David Gregory: Fair and Balanced

Hardball host David Gregory gives an extremely slanted question to Al Sharpton that favor Don Imus. This isn't surprising. Gregory has been on Imus's show and made fun of Harry Whittington being shot by Dick Cheney.

Gregory: ... McClellan will come out there and not be straight up about what he knew about the guy's condition. And there was even a question on the floor from a reporter about, you know, Is there a sense of relief within the White House because this guy appears to be fine?

Imus: You guys hope Harry dies, don't you?

Gregory: No. That's actually... that's not funny. Absolutely not.

Imus: I'm not trying to be funny.

Gregory: Well, no, absolutely not.

IMUS: ... You want Harry to pull through and be OK.

Gregory: Obviously.

[laughter]

Gregory: God, you're an awful person.

[laughter]

Gregory is a frequent caller to Imus In the Morning. Gregory covering Imus is the journalistic equivalent of Tim Russert's fair and balanced reporting on the Valerie Plame leak.

In other news: Imus has been fired by CBS.