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Revolution In Iran
Joe Scarborough: Obama's Egypt Speech Forced Ayatollah's to Fix Iranian Election
MSNBC's token Republican Joe Scarborough appeared on a guest on Meet The Press this morning and essentially gave credit to Barack Obama for setting the stage for revolution in Iran with his recent speech in Cairo. More »
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Comment by quatrevingtquatre: And this sort of intellectual honesty is one of the reasons we like Joe Scarborough. What? 6 Responses | Other threads
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McCain on President Palin: 'I'd Have to See'
In politics, there are no permanent alliances. McCain-Palin? So 2008. On Meet the Press, David Gregory asked Senator John McCain if he'd like to see Sarah Palin run for president. McCain temporized. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ChillbearLatrigue: Fortunately for the Republican Party, President Obama is much more likely to spend us back to the Stone Age rather... 42 Responses | Other threads
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Don't Tweet on My Shoes, I'm Headed for Atlantis
Today's sweetest tweets: CNET's Caroline McCarthy got ready to don a Snuggie. Valleywag alumna Megan McCarthy (no relation) dreamed of Atlantis. David Gregory of Meet the Press succumbed to Twitter peer pressure. And more! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Arland Penchant: ummm...Pompeii actually exists? You can go and read the ancient graffitti in the brothel and everything. more » | Other threads
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In New Era, Barney Frank Still Shouting to be Heard
We were all so excited for the Obama presidency because suddenly all those lovable losers we've grown to love during the Bush years would be influential and important! Hah. More »
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By PareeneComment by hypocriteoath: Yeah!!!!! let's trust Frank on Econ issues! even though a year ago he said the housing market was strong... Obama... 3 Responses | Other threads
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David Gregory Caught In 'Nervous' Lie Scandal!
People across the political spectrum had mixed feelings about Tim Russert, the recently deceased former host of Meet The Press. But whether you thought he was the toughest interviewer in DC or a toadying cock-gobbler to power, you had to admit that he probably got his job based on a genuine zeal for reporting, rather than because he was some network exec's ideal of a telegenic newsman. Now that David Gregory has taken over the gig, we'll get to see the network-ideal-telegenic-gasbag type in action. Problem one: his insincere self-deprecation skills: More »
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Comment by scroll_lock: Wow. They've really zoomed into the attractiveness stratosphere with this Russert replacement. I see they're courting female viewers with some... 4 Responses | Other threads
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filling the chair
David Gregory Named New Host of Meet the Press
NBC has named David Gregory the official replacement host of their Sunday morning show Meet the Press, in which politicos and reporters of all sorts chat about Issues and then cry a little and then do some whippets and take a nap. More »
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vicious infighting
Moderate This, David Gregory
"NBC is holding back from anointing David Gregory as the new host of Meet the Press because 'they're furious about leaks.'" [NBC-hating Page Six] -
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How The David Gregory Leak Danced Prematurely Into The Press
Everyone's been talking about David Gregory moderating Meet the Press all week, even stretching the very definition of journalism to report on it. And yet the NBC News chief White House correspondent hasn't even taken the job yet, according to the Times, and all the leaks might even ruin his chances! But probably not, because it sounds like one of his competitors for the job spilled the beans: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Iceland Spar: I'm going to start a leak that Gwen Ifill has the job in the hope that it will come true... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Tall Clown Will Host TV News Anachronism
Extremely tall man David Gregory will be your next host of Meet the Press. He's still famous mostly for dancing and for arguing with Bush press secretaries, which proves that he's a serious journalist, and it also served the press well to look like it was totally standing up to Bush just as it served the administration well to look like innocent victims of the liberal media. That is how the world works. Who knows how he'll perform on that show, because frankly the format itself is outdated and useless. The late Tim Russert was no prize either, friends. But Gregory is just... kind of annoying. More » -
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David Gregory To Run Meet The Press?
