One Sunday Morning Television Question Highlighted the Difference between Pseudo-Journalists Like David Gregory and Chuck Todd — and Real Journalists Like Glenn Greenwald and the Deceased Michael Hastings — The Fact that Establishment Toadies, like Gregory and Todd, Dominate the Lame-Stream Press Partially Explains America’s Decline into Authoritarianism

© 2013 Peter Free

 

24 June 2013

 

 

Meet the Press’s David Gregory asked investigative journalist, Glenn Greenwald, an astonishingly biased question that reveals the depth to which the national press has become an unthinking arm of King Obama’s administration

 

Jack Mirkinson described the exchange — which centered around Edward Snowden’s leaking of the National Security Agency’s widespread telephone and email snooping.  At issue was constitutional lawye (turned journalist) Glenn Greenwald’s stories on the subject:

 

 

Greenwald was on to discuss his source's Sunday morning flight from Hong Kong to Moscow.

 

At the tail end of the conversation, Gregory suddenly asked Greenwald why the government shouldn't be going after him.

 

"To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?" he asked.

 

Greenwald replied that it was "pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies,"

 

and that there was no evidence to back up Gregory's claim that he had "aided" Snowden.

Gregory's colleague Chuck Todd wondered aloud how much Greenwald was "involved" with Snowden.

 

"Did he have a role beyond being a receiver for this information?" he said.

 

© 2013 Jack Mirkinson, David Gregory To Glenn Greenwald: 'Why Shouldn't You Be Charged With A Crime?' (VIDEO), Huffington Post (23 June 2013) (embedded video clip of today’s Meet the Press) (paragraph split)

 

 

The moral? — Do not count on American media’s Establishment-centered crowd to keep you informed about Truth

 

In light of:

 

(i) the Fourth Amendment lying in shreds, courtesy of King Bush II and King Obama

 

and

 

(ii) with Michael Hastings’ example of investigative journalism still lingering as an example of truth-revealing excellence just a few days after his sad death —

 

It should be shocking that the Nitwit NBC Brothers (David G and Chuck T) would slump so intellectually and morally low as to even consider implying that Mr. Greenwald is America’s enemy.

 

But that is the New America — a field of manure-laden soil for tyrants and their lip-drooling snivelers to flourish in.

 

George Washington will metaphorically be wondering what happened to the nation that he helped free from King George the Third.

 

When we mistake Freedom’s Friends for its enemies, we have completely lost our way.