I’ve mentioned it before, but the moment that defined Chuck Todd is when he had the privilege of asking the very first question of newly inaugurated President Barack Obama at his first White House press conference, and the question Todd chose to ask was "If Democrats pass a healthcare bill with no Republican votes, will you veto it in the interests of bipartisanship?”
Like most conservatives, he's not an ideologue, he's an apparatchik. It's all about the career.
“Covid has become an MRI of America's soul.” First, hold my hair while I vomit. Second, how did Americans become so stupid? I understand that this newsletter focuses on the media’s role in our demise and Republicans have perverted and destroyed our federal government, but how did we get this clueless as a nation? I know this is a rhetorical question but what did we do to deserve Chuck Todd? Third, I hate Chuck Todd.
I'm old enough to remember when Lawrence Spivak and Bill Munro hosted Meet The Press when it was a real interview show. After Munro was forced out the show began its' decline.
If it's Sunday, It's now Meet the Presstitute.
That's why I go to they gym Sunday mornings instead of wasting time with the Sunday Gasbags who endlessly recite Republican talking points.
The Covid reportage, while generally serviceable, is getting sloppy on one point and typically dishonest on a second.
Sloppy: Even with virulence of Delta, essentially no vaccinated people are being hospitalized with Covid and, obviously, none dying. (There are always exceptions to rules.)
Dishonest: We don’t, can’t have a true national response to Covid for the reason Eric alluded: governors are free to dictate or block responses. The mainstream’s fealty to the GOP requires them to ignore that point and, indeed, essentially blame Biden for what DeSantis, Abbott and Reeves are doing. Note: That’s not bothsiderism but simple lying.
As for the Perry piece: so good that it made me happy I broke down and subscribed to the WaPo. Very little new, if anything, but still happy to see it.
Chuck Todd will jump all over this today. Dean and the rest of the NYT gang—and the entire Beltway press—must be salivating. It’s like something out of Tiger Beat.
They did the same thing a few years back with regards to climate change. 97% of scientists said we were influencing climate change. But "news" programs would put on one person from each "side", present it as a 50/50 split, and let them go at it for 3 minutes like it was a boxing match.
Reagan called his people "the silent majority" but what they really are is the vocal minority. They're like an animal that swells itself up when threatened - attempting to appear much bigger than they actually are.
Year after year fewer voters identify as republican. They are no longer 50% of the public and the demographics indicate they are having trouble attracting young voters. The only reason this minority is given equal coverage is people like Chuck Todd.
In the Philippines, Chuck Todd's style of dishonest reporting is very common in the Filipino mainstream media. As I've mentioned before, the previous administration of the late former president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III was regularly attacked by various outlets during his term. They usually portrayed his administration as being incompetent & being out-of-touch with ordinary people. Usually, the early evening newscasts would constantly feature stories of violent crime, massive traffic in the roads, and the problems with the Metro Railway Transit system. Later in the administration, they would sensationalize stories of people who got caught with bullets inside their luggage. Our local TV & print media were good at riling up the public over these issues and trying to directly blame the former president even his wasn't directly involved in handling those issues. While these were legitimate concerns that the previous administration needed to tackle, some of these issues went back to previous administrations. They weren't interested in making any data-driven reports on the Aquino administration's efforts to improve the economy and infrastructure through programs like the Public-Private Partnership program which combined public funding with private construction firms in various infrastructure projects. These matters wouldn't be the focus of the early evening newscasts, which catered to the middle-middle, lower-middle & lower-class markets. The more serious matters would be the territory of the late night newscasts catering to upper & upper middle-class markets. The class divide in how the news was being reported was one of reasons Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in 2016. He made outrageous promises claiming he could solve the allegedly huge
crime problem in 3 to 6 months (not true), also claimed that he could solve the traffic problem (not true either), and could solve the railway transit system (also not true). When he became president, the news media's previously sensationalized reports on the traffic & railway system became less common. However, it was replaced by the constant stream of news of poor people suspected of being drug addicts or pushers being killed all in the name of Duterte's bloody war on illegal drugs.
Um, Independents ARE not a party, Eric. They are not organized in any meaningful way. I think you should correct the statement you make several times to something like, "There are two political parties and a group of Independents who affiliate with neither party."
Lovely song. Sorry to be so superficial but I just can't get past Chuck Todd's 'Greek Boy' haircut. Thanks again for continuing to call out Both Sides Baloney.
America is not divided on COVID or masks, or abortion or transgender athletes, or voting or civil rights or critical race theory, or guns. The only thing America can honestly said to be divided on is whether we can or should allow the Republicon Party to continue to exist.
Chuck Todd is just horrible. Him and Andrea Mitchell. I need someone to call him out. He's so ridiculous and he thinks he's hot s*it. MTP needs a new host that has some brains. He literally is just adding fuel to a fire that needs to put out. Thanks Eric for calling him out. Need more of you to keep doing it. Appreciate you.
Thanks Eric. Todd is born and raised in FL and still a resident. Seems he might address the Covid issues in his home state.
Frankly, I thought the 2020 “brownshirts” comment was the end of Todd’s career, at least as it is, but no, he remains the host of MTP. Haven’t watched him in a long time.
For those who want more of him, Todd picks NFL games on the podcast The Tony Kornheiser Show, where Todd is pitted against a monkey, who also picks NFL games.
Not to suggest he is an entertainer more than a journalist.
I’ve mentioned it before, but the moment that defined Chuck Todd is when he had the privilege of asking the very first question of newly inaugurated President Barack Obama at his first White House press conference, and the question Todd chose to ask was "If Democrats pass a healthcare bill with no Republican votes, will you veto it in the interests of bipartisanship?”
