Chuck Todd TARGETED By PETITION For Comments About Obamacare And The Media

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38. Signed! Maybe we should start calling him "Todd-blossom."

A riff on "Turd Blossom" that still fits kkkarl rove to a T.

Very happy to see this is starting to pick up some attention. Huffington Post, for example.

As a retired broadcast journalist myself, it's my opinion that reporters, anchors, and interviewers DO have an obligation to present the truth, and correct the record when it's presented incorrectly, or misrepresented entirely. That's why you ask those follow-up questions (that nobody seems interested in asking anymore - because they insist on clinging to the pre-assembled list of questions rather than responding to funky flimsy "answers" that need further examination, vetting, probing, and challenging).

Remember when Rachel Maddow had rand paul on, when he was running for Senate, and she asked him about his hands-off attitude towards government vigilance on social justice and racial equality issues? And he danced and dawdled and made excuses and she kept at it. And the segment ran long and even slopped over into the next segment (when something else had been planned), and she threw out the plans and kept at it with rand paul. She even commented by the end of the extended interview that she had all these other questions she hadn't been able to get to because she felt compelled to follow up on this racist-apologist bullshit he was spewing - and that he never fully answered but just kept weaseling around.

THAT is journalism. Candy Crowley even accidentally committed it during that debate she moderated between President obama and wrongney. And she corrected the record when mitt went off on the party line of misrepresenting and distorting the White House's Benghazi reaction. I was stunned! Pleasantly surprised that she'd do that. I was NOT expecting it.

Tim Russert never did that. He sat there on the other side of the table from cheney, rummy, wolfie, dougie, rove, contradicta, and a cast of thousands of bush2 cretins and liars and apologists and just smiled and nodded his head while trying to look really earnest and impartial, and didn't question Thing One about ANY of their assertions. Just let 'em stovepipe it straight through the TV to the gullible "Meet the Press" viewers at home - who had no one setting the record straight so they could get the facts and the truth about the Iraq war. All those folks at NBC News who still speak of him with hushed tones - I don't get it. Doesn't make ANY sense. That was one thing I always disliked about Keith Olbermann. He practically burned incense to the guy. Sorry. Tim Russert was a wholly-owned subsidiary.