Well, we’ve been away for two weeks, and those two weeks were just chock-full of political news, so we’ve got a lot to cover. The reason for the interruption in columns was, of course, our attending Netroots Nation, the yearly conclave of bloggers, Progressives, and all and sundry who like hanging out with them. Which brings us to this week’s unusual title — today’s Friday Talking Points, for the first time ever, are going to be professionally-produced and focus-group-tested. More on this later.
We’ve got a lot to cover, so we’re going to do it very quickly here, but I have to begin by pointing out, once again, what a helium-brain David Gregory truly is. The moderator of Meet The Press is a journalistic lightweight on his best> of days — even when some interviewee breaks some real news on his show, Gregory can be counted on to not realize such news has been made, at least until someone else informs him of the fact. The man couldn’t think his way out of a paper bag, although he does have that boyish grin and good hair going for him — which is all that really matters to NBC.
Last Sunday, Gregory interviewed Glenn Greenwald (the reporter at the center of the Edward Snowden leak story), and asked him a classic “Have you stopped beating your wife, Senator?” question. Here is what Gregory thought it’d be a good idea to ask Greenwald, without a shred of evidence or fact to back it up:
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