David Gregory is the journalist you’ve chosen to take over Tucker Carlson’s slot at the network, just as Karl Rove’s role in the Don Siegelman prosecution comes clear for America? Just as the House of Representatives moves to sue Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten for civil contempt in the USAttorney firings? Just as Karl Rove joins the Double Talk Express as an adviser?
Yup.
MSNBC said this afternoon that it was canceling “Tucker,” the low-rated, early evening program led by Tucker Carlson, and replacing it with a new, politically oriented program featuring David Gregory, chief White House correspondent of NBC News.
I suppose we have to be happy with three steps forward (firing Tucker) and two steps back (replacing him with David Gregory). Oh, wait —
MSNBC also said that Andrea Mitchell, a veteran political correspondent for both the cable channel and NBC News, would lead another new campaign-oriented program, this one to be shown beginning at 1 p.m. weekdays.
Another really smart move, showcasing Mrs Greenspan just as the American economy falls down to its knees around the housing bubble stoked by her own husband’s Fed policies.
Doesn’t anyone at MSNBC have Rachel Maddow’s agent on speed dial? Is David Shuster still in the "Chelsea pimp" doghouse? David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell bring with them their own taint of current newsmaker.
Can’t you do better?
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David Gregory. I am seriously underwhelmed.
Cable news is consistent. Consistently unable to achieve journalistic integrity, that is.
Yawn.
they could do better but why bother
guess we should count ourselves lucky that we have KO
slowly but surely they will come around to the dark side *g*
I’m still hoping to see David Gregory lose on “Dancing with Stars”.
David Gregory is boring – he drones.
David Gregory is a puke.
WE WANT RACHEL!
“…the Stars”
I like David Gregory. . .so there.
Every time I see David Gregory, I think of MCRove.
Eh, the big can o “Tucker-b-gone” finally took, thank god.
Gregory won’t last for the same reason he was so easily punked by Howard Dean the other day. In a nutshell: Gregory is one of those special flavors of wunderkind who has come to believe his own bullshit on the one hand and, on the other hand, continues to think that everyone else does too.
You can’t call it “reporting,” Davey, when it is so blatantl petitio principii at best and poorly formed opinion at worst!
People would whine if they put St Francis of Assisi on!
Gee Teddy, now why would you think that MC Rove’s back-up singer might not be suitable in a supposed news slot?
I can’t imagine how such a thought would enter your mind. /s
I liked him till I saw him dancing with Karl Rove. I have never been able to lose that image.
Doesn’t anyone at MSNBC have Rachel Maddow’s agent on speed dial?
goddammit.
Though I must admit, I like Shuster right where he is, in the field getting the *real* stories, and occasionally making JoeScar’s head explode.
If Rachel had been given a slot, she would have been unrepentantly progressive – can’t have that, now can we?
But David Gregory, having shown his willingness to dance with “M.C. Rove”, now there’s a solid middle-of-the-road guy, right?
OT, Spew Warning;
Saxby…is a very courageous man. I know that because he’s one of my hunting buddies. Los Angeles Times blogs
-Dick Cheney, on Sen. Saxby Chambliss
Maybe it’s a senority thing, and management decided to give thema chance? They will both fail, imo.
WOULD NOT! You get me St. Franny and I promise to STFU
I have a lot of respect for David Gregory. Few announcers are permitted to say whatever they want, KO being an obvious exception.
What are the characteristics of St. Francis OA that would make people whine? *g*
Well, egregious, (and Raven), your opinion caries a lot of weight with me, so I’ll suspend judgement.
Rachel Maddow? The Obama shill? So much for wanting fair and balanced.
They will both fail, imo.
I think that Mrs. Greenspan has shown that that is no impediment at MSNBC.
Uh, earth to Marge, that “fair and balanced” crap is Fox.
Mr. Greenspan (Mr. Bubble) showed that failure was no impediment at the Federal Reserve.
I could care less about “balance”. I’m sick of “fair and balanced”.
Just the truth, please, UNBALANCED by anything else.
