NBC News host Chuck Todd shut down Sen. John Kennedy’s (R-LA) attempt to equate the President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal with a conspiracy theory about 2020 candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Pro tip:
If you don’t want gaslighting on your program, don’t invite gaslighters on your program.
If they get airtime, they’ve already won.
Gaslighting is probably more effective if you can stop yourself from smirking and bring your voice down an octave, John.
On one of themes auspicious days in recent history,
Todd invites Chuckles the Clown to weigh in.
What you should be asking: “Why is Trump only worried about corruption in the Ukraine? Are you claiming that, purely by coincidence, he picked the one and only country in the world that could generate a scandal for his political rival? Is corruption permitted everywhere else?”
It’s such an open and shut case that even Chuck Todd gets it.
Yup. Though I gotta say, this writeup doesn’t do justice to Todd’s handling of this faux-straight-talker. Didn’t hear the beginning (saw Kennedy and turned down the sound), but I dipped back in to hear Chuck explicitly knocking down the Biden conspiracy-peddling, noting how often it had been debunked and doing some debunking of specifics himself. Then he went and made one or two predictably asinine points; but I was shocked at how solid he was in this interview.
(Not the first time he’s revealed that he actually sees reality, which makes me detest him all the more when he plays the “both sides” bullsht.)
Kennedy is highly gasfactual.
I’m 100% sure you can gaslight Chuck Todd, pretty much any time of day or night
Forget it, Jake, it’s Louisiana!
From the walking, talking cadaver after the mortician did his best.
Apparently, he can smell blood in the water like an actual journalist.
Heh, no doubt.
Shortly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiryagainst Trump, Kennedy (who had told Democrats to “buy a spine” on impeaching Trump in June) responded to the news on “Meet the Press” by bringing up Trump’s baseless accusation that Biden had gotten a Ukrainian prosecutor fired for
Well, wow! It looks like not only did Democrats “buy a spine”, they bought Senator Kennedy’s. He’s certainly behaving like an invertebrate.
Ya mean Todd didn’t fall for that down-home-on-the-farm, folksy bullshitter’s gooberish nonsense that Kennedy usually dishes out in all his interviewed appearances on TV? Well, color me surprised.
Captain Todd: “I’m shocked – SHOCKED – to find whatboutism going on in here!”
Croupier Halperin: “Your ‘Clinton Foundation’ notes, sir.”
Captain Todd: “Oh, thank you very much.”
You know? I was kind feeling this, too. MSM folk standing on the fence carefully talking both sides and waiting until it’s safe to pick a side without sticking your nose out too far.
WHen you’ve lost Tuck Chodd…
And you, sir, are no Jack Kennedy.
Initially most of the MSM went for the Biden stuff like it was a laser pointer to a cat. But they overcame their professional weaknesses enough to realize debunked is debunked. Can’t fool all the people all the time and so forth. Better late than never. Feel free to add other bromides as appropriate.
Was Kennedy in the Senate today for the vote?