Around The Blogs: Continued Speculation, More Reference To David Gregory

David Gregory's name just pops up everywhere as a replacement for Tim Russert.  I really hope this trend stops...

Ryan Tate at Gawker looks at a list of possible replacements and includes Gregory among them, writing:

David Gregory, NBC's chief White House correspondent, has his own show on MSNBC (he replaced Tucker Carlson) and is the lead substitute for Matt Lauer on Today, so he has some of Russert's versatility. Famously confronted then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan over the delayed release of information about Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.

A blogger by the handle of Amerigo Vespucci pretty much sums up why we started this blog about David Gregory and Meet The Press. He writes (emphasis added):

Gregory is familiar and steady, and has guest-hosted MTP in the past. There's no question he's a safe choice. However, I really, really, REALLY hope they don't pick him. Gregory is, simply put, a jerk who acts like a jerk on the air. He thinks extremely highly of himself, which isn't a crime, but it comes through in a smug air of superiority, which is for a newsman. He's also been undistinguished in his coverage. When Scott McClellan's book criticized the media for swallowing wholesale the swill that the White House fed them about the Iraq War, Gregory was absolutely obnoxious in his defensive self-excusing. Rather than take a serious self-examination and expect the best, which Russert would have done (and did), Gregory gave a thousand reasons why he was not to blame. It's true that he and the other reporters were misled, but this is Washington, jerkface, assume people are lying to you and investigate a little. Anyway, I can't envision looking forward to David Gregory on Sunday Mornings.

Another blogger's thoughts on Gregory filling the seat (emphasis added):

David Gregory – If only the man-who-thinks-he-can-dance, could put some of that excitement into his MSNBC show, Race for the White House, then, if selected, he might have better than a snowball’s chance in hell of maintaining the audience that Russert attracted. Final Vote: No way. Spare us the misery. I’d rather watch dust accumulate

Indeed.