I’ve heard Rachel call out Obama when he got whiney about Clinton’s tax records.. she’s not all that “shill-ish”
Mr. Greenspan (Mr. Bubble) showed that failure was no impediment at the Federal Reserve.
Ain’t it wonderful to see the perfect couple? An ideal match in every way.
And as an added bonus, they cannot procreate.
It should be obvious that MSNBC should have replaced Tucker with me. It’s felt I would have brought a certain ambiance, savoir faire, sophistication and flavor.
kiddo, you would be gone after the first show, but nobody involved would ever forget the experience. *G*
Never underestimate the capabilities of modern science; but, I would agree the odds are slim, thankfully so.
Mr. Greenspan does seem to bring to the table the simple fact that she is really old. This appears to be really handy in waxing nostalgic about the reporting circumstances in the great days of Hoover and all, but mostly her opinions on current events seem to suck the big one pretty hard.
This pretty much sums up my impression of Mrs. and Mr. Clinton:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..90632.html
But if they could procreate, one must go to Shaw’s, “But madam, suppose the child had my looks and your brains?” Can you imagine a human with his looks and her brains?
I would love to see Amy Goodman on a major network.
brutal.
It should be obvious that MSNBC should have replaced Tucker with me. It’s felt I would have brought a certain ambiance, savoir faire, sophistication and flavor.
A massive write-in movement is most certainly called for… And Lahoma’s role would be?…
Great post
Gregory is a low rent loser who settled for the Shrubian nickname of
Stretch II…not even good enough for a unique same. Although there is a lot of similarity between Sammons and Gregory besides their height…right wing talking points have been their paycheck.
Mackrel Snapper
Can you imagine a human with his looks and her brains?
At that point, I question the use of the word “human”.
She’s replacing Andrea Mitchell.
Hey, I didn’t notice any dooms-dayers posting the stock market ticker today.
ah, well then. *Two* massive write-in campaigns…
Voter Fraud hearings:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5783
Lahoma can replace kiddo after he gets fired after the first show.
CNN reporting Spitzer has stepped down.
dammit, now they’re waffling…hold on this…
I kinda see this as “3 steps forward, 2 back” as well.
Gregory sometimes comes up with a good question, but fails to do any follow up. It’s almost like he’s out to get the “street cred” for being tough but not do anything that would damage his prospects for those State Dinner invitations.
Now that he’s gonna have time to follow up if he cares to, we’ll soon see what bag he’s in.
“Bag he’s in.” If the name “Sly & The Family Stone” means anything to you, you’ll get the reference.
If not, well, ya just had to be there.
This is exactly my perception, worded better than I could have. Thanks.
…but not do anything that would damage his prospects for those State Dinner invitations.
And right there, you have identified why, any time I see a shot of a reporter speaking while standing in front of the White House, I immediately discount – no, ignore actually, whatever it is that he or she may be saying.
The more I read about the Spitzer thing, the more I think he should stick it out and personally try to get to the bottom of who, how, and why they really spied on him, and who leaked his name to the media. On his personal note, that is between him and his family.
Though I firmly believe that what consenting adults do sexually beyond the view of the public, is a right of privacy, I just as firmly think my party needs to put Spitzer behind us. The sooner the better.
“I could care less about “balance”. I’m sick of “fair and balanced”.
Just the truth, please, UNBALANCED by anything else.”
What a truly novel concept.
That is so far, far away from what we have to endure from the MSM.
I love’s everday people
yea yea
My daughter (21) and I heard “Pappa’s Got a Brand New Bag” on the radio about a month ago. She asked me what that meant, and I knew, but couldn’t really explain it well. You really did have to be there!
Well, it does help when the Fed leaps into coporate welfare mode and exchanges 200 billion dollars worth of our good cash for private firms bad debt.
I mean Wall Street aint getting stuck with that tab.
-G
OT: Donita Sparks just had her new CD reviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air show today! Check it out!
Good catch!
We are in the run-up to the presidency. By opting to rid ourselves of Spitzer, we show the Republicans up for their hypocrisy, vis-a-vis Larry Craig.
