AMERICAblog: David Gregory: Meet Pollster.com and FiveThirtyEight.com
dances_with_beagles
· 1 year ago
How does no talent, no personality schmucks like Gregory ever make it to the big time? ok, MSNBC being semi-big time. Gregory: the less snide but just as clueless new Tucker Carlson.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
David Gregory is a moron. I hold my nose and watch CNN when his show comes on.
It's so discouraging that bloggers and ordinary people have to be the ones catching the media in their lies. Remember when it was the media that kept things honest? Now it's only Olberman, Maddow, and the bloggers.
1970cs
· 1 year ago
If Obama is elected, David Gregory's and Brokaw's taxes are going to go up a lot
wtreat007
· 1 year ago
Gee, one would almost think David Gregory was trying to bend the facts to fit his narrative that "it's close".
How typical. I used to think Tucker was bad in that slot, but at least we knew what angle he was levering during his show. Gregory must either think we're all dopes, or he's so far gone down the route of msm-ness that he's lost all effectiveness and objectivity.
I think it's time Gregory retired to the weather channel where his talents would be oh so very much appreciated. Picture it: Galveston in a gale force wind and the hair being tossed about while David breathlessly reports on the wind.
WHYN0T
· 1 year ago
What happened to Dan Abram, the one who Rachel Maddow replaced?
MrBlifil
· 1 year ago
Does David Gregory honestly think such methods help McCain or satisfy his viewers in any way? Isn't he concerned about the feeling of disconnect they will be experiencing in the event of a large Obama landslide, which is in the realm of possibility?
Or has he already orchestrated his response to the tune of "we've gone to hell in a handbasket, and we must get back to paradise..." which he plans to extoll for the next 8 years of Dem dominance.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Yes, he will attack Dems for the next 8 years.
WHYN0T
· 1 year ago
Per Wayne Madsen:
We now have NBC's heir apparent to Tim Russert, David Gregory, claiming it is not up to the press to challenge the White House. Gregory is a product of fluff TV news in Sacramento. And print journalism credentials? Gregory worked for The Eagle, American University's campus newspaper. As to Gregory ever properly covering the collapse of Fannie Mae, there is a slight problem. Gregory's wife is Beth Wilkinson, who also happens to be Fannie Mae's General Counsel.
FunMe
· 1 year ago
Wow, good find!
Just like Andrea Mitchell (married to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan), all they do is protect their own interest (aka $$$) and continue on with the government LIES.
I hope all of these freaks of the CONservative party become "persona non grata" forever.
rjohnsen
· 1 year ago
Fannie Mae executive vice president Beth Wilkinson, who Forbes.com reported was making $3 million per year in salary and bonuses as Fannie Mae collapsed.
She resigned when the government took over on Sept. 20. On June 16, 2006, the New York Times reported her naivete on the way in: "Ms. Wilkinson, for example, knew nothing about the mortgage-backed securities at the core of Fannie Mae's business." But on her way out, her cluelessness no longer in doubt, nobody questioned how this woman was qualified.
devis1
· 1 year ago
The only reason to watch that show was Rachel Maddow. Haven't watched it since she got her own show. As an aside, seeing lots of Obama commercials on msnbc. Even though I'm in VA, it seems like preaching to the choir--except during Gregory's show maybe.
RonThompson
· 1 year ago
This needs to be explained as simply as possible: In order to maximize their profits from sales of newspapers and of advertising, the corporate media is lying to their readers and viewers, trying to convince them that the election is much closer than it is.
RonThompson
· 1 year ago
Nor is it just David Gregory and NBC. CNN at noon Eastern time October 15th reported their own Virginia poll in which Obama leads 53-43. But their Electoral Vote Projection has Obama at 264, with Virginia a "toss up".
paul94611
· 1 year ago
David Gregory appears to be a narrative rather than an issues kind of opinion journalist.
insouciantlad
· 1 year ago
I always hated that piece of crap Gregory...and he looks like a monkey.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Also he looks like a Cabbage Patch doll---same stupid grin
FunMe
· 1 year ago
Excuse my language, but I have to say:
David Gregory is a MSM Whore!
iWoman
· 1 year ago
Speaking of polls, I just took a really odd one from Zogby. It's my first one for them, so maybe they are all like this?
I felt like it asked biased questions about Obama:
If you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to provide Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants, would you be: Much more likely to vote for him, Somewhat more likely to vote for him, Somewhat less likely to vote for him, Much less likely to vote for him, It doesn't change my vote, Not sure
Other questions were if you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to give government health care coverage to illegal immigrants, supported the handgun ban in Washington DC (which was later overturned by the Supreme Court), supported the right to the procedure called partial birth abortion, would you be: Much more likely to vote for him, Somewhat more likely to vote for him, Somewhat less likely to vote for him, Much less likely to vote for him, It doesn't change my vote, Not sure.
