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monmouth

(21,078 posts)
Sun May 6, 2012, 09:20 AM May 2012

So what's the first thing David Gregory asks Axe this morning?

How come there were 14,000 instead of 18,000 at the Ohio rally yesterday (with camera pointing to empty seats). Is the President losing his support. Of course Axelrod told him he should have followed the campaign to Virginia where they were packed to the rafters with many unable to get in. Meet The Press is unwatchable. I really tried so I could hear first-hand, could not do it. Axelrod is the best to respond to these inane questions but it goes to show how the right has absolutely nothing to talk about except empty seats.

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So what's the first thing David Gregory asks Axe this morning? (Original Post) monmouth May 2012 OP
Gregory is a shill. JoePhilly May 2012 #1
Rove must have given him that question rurallib May 2012 #13
I'm sure he's going to ask somebody from the Romney camp a similar question Proud Liberal Dem May 2012 #2
Wow what an inane thing to focus on. dkf May 2012 #3
Hey David, Just a couple empty seats hear...... kartski May 2012 #4
what an incredibly STOOPID question! CTyankee May 2012 #5
Gee Proud Liberal Dem May 2012 #6
If they are going to play that numbers game, they need to count the attendees at Mittens events liberal N proud May 2012 #7
Check this out...... a kennedy May 2012 #8
Well, that's it, might as well call off the election and inaugurate Romney today. tularetom May 2012 #9
This Week is Bash Fest otohara May 2012 #10
Gregory is a piece of shit. He has never interviewed a Republican the way he did Biden. Why hasn't Pisces May 2012 #11
I was out in the first two minutes high density May 2012 #24
Why do you keep watching? DAngelo136 May 2012 #12
Show Gregory the number of tvs not turned to MTP LiberalFighter May 2012 #14
David Gregory wants obama to lose. center rising May 2012 #15
Frankly, this is because they have so little to run on Cosmocat May 2012 #16
If you watch the whole interview it seems pretty clear that Biden did a great job despite mucifer May 2012 #17
"unwatchable" us the word, all right. Sarcasticus May 2012 #18
Fox News and Drudge set the narrative Thrill May 2012 #19
No one is attending Romney events so the Fibber Mongers lie about President President Obama events. CenaW May 2012 #20
Just because Axelrod has to be on these shows doesn't mean we mulsh May 2012 #21
Hmmm, no, not really...n/t monmouth May 2012 #22
I was at the rally & I believe the reason there were empty seats is A Brand New World May 2012 #23

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
2. I'm sure he's going to ask somebody from the Romney camp a similar question
Sun May 6, 2012, 09:49 AM
May 2012

any........minute......now........

kartski

(14 posts)
4. Hey David, Just a couple empty seats hear......
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:13 AM
May 2012

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CTyankee

(63,769 posts)
5. what an incredibly STOOPID question!
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:13 AM
May 2012

This bozo is now on my last nerve...my remote's mute button will henceforth dispatch his next appearance on msnbc...

liberal N proud

(60,300 posts)
7. If they are going to play that numbers game, they need to count the attendees at Mittens events
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:21 AM
May 2012

None of them have been overly stellar.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
9. Well, that's it, might as well call off the election and inaugurate Romney today.
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:35 AM
May 2012

Jesus effing christ, is that what passes for news on meet the douchebag?

That show was well on its way down the crapper before dances with Rove took over but anymore he really has turned it into a joke.

Words fail me.

 

otohara

(24,135 posts)
10. This Week is Bash Fest
Sun May 6, 2012, 10:38 AM
May 2012

George Will is exceptionally nasty this AM and made mention of the "empty seats"

Pisces

(5,592 posts)
11. Gregory is a piece of shit. He has never interviewed a Republican the way he did Biden. Why hasn't
Sun May 6, 2012, 11:21 AM
May 2012

Romney appeared on his show?

high density

(13,397 posts)
24. I was out in the first two minutes
Sun May 6, 2012, 05:40 PM
May 2012

I have never seen him be confrontational to Republicans in the way he is to Democrats.

DAngelo136

(264 posts)
12. Why do you keep watching?
Sun May 6, 2012, 11:25 AM
May 2012

Once upon a time "Meet The Press" was a respected show which seasoned journalists with pertinent questions held policy makers accountable to the public. Between 1947 until 1991, MTP was a show worth watching.

