Posted on 02/15/2006 5:37:37 AM PST by shortstop
A question for the White House press corps:
Who the hell do you think you are?
Seriously. Exactly how egomaniacal are you people?
The question is spurred by your conduct the other day over this Dick Cheney matter. The vice president was involved in a hunting accident and all of a sudden it wasn’t about him or what happened, it was how you weren’t notified.
Like the world revolves around you.
And you started acting like idiots. Juvenile, arrogant, antagonistic idiots. It was a shameful spectacle that further alienated regular Americans and showed, in the view of many, your bias and enmity toward the Bush administration and the people it represents.
Instead of demanding an explanation you should be offering an apology.
Especially this horse-face David Gregory.
After NBC blowhard David Gregory began a tirade in the White House briefing room, spokesman Scott McClellan jabbed him with a gentle, “David, hold on. The cameras aren’t on right now. You can do this later.”
Then the freak show began in earnest.
“Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,” David Gregory roared. “Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.”
“You don't have to yell,” the spokesman responded.
“I will yell,' David Gregory said, stabbing the air with his finger. “If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.”
“Calm down, Dave. Calm down,” Scott McClellan said.
“I'll calm down when I feel like calming down,” David Gregory said. “You answer the question.”
“I have answered the question,” the White House spokesman said. “I'm sorry you're getting all riled up about.”
“I am riled up – because you're not answering the question,” David Gregory said.
This was part of an exchange in which the assembled press corps turned into obnoxious rabble over the fine points of why they learned about the Cheney incident Sunday morning instead of Saturday night.
Somehow some great principle had been violated, the Republic had been imperiled and before you knew it they were comparing it to Hurricane Katrina.
The venom and rudeness of the display were palpable and nauseating. The tone was patently hateful. The media elites savaged the White House spokesman.
It was an insight into the soullessness of a group of people with the most extreme form of self-importance known to man. By watching them you’d get the impression they believe they’re reporting to idiots about idiots.
The philosophical and attitudinal distance between the reporters in that briefing room and the regular people on Main Street was about a million miles.
Not that the vice president’s hunting accident wasn’t important, not that there isn’t a natural public curiosity about it.
But there is a way ladies and gentlemen conduct themselves. There is a civil air most people can carry with them. There is a level of dignity and comity which the average person has no difficulty maintaining.
And yet, these stuffed shirts, with their huge paychecks and impressive educations, acted like savages. They were a mob.
And they were disrespecting the White House.
They were in the executive chambers of the United States government, and instead of conducting themselves in a professional and respectful manner, they acted like spoiled brats.
For all the world to see.
They think this is a controversy. They want this to be a controversy.
But it’s not.
It is a political stunt begun by the reporters and continued by the Democrats. The pretended objectivity of the White House press was disproved by the animosity and hostility of the shouted questioning. Such anger and antagonism destroy the charade of impartiality. The media showed themselves to be not reporters, but opponents.
Which is what we always thought they were.
And which they cannot now deny being.
That wasn’t journalism, that was a riot.
The hissy-fit riot of a privileged elite jumping on what it hopes is blood in the water.
It was a sickening and embarrassing display. And it was brought to you by the evening news.
An evening news that is watched by few and trusted by fewer. An evening news that has subverted a free press to a private agenda. The news hounds have become attack dogs.
And now we have seen them for what they are.
Howling savages driven by hate.
Now why would the WH Press Office want to do that? David Gregory and his misbehavior is a great contrast. His tirade was probably worth a 5 to 10 point bump for Bush in the next public opinion poll. David Gregory is da best "man" we got.
That is why they should be cheered.
The wonder of a person like David Gregory is that he's gotten this far in life without having his lights seriously punched out. But then feminized men like Gregory avoid social situations that might result in just that. In short, he knows he can get away with unprofessional behavior like this without any personal harm coming to him. Wimp.
That's where the ghoulish press corpses and thugs belong.
However, doing this would be an insult to honorable saloons everywhere.
Leni
OMG, how did I miss that one? What a hoot? What was the answer?
Is there going to be another W.H. press conference today around noon????
Better yet, cancel routine press conferences. Only have one when there is something the administration feels is important to discuss and then keep a tight control on that. Let the reporters earn their money and use their unnamed sources. Well, maybe that is why they do have press conferences, to state the truth themselves rather than rely on all the lies that end up out there from these mysterious sources.
Personally, I think they are performing the same valuable service that Kennedy, Shumer, Biden, et al., provide in those committee hearings - they discredit themselves.
Just asking............... will there be another press conference today around noon......... now that the sicko PRESS can try to kick Scott McClelland's *ss all over the place for not telling them yesterday about the silent heart attack of Mr. Whittington?
This crisis won't work either but it'll work until they find their next crisis.
Hmmmmmm -- I don't really know .... I'm sort of lost in a Valentine's Day chocolate induced mental fog this morning!! Even if I never recover that box of yummy dark chocolates was well worth it .... I think....!!??
He faces them everyday. He should get a shotgun like Cheney had and stroll in, lean it up against the lectern, and ask, "Any questions today?"...........
Nothing on the White House website to indicate such, but as press briefings are held regularly, my guess is that he'll be a stationary target again very soon.
Better than that, I would have dissolved in a fit of the giggles. I wouldn't have been able to answer another question w/o laughing and when the babe asked if it would have been worse if the guy had died, they would have had to pick me up off the floor.
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Sweet.
;-)
So one has to ask, has this really all been WH "mishandling" of the incident or WH "manipulation" of the moron presstitutes.
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Sshhhh! Don't say that out loud. It will cause another five or six news cycles debating "manipulation".
LOL...... one FReeper PS'ed a picture of Al Pacino doing that yesterday!
ROFL!
David Gregory needs a valium spray! (Krauthammer)
You wish!!
Noting stops a feeding frenzy except satiation or a bigger predator.
A 78 yr old in Intensive Care does not play well on TV.
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