I watch “Meet the Press” every Sunday because, as you may have heard by now, I’m a bitter, elderly, shut-in loser. Instead of brunch with friends, I choose to spend the morning with David Gregory.
Don’t ask me why. He never fails to make me throw things at my television screen (my dogs don’t even look up anymore — they know that Mama starts going crazy as soon as the “Meet the Press” theme music comes on). And no matter what I hit him with — Sunday paper, remote control, last night’s turkey meatballs — Gregory just keeps right on babbling about the harsh partisan rhetoric on both sides of every political debate. With his trademark “I’m inside-the-Beltway-and-you’re-not” approach, he never asks the follow-up question that would separate a talking point from a fact. He thinks he’s just treating both sides the same way.
What Karl Rove’s dancing partner doesn’t get (or won’t admit) is that both sides don’t treat him the same way. His Republican guests play him like a rube at a carny. They lie, they mislead and they scapegoat — and Gregory lets them get away with all of it in the name of “journalistic fairness.” Just once it would be nice to have a Democrat look him in the eye and say, “Name one instance where we do what Michele Bachmann does. Or Sarah Palin. Or Rush Limbaugh. Name one.”
Cue the crickets.
And in the words of another great journalist, Wolf Blitzer, “We’ll have to leave it there.” Before the liberal gets a chance to accidentally slip in a fact …
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