David Gregory’s right-wing nosedive: Hillary Clinton should meet with Sarah Palin?
David Gregory spouts right wing talking points weekly on "Meet the Press"
It was bad enough when he was sucking up to George W. Bush during the run-up to the Iraq invasion, but now “Stretch,” as Dubya famously dubbed NBC’s David Gregory, has popped the top completely off the sippy cup, and is sucking down right wing Kool-Aid faster than you can say Sarah Palin. First, he — with a straight face — asked the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, the person who sits fourth in line to the presidency of the United States, and who runs America’s foreign policy, and to whom he was speaking from a current summit in Asia, the following question (and keep in mind, he is serious about this):
GREGORY: You may not have heard, you, you, you may not have heard, but Sarah Palin has a new book out, and in it she writes this: “Should Secretary Clinton and I ever sit down over a cup of coffee, I know that we would fundamentally disagree on many issues, but my hat is off to her hard work on the 2008 campaign trail.” Is this somebody you’d like to sit and have coffee with, and do you plan to read the book?
Now, I want you to ruminate for a moment on that question. David Gregory, who purports to be a serious journalist, and to whom NBC News has entrusted the chair once occupied by Marvin Kalb, Roger Mudd, Garrick Utley, and Tim Russert — he is asking the secretary of state whether she’d like to, in the downtime between meeting with heads of state and fellow foreign ministers — whether she’d like to have coffee with an unemployed Facebook blogger with whom only the media, and the politically and intellectually challenged, remain fascinated. Seriously. Secretary Clinton, to her credit, gave the only appropriate response: laughter. And she managed to be gracious, while simultaneously reminding David about the marked difference between her and Sarah’s stations:
SEC’Y CLINTON: Well, I absolutely would look forward to having coffee. I’ve never met her. And I think it would be, you know, very interesting to sit down and talk with her. And I’ve got more than I could say grace over to read, but obviously in the next week there’s going to be a lot of attention paid to her book. : But, you know, I’m ready to have a cup of coffee. Maybe I can make a case on some of the issues that we disagree on.
GREGORY: So maybe there’s a summit meeting here. What do you think her brand of conservatism–how, how does that impact the Republican party?
SEC’Y CLINTON: I truly am out of commenting on, on politics. That is something that is not appropriate for the secretary of state. But I am an active observer and, you know, obviously these are questions that you and others are going to be asking. And I look forward to hearing what people answer.
GREGORY: It was worth a shot. Secretary Clinton, thank you very much.
SEC’Y CLINTON: Thanks, David. And what a moron you are.
Okay, I added the moron part. But she would have totally been justified had she said that. I mean, in David’s imagination, what would Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton talk about? Their hair??? Would he have asked Warren Christopher to sit down with Dan Quayle to compare notes in 1993? Or perhaps the late Jack Kemp deserved an audience with Madeleine Albright??? Sargent Shriver probably would have given Henry Kissenger a fine conversation, and at least it would have been a conversation of equals, but what would have been the point? Howard Baker meets Walter Mondale and together they find out where the beef is? We could go on and on, and the question still wouldn’t make sense… (sigh) … Sadly, in the current media climate, with its inexplicable obsession with Ms. Palin, I can see Tim Russert asking the same dumb question, but it doesn’t make the question any less stupid. Watch, and cringe, if you dare:
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Meanwhile, over on the relevant Sunday show, David Brooks calls it like he sees it:
Next up: David talks education, and can’t stop barking about “unions…”
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