That video makes me physically ill. There’s the whole MC Rove thingie, but you know what also gets me? I’m pretty sure my friends and I came up with better raps in the 6th grade lunchroom.
YEEECH.
The more I read about the Spitzer thing, the more I think he should stick it out and personally try to get to the bottom of who, how, and why they really spied on him, and who leaked his name to the media.
Which he could do quite nicely after his resignation. With his history, it’s not like he doesn’t know “some people”. Get the goods and then come back with them. In the meantime – get gone.
The dooms-dayers story, as I read it in the comments, is that nothing can stop the collapse. And every time the stock market goes down over a hundred points on the Dow, they gleefully post the fall. Now, I don’t think today’s the beginning of the stock market upturn, but was pointing out the use of selective evidence.
Let’s see now. We are going to fire Spitzer, but impeachment (of GWB) remains under the table.
Just so great!
Fallon’s gone. Breaking briefing on CNN
I have a dim view of the economy. Nobody expected the Great Depression.
Jee-bus.
OT – crap. Fallon is retiring. I’m pretty sure he has been the only thing standing between us and bombing Iran.
Fallon’s views that were in opposition to the administration were a “distraction”, so he is resigning…
…and now that the military brass is no longer in opposition to bombing Iran, we can get this show on the road.
OT
Firedoglake.com got a shout-out from the guest host on the Tom Hartman show today. With regards to the Spitzer mess.
FunnyD
Yes, that’s how it will be.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
If we get a Prez. McCain, I think the bombs will fall.
yup
True. I just want to make sure that someone gets to the bottom of how they spied on him and why he was targeted and whether it was political. The damage to him personally is done.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Kiddo @ 65 “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
FunnyD
Let’s get it on.
Bye Bye Fallon…
Worst news on the possibility of war with Iran in 11 months, pups. Kiss sanity goodbye, and welcome to another useless war. Expect more leading Democrats to be swept up within days, if not hours.
Shit, was this just announced?
-G
Well if a stock market crash happens, I’m thankful for one thing, I have very little invested in the stock market. So there’s no danger I’ll be jumping out of windows.
Isn’t Dick Cheney headed to the Gulf this weekend?
-G
All we have to do is cut taxes for the wealthy and things will be fine.
Harvard, may I please have my MBA now?
yup. Gates had a news conference.
Oh………………..shit!!!! There’s simply no other way to express it.
Fallon: Disconnect between my own and the president’s ”objectives”….
Commander CodpieceBratking not used to having a ”subordinate” brazenly speak out…FUHere we go.
Oh, we can rest easy. Gates sez going to war with Iran is ridiculous. /snark
Oh, wait, Gates just said on CNN that it is ridiculous that this means we are going to war with Iran.
I’m very reassured.
Can MSNBC do better? Of course they can.
Do they want to? …
Who broke Gates’s arm? Was that a result of the tussle with Fallon?
Adm. William Fallon resigning as Centcom chief.
Livebloggin CNN on an MSNBC thread…
…have we no shame?!
I think they’re going to fall before November…
IIRC, he fell and broke his arm a couple of weeks ago.
The Dow is still down signifigantly lately and Ian has been spot on in his analysis. What don’t you see in the long term given Ian’s points?
LOL that’s funny!
sorry
Now we know why Cheney is going to the Middle East.
All things are possible with President McCain. Who does Gates support for Chief Exec.?
I bow to the superior knowledge of those here who know far more about economics than I do.
That was injured in the failed attempt to keep Dick Cheney from abducting his grandchildren.
Whoo boy.
Operation Hamas/Hezbollah/Lebanon/Syria/Iran is gaining speed.
Somewhere a Liberty U grad is penning the words “On my orders” and scratching their heads to think of something more.
-G
Could happen.
At some point the Saudi’s are gonna get tired of the US blustering while needing a bailout…
…Cheney may come back with his arm in a sling.
They were probably afraid Shuster would try to pimp his daughter on the show.
Fallon’s resignation will have fall out…because he is perceived has having been pushed out….MSNBC
Good.
