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.
Hmmmm could we possibly use this against mudslimes? Please say yes!
A simple hunting accident is being turned into a three ringed circus for political purposes.
The good old left-wing will stop at nothing to point the finger and to humiliate.
Lets try this again, kindly remove me from your ping list(s). Thanks
I think you may be onto something there. Out of the blue, Gregory starts acting sensationally stupid, which focuses the spotlight on him, while taking it off Gore Loserman. These people are so predictable. And we fall for it every time.
I've always thought it was dumb that Bush has to tell these idiots every time he has a bike accident on his private property and whatnot. It has NOTHING to do with the office of President as long as it isn't life threatening. It just gives them an excuse to make fun of him and take pictures of his injuries far out of proportion to their seriousness.
All right I emailed the "Chairman" but I'm sure I will get one of those thanks for contacting our network emails. Maybe if enough people email they will take action or make pipsqueek Gregory apologize. I said he should have to sit in the hallway with Helen Thomas! Out of camera and microphone range!
No. It's quite readable.
Long articles without paragraphs (which cause me to feel cross-eyed and cross) are my bane.
I so wish they'd do this. LOL
Good article.
He looks like a braying ass.
It's mind boggling that our press view themselves as the first point of contact!
Even though most of America barely pays attention and is led blindly by MSM sound-bites and headlines, I think the average person is finally getting really tired of the transparent obsession of the left with bringing down the Bush administration to the exclusion of everything else.
They are exposing themselves for what they really are just like the Danish cartoon insanity has with much of the Muslim world really is--hate-obsessed whackos who demand their way 100%.
Hey........... sh*t lips, you have been humiliated before with your repetitive crap on the Steelers................... now you are just wonderfully gone.
You are a complete INSULT to Ronald Reagan.
LOL!
>You are a complete INSULT to Ronald Reagan.<
Oh, how the truth must HURT!
He could not carry Ronald Reagan's jock............ or his notebook.
Amen!
For the last time, remove me from your ping lists.
The press is more worked up about this shooting accident than they ever were about the 90+ people who were killed at Waco.""
They never got worked up over Ted Kennedy and his car driving abilities.
They never got worked up over Hillary making $100,000 with a $1000 "investment" in cattle futures.
They never got worked up over a President who kept appointments waiting while he got BJ's in the Oval office.
Funny how selective they can be.
don't seem to recall them in such a snit when the Clinton's lawyer, Vince Foster, was found shot.......
Oh, what I wouldn't give to see this story resurface!""
I would like to see that happen also. I think Hillary was behind that murder. No way it was a suicide.
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