David Gregory: I Don’t Even Think About Brian Williams Keeping His Job While I Lost Mine

This Feb. 24, 2013 photo released by NBC News shows moderator David Gregory on the set of "Meet the Press," in Washington. NBC News President Deborah Turness said in a memo to the Sunday morning public affairs progra... This Feb. 24, 2013 photo released by NBC News shows moderator David Gregory on the set of "Meet the Press," in Washington. NBC News President Deborah Turness said in a memo to the Sunday morning public affairs program staff members that she supports Gregory "now and into the future." Once the dominant Sunday morning program, "Meet the Press" has sunk behind competing shows by CBS and ABC in the ratings. (AP Photo/NBC, William B. Plowman) MORE LESS
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Ousted NBC anchor David Gregory says he doesn’t even think about the fact that his former colleague Brian Williams is still employed by the company after being caught lying about his reporting.

Gregory, who was ousted from his perch as host of “Meet The Press” last fall amid poor ratings, said in an interview with New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman published Wednesday that he didn’t like to see Williams judged for telling a bogus story about taking fire aboard a helicopter in Iraq in 2003.

“I have a lot of respect for Brian. I’ve been around him a long time,” Gregory told Sherman. “I never did anything wrong, and I faced a lot of scrutiny. No one questioned my journalistic capability or my integrity. But I don’t like to see him judged just by this.”

Still, Gregory added that Williams was “wrong” to embellish the tale.

Williams was suspended for six months without pay from the anchor chair of “Nightly News” and later replaced entirely by NBC’s Lester Holt. He’s has since been reassigned to MSNBC.

“How does it make you feel now that his suspension is winding down?” Sherman asked Gregory. “He has a job and you don’t.”

“It’s just not something that I think about,” Gregory responded.

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  1. Brian Williams at least never did the boogaloo with Turdblossom.

  2. I love this bit from politico:

    "I was so consumed and self absorbed that I didn’t think enough about communicating enough to people if I’m doing well, you’re doing well we’re doing this together, so some people were not unhappy to get some comeuppance so i think i had to learn something from that,” he said.

    Look at how many times he uses “I” in a paragraph about how he learned not to be so self absorbed. Followed by this,

    “There’s peace because as much as I miss the work…I don’t miss NBC, I don’t miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me,” he said.

    Yeah…David is learning alright.

  3. Avatar for marby marby says:

    If there is a quintessential image of the buffoonery of US “journalists,” that would be it.

  4. Saw him on CBS this morning playing the same tune. 'I have learned to be modest about all the great things I have done. I’m a better person for having written this wonderful book all about me and how I learned to notice people who are not me, poor things."

  5. No one questioned my journalistic capability or my integrity.

    Umm … yeah we did.

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