So over the weekend, David Gregory seemed to put the wood to Senate minority leader John Boehner ("John of Orange" in Keith Olbermann's formulation) over the Bush tax cuts on Meet the Press. Here's the vid:
As interesting as that exchange is, I don't want to focus on Boehner, but on David Gregory instead. Newsman Gregory is the famous "MC Rove guy" (see below), and in my book he's a made man until he proves otherwise. So why's he laying into Boehner so ostentatiously? His aggression in this interview really jumps out, at least to me. Is Gregory off the reservation, or is he doing someone's bidding?
I'll let you provide your own answers. Me, I've got suspicions. I don't think he's off the reservation, since his whole career is Village–signed and sealed. That leaves two possibilities; either:
- The fix is in to kill the rich boy tax cut extensions (see Geithner's support for expiring them), and Gregory's getting on the right side of the admin by publicly tanking Boehner, or
- The fix is in to extend the rich boy tax cuts, and the Big Boys are letting him (and Geithner) burnish his populist cred, knowing that nothing can stop them.
As an added treat, here's David "1 Live Crew" Gregory dropping the hammer (heh) with Karl "MC Rove" at the 2007 Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner. He's the Fresh Prince on Rove's immediate right (screen left).
Like I say, a made man until he proves otherwise.
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