In the interim, entertainment replaced journalism and the quality of news shows suffered as a result. Today's journalists are more concerned with "access" rather than "facts" or "accountability". That was brought home to me when Wolf Blitzer brought Mila Kunis to the White House Correspondents Dinner. While this is not a slap against Ms.Kunis, who is rather attractive, I could not imagine Edward R. Murrow bringing a celebrity( let's say Betty Grable) to a function primarily for reporters.

Today's reporters or shall I say, newsreaders, are more enamored with celebrity than with real journalism, in my humble opinion. Wolf Blitzer to me is interchangeable with Mary Hart or John Tesh for that matter. And as for Fox News, not only is it editorial opinion dressed up as news, it's formulaic as all hell. When Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are a generation's version of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley, you know that you have a problem; a humungous problem with credibility.

"For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must be faced if we are to survive. I mean the word survive literally. If there were to be a competition in indifference, or perhaps in insulation from reality, then Nero and his fiddle, Chamberlain and his umbrella, could not find a place on an early afternoon sustaining show. If Hollywood were to run out of Indians, the program schedules would be mangled beyond all recognition. Then some courageous soul with a small budget might be able to do a documentary telling what, in fact, we have done--and are still doing--to the Indians in this country. But that would be unpleasant. And we must at all costs shield the sensitive citizens from anything that is unpleasant."
-Edward R. Murrow (RTDNA Convention Speech, 1958)

Those words were spoken by Murrow over 50 years ago, how prescient they seem today. Indeed, while the networks are complicit in the demise of journalism, then so are we, the viewing public. Without our co-operation, they cannot continue, they cannot exist. So in that sense, we have the power to stop this: Just. Stop. Watching.

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
16. Frankly, this is because they have so little to run on
Sun May 6, 2012, 01:38 PM
May 2012

There is such a weak case for the country not to reup President Obama.

I watched because someone asked late last week if the Sunday shows would highlight how horrible of a mistake Romney made with his over the top remarks about the Chinese dissident.

I said fat chance, that if it was a democrat, it would end his or her campaign, but since it was an R they would just ignor it.

The only mention of it during MTP was Gregory doing this pathetic, ham handed, "how did things go so wrong" question to VP Biden doing the obligatory put the D on the defense for a republican being a clown question. Nothing the whole hour about Mitten's end of it.

I don't tend to watch because Gregory IS a republican whore.

But, the hour was instructive as to just how little the Rs have to run on against president Obama. End of the day, it boils down to beating him up because the economy is improving too slowly.

Really?

That is it?

I think we have to hold our breathe, though.

Romney and the Rs will do what the did this week with the dissident a couple of times a week for the next 6 months. He will be wrong and the media won't hold him to account for it, but there is always a chance that SOMETHING will get some traction for them along the way - right or wrong.

mucifer

(23,373 posts)
17. If you watch the whole interview it seems pretty clear that Biden did a great job despite
Sun May 6, 2012, 01:39 PM
May 2012

gregory's questions. I thought our VP really shined talking about foreign policy, the election, the economy and lesbian and gay rights.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/

CenaW

(38 posts)
20. No one is attending Romney events so the Fibber Mongers lie about President President Obama events.
Sun May 6, 2012, 02:31 PM
May 2012

Current hot talking point.
Tell whoppers about President Obama events.. . they can't show any photos of Romney events, no one is ever there.

A Romney campaign event is like Gertrude Stein's remark about Oakland.
". . .There is no there there."

mulsh

(2,959 posts)
21. Just because Axelrod has to be on these shows doesn't mean we
Sun May 6, 2012, 03:47 PM
May 2012

have to watch them. Seriously, none of these Sunday morning political shows are anything as informative as poorly made infomercials. don't you have better things to do? I know I sure do.

A Brand New World

(1,119 posts)
23. I was at the rally & I believe the reason there were empty seats is
Sun May 6, 2012, 05:00 PM
May 2012

because all week the news outlets & Ohio State warned people to expect crowds. Ohio State had 2 other major events occurring at the same time. The final State Science Fair was occurring in another building & a marathon had streets in the vicinity closed. 14,000 is still a good crowd. I got to see the motorcade leave because the parking lot where we parked was closed by the Secret Service until the motorcade left. We saw Mrs. Obama waving to us as they went by. Great Day!

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