Chuck Todd

[Miles Archer]

Adam Parkhomenko
@AdamParkhomenko

Would someone get this gutless little shit Chuck Todd a spot on the Fox and Friends couch so he can do this shit without continuing to embarrass the Meet the Press name?

Link to tweet

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Miles, I have no idea

why chuckie remains on the payroll. His ratings don't justify it.

[Miles Archer]

2. I work on the laptop most of the day and keep MSNBC on for background noise...

...so I never really "watch" Todd. But I had his show on today.

He's been peppering a lot of his Trump commentary in recent days with things like "That said, you have to give him credit for..."

Well, no, Chuck, we don't.

I heard his AOC rant today and wasn't surprised to see that he was at the top of Twitter's "trending" with most comments similar to the one in my OP.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Chuck probably won't be one of the most popular stars in the MSNBC lineup between now and November 2020. He's starting to remind me of Hugh Hewitt, and we know how things turned out for him on the network.

[saidsimplesimon]

5. Same here, I'm always on watch.

I agree with the "Hugh Hewitt" comparison. Ratings and keeping his "stature" in the industry seems to emboldened Mr. Todd to express his independent opinion. Put me in the "not a fan" column.

[malaise]

41. You have no idea?

He does his masters' bidding very effectively - that's why!

[sop]

3. Tim Russert would be taking a flamethrower to the whole Trump crowd every Sunday

I've had it with Chuck Todd's pusilanimous interviewing style. He doesn't challenge people when they lie, he seldom asks follow-up questions and appears uninformed most of the time. I'm sick of his constant eye-rolling, helplessly looking up at the sky whenever he gets confused, and the endless, meandering questions that never seem to get to the heart of the matter.

Todd wouldn't cut it on a local, small-market tv station, much less on Meet the Fucking Press. David Gregory was a rightwing stooge, but Chuck Todd is just a stooge. We need someone like Tim Russert at this point in history.

[tishaLA]

19. The same Russert who aided and abetted Chreney? Doubt it

Russert loved and prized proximity to power more than anything

[malaise]

42. Thread winner

[Dave Starsky]

43. Surely you jest. Russert was just as bad as Tuck Choad.

Tim Russert, in fact, provided the very standard that Choad operates from. Oh, sure, he asked a "tough question" every now and then, but he never even once pressed or challenged his Republican guests on any of their patently false lies or ridiculous, non-sequitur responses. We got to watch Tim gargle Dick Cheney's balls all the way to the Iraq war and beyond. And now Choad does the very same thing with Trump and his ilk.

[sop]

44. Russert was despised by Republicans and Democrats for his extremely aggressive interviewing

Surely you jest. Anyone who writes "he never even once pressed or challenged his Republican guests on any of their patently false lies or ridiculous, non-sequitur responses" and "watch Tim gargle Dick Cheney's balls" obviously never watched him. Russert's style is (was) the polar opposite of Todd's. That was the whole point, and you missed it.

[Dave Starsky]

45. He was "extremely aggressive" in the same way...

That the Washington Generals play an "extremely aggressive" game of basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters.

He was never "extremely aggressive" when the occasion, or the guest, called for it.

[sop]

46. That would be your opinion, but it's not a widely held opinion by most fair-minded people

As always, there are those who interpret everyone's motives in the media through their own far left prism.

[Hortensis]

4. The distinguished Meet the Press is dead. As long as

Todd is spinning it for Republicans 6 (or 7?) days a week, it's RW propaganda.

[Miles Archer]

6. That's why I didn't comment on it until he hit the negative trending on Twitter...

...because if I had simply posted the video of that AOC segment, it would have come across as "right wing talking points."

It really was saturated with Hannity-level drama and "self-righteous indignation."

And maybe that's MSNBC's goal. They keep trying to cozy up to a right winger who will be "palatable" to their audience, even though that audience asserts over and over that they're not interested. They keep confusing "controversy" with "ratings."

[Hortensis]

11. :) Yes. I believe MSNBC's management is committed to electing

Republicans, while at the same time positioning itself in the market as overall neutral/left leaning. All you have to do is follow what you know to be a lie through its iterations in a day's programs to see the approved memes being pushed on each show. Daytime TV with its inexpensive talking heads eager to become regulars and more is easily the worst. Their goal is disaffection, and Todd is at that constantly with his false equivalencies between what the Republicans have become and Democrats.

Might as well vote Republican, no big difference.

[kacekwl]

7. I don't believe she said

Nazi concentration camps Chuck.

[former9thward]

8. Those are the only type of "concentration camps".

That is the historical definition of the term and is what Americans think of. She owns the statement.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Bullshit...

they may be the most well known, but the term applies to any gathering place where 'undesirables' are collected for punishment. You don't need gas chambers to be concentration camps.

Perhaps we shouldn't be letting airheads like Chuck Todd argue semantics instead of discussing what it actually happening.

[tishaLA]

18. Nope. In fact Japanese-Americans in SoCal routinely call "internment camps"

"concentration camps," as did Chief Justice Roberts in tRump v. Hawaii when referring to the Korematsu decision: "The forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority."

Heck, I even remember, soon after I loved to Los Angeles, seeing a sports reporter refer to them as concentration camps.

