Conservatives cried foul this week over evidence that Washington, D.C. police had wanted to arrest ex-NBC anchor David Gregory for famously flashing a gun-magazine on air in 2012 during an interview with the head of the National Rifle Association.
It was first reported in January 2013 that the D.C. attorney general’s office had declined to prosecute the “Meet the Press” host despite the district’s tough gun laws.
Last year, the conservative blog Legal Insurrection tapped the conservative Judicial Watch organization to file a Freedom of Information lawsuit in order to obtain Gregory’s arrest warrant affidavit. On Thursday, they announced victory and released the document.
The affidavit showed that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department recommended a warrant for Gregory’s arrest, which was subsequently dismissed by the attorney general.
Or, in the words of Legal Insurrection, “the request was nixed by the D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan because — my paraphrase — Gregory was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent.”
Elsewhere, gun rights blog “Shall Not Be Questioned,” summed up the incident as another case of double standards for a “celebrity.”
“He’s getting off because he has the best immunity in the world: celebrity,” the blog wrote. “Like you and me only better, indeed.”
“Know your place, peasants!” wrote conservative blogger and electric dryer salesman Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.
Several of the blogs circulated a meme of Gregory holding the magazines on-air displaying the words “if I were you, I’d already be in jail.”
The news was also widely shared by conservative pundits such as Mark Levin and sites such as Free Republic.
