David Gregory Asks Biden: Is There a 'Modern Right-Wing Conspiracy' Against Obama?
In 1998, first lady Hillary Clinton famously claimed there was a vast right-wing conspiracy against her husband.
On Sunday, NBC's David Gregory actually asked Vice President Joe Biden on Meet the Press, "Do you think that there is a modern right-wing conspiracy that has aligned against this president?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DAVID GREGORY, HOST: Let me ask you about the ways of Washington in a concluding area here. We've talked before. I've asked you about the-- the fact that Washington doesn't work very well right now, and hasn't for now a number of years that coincides with-- Obama-Biden being in the White House. And you've been very critical of Republicans. Do you think that there is a modern right-wing conspiracy that has aligned against this president?
Are you kidding me? Is that the kind of question to be asking a sitting Vice President in the middle of an election cycle?
Maybe even more surprisingly, Biden didn't take the bait:
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, I don't think there's a modern-- I think the Republican Party's been taken over by the Tea Party. It happens. Those things happen. My party was taken over by the far left, when I got elected in 1972. We go through phases like this. This isn't fundamentally new. What we need is a Republican Party. We need a strong Republican Party. A party that there's two or three or four people when they're not in office or if they have a president, when he's in office, can speak for the party, can make agreements. That's what we need.
Seems in this instance one of the top personalities at NBC News was a better shill for Obama than his own Vice President.
Now THAT'S saying something!
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Certainly wasn't a 'vast' conspiracy against the Clinton's ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:24pm.
on my part, cuz I wasn't nearly as vast then as I am now.
I truly did dislike both of them in the end; and I feel the biggest mistake people make in judging Hillary is to consider her a human being.
Obama is in another universe, however, when it comes to 'dislike'; he is truly such an incompetent, worthless pos that words fail me in describing exactly how much I hate him.
Are his legions of ass kissers blind, stupid, or in the case of the melanin enhanced, just bone deep racists?
MD
melanin enhanced
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:40pm.
Knowing a very few melanin enhanced individuals- many Veterans of some of the most brutal combat I have ever known who would feel right at home here at Newsbusters because they too cannot STAND Barack Hussein- I would say that the remainder of the M.E.'s...hey that's funny...ME...ARE rascists because I know SO MANY of them personally who in some cases only grudgingly accept me because I am 1/8th Lakota.
What conspiracy??
Submitted by rockyracoon on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:30pm.
Many of us openly loath the canine consumer David.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Gregory knows what Soetoro ate
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 4:36am.
Moments after Soetoro's colon tells him he needs to find a hole in the ground to empty it.
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
"Is There a 'Modern Right-Wing Conspiracy' Against Obama?"
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:43pm.
I sure hope there is.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Isn't Gregory a genius?
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:56pm.
Why on earth would the right wing align against a far left-wing president?
Oh, silly me! What was I thinking?
There is no "left wing." Only "centrists."
mb,
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:46pm.
LOL - Yeah, what a concept.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
No Conspiracy
Submitted by BMorgan53 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:51pm.
Just Obummer suffering from his own acts and deeds.
How could a man so dumb get a TV show on NBC?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:54pm.
I don't remember David Gregory EVER proposing a question of a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy when Dan Rather did that story on Bush's "alleged" desertion from the Vietnam War. Dan Rather still says the story is true and defends it to this very day. I looked at the document and the first thing I noticed was PO Box 12345. I think the person that forged the document stole that from the Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs.
Lil' Geraldo is such a shameless lib kiss up
Submitted by frank14 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 9:17pm.
He shouldn't bring up those days in 1998 when he and his mentor Geraldo trashed a Democrat Congressman for daring to oppose the First Rapist.
NBC
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 9:36am.
No Body Cares
No conspiracy, we are out in
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:55pm.
No conspiracy, we are out in the open about making Obama a one term President.
More like a modern journalist
Submitted by DeclinesToState on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:56pm.
More like a modern journalist conspiracy to insulate Obama from his failures.
how is it "conspiracy" .... ??
Submitted by wizardjr on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 4:58pm.
A conspiracy implies it is all hidden behind the scenes. Our dislike for this jerk and his attempts to turn us into Greece are out in the open. Our agenda to return America to its Constitutional roots is out in the open. Our strategy to dump all these statists and cut the government down to a rational size is out in the open.
So once again I ask, how is it "conspiracy"?
Thank you
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:11pm.
You saved me from having to type the exact same thing.
Inigo Montoya said it best.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:14pm.
Inigo Montoya said it best.
'My party got taken over by
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:01pm.
'My party got taken over by the far left, when I was elected in 1972'???? Really, Sherrif Joe?? If that was the case, what would you call the Democrat Party these days - since your the Vice-friggin-President of it???
