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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyOkay so the fact that the map shows the President so far ahead in these swing states is good news indeed, and reflects what we have been hearing from numerous polls as well.
That part of the show made me very happy. THAT part did.
However later in the program is where David Gregory seriously dropped the ball and earned my extreme dislike, and made me yell swear words at my poor TV.
Here is the exchange with Ralph Reed (Founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and the same scumbag who was implicated in the Jack Abramoff Indian gambling scandals) that irritated the crap out of me:
GREGORY: One of the things, Ralph, if I can interrupt. This is something that-- that Romney says he wants to do in the debates. He had a-- a conversation with Good Morning America about that. Let me play just a portion and have you respond to it in particular.
(Videotape; Good Morning America; September 14, 2012)MR. ROMNEY: I think he’s going to say a lot of things that aren’t accurate. But I think that the challenge that I’ll have in the debate is that the President tends to, how shall I say it, say things that aren’t true. And-- and-- an in attacking his opponents.(End videotape)
GREGORY: Give me an example of what he would want to attack, what the president has done, and-- and how you think Romney will handle it.
MR. REED: Well, I think President Obama has, and I-- I want to be charitable here, has a-- a casual relationship with the truth. He’s very eloquent. He’s extremely articulate. He is very bright. Anybody who thinks otherwise, who thinks that when you untether him from the teleprompter that he didn’t bring his A-game is underestimating him. But here is the problem. His words are very eloquent, very flowery, very-- tickle your ears. But none of it is true. He said that unemployment would never go above 8 percent if we passed his stimulus plan. It’s never gone below 8 percent. He said that he would cut the deficit in half in his first term. He’s-- he’s doubled it, and he’s increased the national debt by 50 percent. He said he would change Washington and put an end to the partisan rancor. Washington is more polarized and more paralyzed than it’s been in the modern era. The Senate which his party controls has not passed a budget in three years. And we’re 92 days from a fiscal cliff which the CBO says is going to plummet us into a double digit dip recession.
GREGORY: Those might be broken promises. I think people would challenge you on the idea that those…
FMR. GOV. RENDELL: Right.
GREGORY: …those things are-- are lies. There’s some casual relation between-- let me get-- I want to get a break in here because we’re going to come back and talk more about these debates and get some of your questions, suggested questions for the debate. We’re also going to talk about the foreign policy debate that’s going on in this campaign. Richard Engel, our chief foreign correspondent will join us from Afghanistan this morning. More from our roundtable as we continue right after this.
After the break they never got back to this, these allegations that the President is a liar. And except for Gregory's tepid response that those were not lies but rather promises he did not or, more accurately, could not keep, these allegations were left unaddressed.
So those words of Ralph Reed's just hung there in space for every casual viewer to accept as truthful when in fact they are complete and utter bullshit!
The President does NOT lie, that is the habit of a certain Mitt Romney! And he would gladly have kept EVERY ONE of those promises but the Republicans have been fighting him from day one, just so that they could make THESE very claims when the election cycle rolled around again.
And all Gregory did was allow those charges to be made unchallenged, which makes him no longer a journalist but a tool for the Republican party. So Fuck him!
Sorry for the rant, but this literally bothered me ALL day yesterday, and I had to get it off my chest.
Thanks for listening.
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