"Meet The Press" Death Spiral: Todd To Replace Gregory?

Is NBC really going to replace Dancin' Dave Gregory with Chuck "Not My Job" Todd as Republican talking point catapulter host of "Meet the Press" (a.k.a., "Press the Meat" or "The John McCain/ Lindsey Graham Show")?  What's that definition of "insanity" again?

If so, here's a snippet of what we can expect in the future from the incisive, un-biased, well-informed Chuck (from this past Sunday's "Press the Meat"):

You know. Your original question is what did we learn about the [Obama] doctrine. And I think that I've been trying to figure out this man's doctrine now for six years. He doesn't have one.

Karoli over at Crooks and Liars patiently explains to Chuck what he hasn't bothered "to figure out" for six years because he was too busy regurgitating polling information as a substitute for analysis, and studiously avoiding informing the public (because that's not a journalist's job, dammit!).  With Chuck at the "Press the Meat" helm, the ratings plunge will continue, as will this format's already dubious credibility.

Let's see:  Chuck Todd or Rachel Maddow?  Or Chris Hayes?  Wow, the suits at NBC seem to be just as clueless as ol' Chuck himself.

UPDATE:  Fox "News'" anchor Chris Wallace throws floundering Dancin' Dave, um,  an anchor.

More Media Malpractice - Sunday Shows Edition

More today on the CBS/ 60 Minutes/ Lara Logan clusterf**k on Benghazi!  Benghazi!!  BENGHAZI!!!  We especially like this summation of why CBS, the great Ed Murrow's flagship, has sunk to its newest low:

CBS is running its own little wingnut grift mill to separate the rubes from their money. Unfortunately the company seems to have forgotten that people still turn to its flagship news program for actual news. This is what happens when you put a bunch of Faux News idiots in charge and they get outside the right-wing media bubble into what the rest of us refer to as “reality.”
Read more at http://wonkette.com/534010/return-of-the-revenge-of-the-bride-of-the-son-of-benghazi-the-sequel-part-eleventy#CKIGOY2zkyReVZh8.99

CBS is running its own little wingnut grift mill to separate the rubes from their money. Unfortunately the company seems to have forgotten that people still turn to its flagship news program for actual news. This is what happens when you put a bunch of Faux News idiots in charge and they get outside the right-wing media bubble into what the rest of us refer to as “reality.”
Read more at http://wonkette.com/534010/return-of-the-revenge-of-the-bride-of-the-son-of-benghazi-the-sequel-part-eleventy#CKIGOY2zkyReVZh8.99

...CBS is running its own little wingnut grift mill [Threshold Editions] to separate the rubes from their money.  Unfortunately the company seems to have forgotten that people still turn to its flagship news program [60 Minutes] for actual news.  This is what happens when you put a bunch of Faux News idiots in charge...

Didn't know ex-Faux News people were in charge at CBS?  We forgot, too.  But it helps explain things at bit better, and why the "nopology" from Lara "Lara Croft" Logan last night was what it was (which, btw, hasn't been received too kindly by media critics).

Over at Press the Meat, Dancin' Dave Gregory was having multiple orgasms tongue-bathing interviewing Gov. Chris "Krispycreme" Christie (R-Savior) and crapping on weak-kneed Defeatocrat Secretary of State Kerry.  The pundit panel over at This Week with George Steponaflagpinopoulos was also busy further inflating (hee-hee) the Governor's persona.  Virtually Speaking summarizes the idiocy:

So Chris Christie is a magical reincarnation of TR, because John Kerry did not make a deal with Iran, it proves he is too trusting, Obama use of Seal Teams, drones, bombs in Libya and threats to strike Syria, show he is reluctant to exercise military power, and if, in the next few weeks, Republicans do not suddenly change their minds and love Obamacare and start to work with the President for the first time, it will wreck the President's credibility and his entire second term. And that's the most ridiculous thing that happened this Sunday.

That's your "liberal media" right there, America.  Sic transit gloria, y'all.

Quotes of the Day - "Liberal" Media Edition

Karl "Turdblossom" Rove dancing partner and host of Press the Meat Dancin' David Gregory gives away the game on The Today Show:

"The President does not particularly like the Washington press corps, and I think that feeling is mutual in a lot of respects."

By contrast, here's Horseface's Gregory's reaction to booking "The Tangerine Man"  (pant=pant "exclusively" !!!) on today's Press the Meat:

"Looking forward to it."  Or, as Rising Hegemon put it, "SLUUUUUUUURRRRRPPPPP!"

Wanker of the Year - 2012

Press the Meat's Dancin' David Gregory. He put it over the top with this exchange with President Obama on today's show:

"DAVID GREGORY: You said that Republicans have a hard time saying yes. Particularly to you.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Yeah.

DAVID GREGORY: What is it about you, Mr. President, that you think is so hard to say yes to?" (our emphasis)

Not "what is it about them..." of course (see Klein, Ezra, below). It's asswhistling wankers like Gregory that break the system and then complain that it's broken.

BONUS: Additional support for this award comes from Mr. Pierce.

(Photo: That's Dancin' David Gregory doing the Beltway cha-cha with Turdblossom Rove.)

Monday Reading

As a service to our readers on this Memorial Day, we have culled through thousands of news and opinion articles to find the pithiest political punditry.

-- Michael Hirsh writes about a party that's lost it's way, and one particular dimbulb who loves playing a role more than anything else.

-- Do the powerful here and and around the world care about joblessness? Or are they determined to convince themselves that nothing can be done, and it's okay? Paul Krugman answers.

-- If you're looking for a perfect example of the Rethuglican-wired media inside the Beltway, look no further than yesterday's "Press the Meat" with Dancin' David Gregory (a.k.a., the "establishmentarian testicle cozy" -- check out this amplifying piece by Driftglass).

Keep saying to yourselves, "All is not lost, all is not lost..."

Noted

Now that David "Dancin' Dave" Gregory will be hosting Meet the Press, his dance card should be filling up rapidly.

(photo: Dancin' Dave, left, cutting the rug with "Turdblossom" Rove at last year's White House Correspondents' Dinner)

David Gregory, Turdblossom's BFF

Why is it that whenever we see NBC/MSNBC's David Gregory, we picture him running around the track at Pimlico and then chowing down to some oats? Hmmm. Anyway, on Friday, Seabiscuit -er, Gregory - tried his best to link Obama and Democrats to the John Edwards affair. Media Matters has the evidence.

That's one more reason why every time we see him on teevee, Gregory is someone we "struggle to overcome."

(Photo: AFP/Getty Images - David "Giddyup" Gregory, at left, gettin' down with his buddy DJ Karl "Turdlossom" Rove)