Judd Greg(D-NH)?? is that a typo?

I was just going to ask the same thing.

Yes, it's a typo. Gregg is a leftover Republican who happened not to be up for re-election when NH "purged" most of its Republicans from elected office.

Again -- broken record time -- did King ask about Gregg's voting record? Gregg was a "leading voice" on the budget & deficit situation during the Bush years & a great deal of the blame for the massive deficit can be laid at his feet. Did King do that? Did he ever bother to point out Gregg's past and thus Gregg's desire to whitewash the same?

Until the media does even a tiny bit of homework, our system will remain as broken as it is now.

On CNN (corporately nice news), every rethug is a "leading fiscal mind".

CNN has become an annoying clone of Fox Noise.

Where is Ted Turner when you need him?

But then again, GE seems intent on selling NBC Universal and the leading candidates seem to be Comcast and Rupert Murdoch. It seems as if the corporate media is intent on becoming even more of an echo chamber and message amplifier for the reich-wing.

Sen. Judd Gregg (starve-the-beast R-N.H)
Fixed.

Gregg got us into this mess and by gum he can get us out of it! That's why we need a Republican Congress and a Republican in the WH, only they can solve the problems that they created. I mean, that's how it works in finance right?

On CNN (corporately nice news), every rethug is a "leading fiscal mind".

He was the chair of the Senate Budget Committee for much of Bush's reign.

I suspect that's why his views are given credulous credence as being "leading." In point of fact, of course, he helped balloon the deficit to the insanity it currently enjoys and has every reason to try to pass the buck to the current administration and Congress. Republicans, amongst many other failings, are incapable of admitting to or accepting the blame for, their mistakes.

Also, he's crooked, his brother in particular has made out quite nicely thanks to Gregg's deal-making.

Mr Benen: you really need to correct the D next to Gregg's name.

Are any mainstream media outlets really fair in their reportage? Seriously--I read/see the stuff that John King/David Gregory/Wolf Blitzer say and realize that apparently much of the media functions without reporting the context of the situations on which they are reporting. AP and the WaPo have continually reported on how the administration is in disarray with regard to Policy XYZ, and how Democrats are struggling, etc.

To the media, Afghanistan really IS "Obama's war," despite the fact that Bush got us involved there eight years ago. Sure, we may all disagree on the proper course of action to pursue in Afghanistan, but blaming Obama for the seven years of folly that preceeded the inauguration is insane.

To the media, no possible health care reform is good--the WaPo website has a piece explaining that the CBO report that notes the Baucus plan is revenue-neutral may actually be very wrong becaues they are estimates. Well, that's what the CBO does--take its best guess based on data. Every sane person knows that, but the WaPo just handed critics of health care reform a nice stick to swing. Am I wrong to think that any CBO report that showed a Republican proposal as being revenue-neutral would be championed as showing the rightwing's fiscal responsibility?

It's like the entire US media have become David Broder. Creepy.

This is the typical "Obama now owns it" BS I read daily in forums. Obama bought a used car with trillions of miles on it that needs fixing. The selective amnesia crowd just goes on and on, ignoring the past and how we got here. Healthcare for everyone and a cure for selective amnesia would be wonderful.

CNN: Conservative News Network

CNN chose to fact check a Saturday Night Live comedy sketch.

When idiots like Gregg spew misinformation they should be fact checked immediately. Same goes for any Democrat who comes on the show to speak.

I can't believe no one is addressing this. Oops. There goes a bit of my breakfast...

@Dave--

The selective amnesia that you cite is something that leads me to think that we are pretty much screwed.

When health care reform is passed and the national debate moves to climate change legislation, I wonder how long it will be before Obama and Democrats get blamed for global warming.

Maybe this is the sort of thing that happens when empires crumble.

And to think Obama invited this loser to be part of his cabinet.

I don't have TV (for obvious reasons), so did anybody at CNN actually ask him to justify his flawed assertions, or did they just let him blather and then say, "That's all the time we have...we'll have to leave such questions for another time."?

In the Days of Yore journalism schools had courses in Research, Fact Checking, Writing.

Now they teach Hair and Makeup, Teleprompter Reading, and Perfect Teeth. . .

A "leading fiscal mind on Capitol Hill"? For all our sake, here's hoping that's not true.

Compared to some of his GOP compatriots, he's a frakking genius.

-Z

Steve your post should be titled: "A New Hampshire Yankee In King Goeorge's Court"

I think the wrong word was used to describe Judd Gregg's mind; it should be fecal not fiscal!@

You can't keep running these [federal] programs out [into the future] and not paying for them.

This is what gets me. Democrats do want to pay for them by raising taxes on the rich and, in the case of healthcare reform, enacting a deficit neutral plan. It's Republicans who want to spend more on popular programs and on defense without coming up with any additional revenue for them. Basically, he doesn't have the guts to say we should cut these programs, he's just intimating that Obama doesn't want to pay for them and Republicans do when the reality is precisely the opposite.

I wish they wouldn't do that -- lending him unearned credibility suggests to the public that Gregg knows what he's talking about.

Obama lent this fool credibility by asking him to be on his cabinet. Hardly seems right to hold CNN to a higher standard than the President.

And you can't keep throwing debt on top of debt.

Unless of course you are a Wall Street banker creating new and exciting financial IEDs - sorry, "derivatives" - in which case it's just fine and nobody should look over your shoulder or stand in your way.

Why oh why would CNN put this guy on air as a valid speaker for fiscal responsibility?

The man is a know nothing hypocrite who is not bright enough to know how to handle a budget. CNN tries to validate a reputation that just doesn't hold up...at all...from a nasty hypocrite...who is also totally irresponsible for doing what is good for the nation rather than his party. He should be relived from congress for stupidity.