NBCNEWS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER CALLS SHOW....

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NBCNEWS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER CALLS SHOW WHILE 'DRUNK'?

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NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, who apologized last week for calling White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan a "jerk," called into MSNBC's IMUS Thursday morning -- apparently drunk!

AUDIO SNIP LINK

Gregory is traveling with the president in India.

IMUS: Let's go to the White House correspondent David Gregory.

DAVID GREGORY: I'm OK.

IMUS: You can calls us later if you want.

GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]

IMUS: Are you drunk?

GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter]

IMUS: Are you all right David?

GREGORY: India is a wonderful language and i've been learning, where's my little sheet here. I've been learning some new phrases to come home. But any way, that being one of them and i just think it's nice.

IMUS: It is.

GREGORY: Thank you.

IMUS: Having a lot of fun there. What's wrong with you?

GREGORY: I just think it's funny. [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]

CHARLES: He's drunk.

IMUS: He is drunk!

CHARLES: Oh god.

IMUS: Why don't you compose yourself and get back to us. You want to?

GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]

IMUS: What are you in some harrem?

IMUS: What? David?

GREGORY: No, i'm fine.

IMUS: We need a camera.

Oh my lord.

IMUS: Somebody's got --

GREGORY: i was -- remember that movie "Arthur" with Dudley Moore where he just thinks funny things and that's what was going on. If i could find this sheet, actually i just found it. Anyway.

IMUS: You have any news? [Laughter]

IMUS: we got to go, we'll get back to you.

GREGORY: I'm sorry.

IMUS: That's all right.

IMUS: Well, call us back will you?

GREGORY: Anyway. There are serious things going on here which i know you're very interested in.

IMUS: We don't have any time for them now. Quickly.

GREGORY: Big deal between India and the United States. The upshot is we're going to provide nuclear know-how and fuel to india which they need for their economy to grow. But since they never signed the nonproliferation treaty it's a real turn around and critics worry that it sends the wrong message to other parts of the world.

IMUS: Ok.

GREGORY: I would add, i would add that this is how you say thank you.

IMUS: What is it again?

[Speaking foreign language]

IMUS: Well that's great. But we have to go. It's always nice to hear from you.

GREGORY: I'll call you after dinner.

IMUS: NBC Chief White House Correspondant from New Delhi, India. Clearly drunk.



END

[Shadow]

The audio link has been pulled.

rapidshare.de/files/14559311/imus.mp3.html

I uploaded this a little while ago though.

[beatlies]

David Gregory came under fire from Republicans and the right wing U.S. media attack machine for his seemingly brave and tenacious questioning at "press meeting" of Bush administration spokesrobots about the Cheney shooting incident. Perhaps he has been "set up" as a revenge, warning, or discrediting smear. The timing of this is strange and suspicious.

[beatlies]

From the right wing pro-Bush/Cheney website www.newsmax.com . This kind of anti-Gregory propaganda and the forced "apologies" of Gregory himself are evidence of the intense pressure and attacks he came under for just attempting to do what journalists are supposed to do in a supposed democracy.

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NBC White House correspondent David Gregory ate a little crow Sunday on "Meet The Press," apologizing for his arrogant behavior during White House press briefings dealing with the shooting of a hunting companion by Vice President Dick Cheney.

Reacting to the storm of criticism leveled by the public at the Washington press corps for complaining that they were not told immediately about the incident, leaving the job of reporting it to a small-town Texas newspaper, Gregory apologized for his boorish behavior.

"I think I made a mistake," he told host Tim Russert. "I think it was inappropriate for me to lose my cool with the press secretary representing the vice president. I don’t think it was professional of me. I was frustrated, I said what I said, but I think that you should never speak that way, as my wife reminded me, number one. And number two, I think it created a diversion from some of the serious questions in the story, so I regret that. I was wrong, and I apologize."

But Gregory quickly reverted to complaining that another guest, Mary Matalin, "and others in the White House have been eager to stoke this as a false debate between the vice president and the White House press corps, attempting to cast this as the White House press corps is a ping-pong in the culture wars.”

Then, in a comment that once again revealed how remote the Washington media has become from the American people, he made the astounding comment that "No matter how you feel about the White House press corps – and we’re worthy of criticism, and we can take our lumps – this is about how the vice president chooses to communicate to the American people. We are a proxy for the American people.
"Whether you have faith in us or not, and we do make mistakes, we are still a proxy. This is about how the vice president chooses to communicate to the public. My view is not that I should have been informed or others should have been informed. It’s not about that. It’s a question of 'Does the vice president have a responsibility to the American people to inform them of his public and private activities?'"

[lili]

If that was a set up, I am very disillusioned. I was under the impression that imus was one of US. Not one of THEM

[Shadow]

Imus is of the mainstream news media is he not?

I was unaware that Gregory had raised any serious
questions in regard to the "accident" so I find the
timing of this curious as well.