OT – crap. Fallon is retiring. I’m pretty sure he has been the only thing standing between us and bombing Iran.
aw fuck. I’m now considering getting good and goddamned drunk, hopefully not to wake up until January – or not…
This is really more like three steps forward, fours steps back, because now, instead of being able to pretty much avoid Tucker’s face and voice by not watching his show, we will have to see him as an “analyst” on everyone else’s show. This is not progress, folks.
Gates says no, McCain say YES
If so, it will be one of the few things about which there *has* been any fall out. Why should it start now? :-(
we will have to see him as an “analyst” on everyone else’s show.
Hopefully, trying to keep the hood on his raincoat up, while he describes the current force of the coming hurricane in the Florida Panhandle…
When Fallon got the job everyone freaked out because it was a sure sign we were going to do a carrier based assault on Iran. I can’t wait to see how we freak out next. Is this a Zappa album around here or what?
What was the gist of the Esquire article re the Fallon resignation?
“I mean Wall Street aint getting stuck with that tab.“
Oh nooo… they sure ain’t.
To do so would take time away for whatever way they are working on as we speak that will plunder the resources of the middle class and below for the benefit of the very few.
Anytime a bunch of these (mostly) guys get together at one of those fancy pants places like The Greenbriar, The Phoenician, Davos Switzerland, etc., and CNBC reporters are outside panting like dogs in heat to know what The Great (Mostly) Men are talking about inside, you better hold on to your hat, wallet, 401(K) and home equity, because rest assured they are inside scheming on how to get 3 out of 4 of those items away from you.
I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that Long Term Capital Management, the S& L crisis,and our current mortgage and credit crisis were all incubated over illegal Cuban cigars at one of those gatherings.
Actually, I’m with you! St. Francis would not be good enough to satisfy many here. And I kinda like David Gregory, too! But Andrea Mitchell! OMG! She is the pits! Ever since she said that everybody knew about Valerie Plame and then had to walk that back, because she didn’t know, but she didn’t want anyone to think she was the only one who didn’t know, I have found her incredible. That’s also not the only incidence of her incompetence as a reporter. She misspeaks all the time!
I keep wondering if Shuster is actually still at MSNBC. It would be a major loss to them if he’s not, IMO.
Yea, he is.
just put it off one more day.
Not sure but I don’t think everybody around here freaked out when Fallon was named CentCom. In fact, I think most folks waited to learn his background and were mildly reassured when it turned out that he was a pushback against war.
Which is why some different folks might be freaking now than freaked before.
Freak Out!
The perfect is often the enemy of the good.
“To do so would take time away
forfrom whatever way they are working on as we speak that will plunder the resources of the middle class and below for the benefit of the very few.”Oops!
What, are you saying I am engaging in exaggeration? :)
Help I’m IRAQ!
Quit school
why take it
“Help, I’m A Rock.”
or the 2008 version “Help, I’m In Iraq.”
Bush says he listens to generals on the ground, not admirals in the water.
Relax.
-G
Now that IS good!
A vegetable dreams of responding to you
Dershowitz re Spitzer – “When men think with an organ other than their brain, they tend to do stupid, stupid things.”
I am now convinced that I’m eminently qualified to be a Harvard Law Professor.
Well, using the term “everybody is usually a give-away/tell…
too bad he’s incapable of listening to Reason.
Le chic, say freak.
-G
Freak Out!
You are so right!
I remember when we were gonna invade Iraq, and everyone was freaking out ’cause it was gonna set off a civil war and enmesh us in a quagmire we would be unable to withdraw from….
bad example, nevermind.
Only if you think that it’s OK to torture.
Well folks, I’ve got to collect the essay quiz from my eleventh grade trig class. The question is: “why is math important to our political well being? Cite an example, and show the work, To be graded”. My class was given this question two weeks ago and advised there would be a graded quiz today. Should be interesting. (and this quiz will not be graded, incidentally, and they don’t know that.)
Dershowitz…somebody dropped a dime on Spitzer…I smell a rat…no one goes after $15,000 they go after $23,000,000 dollar transactions…
Yes, tragically, but thankfully not the first “Freak Out!”
