Meet the Press's David Gregory (12/16/12) seemed really proud of how hard his show worked to try to get a pro-gun viewpoint on the air to talk about the Newtown massacre:
David Gregory
A note here this morning. We reached out to all thirty-one pro-gun rights senators in the new Congress to invite them on the program to share their views on this subject this morning. We had no takers.
Funny, Gregory doesn't always make that much of an effort to balance his panels. There's no evidence that he tried to find someone to discuss Afghanistan who shared the majority of American's opinion that troops should be withdrawn (FAIR Blog, 10/26/09). Or someone from the Democratic Party to discuss the Republican congressional victory in 2010–or the Republican congressional defeat in 2006 (FAIR Blog, 11/5/10). Or when Occupy Wall Street was on the agenda, someone to represent the "left" end of the debate who wasn't a managing director for Morgan Stanley (FAIR Blog, 10/25/11).
Of course, when the topic is whether or not people should be allowed virtually unlimited access to lethal weaponry, even when this results in children being massacred, it's understandable that you'd want to go the extra mile to try to get the "pro" side represented.
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By "pro-gun rights senators", I assume Gregory means those who believe in the unlimited right to arm oneself to the teeth.
If that term is defined as those unmoved to make laws crafted to keep guns out of the hands of all but those who could prove the necessity and responsibility to possess them
I'd say that number inches close to triple digits
If not reaching them.
Or, as Neil McDonald of CBC put it: "the child-killing lobby." http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/16/f-rfa-macdonald-guns.html It is simply unfair to Americans that Canadians make so much sense.
Bravo, Mr. Gregory. Nothing like the great ethical exertions required when one reaches out for low-hanging fruit…
'ND' – good link. Thanks.
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This is a great sign… I cannot wait for David Gregory to reach out to every single member of the Progressive Caucus to discuss their "People's Budget" and their ideas about the expiration of the tax cuts at the end of the year.
I heard Gregory the other day haranguing a Senaor about the terrible plitical price the Dems paid whenever, in the recent past, they defied the NRA. All imbecile Beltway bullshit–Gregory simply has no idea sometimes (most of the time?) what's really going on, what reality actually is. A disturbing commentary on the shambles of our political discourse.
Damn! That's what happens if you don't proof your stuff . . . .