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    Skin in the Game

    By Barth on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:21pm |

     

    Skin in the Game

    No time for a real post this week, so let's just do the David Gregory thing again. He has picked his side, as we have shown before and again exposed the side he has chosen, Here he is, last Sunday, helping Senator Thune, as he " debates" Sen McCaskill.

    MR. GREGORY: But, Senator, what's really ludicrous to the American people, even when the American people don't always speak with one voice on this matter, is that Washington is not really dealing with what really drives the debt, that's entitlement spending, it's been going on this way and was a ticking time bomb since the '60s, and Democrats--like you were saying, "Hey, you--we can't deal with Social Security and Medicare." Republicans say, you know, sign tax pledges, that "I'm not going to raise taxes; well, we can't deal with revenues." I mean this is what's ludicrous to the American people. And even here, if we have a deal, we're going to solve a political problem but not the underlying fiscal problem, which is what creates our debt, Senator, no?
    Even were he right---that "entitlement spending" meaning, I guess given the reference to the "ticking time bomb since the '60s" medicare and medicaid is the basis of our "underlying fiscal problem" or "drives the debt"---which is actually demonstrably not so, (after all, medicaid and medicare were in existence as the surplus was built in the 1990s), is this the role of the "moderator" of Meet the Press? None of his predecessors would have done so.

    He is entitled to his opinion, but if that is his role should he not be balanced by a co-moderator with an opposing point of view---maybe one slightly more fact based?

    No. He should just be canned and move his garbage to FOX.

     

    Comments

    You hit a nerve with me. Dick Gregory could not hold two opposing ideas in his brain at the same if his life depended upon it. And because he has never had an original thought in his life, he is stuck with one idea at a time, that idea not even his.

    He might as well go to Fox News, and most of the cable talk shows and Sunday News shows should simply close up shop if they can't even think up their own angles on the news.

    Fox News sets the agenda for the news cycles. Lazy so called "journalists" like Dick Gregory simply pick up terminology, congenitally unable to make distinctions in their own thoughts or questions.

    Social Security is not an entitlement. Nor is it responsible for the U.S. debt. In 1960 Gregory was in the 3rd grade and Soc. Sec. was less of a problem than buying a Big Mac at McDonald.


    by Oxy Mora on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:44pm

    We should all send that quote to Meet the Press, along with a resume.


    by erica20 on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 3:08pm

    I knew there was a reason that I don't watch that program...


    by synchronicity on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 8:07pm