Like most conservatives, he's not an ideologue, he's an apparatchik. It's all about the career.
“Covid has become an MRI of America's soul.” First, hold my hair while I vomit. Second, how did Americans become so stupid? I understand that this newsletter focuses on the media’s role in our demise and Republicans have perverted and destroyed our federal government, but how did we get this clueless as a nation? I know this is a rhetorical question but what did we do to deserve Chuck Todd? Third, I hate Chuck Todd.
I'm old enough to remember when Lawrence Spivak and Bill Munro hosted Meet The Press when it was a real interview show. After Munro was forced out the show began its' decline.
If it's Sunday, It's now Meet the Presstitute.
That's why I go to they gym Sunday mornings instead of wasting time with the Sunday Gasbags who endlessly recite Republican talking points.
Chuck Todd is the answer to the Jeopardy clue “A useless tool”.
The Covid reportage, while generally serviceable, is getting sloppy on one point and typically dishonest on a second.
Sloppy: Even with virulence of Delta, essentially no vaccinated people are being hospitalized with Covid and, obviously, none dying. (There are always exceptions to rules.)
Dishonest: We don’t, can’t have a true national response to Covid for the reason Eric alluded: governors are free to dictate or block responses. The mainstream’s fealty to the GOP requires them to ignore that point and, indeed, essentially blame Biden for what DeSantis, Abbott and Reeves are doing. Note: That’s not bothsiderism but simple lying.
As for the Perry piece: so good that it made me happy I broke down and subscribed to the WaPo. Very little new, if anything, but still happy to see it.
Did you see this current headline from the NYT?
“When Will Trump Answer the Big 2024 Question?”
Chuck Todd will jump all over this today. Dean and the rest of the NYT gang—and the entire Beltway press—must be salivating. It’s like something out of Tiger Beat.
They did the same thing a few years back with regards to climate change. 97% of scientists said we were influencing climate change. But "news" programs would put on one person from each "side", present it as a 50/50 split, and let them go at it for 3 minutes like it was a boxing match.
Reagan called his people "the silent majority" but what they really are is the vocal minority. They're like an animal that swells itself up when threatened - attempting to appear much bigger than they actually are.
Year after year fewer voters identify as republican. They are no longer 50% of the public and the demographics indicate they are having trouble attracting young voters. The only reason this minority is given equal coverage is people like Chuck Todd.
and since it hasn't yet been mentioned in the comments, I feel compelled to mention that NBC = "Nepotism Before Competence"
Describing Republicans accurately is considered a partisan act - so people like Todd avoid it like the plague.
And so we have an actual plague. Go figure.
In the Philippines, Chuck Todd's style of dishonest reporting is very common in the Filipino mainstream media. As I've mentioned before, the previous administration of the late former president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III was regularly attacked by various outlets during his term. They usually portrayed his administration as being incompetent & being out-of-touch with ordinary people. Usually, the early evening newscasts would constantly feature stories of violent crime, massive traffic in the roads, and the problems with the Metro Railway Transit system. Later in the administration, they would sensationalize stories of people who got caught with bullets inside their luggage. Our local TV & print media were good at riling up the public over these issues and trying to directly blame the former president even his wasn't directly involved in handling those issues. While these were legitimate concerns that the previous administration needed to tackle, some of these issues went back to previous administrations. They weren't interested in making any data-driven reports on the Aquino administration's efforts to improve the economy and infrastructure through programs like the Public-Private Partnership program which combined public funding with private construction firms in various infrastructure projects. These matters wouldn't be the focus of the early evening newscasts, which catered to the middle-middle, lower-middle & lower-class markets. The more serious matters would be the territory of the late night newscasts catering to upper & upper middle-class markets. The class divide in how the news was being reported was one of reasons Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in 2016. He made outrageous promises claiming he could solve the allegedly huge
crime problem in 3 to 6 months (not true), also claimed that he could solve the traffic problem (not true either), and could solve the railway transit system (also not true). When he became president, the news media's previously sensationalized reports on the traffic & railway system became less common. However, it was replaced by the constant stream of news of poor people suspected of being drug addicts or pushers being killed all in the name of Duterte's bloody war on illegal drugs.
Um, Independents ARE not a party, Eric. They are not organized in any meaningful way. I think you should correct the statement you make several times to something like, "There are two political parties and a group of Independents who affiliate with neither party."
Lovely song. Sorry to be so superficial but I just can't get past Chuck Todd's 'Greek Boy' haircut. Thanks again for continuing to call out Both Sides Baloney.
America is not divided on COVID or masks, or abortion or transgender athletes, or voting or civil rights or critical race theory, or guns. The only thing America can honestly said to be divided on is whether we can or should allow the Republicon Party to continue to exist.
Chuck Todd is just horrible. Him and Andrea Mitchell. I need someone to call him out. He's so ridiculous and he thinks he's hot s*it. MTP needs a new host that has some brains. He literally is just adding fuel to a fire that needs to put out. Thanks Eric for calling him out. Need more of you to keep doing it. Appreciate you.
Thanks Eric. Todd is born and raised in FL and still a resident. Seems he might address the Covid issues in his home state.
Frankly, I thought the 2020 “brownshirts” comment was the end of Todd’s career, at least as it is, but no, he remains the host of MTP. Haven’t watched him in a long time.
For those who want more of him, Todd picks NFL games on the podcast The Tony Kornheiser Show, where Todd is pitted against a monkey, who also picks NFL games.
Not to suggest he is an entertainer more than a journalist.