NBC: Proud as a Peacock and Arrogant, too

"There's a huge responsibility to be the person who holds people accountable but who also helps people understand what's really happening. It's who I am."
-David Gregory

"We've been given a grave responsbility. We have to explain these very complex issues and we have to make sense of it all."
-Brian Williams

I'll be watching a lot of NBC for the next couple of days because I am an Olympics junkie. Sports that I know nothing about, sports that are really inferior and kind of stupid like the broom shuffleboard and ski/shoot/do a shot of yeager biathalon suddenly captivate me.

The downfall to Olympic fever is late nights, newfound dislike of China and Russia and NBC commentary. What I wouldn't give to have Scott Van Pelt rather than Bob Costas and crew. At least they have Chris Berman.

In between events, NBC bombards us with promos and one such ad caught my attention: NBCs self love of their news. I kept hitting rewind on my TIVO to capture the quotes correctly and transcribe them accurately. Who wrote those lines and how damn arrogant are they? What do they think about the average viewer?

We don't need Brian Williams and especially David Gregory to EXPLAIN things to us. Nor is that their job. Aren't they supposed to BROADCAST the news and let us make up our own minds? HA! Not in their worldview. Leave it to THEM to explain and that way we all think the same way... their way.

(Sarcastic voice over) And these issues are SOOOOOOO complex. I mean really, really complex you can't expect to understand them alone! But fear not- they see the gravity of their responsibility- a huge responsibility. To explain it all to you. You dumbasses at home.

In the election of 1988, SNL did a skit about HW Bush and Michael Dukakis in which Jon Lovitz playing the Massachusetts governor talked about his parents as "little people. Little swarthy people". It's the same sentiment- funny, the same network too except SNL is satire and Williams and Gregory are supposed to be serious.

Who can take this network seriously? So thanks, Brian Williams and David Gregory for looking out for us people, us little people. Little dumb people who need your explanation. Now shut up. You too Matt Lauer and Tom Brokaw.

Thank you Lord for the mute button...