Awwww. Big bad republican hurt little Matty's feelings, so big sissy Annie makes the precious little man feel better.

Kissy, kissy.

I was watching this exchange and wish Delay would have asked why Matt doesn't do a story on Democrats in scandal.

Otherwise, I enjoyed the smackdown. 

Suh-Wheet!!!   Matty boy, you got CLOCKED!!!!  Congressman Delay, Thank you!

Now, who else in the GOP, currently IN OFFICE, is going to stand up and continue to dish it right back in the faces of these biased msm uppities?

FIGHT BACK!!

There are times he makes me quite happy to be from Houston. Not only did he have the balls to go onto a MSM show and say this, but he wasted no time in getting to the point. There's nothing quite like a Texan telling it like it is.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?

Excellent story - Delay's statement is so simple, I can't believe I haven't heard it before: "There are scandals that need to be addressed. Republicans address them, Democrats re-elect them." Maybe if Lauer and others get their hats handed to them a little more often, they'd think twice before doing their normal spin. But I'm dreaming - they will just ban Delay from future appearances.

Actually it has been a team effort made up of the democrats and their water carriers, the MSM, to lower the bar so far for dems, libs and minorities that they would have to dig a hole to get it any lower. And yes, it is also a blatant example of the unbelievable racism of these two groups of hypocritical phonies.

They, in turn, raise the bar so high for Republican Conseratives and Christians that we must have a ladder to get over it.

We have a higher calling than a ladder. Let them stay in their holes.

I wish DeLay would have asked Matty when the last time they had a democrat on to discuss the scandals involving democrats.

Instead, when a democrat is on, it is a fluff piece that is usually an MSM sponsored campaign ad.

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

Now let's find out who leaked this prior to the correct officials seeing it!!  http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070830/D8RBB19G0.html  Just have to remember that last time it said none reached[the interim report], then the report came out and over half had been met.  So someone giving faulty leaking.....must be ROVE!!

...I whole heartedly agree with everything Delay had to say about about the "double standard" of the media, etc. The fact that NBC (and the rest of the MSM) feels it is necessary to cover the indescretions of Republicans ad nauseam, and completely ignore the constant and ongoing troubles plaguing the Democrats, is beyond incredible. Unfortunately for Mr. Delay, he was indeed invited onto the show to talk about the Republican Party. He should have answered Mr. Lauer's questions in that regard, and THEN he could have had his say about the double standard. I despise Matt Lauer and generally agree with Delay, but in this case I believe Delay was wrong to insist that Lauer read a list of Democrat problems when asking Tom to comment about recent Republican problems. Matt could have made a statement like: "To be fair, here are some recent indescretions involving Democrats..." And Delay would have been well within his rights to ask for that to be done, but he should have answered his questions as well. It would sometimes seem to be a cynical calculation on the part of some who invite Delay and others onto their various programs, so they can get them to retort and seem unable to engage in adult conversation, and then smirk at the portrayal at the end. This does not help the conservative case. AND... We here should be more concerned with how some Republicans are sullying our good name, than blindly defending the likes of Folley, Craig and Abramoff. We should rightly call for the MSM to spend as much time on Democratic scandals as they do on Republicans, but if they do not, that doesn't give Republicans a free pass from those of us who know better. Bad is bad is bad.

Wow, Delay had a chance to make a really great point with a much higher impact by addressing the question first, then dealing out his other statements.
But he had to get very push right out of the gate. A better response would have been:

 Clearly Matt, this is more of an issue of bad apples and in no way is it a crisis of the Republican party. We are talking about less than 2% of the Republican party in DC, and yet the media is magnifying the 2% and ignoring the 98% in an effort to twist and distort the truth. When was the last time you asked the Dems if they were self destructing over the behavior of 2% or less of their party?

Okay, so that could be tweaked some, but I didn't like Delay's approach of attacking Matt Lauer. I think the Republicans should hold themselves to a higher standard than the Dems. If we are going to whine about the Dems attacking O'Reilly or Chris Wallace, etc. then we shouldn't be cheering when a Republican duplicates the behavior. Delay brought up some great points, but their validity will be completely lost and ignored because of the manner he brought them up in being so similiar to a Dem style attack. Lets not let the Dems bring us down to their level.

The earth is on fire and it is YOUR fault for owning a car...

Lauer: "But you didn't hear me. I also just said do we only have two bad apples or is there a case of an entire party embroiled in scandal?"

"An entire party embroiled in scandal"  Jee, Matt, tell us what you really think. So he doesn't think Delay was fair. Cue violins!

Matt; Jab

Delay; Block, jab, jab, hook, jab, hook, hook!!

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Matt is at his best (sarcasm) when he is fawning over a pediphile that happens to be an attractive blonde school teacher molesting underage boys.

When will the Today show do a segment on Democratic scandals!

Something like ask Chucky Schummer what he knows about his underlings criminal obtaining the credit history of a republican (Steele) running for congress?

And BTW William Jefferson barely made the news with his cash in the freezer!!!

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

Gay sex scandals involving republicans will trump money scandals with democrats any day of the week, any hour of the day--and visa versa.

Delay was in rare form. Good for him.

We need more conservatives coming out with a dose of reality in these "news" interviews. The "so, are you still beating your wife?" setup is trashed with the reality of the situation, which is exactly what Delay did, and many others should do. Lauer was VERY disrespectful of a US Senator, don't ya think? Can you even imagine him trying to talk over Shillary?!? But, then he would just "commit suicide".

He just kicked Matt's ass like Elisabeth kicked Rosie's.

The reason Lauer was so taken aback by DeLay's strong rebuttal is because the MSM for sometime now has been operating as the self-appointed and self-annointed prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner ... and bodyguard for the democrats.  Their arrogance can't handle the fact that someone (DeLay) didn't just sit there and let the screwball media ride roughshot over him in an interview.  We NEED to see more of this.  The whole F - ing "new tone" in Washington was Bush's mistake ... and one he SHOULD admit to when next asked "Mr. Bush, do you admit you've made mistakes?"

"Why, yes, I do.  Going into my Presidency I was greatly mistaken in taking the higher ground in order to set a "new tone" in a city that is no more than a stinking cesspool of politician turds and piss ants, and a media that are no more than self-important liars and political operatives."

How about this response for Matty?

Okay, Mr. Lauer, let me ask you a question:

Jayson Blair, Mary Mapes, Stephen Glass, Dan Rather, the entire Associated Press photography division, and Dateline NBC (exploding gas tanks) have all been exposed as phonies.  Is this a case of half a dozen bad apples, or is your entire industry embroiled in scandal?

*crickets*

Forget 911, I dial 9MM.