The Village 1 percenters: David Gregory, Bret Baier join Chevy Chase club

[phantom power]

David Gregory, host of NBC’s Meet The Press, and Bret Baier, host of Fox News’s Special Report, are among the latest applicants to the Chevy Chase Club, the historic social club that has catered to Washington’s wealthiest for over a century.

The Club’s recent "Membership Report" shows that both Gregory and Baier are up for consideration as “newly-proposed candidates for membership.” Gregory is being sponsored by Joseph Stettinius and William M. Walker. Baier is being sponsored Burke F. Hayes and by Brit Hume, the former anchor of Fox News’s Special Report.

The Chevy Chase Club would not disclose the cost of admission, but a member told me that the initiation fee is $80,000 and that members pay $6,000 in annual dues. The member also said that Bob Schieffer, host of CBS’s Face The Nation, was a member of the club.

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“Order a cocktail at the Chevy Chase country-club and you'll step back into ante-bellum Savannah,” one British reporter for The Telegraph observed last year. “The blacks wait on Wasps, showing all the deference expected of them. You won't find many Cohens either, lounging on the well-kept lawn.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/03/gregory-baier-seek-to-consort-with-117622.html

This is the problem with the political press. There is no earthly reason for David Gregory to join this club. He has all the access he needs to any powerful person on earth. The only reason for him to join it is because he wants to be among other people like himself (and away from the polloi.) Do you think old Dave will be covering his friends down at the club with the vigor that's necessary in these times? Yeah, I didn't think so.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/village-1-percenters.html

[Kingofalldems]

1. Maybe the snottiest in DC

Not surprised at Gregory, he is definitely a Villager.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Gregory is there to keep GE in Defense Dept. dollars. War is Big Money for GE.

Gregory does what he is told to do.

[SomethingFishy]

3. Gregory's getting a return on his soul.

Not much of one but hey, he's just getting started.