David Gregory Rewrites History - Obama Had 'Elitist' View Of Press
It's really cool how David Gregory has affection for a job he never did.
Mister "No Follow Up Questions" yearns for the time with a POTUS appreciated the "symbiotic relationship" the White House ideally has with the press corps.
And that President is George W. Bush.
DAVID GREGORY: But Ronald Reagan was the one who perfected the use of television and John Kennedy was the forerunner of that and before that FDR who mastered the use of the radio. What was he doing? He was going outside of the White House. He was going directly to the people. so every president tries to do it. what's important to remember is if you're covering the White House you have a group of reporters there, It helps our democracy, It helps public understanding of what the President is doing, what his staff is engaged in when you have a press corps that's well briefed, that understand what is they're thinking strategically, substantively and can communicate that and challenge them. Bush once said to me, he said "Gregory, we have a symbiotic relationship." And by that, it was not that we scratch each other's back but that he -- there was a role for the press to play that was good for him.
...The president has a bit of an elitist view. Not a bit, an elitist view that the media is silly....
He was very deliberate about those he respected and those he didn't. I think he felt that there was the kind of, the game and the noise of media that he thought was silly and that undermined the serious things he was trying to do."