Pundit On Why People Don't Like David Gregory

Michelle Malkin

Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin writes in The NY Post that she  could have saved the honchos at NBC News a lot of time and trouble. The first answer is: David Gregory is a phony. The second answer is: He’s a jerk.

Gregory’s predecessor, Tim Russert, was highly respected on both sides of the political aisle. The former chief of staff for iconoclastic Sen. Pat Moynihan turned “Meet the Press” into mandatory viewing for any American serious about politics and policy.

Yes, Russert was liberal. But he never pretended to be anything he wasn’t. He did his homework. He didn’t pull punches. He helped enlighten the nation about our entitlement crisis. He conducted interviews, not one-sided partisan lectures.

Russert was also a decent man, as so many warm eulogies across the ideological divide attested.

Gregory is the anti-Russert. His boorish behavior around DC is legendary, from his juvenile tantrums with the Bush press staff to his drunken radio appearances to his diva snit fits with innocent bystanders while filming news segments.

Since Gregory doesn’t have the intellectual heft to carry in-depth interview segments the way Russert did, Malkin says “Meet the Press” producers have reduced substantive exchanges to a few minutes and larded the rest of the show with fluff and stunts.

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