David Gregory - mindless RW talking points reader.

[underpants]

DAVID GREGORY: Social Security-- how does it have to change? What they put on the agenda is raising the retirement age, maybe means testing benefits. Is it time for Social Security to fundamentally change if you're gonna deal with the debt problem?

HARRY REID: One of the things that always troubles me is when we start talking about the debt, the first thing people do is run to Social Security. Social Security is a program that works. And it's going to be-- it's fully funded for the next forty years. Stop picking on Social Security. There're a lotta places--

DAVID GREGORY: Senator are you really saying --

HARRY REID: --where you can go to save money.

DAVID GREGORY:-- the arithmetic on Social Security works?

HARRY REID: I'm saying the arithmetic in Social Security works. I have no doubt it does.

DAVID GREGORY: It's not in crisis?

HARRY REID: The ne-- no, it's not in crisis. This is-- this is-- this is something that's perpetuated by people who don't like government. Social Security is fine. Are there things we can do to improve Social Security? Of course.

DAVID GREGORY: Means testing. Raising the --

DAVID GREGORY:--retirement age--

HARRY REID: --don't--

DAVID GREGORY: --do you--

HARRY REID: --I'm--

DAVID GREGORY: --agree with either of those?

HARRY REID: --I'm not going to go to with any of those backdoor methods- you know, to whack Social Security recipients. I'm not going to do that. We have a lot of things we can do with-- this debt. It's a problem. But one of the places where I'm not going to be part of picking on is Social Security.

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[AzDar]

1. He'll always be " M.C. Rove's" backup dancer, no?

:puke:

[sabrina 1]

2. Another shill for corporations and a defender of the rightwing

He was promoting the 'both sides do it' talking points today also. Since people like him are so obvious, what do they hope to achieve?

[rfranklin]

3. I saw that and nearly fell out of my Barcalounger...

I was waiting for Harry to ream him a new one but Harry was polite as usual.

[DCKit]

6. As always, too polite.

One of our Dems needs to take DG to school, for real.

[CTyankee]

7. I saw that too. I thought Reid held his own. Gregory was befuddled.

He clearly expected the same old rhetoric "we have to cut entitlements." Reid called bullshit and make nice work of him...

[jtrockville]

11. I'm waiting for someone like Reid to give someone like Gregory

a stunned stare, pause for a second, and say something like "What? Whare on earth did you come up with that absurdity?"

[CTyankee]

12. Well, he pretty much did this on Gregory's "Social Security crisis" question!

It was a beauty to behold when he did so...

[jtrockville]

13. Reid didn't question where Gregory got those absurd ideas.

He did a good job dispelling the myths, but didn't question how those myths arose.

[classof56]

4. Thank you, Senator Reid!

As a Social Security recipient who's very dependent on that income--the one I contributed to during my 45-year-working life--I thank you for not throwing me and my fellow SS recipients under the right wingnuts' bus.

Peace.

[spanone]

5. what a lousy interviewer....ask a question, then dominate the answer.

[senseandsensibility]

8. Good for Harry

Gregory's questions are entirely predictable and simple minded, but I confess to being a little surprised by how Harry stood up to him. Of course, if he'd been allowed to finish a sentence, he might have made an even better case.

[emulatorloo]

9. Reid most always says good stuff. In a mild mannered way

I appreciate him saying "social security is fine" in the face of the David Gregory Robot..................

[Uzybone]

10. David Gregory: the man is drowning in the sea!!!!

while the man is sitting peacefully on his sofa.