{"id":57830,"date":"2015-01-24T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57830"},"modified":"2015-02-07T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T19:28:36","slug":"more-on-david-gregory-and-his-unprosecuted-gun-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57830","title":{"rendered":"More on David Gregory and His &#8220;Magazine Incident&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember David Gregory?\u00a0 You know, that &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33560\">who flouted DC&#8217;s gun laws a couple of years ago and got away with it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, turns out that&#8217;s not the fault of the DC police.\u00a0 It seems the DC police wanted to arrest Gregory for that stunt, and recommended he be charged.\u00a0 The DC Attorney General, Irvin B. Nathan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/documents-cops-wanted-to-hit-meet-the-press-then-host-david-gregory-with-gun-charge\/article\/2559132\">ignored their request for an arrest warrant<\/a>.\u00a0 The linked story paraphrases the reason as being because the prosecutor thought Gregory &#8220;was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.\u00a0 How about not p!ssing on our legs and telling us it&#8217;s raining, Nathan?<\/p>\n<p>This has all the indications of having been nothing but a blatant <em>quid pro quo<\/em> to ensure continued good press and public support from Gregory and NBC on gun control issues.\u00a0 You cut Gregory a break because you agree with him politically and he could help you in the future &#8211; plain and simple.\u00a0 Had it been an ordinary Joe or Jane vice someone you agreed with politically and found useful, you&#8217;d have nailed them to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>But hey &#8211; that&#8217;s the DC city government for ya.\u00a0 Crap like that shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember David Gregory?\u00a0 You know, that &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host who flouted DC&#8217;s gun laws a &hellip; <a title=\"More on David Gregory and His &#8220;Magazine Incident&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57830\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on David Gregory and His &#8220;Magazine Incident&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}