No questions about McCain. Then it asked if I liked NASCAR, played golf, and how often I shopped at Wal-Mart, among other questions.
switched
· 1 year ago
This sounds like a push poll to me. Let Josh Marshall over at http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com know about it as they're keeping track of nasty GOP activity.
Captain_Bathrobe
· 1 year ago
Naw, Zogby's a Democrat; I doubt he'd be doing push polling for the Repubs. It's probably just a really shitty poll, which Zogby does plenty of.
davidkc
· 1 year ago
David Gregory is a Republican shill, end of story. That's why the McCain campaign gave the OK, via Brokaw, to let Gregory cover the debates. I don't listen to anything Gregory says anymore, since I know it's being spoon-fed to him from McCain.
lpeggy
· 1 year ago
David Gregory is a Republican tool. Don't forget Scott McClellan was going to include a whole chapter on Gregory, and how he helped the White House sell the Iraq War. Gregory is a joke.
katjam
· 1 year ago
THe MSM needs for the race to be perceived as close. Polls at the Washington Post or on CNN with 10+ leads for Obama are listed as "battlegrounds," ones with McCain ahead by 2+ are listed as "lean red." They want a narrative ad if the facts don't fit, like Sarah Palin you just interpret them in a whole new way.
60thStreet
· 1 year ago
It gets WORSE!
Note the following, as well: The VA poll Gregory picked is not only two weeks old, but if you go to Silver's site fivethirtyeight.com and look at the polls going back to the 20th of SEPTEMBER (scroll down to each state on the right hand side), the Mason-Dixon and ARG polls are the only two that have Obama trailing McCain. SEVEN other individual polls have Obama ahead, three by double digits.
Similarly, in NC, fivethirtyeight.com notes that there were SEVEN total polls by different organizations conducted in the first eight days of October. FIVE of those seven have Obama leading.
Gregory has clearly gone out of his way to make it appear like McCain still has the edge in these two Southern states. Not only are these polls old, but had he broadcast this when they were new, he would STILL have been cherrypicking to favor McCain. They would not even have been the average of all of the polls conducted. That's pretty bad!
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
thanks goddess for Rachel and Keith. They have just brought all the foolishness that began this morning with Joe and Mika and David Gregory and fux news and the hate radio idiots and Grumpy Frum and the Unstable/Unable GOPer ticket, back down to the truth. ahhhhhhhh!
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
There must some fierce internal battles at MSNBC. Dan Abrams went from GM back to a one hour show then poof he is gone, Matthews and Olberman kicked off as anchors, Carlson gone and who comes out on top--David Gregory. For some reason Phil Griffin thinks Gregory is the perfect non-biased person to eventually become #1 at MSNBC. Obviously, Griffin must never watch Gregory in action.
BooksAlive
· 1 year ago
Sen Burr smirked the whole time he was on. I've generally stopped watching this show as I find Pat Buchanan so unpalatable. But I've also lost patience with Rachel's jumping hither, thither and yon. Must be MSNBC requiring each program to be so full of clever segments. Even Dan Abrams did that with his lawyerly show.
Wonder if the word is going to get out about this type of distortion so that Obama surrogates prepare themselves with statistics before they make any appearance?
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
I will be so damn glad when these MSM talking heads STOP running for the Office of Press Secretary and start reporting the well checked facts.
cosanostradamus
· 1 year ago
. Boy, that October Surprise better be good! Election-theft is going to be tough with an Obama landslide. Props to the corporate media for creating a phony back-story out of whole cloth, just in case. Make that two stories: The race was tight; and then some "wing-nut" from nowhere, prob'ly a registered Democrat, not under McCain's control, pulled out a gun and . . .
"No one could have foreseen..."
It just kinda writes itself.
Pardon my tinfoil hat, but what, exactly, are we going to do if they pull another 2000, 2004, or 9/11? Anything? And by we I mean us. .
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
"Stretch" is simply angling for a nickname from John McCain, since his good buddy George W. Bu$h will be gone soon... (sniff! sniff!) Gregory is king of FALSE EQUIVALENCY AND FAKE BALANCE.
David_in_Toronto
· 1 year ago
Oh, I don't think David Gregory should be embarrassed. I think he should be fired. Even I were a McCain supporter, I'd want accurate data. This does everyone a disservice. Except maybe that angry white mail crazo.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I had no idea Gregory was such an idiot until he got his own show.
He makes Tweety look like a genius.
bluevillage
· 1 year ago
The silver lining in this is that it keeps Obama voters in those states from becoming complacent and McCain voters from becoming too enraged.
johnt66
· 1 year ago
This guy is an a&& hole, he dance with Karl Rove, they(republicans) bent him over and screw him, and he liked it.