The Huffington Post reported David Gregory will take over for Tim Russert as permanent moderator of Meet The Press after beating out finalists Andrea Mitchell, Gwen Ifill and Chuck Todd. NBC told Politico, "I don't know where they are getting this," and Gregory's agent would neither confirm nor deny to the Observer. Dark-horse candidate Katie Couric is reportedly not interested. Odd that NBC News would leak to HuffPo, given the network division's apparent long-running feud with publisher Arianna Huffington, but then there have been signs that the bad feelings have perhaps been dropped.
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By Ryan TateComment by Baroness: He's the perfect choice, a reliable repeater of conventional Beltway wisdom, with a knack for tongue-bathing Republicans and asking... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Why Was Katie Couric On A Dinner Date With NBC?
It's just a brief item, reporting that NBC chief Jeff Zucker was spotted with "old pal Katie Couric huddling over dinner at Elio's." But Page Six's sighting of the CBS Evening News anchor with her old Today boss will inevitably stoke further speculation about the possibility she might take over for Tim Russert at NBC's Meet The Press. The alleged dinner comes barely a week after the Times reported NBC executives were bandying Couric's name as a possible anchor for the Sunday-morning interview show. Gossip aside, let's move on to speculation: Wouldn't the gig just be an awful reprise of the CBS Evening News disaster? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by GirlyWhirl: Just look at that adorable Tim Russert!... how I miss him. I will be seriously disgusted if they place Katie Couric... 6 Responses | Other threads
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A Careful Evisceration Of Tim Russert
Lewis Lapham's forthcoming Harper's column on Tim Russert is not entirely unexpected, given the cranky literary liberal's public pronouncements on the late host of Meet The Press. But Lapham, sometimes slammed as insufferable bore, has spun a compelling essay out of his rough initial pronouncement that "1,000 people came to [Russert's] memorial service because essentially he was a shill for the government." Maybe Lapham's thorough disassembling is so tasty this time around because the reverence for Russert (not to mention his son Luke) was so completely over the top: two days and three nights of televised memorial, or some 96 hours of airtime, by Lapham's count. Lapham's column is called "Elegy For A Rubber Stamp," entertains the concession that Russert was probably a good father and friend and Catholic, and then swifty moves on to saying Russert had "the on-air persona of an attentive and accommodating headwaiter," that his "stock in trade was the deftly pulled punch" and that Russert was a "pet canary." Further excerpts after the jump. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Bulkington: This is coming late in this now idle discussion, but I'd be shocked to learn that Lapham had never written... more » | Other threads
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Pushy White House Reporter's Sad Future
Following the death of NBC's Tim Russert, White House correspondent David Gregory was considered to be on the shortlist to succeed him on Meet The Press. Gregory is known for aggressively questioning White House officials and at one point so upset Bush press secretary Tony Snow that Snow accused him of partisanship, a remark for which Snow later apologized. While such assertiveness no doubt provided some cathartic release to critics of the administration, particularly those outraged at the feeble White House press corps, it may not be enough to get Gregory that Meet The Press gig or any other anchor job. In fact, the Observer today paints a rather grim picture of Gregory's immediate future, asking if he's a "lame duck" at the network, destined end up like — gasp — fellow White House troublemaker Sam Donaldson: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Grandjester: Ann Curry has been in for Brian Williams this week, she get more comforatble with it every night, it just... more » | Other threads
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Attn Celebrity Interviewers: 'Meet the Press' Gig Still Open
After the election, Tom Brokaw will end his stint as host of Meet the Press (which is too bad, because as smug as the dude is, he's been good). Then no one—least of all NBC—knows what will happen. Howard Kurtz seems to think Ted Koppel might get the job, and Koppel has not ruled that out. But he is old, and he retired from regular TV news to do 50-part documentaries on China. If NBC plans on poaching someone so expensive from ABC, they should go after Diane Sawyer, who is bored with Good Morning America and pissed off at the network for sending Charlie Gibson to the evening news and keeping her in the morning ghetto. DC's elite will be able to get over their horror as the prospect of a lady in the Meet the Press chair by reminding themselves that she's a Republican hack who once dated Kissinger. And so the Sunday Morning Circle Jerk will continue. -
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Jumpstart Your Acting Career By Profiting Off The Death Of Tim Russert!