Fallon is out.. Is this the path in which Betrayus is promoted out of Iraq?
Only if you think that it’s OK to torture.
shit.
Never mind…
Yeah, “resigning” umm humm. sure.
On a happy happy note:
We can thank our lucky stars we have the Spitzer mess to distract us from this big news. Very convenient timing.
“Aaahh Freak out!
Le Freak, C’est Chic
Freak out!
Aaahh Freak out!
Le Freak, C’est Chic
Freak out!
Aaahh Freak out!
Le Freak, C’est Chic
Freak out!
Aaahh Freak out!
Le Freak, C’est Chic
Freak out!
Have you heard about the new dance craze?
Listen to us, I’m sure you’ll be amazed
Big fun to be had by everyone
It’s up to you, It surely can be done
Young and old are doing it, I’m told
Just one try, and you too will be sold
It’s called Le Freak! They’re doing it night and day
Allow us, we’ll show you the way…”
Sorry, didn’t mean to bring back bad memories of the 70s.
Did Gregory ever come clean with his involvement with the Plame outing?
Well, more on topic, if we’re talI’m the Slimekin’ Zappa….
VP Betraeus?
Eight years of being forked over by freaks (ie. bushco) has a tendency to do that to ya.
They had to get Spizer now to dominate the news. Princess Jenna refused to move up her wedding.
Should’a read:
Well, more on topic, if we’re taken the Zappa….
I’m the Slime
Much better!
Oil closes around $106/bbl. Dow up almost 400 points.
“Little people? – Ha, we spit in your general direction”.
Creeeeeeaaam Cheeeeeeeese!
Suzy Creeeeeeam Cheeeeese! What’s Got into you? ya ya …
Cheney’s going to straighten that all out and trim it back to $90. Now be greatful, dammit!
as if!
“Fair and Balanced”
“Clinton Apologist”…thank you Kiddo. I voted absentee for John Edwards in California primary before he dropped out. I have been carefully avoiding supporting one or the other of the remaining
The personal attacks against a fellow party member incensed me…showing her party loyalty card has expired…she is now an independent running as a democrat with loyal supporters Karl Rove, George Bush, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the conservative dems. She and Bill are in bed with war supporters. She is not progessive on health care.
Mrs. Clinton is prepared to send McCain to the White House rather than suffer the loss to Obama. Dick Gregory exposed her a couple of weeks ago.
I am formally casting my support for Barack and Michelle Obama and the youth of America for hope of a better America. Please support Obama for President.
Lead-in on blitzer wrt to Fallon: the MSM is surprised, surprised we tell you. Who could have imagined? And it’s being blamed on the magazine!
Everyone relax, Cliff May says that Iran is on the brink of collapse and the young Iranians will greet us with rugs and hommous.
-G
Now might be a good time for some other ranking officers to resign in protest. Where are our best and bravest? Ready to serve your country in the capacity in which your most needed? Or are you gonna wait for orders to start a new war against another ME country first?
Cheney’s going to straighten that all out and trim it back to $90. Now be greatful, dammit!
Neither Cheney, nor this administration and its friends, gain anything via lower oil prices.
Now, if it just so happened that he knew Fallon was gonna be out of the way, and he was looking for a *different* kind of support, his trip makes a bit more sense…
I know the situation isn’t funny but that made me laugh – especially the rug part.
Where are our best and bravest? Ready to serve your country in the capacity in which your most needed?
Kinda begs the question of whether or not this administration hasn’t already stripped the military of its best and bravest, doesn’t it?
Into exile.
Why should anyone serve if no one from the Bush family is willing to serve?
Cheney leaves on Sunday.
Also, an ominous sign in Iraq.
* KUT – At least 10 people were killed in clashes between security forces and the Mehdi Army militia loyal to anti-U.S. Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, a source at Kut’s al-Zahraa hospital said.
-G
What! no chocolate?! screw them.