Agathena
· 1 year ago
David Gregory danced with Karl Rove!
LeesiD
· 1 year ago
I'm glad you pointed this out! You have speared my televion set from another slipper being thrown at it whenever I see David Gregory continue to prove how much of a RW shill he really is.
patk
· 1 year ago
This was a favorite tactic of the late Tim Russert, who trained Gregory.
gonzalez
· 1 year ago
Wake up people! Gregory has shown time and time again of being a tool of McCain. just listen to what he says. Everything for Obama is a struggle and for McCain only opportunities. This man is a hack.
All Comments
Jed posted this new video of Obama talking to an undecided small business owner. America would be so lucky to have Obama as president.
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/barack-obama-a...
It's so discouraging that bloggers and ordinary people have to be the ones catching the media in their lies. Remember when it was the media that kept things honest? Now it's only Olberman, Maddow, and the bloggers.
How typical. I used to think Tucker was bad in that slot, but at least we knew what angle he was levering during his show. Gregory must either think we're all dopes, or he's so far gone down the route of msm-ness that he's lost all effectiveness and objectivity.
I think it's time Gregory retired to the weather channel where his talents would be oh so very much appreciated. Picture it: Galveston in a gale force wind and the hair being tossed about while David breathlessly reports on the wind.
Or has he already orchestrated his response to the tune of "we've gone to hell in a handbasket, and we must get back to paradise..." which he plans to extoll for the next 8 years of Dem dominance.
We now have NBC's heir apparent to Tim Russert, David Gregory, claiming it is not up to the press to challenge the White House. Gregory is a product of fluff TV news in Sacramento. And print journalism credentials? Gregory worked for The Eagle, American University's campus newspaper. As to Gregory ever properly covering the collapse of Fannie Mae, there is a slight problem. Gregory's wife is Beth Wilkinson, who also happens to be Fannie Mae's General Counsel.
Just like Andrea Mitchell (married to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan), all they do is protect their own interest (aka $$$) and continue on with the government LIES.
I hope all of these freaks of the CONservative party become "persona non grata" forever.
She resigned when the government took over on Sept. 20. On June 16, 2006, the New York Times reported her naivete on the way in: "Ms. Wilkinson, for example, knew nothing about the mortgage-backed securities at the core of Fannie Mae's business." But on her way out, her cluelessness no longer in doubt, nobody questioned how this woman was qualified.
In order to maximize their profits from sales of newspapers and of advertising, the corporate media is lying to their readers and viewers, trying to convince them that the election is much closer than it is.
David Gregory is a MSM Whore!
I felt like it asked biased questions about Obama:
If you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to provide Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants, would you be: Much more likely to vote for him, Somewhat more likely to vote for him, Somewhat less likely to vote for him, Much less likely to vote for him, It doesn't change my vote, Not sure
Other questions were if you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to give government health care coverage to illegal immigrants, supported the handgun ban in Washington DC (which was later overturned by the Supreme Court), supported the right to the procedure called partial birth abortion, would you be: Much more likely to vote for him, Somewhat more likely to vote for him, Somewhat less likely to vote for him, Much less likely to vote for him, It doesn't change my vote, Not sure.
No questions about McCain. Then it asked if I liked NASCAR, played golf, and how often I shopped at Wal-Mart, among other questions.
Note the following, as well: The VA poll Gregory picked is not only two weeks old, but if you go to Silver's site fivethirtyeight.com and look at the polls going back to the 20th of SEPTEMBER (scroll down to each state on the right hand side), the Mason-Dixon and ARG polls are the only two that have Obama trailing McCain. SEVEN other individual polls have Obama ahead, three by double digits.
Similarly, in NC, fivethirtyeight.com notes that there were SEVEN total polls by different organizations conducted in the first eight days of October. FIVE of those seven have Obama leading.
Gregory has clearly gone out of his way to make it appear like McCain still has the edge in these two Southern states. Not only are these polls old, but had he broadcast this when they were new, he would STILL have been cherrypicking to favor McCain. They would not even have been the average of all of the polls conducted. That's pretty bad!
Wonder if the word is going to get out about this type of distortion so that Obama surrogates prepare themselves with statistics before they make any appearance?
Boy, that October Surprise better be good! Election-theft is going to be tough with an Obama landslide. Props to the corporate media for creating a phony back-story out of whole cloth, just in case. Make that two stories: The race was tight; and then some "wing-nut" from nowhere, prob'ly a registered Democrat, not under McCain's control, pulled out a gun and . . .
"No one could have foreseen..."
It just kinda writes itself.
Pardon my tinfoil hat, but what, exactly, are we going to do if they pull another 2000, 2004, or 9/11? Anything? And by we I mean us.
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He makes Tweety look like a genius.