[uponit7771]

30. This is false on its face, Japanese were put on concentration camp in the US

[former9thward]

37. I don't dumb history down.

Are you saying the Japanese-Americans went through the same horrors as those in Nazi camps? If you are you don't know history.

[uponit7771]

38. Link to definition of concentration camp inside

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212204428

Faller dichotomy to intimate that anyone who didn't go through a Nazi concentration camp isn't in a concentration camp

That's not true

[Miles Archer]

10. That's right, she didn't.

Lawrence O'Donnell final segment tonight is "America's History with Concentration Camps." He's discussing George Takei's upcoming book on the subject, and shared his tweet about how the Japanese internment camps were, in fact, "concentration camps."

ON EDIT: She replied to Todd.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

Well, @chucktodd - the fact that you slipped in “Nazi” when I never said that is pretty unfortunate.

Almost as unfortunate as the fact that you spent this whole time w/o discussing DHS freezers, “dog pounds,” missing children, & human rights abuses that uphold use of this term.

Link to tweet

[sop]

20. Chuck Todd went into "outrage mode" a few days ago about something offensive Trump said

I can't recall what Trump said that caused Todd to go off on him; he says and tweets so many shitty things on a daily basis that one forgets.

Being a card-carrying "both sides always do it" corporate media hack, I guess Chuck had to go after someone on the left, to balance things out a bit. And who better to go after than the right's favorite punching bag these days, AOC?

[stopdiggin]

35. faux outrage

Thank you for putting it in a nutshell. The "contrived outrage" or "faux outrage mode" would nail it down even better. Todd doesn't have a great deal of personality (a liability in the current era of the View, etc.) .. and thus contrived efforts to "whip up" a bit of fervor. Makes him look like a gosh darn regular guy. Too bad .. on the concentration camp issue .. Todd actually knows better.

[spanone]

12. Fuck Todd

[RestoreAmerica2020]

28. Come mierda todd..[eat shit, fuck you--depending on circumstance and the latter never in front of

...abuela--never..grandpa yes, grandmother no]

[myohmy2]

29. no...

...Fuck Wadd

...

[EveHammond13]

13. Chuck Todd needs to be removed from the debate moderator panel

[lunatica]

33. The fact he's on it makes me question whether I'll watch it

I wish someone would take him aside and verbally give him another ass hole and then fire him. I refuse to watch him anymore.

[rickford66]

14. Back in the 60's we called a guy like Toad a Smack.

[tishaLA]

15. The worst part of Chuck's comments

he began his comments by acknowledging that Rep Ocasio-Cortez makes "a distinction between concentration camps and Nazi death camps," and not 30 seconds later says that she has to be “careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps because they’re not at all comparable in the slightest.”

In other words, in the space of a paragraph, he admits that what he's about to say is erroneous and then says it anyhow. And this is why Mr Todd is awful and why, last time I checked twitter, he was the #1 trending topic in LA with people calling him out for his hackishness and disingenuousness.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Not only is he a terrible journalist and television personality,

but - and I'm sorry, I know this is petty - he is an eyesore. Doesn't he even have a stylist? With that pathetic little Lloyd Christmas hair cut and that pubic hair goatee, he is just a mess. If they are going to continue to have him on, can't someone at least send him to the damn makeover department?

[Tiger58]

17. Tiger58

Todd is a Trumper..See how he combs his hair..

[czarjak]

22. Hell-Of-A-Do, Chuckster! Looking good, that I can tell you. Believe me. Big League.

[raging moderate]

21. HOW did Chuck Todd ever get this job?

Is it true that he never even finished the coursework for his BA? Who decided that he was remotely qualified for this position? He seems so ignorant.

[Miles Archer]

23. He lobbied aggressively for it, when it was clear David Gregory wasn't going to survive

I read an article on this around the time that it happened, but the take-away is largely that he remained the squeaky wheel until he got his grease.

[tishaLA]

24. IIRC Russert liked him a lot

And by virtue of that, and sticking up to Brokaw and the others who mattered in the old boys network, he got the keys to the car after NBC had enough of David Gregory

[Jarqui]

25. Never a fan

Big let down from Tim Russert
Todd could work at the job 100 years and never come close to being decent.
Like Trump, he's not as smart as he thinks he is.

[hibbing]

26. His "comb forward" v Trumpy's combover in a cage match on ppv n/t

[Sucha NastyWoman]

27. He is also political director for NBC news

I have never understood why. Must be related to somebody.

[TheBlackAdder]

32. Or has pics of somebody in a compromising situation :-D

[stopdiggin]

36. he knows politics

Todd does know his politics. It's just that he has this deplorable failing of playing "both-siderism." Even when the facts clearly do not warrant. He seems not to be able to help himself, even when it reveals him to be a myopic nincompoop. On the other hand, perhaps "both sides do it" puts him in good stead with the corporate media types?

[shraby]

31. What's with todd's sing-song voice lately? I wish he'd stop it.

Bugs the H out of me.

[lunatica]

34. You won't miss him at all if you stop watching him

Plus you’ll save yourself an hour of getting pissed off. I speak from experience.

[shraby]

40. I don't listen to him except when I don't change the channel quick enough.

[Kid Berwyn]

39. Ignorance is the measure for success in modern journalism.

The best paid are the least informative.