[Stultis]

Well, I'm watching Plugs on the rebroadcast of "Meet The Press" and I must say it's completely shameful. Not Cliff Claven's performance, his string of lies and outrageous, laughable assertions -- that's only to be expected. But Gregory challenging him on nothing. NOTHING! (On the foreign policy front. He just now made a half-assed challenge on the "jobs created or saved nonsense," but then accepted Plugs' non answer.)

For instance Biden continued to use the mythical "300" figure for supposed actual terrorists tried successfully in civilian courts. AND GREGORY HAD NOTHING! Biden accused Cheney of lying (misrepresenting multiple facts) and Gregory made NO effort AT ALL to pin down what facts Cheney had wrong according to Biden. Cheney had VERY CLEARLY divided his criticisms of the Obama admin's prosecution of the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which Cheney emphatically supported, with the treatment of terrorists sticking the homeland as criminal defendants, instead of enemy combatants. Instead Gregory allowed Biden to grossly equivocate, to "respond" to Cheney's non criticism of the of the former by citing admin policy only on the former, and not responding to Cheney's actual criticism of the later.

Tim Russert, biased as he obviously was, would never have let ANY of that go by.

Does Gregory even read the news? Does he have no concern for his reputation as a journalist? HIS performance (let alone that of his guest) was AMAZINGLY incompetent and lackadaisical.

But it's exactly what I've seen from Gregory an each of the (increasingly rare) occasions I still tune in to watch MTP. (Finally took it off the TIVO several months ago.)

Hook up a dynamo to Russert's corpse and you could power a city. How can Gregory willfully damage himself so? Is he just incapable of doing better? If I'm a news executive, seeing what a mess he's making of MTP, I'm not giving him any kind of job anywhere.

[maica]

Gregory and Biden had to have had a prepared script, and it was written by the NBC staff with input from Obama’s crew at the White House. Biden was coached in what to say. At one point he got off script and Gregory corrected him.

It was nauseating.

[rodguy911]

It’s my understanding that the “300” figure was before we had the ground work laid for military tribunals which is a huge point to leave out of the discussion.

[Morgan in Denver]

Actually, you cannot complain when Democrats act like...... Democrats. Progressives, liberals, Marxists, socialists, fascists or whatever, they are all collectivists who’s goal is to revolutionize America to their image of utopia.

Our goal is NOT to defeat them, it MUST be to destroy them because if we don’t they will emerge to strike again. Once they lose, it becomes critical to educate voters so stop this from happening again in the future.