BaboonFace Gregory and Joe Plugs Bite-Me.........................what a combo!!! Combine the IQ's of these two, and it's STILL double digits................combine the 'common sense' quotient of these two, and they STILL couldn't pass Common Sense 101.
What would either one of these clowns do if they had to live in the real world???
Joe firmly believes that he
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:21pm.
Joe firmly believes that he and his party has moved back firmly to the "center."
The fact that that his conservative rating was about 4% and Barack Obama was THE most liberal Senator not withstanding.
You're giving Biden and Gregory waaay to much credit.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:27pm.
Their collective IQ is -3. There isn't enough intellegence there to tie a shoe with velcro straps.
Two of the Three Stooges
Submitted by mmilesll on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:25pm.
Love it, one moron asking another moron a question.
"We need a strong Republican
Submitted by lrgon on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 8:21pm.
"We need a strong Republican Party. A party that there's two or three or four people when they're not in office or if they have a president, when he's in office, can speak for the party, can make agreements."
"Agreements?" Does gregory mean private, behind the scenes type "agreements?" Perhaps even conspiratorial agreements?
One of Bill Clinton's professors at Georgetown University put the "two party system" in this perspective:
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy."---
- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope
Whether Romney wins this fall or Obama wins professor Quigley's formula of maintaining the illusion of change continues. Illusions are not tangible things like balanced budgets, less government, lower taxes, more personal liberty and noninterventionism abroad. Rhetoric hides the fact that no change will take place even if Romney wins. The domestic and foreign policies will remain and a Romney win will not translate to victory for the right. Romney is only the illusionist who will dutifully carry on Quigley's formula moving the nation to more socialism.
Total socialism is the goal of the group that Quigley called the "network." Quigley discussed the "network" at great length in his 1,000 page Tragedy and Hope. http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Hope-History-World-Time/dp/094500110X
Call it a network or a secret society it adds up to "conspiracy." This secret cabal is not what Gregory is referring to however. He is visualizing Watergate burgulars where there are none.
The Tea Party and allies have no hidden agenda. The Tea Party has made their sentiments of working to elect fiscal conservatives to office well known.
Gregory and his news gate keepers never discuss how close in philosophy the two parties (Democrat and Republican) at the top of really are. The rhetoric is different but the policies are the same.
By their fruits you will know them said our Lord.
Started with Tim Russert years ago but weaned myself...
Submitted by serious1 on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 10:16pm.
finally went a full Sunday morning without Meet the Depressed. Switched to George and that was a stretch. The panel is better and maybe the whole show is less biased. Am I wrong. They all give the left wing way to many opportunities and softball questions, and they'll eventually lose on that account. Just My Opinion.
Let us review the math
Submitted by blbtampa on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 1:01am.
America polls center right.
This means to the right of the main stream media. Or just a step or two to the right of intelligent, Gaia respecting, open minded people. So to be progressive you should be a step or two miles to the left of the two steps left the central media views itself from the the center right majority (I know calculus is. easier)
This is why it is not racist for the Democratic white Vice President to say "I Promise You the President Has a Big Stick" or Axelrod the white campaign manager to say "Our enthusiasm is bigger than theirs." While any comment from the center or right of the media is therefore: a vast right wing conspiracy.
I would comment.....
Submitted by gwalt on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 7:11am.
I would comment on this d-bag ( with apologies to d-bags) but I have to take my two dogs out for an "obama" ---- I usually take them to my obama supporting neighbors yard to "deposit" my political contribution to his re-immoculation.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Which is bigger...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:09am.
The vast right wing conspiracy against o'barry, the bow tyin' half white boy? Or the vast left wing ostriches who lie, cheat, steal, and make things up just to keep a failed president in office based on the color of his skin and NOT the content of his character, much less all of his failed policies intended to drive us all toward socialism?
YES!!!
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:53am.
There is! It's known as 50% of the voting public.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
"I think the Republican
Submitted by TheLoudDreamer on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 12:40pm.
"I think the Republican Party's been taken over by the Tea Party"
How Idiotic. It the GOP was now the Tea Party, it would be smarter. Since it isn't, we know THAT hasn't happened. Do the ordinary GOP voters have more TP sympathy? Yeah. Because untill a few years ago their wasn't a TP to sympasize with. Of COURSE they are going to flood into a boat of common sense when they've been swimming in idiocy for years. It's a bunch of GOP voters getting involved in the process, trying (with not enough sucess) to see that polititions actually do what is best for the people who put them in office. If TP gets a foot hold, democracy might actually become democratic and the thought to this scares the Democrats.
There's a conspiracy? Is there a chapter in San Antonio?
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 8:57pm.
I wonder if they meet at a barbecue place or perhaps a good mom 'n pop for the world's best puffy tacos!?