant. But “Gregory still treats most of … the newsroom like s–t,” an insider told the Web site Jossip. “Amazing how NBC cares more about food servers than about the people who have to deal with Gregory’s arrogance every day.” Since Gregory doesn’t have the intellectual heft to carry in-depth interview segments the way Russert did, “Meet the Press” producers have reduced substantive exchanges to a few minutes and larded the rest of the show with fluff and stunts. That means: If it’s Sunday, it’s “Meet the Jerk.” Why people hate NBC’s David Gregory-Full When Gregory was verbally abusing Bush, I saw in him a then Dallas CBS affiliate reporter,  Dan Rather,  being similarly disrespectful of President Nixon.  The nation was shocked and upset by it, but CBS brass (Cronkite, in Rather's case) liked the cut of his jib.  It was no surprise then that Gregory was given "Meet the Press."  The Liberals who control our media are - all together now - arrogant, condescending, and utterly clueless assclowns. And wayyyyyyy left-wing. ”