The law of gravity may not apply to Laissez Faire economics…feemarket sans regulation…but I believe Ian Welch and Paul Krugman have spoken my view. Is the “news” that the “Feds” are going to “Fix” everything going to change reality? No chance more eco spin from conservatives…spews…that will catch a suckers that have no where to put there bets.
But then working in that environment who would understand market manipulqtion better than you? We are still 2000 points below last summer and Buffet…the man who made $10 Billion last years says we are over valued.
Weak
FOTFLMAO ;-))
Gregory’s got his work cut out for him if he wants to be credible. But if Raven and egregious are cutting him slack… I’ll withhold judgment at present.
But he’s certainly no Rachel (!).
As for Mitchell… MSNBC couldn’t have made a more ham-fisted move. Perhaps their Wall Street owners requested Andrea? Dreadful mistake for MSNBC.
Truth, that… and a question that crossed my mind *before* the Fallon announcement. Pardon me while I go have another freak out.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Adm. William Fallon has resigned as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia after more than a year in the post, citing what he called an inaccurate perception that he is at odds with the Bush administration over Iran.
Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, was the subject of a recent Esquire magazine profile that portrayed him as resisting pressure for military action against Iran, which the Bush administration accuses of trying to develop nuclear weapons.
In a written statement, he said the article’s “disrespect for the president” and “resulting embarrassment” have become a distraction.
“Although I don’t believe there have ever been any differences about the objectives of our policy in the Central Command area of responsibility, the simple perception that there is makes it difficult for me to effectively serve America’s interests there,” he said.
saying, “For you, special price my friend.”
Hardly rocket science, but let’s hope it gets traction. Always nice when someone states the obvious on teevee.
They never announced he stepped down..he is still considering his options.
The huge news for anti Iran war is Admiral Fallon resigned and he was tge firewall against attacking Iran. Look out now.Hopefu;;y Marcy, Jane and Christy will give us the progressive skinny on this very big event, He was commander of the whole shooting match CNN and NYT.
there isn’t anybody at general electric’s media outlets that is worth spit. and that includes rachel maddow who is slowly morphing into yet another toady for g.e.
big brother–your ’singin to yourself’ comment last night really cracked me up……i left you a note.
Appointing a republican as Lt. Governor of one of THE most powerful states may not be in the best interest of our party. Just sayin..jumpin out of the frying pan into the fire. His family and political supporters might want to give him a political spanking and let him run out is term which has not been all that stellar. Does Lt. Governor in NY preside over or have a say the state Senate or agenda?
Cherry picking…hmmm…does that go both ways?
“G”
VOILA…Frensh Fries!
I live in a one story and have no assests lost my house long ago to the Spotted Owl..rent now…didn’t jump then…but if there is a nuclear war might reconsider.
The 5th fleet is at risk in Persian water NOW. THE FIFTH FLEET!!! Get it. Don’t put your assets in harms way they will be needed to carry out other missions. These are our people and the assests that they. This is a very complex military political situation. Bush play our poker hnd very poorly. Gambling with these kinds of stakes if we lose will embolden our enemies. Their is a lot of open sea out there if we are not the presense who will be. Oceanic fiber cables…merchant lanes…pirates etc the Navy does a lot for us. Fallon was good for the Navy. This is more shrub shit is McCain on board with this?
BINGO…It always about the big really big money…the stackers havw manipulated Trillions globally. Morality in America is a sick joke.
The revolving door from military to Booz Allen and other defense contractor juicy jobs putsa big damper on that idea.
Oh my F*** … David Gregory is to Journalist as Nancy Pelosi is to Speaker of the House. Both sleazeballs. Both incompetent. Both morally challenged. Both sound tough one minute, then tow the line the very next.
A video I made back when MC Rove first appeared — contrasting that to Plamegate…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmC4YVJ1Jb0
HEY -CHEER UP AND TURN ON CNN! OBAMA COMPARES RUSH LIMBAUGH TO LOU DOBBS!!
WATCH LOU SPIT WITH HIS NEW DENTURES…!
Another GREAT performance by the incomparable David “Corporate Whore” Gregory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8FYfo2-Xmc
Not in the Corp-Whore-Ate media , , , it seems .