Gregory To Tony Snow: "What's An Appropriate Way To Dissent"?
In today's press briefing, David Gregory pointed out that Dems opposing this or that aspect of President Bush's war policies have long been painted by the White House as friends of the enemy. He then asks the key follow-up question: "What's an appropriate way to dissent?" It's a good question, and Snow has a fair amount of trouble coming up with an answer to it -- at first he appears to start denying that this charge has ever been lodged at Dems before cutting himself off. View it here.
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Homina, homina, homina.....
January 16, 2007 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
At last the press is beginning to do their job and phrase questions to frame the issues rather than to allow the WH to continually frame the issue.
Keep up the good work Gregory.
January 16, 2007 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah good job Gregory. We could have used a lot more of this a few years back, but I guess too little too late is better than nothing at all???
What will happen next time some administration tries to hornswoggle the nation into an unjust war? Same fucking thing. It will never change.
January 16, 2007 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bush's poll numbers have to drop into the 30's before the MSM starts asking him hard questions? What's next, a hard-hitting expose' proving that Adolph Hitler might not have been a completely nice guy?
January 16, 2007 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Credit where credit is due. Gregory has been poking a stick at WH press secretaries for a long time now folks.
January 16, 2007 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
David Gregory has been one of the few consistently aggressive questioners at White House conferences and briefings. But, one would never know it when he does his on-air reporting to the general public. He rarely, if ever, gives a hint of the inconsistencies he has raised or seriously questions the political spin of Snow or McClellan. I would characterize his on-air reporting as almost dastardly because of his omissions.
I’d tip my hat to Martha Raddatz who has the most upfront in publicly exposing the tactical inconsistencies and dishonest arguments of the Bush Administration. One of her comments in prime time is worth a year of Gregory’s false bravado out of the public eye.
fred polvere
January 16, 2007 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
David Gregory has puzzled me for several years now. To watch the press conferences you would expect Gregory's evening news segment to highlight the asinine comments by whomever was the press secretary, but that never once happened to my knowledge. It is so bad I kept wondering if there were actually two David Gregorys.
I'm guessing here, but I stongly think that NBC doesn't allow Gregory to report what actually happens at those press conferences, but only to read the handouts from the White House. The man, at best, displays a total lack of the integrity needed to insist on being a reporter and not just a reader. Far worse if he is doing that on his own.
Hoppy in Sacramento
January 16, 2007 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
He didn't even come close to answering Gregory's question. Instead he picked on the words Gregory quoted as Snow's. Wow, he's slick.
January 16, 2007 11:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tony Snoebbels, layin' out the daily propaganda.
January 16, 2007 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't you mean "(ad)hominem, hominem, hominem"?
January 17, 2007 3:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love it. The appropriate way to dissent is to change your mind so you agree with the White House. You can be any color you want as long as it's red. Yay, democracy, whiskey, sexy!
—s9
January 17, 2007 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe nothing comes next. Maybe the MSM figures that since they haven't stepped up to the plate enough yet that they might as well not even try.
January 17, 2007 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is no such thing as appropriate dissent. If you don't agree with everything Bush does, you are a friend of the enemy, which means you are an enemy (with us or against us), which means you are a terrorist that hates America.
In the Bush Administration's world, dissent is a thoughtcrime. Finally people are starting to see that.
January 17, 2007 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
And in the world of REALITY,
Jan Knaus
January 17, 2007 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the Bush Administration's world, thought IS a crime.
January 17, 2007 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting.
I generelly do not watch NBC but perhaps Gregory is planning to write a book about the way the Press has failed to do it's job?
January 18, 2007 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's corporate censorship. David probably wouldn't have a good shot at "GE Employee of the Month" if NBC allowed him to report news re Bush. GE has too much to lose.
That's why we need our FCC back. Media concentration of ownership has created the new Pravda. The public airwaves are exactly that - public. The public is not served by conglomerates using their news outlets as mouthpieces for their business interests. There may be grey areas, but some conflicts of interest are obvious.
January 19, 2007 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently, yes, maybe they do need a hard hitting piece that shows that Adolf Hitler was not a nice guy. Some people in this country seem to have a difficult time recognizing what makes Hitler a bad guy. Some don't recognize that if Ahmedinijahd is building Nukes and simultaneously threatening to wipe Israel from the face of the earth and calling for the coming of the Messiah, that maybe we should recognize that Al Qaeda, Ahmedinijahd, and their cronies "Might not have been a completely nice guys". How hard hitting does the piece have to be before the light comes on for the left?
January 20, 2007 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink