Everybody, give a big hand!... Let's welcome NBC's David Gregory to The Freak Show!
Guest post by J. Thomas Duffy
Boy, this one nearly knocked me off my seat.
No doubt, the blood sugar may have been a bit low, the morning caffeine hadn't kicked in yet, and there was the inevitable letdown of seeing the Cheneypalooza end last night.
What was this dizzying, shocking, surprising entity that provided this momentary dysfunction?
NBC's David Gregory thinks we just need to "strip away" Ann Coulter's inflammatory rhetoric to listen to her points.
Boy, David, as Desi would say to Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do.
Do we have to get John Fund, Dorothy Rabinowitz, or Richard Cohen to meet up with you, offering instructions on pulling your head out of your ass? Or can you manage that on your own?
Are you miffed that the slobbering, fawning, drooling Chris Matthews didn't included a rap segment on his show with The Coulterzilla the other day? Something you could have just happened to drop by on, and flash those same suave moves you displayed when dancing with Karl Rove?
And this isn't the first time you've used the Rightside/Freak Show smear points in your reporting.
This talk with Elizabeth Edwards... You dragged out the now-ever-so-tired slam of the expensive haircut, and the paid speeches (though, to be "fair and balanced," no mention of Rudy 911 and his gold-mine speaking tour), and then chided Mrs. Edwards that she should have pushed aside all the bullshit Coulterzilla was firing at her and paid attention to "the point she's trying to make" behind it.
To her credit, Mrs. Edwards, after laughing at Gregory, delivered a crisp response that basically said, "Hey, if you want to side with Coulter, and you don't like my husband, don't vote for him."
Interesting also, in defending Coulterzilla, Gregory left out of the interview how Coulterzilla, just a few days ago, put forth "if I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
What was the point behind that one, Gregory?
So David, are you going to go for the gold watch with the Peacock Network, or do we soon see a Press Release fired out on you joining Fox News?
You certainly seem to be going out of your way to impress them.
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Links:
-- Mrs. Edwards responds to Coulter; June 28: She talks to NBC's David Gregory about the clash with Ann and how she hopes "people will speak out" against hate speech (Video)
-- Edwards equates Coulter’s words to racist ones; Presidential candidate’s wife calls commentator’s remarks ‘hate language’
-- NBC's Gregory repeated Coulter falsehood on Today
-- Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards a "Harridan"
-- Losers
-- Bloggers Are Foul-Mouthed Cranks
-- Bashing Elizabeth Edwards
(Cross-posted at The Garlic.)
Boy, this one nearly knocked me off my seat.
No doubt, the blood sugar may have been a bit low, the morning caffeine hadn't kicked in yet, and there was the inevitable letdown of seeing the Cheneypalooza end last night.
What was this dizzying, shocking, surprising entity that provided this momentary dysfunction?
NBC's David Gregory thinks we just need to "strip away" Ann Coulter's inflammatory rhetoric to listen to her points.
Boy, David, as Desi would say to Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do.
Do we have to get John Fund, Dorothy Rabinowitz, or Richard Cohen to meet up with you, offering instructions on pulling your head out of your ass? Or can you manage that on your own?
Are you miffed that the slobbering, fawning, drooling Chris Matthews didn't included a rap segment on his show with The Coulterzilla the other day? Something you could have just happened to drop by on, and flash those same suave moves you displayed when dancing with Karl Rove?
And this isn't the first time you've used the Rightside/Freak Show smear points in your reporting.
This talk with Elizabeth Edwards... You dragged out the now-ever-so-tired slam of the expensive haircut, and the paid speeches (though, to be "fair and balanced," no mention of Rudy 911 and his gold-mine speaking tour), and then chided Mrs. Edwards that she should have pushed aside all the bullshit Coulterzilla was firing at her and paid attention to "the point she's trying to make" behind it.
To her credit, Mrs. Edwards, after laughing at Gregory, delivered a crisp response that basically said, "Hey, if you want to side with Coulter, and you don't like my husband, don't vote for him."
Interesting also, in defending Coulterzilla, Gregory left out of the interview how Coulterzilla, just a few days ago, put forth "if I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
What was the point behind that one, Gregory?
So David, are you going to go for the gold watch with the Peacock Network, or do we soon see a Press Release fired out on you joining Fox News?
You certainly seem to be going out of your way to impress them.
**********
Links:
-- Mrs. Edwards responds to Coulter; June 28: She talks to NBC's David Gregory about the clash with Ann and how she hopes "people will speak out" against hate speech (Video)
-- Edwards equates Coulter’s words to racist ones; Presidential candidate’s wife calls commentator’s remarks ‘hate language’
-- NBC's Gregory repeated Coulter falsehood on Today
-- Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards a "Harridan"
-- Losers
-- Bloggers Are Foul-Mouthed Cranks
-- Bashing Elizabeth Edwards
(Cross-posted at The Garlic.)
Labels: Ann Coulter, John Edwards, media
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