What took Hollywood so long? Tim Russert died on June 13th and they're only just now announcing plans to make a movie about his life? On July 2nd? Come on, people, that's 19 days. Used to be a movie like that would get announced under a week after the tragedy. Summer must be making everyone lazy. More » -
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New 'Meet The Press' Hurts America Less
Everyone is complaining that Sunday's Tom Brokaw-hosted Meet the Press was too boring. ("A little too much comity!" -Alessandra Stanley. "The Most Boring Meet the Press Ever!" -Jossip.) Is that bad? We didn't watch it, but we're still going to say "no." Look, Tim Russert, may he rest in peace, was a fantastic broadcaster, and yes, he made the show entertaining as hell, but if Tom Brokaw is ditching Tim's trademark "once you said this, now you say this, EXPLAIN YOURSELF" method, more power to him and to NBC. We realize it's not what the Sunday shows are "about," but let's not bitch about how "boring" a quiet, informed political debate is while we're all hand-wringing about how toxic and broken the campaign process has become. Deal? After the jump, a clip of Brokaw interviewing NBC analyst Chuck Todd. Tom's gentle admonishment of Chuck was apparently the most interesting part of the broadcast. More »
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By PareeneComment by jasonelias: God, what happened to the Meet the Press line, the Meet the Press Scramble Board, no one doing the robot?... more » | Other threads
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Brokaw to Host Meet the Press Through November Election
In a lucky move for NBC and fans of Meet the Press, veteran newsman Tom Brokaw is stepping up to replace Tim Russert as the show's moderator—at least through the election—starting next Sunday. "The news was announced on the program today, a little over a week after the death of Tim Russert. A lot has been said in recent days about what Meet the Press means to NBC News and to the nation,' said NBC News President Steve Capus in a press release. 'To have someone of Tom's stature step up and dedicate himself to ensuring its ongoing success is not only a testament to his loyalty to Tim, but his enduring commitment to NBC News and our viewers.'" More »
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Comment by cookieman: @Kitten_with_Whip: The one thing I've noticed is that even before he left Nightly News, he was starting to slur. Not... more » | Other threads
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Who Will Replace Russert On Meet The Press?
Tim Russert's wake is not until Tuesday, but there's already speculation about who will replace the NBC News stalwart as host of Meet The Press. Russert also served as NBC News' DC bureau chief and as a political correspondent on Today, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC, but no one believes a lone replacement will be able to match that hectic schedule. For the Meet The Press gig, the Times came up with the following shortlist, which includes the sure-to-be-controversial option of CBS Evening News host Katie Couric: More » -
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This Morning's Meet the Press
The moderator's chair was empty as Tom Brokaw and Meet the Press vets James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mike Barnacle, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gwen Ifil, Maria Shriver and the show's executive producer Betsy Fischer gathered to celebrate the life of their old friend. Clip after the jump. More »
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Comment by na: I got a kick out of seeing Carville & Matalin hold hands during the program. And to even out... more » | Other threads
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Aspiring Peter Braunsteins and other glossy magazine editrix fetishists may want to check out the shiny new escalators at the Hearst Building. If you peek through the glass at the right time, you might be able to see some Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire ladies' undercarriages. [NYM]
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ThemTube: Meet The 'Blogsphere'
While the rest of us are drinking and snoozing, the television is trying to transmit important information into our homes. Today, our special correspondent for T.V. punditry catches us up on the week in chat shows. Because we totally wouldn't watch that shit if you paid us. Get your tinfoil hats on! More » -
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Live-Blogging Maureen Dowd on 'Meet The Press'
Times columnist and spinster Maureen Dowd showed up on NBC's Meet the Press this morning, the TV show where Very Important Things happen each week. Is she as sassily impish on TV as she is in newsprint? More »
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By ChoireComment by Sweet Polly Purebred: MoDo - the high school librarian called ... she wants her outfit back ... more » | Other threads
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