From Newsbusters-
Watch David Gregory, moderator of NBC's Meet The Press, make a total jackass out of himself on MSNBC's Morning Joe. First he says Obama's speech-about Israel and how its pre-1967 borders is the correct starting point for any future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations-enjoyed widespread agreement and support in Israel. But when questioned about this, he stammers and can't come up with one single name. Here's how it went down, courtesy of Ace of Spades HQ-
DAVID GREGORY, �MEET THE PRESS� HOST: I just want to make a point here. Joe, I disagree with you. This is not just the view of the White House in terms of what they think Israel ought to accept. This also reflects prominent views within Israel that this speech was actually good news for the Israeli government for some of the points that have already been laid out here.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: Obviously, we talked about earlier, on the minds of a lot of people inside the White House and the state department is the U.N. vote coming up this fall, David, and this is seen as leverage obviously for that. We�ve talked about that. But you said this is also seen as good news for some in Israel. What major Israeli public figures have come out supporting the President's speech?
GREGORY: Well, I (stammers), I don't think there have been major public figures that have, but some of the commentary that�s coming out of (stammers) the commentary in the press there and others who are looking at the situation are, are recognizing that some of these factors diplomatically are actually positive for Netanyahu.
See, when these motherfuckers tell you something, you're supposed to be stupid enough to just take their word for it. But if somebody, in this case program host Joe Scarborough, calls them on it, they can't deal with the contradiction. That's because in the case of Gregory, and plenty of others of his ilk, they are so arrogant it would never occur to them to be prepared in the eventuality somebody calls bullshit. This is especially true in the case of fellow journalist Scarborough, who I have to admit much of the time is about as big an asshat as Gregory. This isn't so much about Scarborough being a good, honest journalist as it is about him being off his game to the point he went off script.
Of course, to those of us who make the effort to pay attention, this comes as no surprise and is almost not really noteworthy. It's just too bad it happened on MSNBC, whose viewership doesn't pay attention, and more to the point, doesn't care. If it happened on Meet The Press, now that would have been a noteworthy embarrassment to Gregory's career as Democrat ass-kisser, which yes, is about what it amounts to.
Every time David Gregory is around Barak Obama, he should seriously have his stomach pumped afterwards. You can catch a disease doing that, especially if you have ulcers.
H/T The Other McCain
