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Witless sycophant David Gregory shouts his offer of oral sex to Gov. Sanford

Witless dog David Gregory shouts his offer of oral sex to Gov. Sanford and asks him to observe his eager cavity and his ears that afford ready hand-holds for the schlong gobblee.

Grinning fuckwit and Meet the Press’ battered-wife-in-residence David Gregory is not known for his insights, research or interview technique, preferring to follow the lead of dead fat fuck and former MTP schlong-gobbling MC Tim Russert whose pathetic fawning and reverent interviews of criminal monsters like Dick Cheney were the stuff of legend.

Russert, as pathetic as he was, probably never reached the depths of sycophancy and timorous, prostrate deference that Gregory displayed in emails last month to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s office in the wake of revelations about his wanton pestorkabout in Argentina.

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And that's the way it is. Amen.With the talk of Uncle Walter continuing apace, amid the loony rantings of Freepers and the decent and honorable memorials elsewhere, there has been — perhaps — a well-judged critique, in this Guardian obituary:

Astonishingly, no one thought to question the phrase that became his professional trade mark, intoned at the end of each nightly bulletin: “And that’s the way it is.”  That, in fact, was simply the way it appeared to Cronkite. As one of the founding fathers of America’s network television news and as managing editor of the CBS evening news for 19 years, his evaluation of world events helped shape his country’s electronic reporting into the extraordinarily insular and inadequate chronicle it has become. That, in turn, opened the door to Rupert Murdoch’s current brand of unashamedly partisan news coverage.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJQtDnPVjZc

“I think it’s important to get our elected officials on the record.” How refreshing to watch someone commit journalism, on Fox or elsewhere. Guess that’s all we get for the year.

Hoekstra says waterboarding was legal, claims ‘there is a wide range of waterboarding.’ [Think Progress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtFMj6ZiHM

Our best guess is that every so often, Roger Ailes forgets to recharge Shep’s electric collar.

Shepard Smith Uncensored: “We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!” [HuffPo, via Sully]