Listen David Gregory

[malaise]

I don't give a flying fuck what the people on Wall Street want to know about who is running the economy.
Those greedy criminals are in no position to even speak. STFU.

[brianna69]

1. I agree

Those greedy wall streeters are just upset that Geithner didn't say they would use tax payers money to purchase the toxic assets of the banks at above market value so they could make out like bandits and continue paying themselves million dollar bonuses and continue like all is well. As President Obama said "the party is OVER".

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. They're just snitting because

they aren't getting every dime from the government, and because they aren't being told every move ahead of time.
It makes the greedly little SOBs nervous because the rules are changing some.
They are lucky that the people who are busy building the tumbrels are taking their time. They don't want them to break down.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Can The Corporate Media Get Any Lazier?

You know that Stretch probably goes running to see how his GE stocks are doing the first thing when he gets up every morning. Of course a "newsman" working for a company owned by one of the biggest multi-nationals would always be objective in reporting on the economy :sarcasm:

Right now, the economy isn't running. It's paralyzed. And who put us in that situation? Eh Stretch? Care to get outside of the beltway bubbleworld and take a quick look? We'll wait...we'll be here...what else do we have? As usual, Stretch is completely tone-deaf to reality. His beloved Wall Street is a joke. People have bailed on them...given them a vote of no confidence. Until there's substantial changes on "the street" money will stay in mattresses. Who in their right mind would give another dime to these greedy losers? Well...probably Stretch.

:rofl:

[Vinca]

4. IMHO, he was just spouting the daily RNC fax. nt

[SpiralHawk]

5. Gregory is not a journalist. He's a Homelander propaganda puppet

as he routinely demonstrates.

[INdemo]

6. Its a scam ...these Wall St. crooks have the power to manipulate the market

and they are purposely driving the market down in order to receive more TARP money so they can hand out million dollar bonuses. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it..It is a swindle..When President Obama stood his ground as said "we are going to limit the salaries of CEO's and top execs" they balked and drove the market to one of its lowest days yet.(As if to say we will show you")They squandered our pension funds and they are getting rewarded..They should be behind bars.It's not just the housing market that caused this..Yep the biggest scam in our history.

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. I agree!

They are just playing with the market. Who knows what machinations are going on?
They removed the restrictions on short selling several weeks back. I no longer use
the market as a guide.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. The top 20 banks/brokerage firms move the markets

If anyone thinks its the day trader is making the markets shift
in the volumes we see are fool heartily mistaken. I've played
the markets in the late 90s and know the game.

You are absolutely right.

[malaise]

14. Ding ding

We have a winner

[brianna69]

8. It was a dreadful move by NBC to pick

this GOP hack and Rove compatriot to take over Meet the Press.

[bdamomma]

9. that is why no one is watching MTP.

[City Lights]

11. Mr. Wilkinson Gregory should not be commenting on anything related to Wall Street.

His conflict of interest rivals Mrs. Greenspan's.

typo edit

[malaise]

12. You mean Mrs Bank of America

-no that's Barnacle - or Mrs. F & F. Rove's dancing partner cannot spell the word conflict or he would not be anywhere near media.

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[City Lights]

13. I just Wiki'd Beth...guess what she's doing now that she left Fannie Mae?

In January 2009, Wilkinson announced she is to join the partnership of the New York City-based law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison resident in its Washington, D.C. office focusing on white collar criminal defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Wilkinson

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. That's quite revealing isn't it?

You ought to make a post out of that with a little research.

[malaise]

17. Shouldn't we send this everywhere

She about to cash in on the thieves.

[BlooInBloo]

16. Dude - getting mad at Gregory?

There's no point in getting mad at someone who, as a professional matter, simply doesn't care about the truth.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/12/29/gregory/

Several months before he was named as moderator of Meet the Press, David Gregory went on MSNBC to categorically reject Scott McClellan's accusations that the American media failed to scrutinize the Bush administration's pre-war claims. Gregory vigorously praised the job which he and his "journalistic" colleagues did in the run-up to the Iraq War -- the period which Salon's Gary Kamiya called "one of the greatest collapses in the history of the American media." Proclaimed Gregory, with a straight face: "Questions were asked. I think we pushed. I think we prodded. I think we challenged the President. Not only those of us in the White House Press Corps did that, but others in the media landscape did that." Most revealingly of all, Gregory said:

I think there are a lot of critics who think that . . . . if we did not stand up and say this is bogus, and you're a liar, and why are you doing this, that we didn't do our job. I respectfully disagree. It's not our role.

Indeed. Perish the thought that a reporter should point out when government officials are making "bogus" claims and are lying a country into a war. That is "not their role," says the New Tim Russert (and, unsurprisingly, the Old Tim Russert wholeheartedly agreed). I don't know whether Gregory's public advocacy for a meek and polite press corps that would never be so rude as to point out when government leaders are lying is what sealed the deal for his new promotion to Meet the Press -- a show which centrally depends on having powerful politicians know that they can come on and, as Dick Cheney's top communications aide put it, "control the message." But I'm quite sure that it didn't hurt.

[malaise]

19. You're right

He's a first rate hack.

[boobooday]

18. Gregory is an old tool

And a fool. Blech. I refuse to watch him.

[ErinBerin84]

20. it's like Jon Stewart's point from the other day

Wall Street isn't in a position to get mad when they are being rescued....that's not the position of the "rescuee".



David Gregory is a disgrace, his conflict of interest related to his wife is very revealing.