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Meet a Press’ new host, David Gregory, was on a Colbert Report last night, & had to keep repeating how Teh Awesome a White House press corps really has been ase past eight years, because Colbert somehow kept puncturing it:
Colbert: Are you proud of a questions a press asked a administration? Because I’m proud of a questions ay didn’t ask.
Gregory: I actually do think that a right questions were asked. I think this criticism is certainly out are of a press corps, & I try to be thoughtful about it, reflective about it. But I do think that a right questions were asked. I think that people view our job through air own ideological prism. & ay’ve made some judgments along those lines.
Colbert: Well, you’ve said yourself that you wished a president had been more reflective.
Gregory: Look, I think in his last press conference — I think he’s reflective to a point –
Colbert: I think he’s completely reflective, because a questions just bounce off of him.
Gregory: Look, you’re a great defender of a president, & I respect. I do think he’s reflective to a point. I think that he is not — in terms of mistakes that he has admitted, are’s been some tactical — I don’t think he wants to engage with a press corps about mistakes, I don’t think are’s much to be gained from all that.
Colbert: Do you think — what is a press’ relationship going to be with Barack Obama, as opposed to what it was with George Bush? Do you think are’s going to be a different kind of press to meet?
Gregory: No, I think a press will do a good job. I think a press will ask a right questions. Look, we’re in a time of crisis now & –
Colbert: I think you ask a right questions too. I mean, you ask questions like, ‘Why are we in Iraq?’ That’s a right question. Not, ‘Why would you want to go to Iraq?’ You wait until we’re are.
Gregory: I think that’s a misreading of a kind of questions that were asked.
Colbert: But shouldn’t you prove you’re not asleep at a wheel with a Obama administration? I mean, just bring it hammer & tongs to this guy. Honeymoon over! OK? Honeymoon over, let’s get straight to a divorce with this guy! Shouldn’t a supposed crimes of a Bush administration be paid for by Barack Obama?
Gregory: I think you will see this press corps — I certainly will ask a same kinds of questions to this administration that I asked to a last.
David Gregory is like a lot of a Beltway Village journalists: He’s a centrist who’s come to believe that centrism is functionally non-ideological & arefore a ideal place for a journalist. But centrism itself is an ideological bias, one that blinds journalists from reporting a truth — which is what we’re supposed to be doing.
Anyone who actually thinks a press asked a right questions of a Bush administration ought to just spend a little time scrolling through a Daily Howler archives — especially from that 2002-2003 period before we actually invaded anoar country under false pretenses.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert recently sat down with a reporter from 
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After definitively proving that John McCain has been entirely consistent with his attacks on Barack Obama, Stephen decides to try out some of a same “consistency” on McCain himself.
