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Attention David Gregory:  YOU aren’t the news.

Why do White House reporters all seem to think they’re way more important than the people they’re covering?  If this had been the first time NBC’s David Gregory flipped out at a briefing it would still be one time too many but could perhaps be excused as a bad day.  But it wasn’t.

Anyway, yesterday’s incident went a little something like this:

Snow got into a tussle with Gregory after the NBC journalist told him, in a lengthy remark, that the public may wonder why the president’s statement and report today on the war on terror did not admit more failings on the administration’s part. Snow observed that he had nicely summarized “the Democratic point of view,” and Gregory took exception to this.

This exchange followed.
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Q Actually, Tony, I don’t think that’s fair, if you look at the facts. If you look at the facts.

MR. SNOW: Well, I do, because—no, because, for instance --

Q No, no, no. No, I don’t think you should be able to just wipe that, kind of dismiss the question --

MR. SNOW: Well, let me --

Q It’s not a Democratic argument, Tony.

MR. SNOW: Let me answer the question, David.

Q But hold on, let’s not let you get away with saying that’s a Democratic argument.

MR. SNOW: Okay, let me—let’s not let you get away with being rude. Let me just answer the question, and you can come back at me.

Q Excuse me. Don’t point your finger at me. I’m not being rude.

MR. SNOW: Yes, you are.

Q Don’t try to dismiss me as making a Democratic argument, Tony, when I’m speaking fact.

MR. SNOW: Well, okay—well, no --

Q You can do that to the Democrats; don’t do it to me.

MR. SNOW: No, I’m doing it to you because the second part was factually tendentious, okay? Now, when you were talking about the fact that it failed to adapt, that’s just flat wrong. And you will be—there has been—there have been repeated attempts to try to adapt to military realities, to diplomatic realities, to development of new weapons and tools on the part of al Qaeda, including the very creative use of the Internet. So the idea that somehow we’re staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong.

Yeah, you are the Oracle of Truth, Gregory.  God forbid anyone should have a different view of things than you.  I love it when libs claim with a straight face that the media is in the Administation’s pocket.  Idiots like David Gregory, who again and again and again try to become the news themselves (or at the very least insinuate themselves into the story) rather than simply reporting the truth, make it obvious that nothing could be farther from the truth.