On Daily Kos: David Gregory provides cover for Christie's staff

[RandySF]

I have been watching Meet the Press with David Gregory, and am troubled by something Gregory asserted in his interview with Fort Lee, NJ mayor Mark Sokolich. He asked the mayor to comment on the fact that Governor Christie's people were, in fact, trying to find out what really happened with the GW Bridge fiasco, by introducing an email that he claimed was written by Bill Baroni to Regina Egea and quoted, "I will get to the bottom of this abusive decision which violated everything this agency stands for." The graphics on the screen showed a copy of the "To" and "From" portion of the email, which was as he asserted. But he then simply put the disembodied quote up on the screen, without showing the actual e-mail.

I am not a journalist but I have been following this story avidly. I would think anyone who claims to be a real journalist as Gregory does, and who is interviewing someone directly connected to the story, would be well-enough versed in the background material to know that the particular email Gregory was referring to was originally sent to Baroni, as well as others overseeing the Port Authority, by Executive Director of the PA Pat Foy, and that Baroni was simply forwarding the email to Egea for her information.

To Mayor Sokolich's credit, he immediately corrected Gregory and went on with his answer. Gregory said nothing and continued his show. My reaction was "WTF?" Maybe he was truly confused, in which case he is as bad a journalist as we think, or he was deliberately misleading his viewers, in which case he is an even worse journalist than we thought. In any event, he has sunk to Fox News lows in his desire to manipulate the facts.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/12/1269079/-David-Gregory-Misdirection-or-Outright-Lie

[questionseverything]

1. i saw that too

k&r

would be good if this nugget could gain enough traction to force gregory to correct/retract

[Cha]

2. Thank goodness Mayor Sokolich corrected him.

David Gregory corporate propaganda dumba$$ strikes again. Christie's people weren't trying to find out what happened.. they caused it. They were trying to blame it on the Mayor. Just like Gregory is trying to cover for the Christie Bullies.

[catbyte]

3. NBC should be ashamed & Gregory needs to go. If not, they should just rename the show

"Meet the Republican Shill" and be done with it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. That email was actually written by Patrick Foye, who was not on Christie's staff

Baroni simply forwarded it to Egea.

[factsarenotfair]

5. I saw that!!!!

OMG. After I saw Mayor Sokolich's response, I couldn't help but picturing him in a higher office.

[SunSeeker]

11. Yup, Governor Sokolich. nt

[Jim__]

6. Maybe NBC will provide Gregory with an assistant to help him with difficult tasks - like reading.

[Ilsa]

8. Maybe an assistant from Rachel's office! nt

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Would Rachel let someone get DEMOTED? nt

[benld74]

7. Gregory claiming to be a journalist lays next to Christie claiming to be a leader

[SunSeeker]

9. Wow. They forwarded that email to alert Christie to call Cuomo to tell Foye to back off.

It had nothing to do with them wanting to "investigate" Bridgegate. Gregory really exposed himself. He should apologize and resign.

Even Christie didn't try to come up with that outrageously false defense. Guess they have Gregory to do it for them.

[IDemo]

10. Gregory looked horrified when the story first broke

I think he was looking forward to checking out Christie's dance moves on the campaign trail.

[underpants]

12. Gregory sucks

RW "news" play book 1A : get your story out early and repeat.

BTW - Gregory was attacked on Twitter and FB by Michelle Malkin and her minions for a tweet of his earlier in the week. Looks like the bullying worked .... Or the MSM had to keep Christie alive for some drama against Hillary

[flamingdem]

15. This may indicate that the Repukes have no other

contenda for 2016

[underpants]

16. It's Hillary's if she wants it

The only thing in her way is Obama selling her his database.

Christie is everything the right built themselves to be - a d!<k. Tough on crime tight on money (supposedly) but they created their own drama with the tea baggers and even Fox wasn't sure how to spin Bridge-ghazi for a couple of days. They probably had Luntz focus group this nonstop until they settled on their flat story.

[UtahLib]

13. Gregory is a real piece of work.

How much longer will he be allowed to disgrace and blacken the concept of journalism. He should be catapulted to the Fox sludge pool where his talents can really shine.

[arthritisR_US]

19. His selective/creative editing should be addressed to

the higher ups at MSNBC, a big writing/email campaign should be done to let them know enough!

[spanone]

17. anybody and many can 'claim' to be a journalist. the proof is in the pudding.

[arthritisR_US]

18. Malaise brought up the fact that the entire show

was a cover up, circle the wagons and start of the "protect Christie" wing.

[ProSense]

20. Tool. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

21. David Gregory is not a bad journalist.

That would require him to be a journalist in the first place, which he is not.

[Suburban Warrior]

22. From the transcript

DAVID GREGORY:

This weekend, talk about a lot of stuff out there, this weekend more e-mails have come to light. And I want to show one in just a second here that's a key one. It is from a Port Authority official, a Christie appointee, to one of Governor Christie's top advisor's for all of the authorities, Port Authority, other authorities, within the state. And it's about the lane closures.

And he is saying, "I will get to the bottom of this abusive decision, which violates everything this agency stands for." This is a Port Authority official who is making it very clear that he thinks this was an abusive decision. And that conclusion, as the lanes are reopened back in September of last year, is getting to top Christie advisor's. So my question to you: Do you think he knew then that he knew more than he was saying just a couple of days ago that he knew?

The email was from Patrick Foy who is NOT a Christie appointee, as David Gregory asserts. The email was forwarded by Baroni who was Christie appointee.

[pacalo]

23. Gregory should be fired for that. Inexcusable.

[nilesobek]

24. There will be no consequences for Gregory.

That's why I quit watching the Sunday talk shows. Orwellian smoke and mirrors.