And his first guest will be Karl Rove, so they can do a little tango together.

Good God, tv journalism is so dead.

David Gregory swings so far to the right it's a wonder he doesn't climb over his own back in his rhetoric.

I once got caught in a glass press

I made a spectacle of myself.

Rove Lap Dance in his near future . The only choice that would have been worse would be that beady eyed wuss Scaborough . Hell I would rather go back to going to church on sunday than watch this dork .

Gregory is not a reporter. He's NOT EVEN an entertainer. I just won't watch.

David Gregory will destroy Meet the Press. NBC Executives should be fired for this choice. David will use the show to spread the GOP propaganda and do his best to derail the Obama Administration. David will be called in for his involved in the Scooter Libby matter which isn't over yet. NBC should do themeselves a favor an let go of the Journalist that were involved in spreading lies for the White House about Iraq, Saddam and WMD's. Andrea Mitchell got away with her close involvement in spreading the lies as the White House even tried to lie about the late Tim Russert. I can see the headlines now two NBC Journalist to testify on their involvement in helping the Bush Administration illegally invade Iraq. Even Alan Greenspan can't help his wife Andrea now as he's seen as a true liar and thief.

This is an MSM network news program. They chose the guy who would reliably do what they told him. They wanted, and chose a tool. It was a foregone conclusion.

What a sorry choice. I guess this means I won't have to plan my Sundays any longer around MTP. NBC messed up big time on this one. David Gregory is a joke.

Meet the Press..............in my opinion won't ever be the same/as good, if you will. I suspect gregory will try to mimic russert but he will fail. i have to disagree, i'm a maddow fan, but i don't believe rachel would
attract the demographics. i just don't believe she would be offered the position.

so, the man who shook his ass for the texas turdblossom now has the prominent seat in general electric's propaganda parade.

David Gregory seems like an amiable fellow on his show -- he was a huge improvement over tucker carlson. But I am not sure he really "gets" politics the way Chuck Todd does. I dare say that I think Chuck is one of those rare people that can explain things to people who aren't informed, and ask probing questions of those who are. Too bad really. Maybe they could co-host.

Poor choice - and that's being kind. The only good that could possibly come out of this is that MSNBC comes to their senses and brings Dan Abrams back to fill the 6:00pm slot that will open with Gregory's departure.

I refuse to watch his show on MSNBC unless someone else is filling in for him. They could not have made a worse choice if they tried. I will not be watching Meet the Press if this is true.

In a recent political conversation amongst my pseudo intellectual friends the conversation suddenly turned into a seedy conversation about who David Gregory must be sleeping with at MSNBC. We all agreed this announcement regarding Meet The Press was beyond belief. I was amused to find that my contempories switch the channel anytime Gregory is hosting anything much as I do.
I am sure there are other than seedy reasons for his recent up surge in the MSNBC coporation; but frankly, your viewers are baffled at the insistence of the network to force us viewers to leave Meet The Press in such numbers. I know of at least 20+ viewers who have since this announcement stated they will no longer view the show. Gregory is a Bush hack, a GOP talking point spinner, a blatant distorter and his inclusion in to the show will cause it's demise.
I find it odd that someone in MSNBC is so taken by Gregory that they miss the lack of talent and his lack of genuine charm.
So be it. News shows will go the way of newspapers soon; blogging appears to be the only form of finding real news nowadays.

I don't think picking Gregory is the best pick for two reasons:

1) he is not a particularly bright guy, not particularly intelligent. Although he has done well to get to where he is at NBC, his resume is a bit thin. He certainly does not have the intellect of a Maddow or even Olberman, which I think the MTP job requires given it is not really a total talking heads show. Although I would not suggest either Olberman or Maddow for the MTP job.

2) he has no real stage or televison presence.

Although I would not say Russett was particularly strong in either of those two categories, although Russert was always well prepared. Lets hope Gregory surrounds himself with some very strong researchers.

Not much to choice from these days. There are not many really good smart journalists to pick from. A pretty safe and not outside the box choice. Gregory needs to stop worrying about trying to come across as being balanced all the time. Sometimes there is no balance. I find that in order to be balanced during the election he often just regurgitated Republican talking points or put on idiot guests just to have a counter point, no matter how ridiculous the counter point was.

The Gregory pick will cheapen the show, but maybe he can build some street cred over time.

Is that he's maddeningly inconsistent. One day he'll be a pit bull and the next four he'll be a lamb. More often than not he'll miss an obvious followup question. All that and he's still better than 95% of the press corps.

That's not saying much.

-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud

...we go back to making it Meet the Press, as in plural members of the press? Could be rotating journalists, so you could have a mix that included Maddow, Katrina vanden Heuvel, et al. Would make for a much tougher, perhaps less clubby forum.

Gregory is, at best, filler.

The show is going to be hard to watch. Gregory is a terrible choice, his right wing corporate spin will destroy the credibility of that show. Goodbye Meet the Press.