I know a**holes and the occasionally fugly ones (yes, you Helen) are SOP around here, but please, can we draw the line at falling-down-drunk in here??
Can someone call Security? Do we have Security here? I mean, even Walmart has Security ...
Posted on 03/02/2006 5:56:20 AM PST by new yorker 77
GREGORY'S GIGGLES: NBCNEWS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER CALLS SHOW 'DRUNK' Thu Mar 02 2006 08:52:09 ET
NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, who apologized last week for calling White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan a "jerk," called into MSNBC's IMUS Thursday morning -- apparently drunk!
Gregory is traveling with the president in India.
IMUS: Let's go to the White House correspondent David Gregory.
DAVID GREGORY: I'm OK.
IMUS: You can calls us later if you want.
GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]
IMUS: Are you drunk?
GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter]
IMUS: Are you all right David?
GREGORY: India is a wonderful language and i've been learning, where's my little sheet here. I've been learning some new phrases to come home. But any way, that being one of them and i just think it's nice.
IMUS: It is.
GREGORY: Thank you.
IMUS: Having a lot of fun there. What's wrong with you?
GREGORY: I just think it's funny. [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]
CHARLES: He's drunk.
IMUS: He is drunk!
CHARLES: Oh god.
IMUS: Why don't you compose yourself and get back to us. You want to?
GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]
IMUS: What are you in some harrem?
IMUS: What? David?
GREGORY: No, i'm fine.
IMUS: We need a camera.
Oh my lord.
IMUS: Somebody's got --
GREGORY: i was -- remember that movie "Arthur" with Dudley Moore where he just thinks funny things and that's what was going on. If i could find this sheet, actually i just found it. Anyway.
IMUS: You have any news? [Laughter]
IMUS: we got to go, we'll get back to you.
GREGORY: I'm sorry.
IMUS: That's all right.
IMUS: Well, call us back will you?
GREGORY: Anyway. There are serious things going on here which i know you're very interested in.
IMUS: We don't have any time for them now. Quickly.
GREGORY: Big deal between India and the United States. The upshot is we're going to provide nuclear know-how and fuel to india which they need for their economy to grow. But since they never signed the nonproliferation treaty it's a real turn around and critics worry that it sends the wrong message to other parts of the world.
IMUS: Ok.
GREGORY: I would add, i would add that this is how you say thank you.
IMUS: What is it again?
[Speaking foreign language]
IMUS: Well that's great. But we have to go. It's always nice to hear from you.
GREGORY: I'll call you after dinner.
IMUS: NBC Chief White House Correspondant from New Delhi, India. Clearly drunk.
Now I've listened to the audiotape and that's really my guess.
Reads more like he was stoned than drunk....
I just checked drudge and cant find this. When did it post and did Drudge pull in off?
David drinks? Say it aint so... Cheney had one beer and yet David I'm IN CHARGE OF THE MEDIA, sounds blitzed.
Can you say double standards once again?
Well, who among us hasn't crossed that fine line between "relaxed" and "utterly shitfaced"?
I know a**holes and the occasionally fugly ones (yes, you Helen) are SOP around here, but please, can we draw the line at falling-down-drunk in here??
Can someone call Security? Do we have Security here? I mean, even Walmart has Security ...
Frenchie Gregory is a Maroon! Not so drunk he couldn't get a dig in on Bush.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Maybe he was drunk when he called McClelland (sp) a "jerk"
I doubt if he was drunk on alcohol... I think he was smokin something....
yes, he sounds HIGH from pot smoking....... he was carrying iligal drugs? Maybe it was CRACK. Hurry let the world know David Greggory is a drunken druggie
Check again.
That's what I think too. Really, I'm wondering how many grown men have folks here known to get the giggles when drunk and still be able to talk about a nuclear deal. The tape's not great quality, but I was unable to detect any slurring in his speech. I can sooner believe that 1) he was high or 2) he's just a giggling idiot with some mental problems before I'd believe he was drunk.
I heard the phone call and it sounded like he was having a laughing fit rather than being drunk. After he was able to compose himself he delivered his report without stumbing or slurring his words. It would be hard to do that if he were plastered.
IMUS: Are you drunk?
GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter]
IMUS: Are you all right David?
GREGORY: Hey, check this out! (clunk!) (clunk!)
(clunk!)
IMUS: What was that??!!?
GREGORY: That was my skull! I'm so wasted!!
Not that I wouldn't LMAO if he was but Imus calls about everyone he ever talks to "a drunk". Part of his routine. Non-event IYAM. Gregory is still a first call a$$hat though...
Oh.
He was taken out of context.
Let me get President Bush's take on it.
We need a tape of that exchange.
It would be hard to do that if he were drunk, not if he were high.
ok, the page finally changed. I kept getting the old page for some reason. Now the Gregory link is on. Thanks.
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