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That has got to be the dumbest thing Iāve ever heard. How is this guy employed?
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Heās already admitted itās not his job to inform viewers.
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While eating an order of waffle fries no doubt.
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And yet, his bosses probably think this is quite profound. And clever. And lord-only-knows what else.
Jeez, this country gets dumber by the day. And our national press deserves a helluvalotta the blame.
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This is the new āedgierā MTP?
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The dumbing down of political coverage and discourse gains fresh momentum every time Chuck Todd speaks.
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Forget about how shallow this is, and meaningless since there are rural Starbucks and urban Chick Fil Aās, but all heās saying is rural versus urban, or red versus blue, both of which are far more meaningful than the advertisement this dudeās running.
Honestly, there are people in this world who have yet to realize that not every idea that pops in their head is a great one. Chuck Todd is one such person and it looks like heās surrounded with people who wonāt tell him when heās saying something dumb.
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Did anyone think Chuck Todd would actually elevate the political discussion? These comments are simplistic, condescending to both groups he identifies, and not very insightful. I hope his NBC bosses are proud (not).
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The Starbucks in Florence, SC is a mobscene, filled with Republicans sucking down fatty lattys. I am typing from there this minute.
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Oh, Rocky the Flying Squirrelās crackerjack staff of meme innovators is busily trying to gauge how influential he is among the soft-headed punditry by observing who adopts this fluffery as an insightful sound-byte treatise on American demography.
How about this instead, Rocky? How about dividing America into people who have intellectual curiosity, and those who watch Fox News?
Or people who understand and respect science, and those who think climate change is a plot contrived by 97% of the worldās professional climatologists?
Or people who think the ātakersā are the working poor, and people who think the ātakersā are the billionaires who get all the tax breaks, trade deals, and deregulation?
Or, if all thatās just too goddamned clear for you to handle, how about just offering up the notion, equally as profound as yours if not more so:
America is divided up into two types of people ā those who purport that America is divided up between two types of people, and those who donāt.
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Indeed! I donāt know whether to order an espresso or horseradish sauce and hot peppers on my sandwich.
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Cāmon! Do you ALWAYS insist on hitting the nail right on the head?
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This is what happens when you let a pollster become a reporter, er, news reader, er, āhostā.
What a little twerp he is.
Where were all the grownups when the decision was made to put āChuckā there?
Bet he was lottsa fun at frat parties, tho. āHey, Chuck- weāre outta beer!ā
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Um, Chuck, I think it would be more accurate to split us into āPundit Nationā and āActual-Citizens-Who-Live-Like-Humans Nationā.
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Believe me, there are a lot of people who think this sort of sophomoric crap is good writing. In their one writing class in college they were told, āUse vivid details to make your writing come alive.ā And to their simplistic, consumption-obsessed minds, brand names are vivid details. It makes you want to gnash your teeth with tears in your eyes. I swear to God Iāve handed people parodies of this kind of thing and been praised for it. āThatās more like it,ā they say. It makes me want to go live in a cabin someplace where there are more bears than people.
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Youād think that he could come up with a way to classify Americans that was more insightful than our consumer preferences. But thatās the point isnāt it? As far as these reporters are concerned, weāre consumers not citizens.
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I was going to watch Chuck Todd have his slow motion train wreck, until I found out Scarborough would be joining the show. I just couldnāt watch a Toad and a Weasel who then turn to the nepotist for further comentary.
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What do you expect from the guy whose last show had a āsoup of the dayā segment.
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And he probably got high fives all around as he was leaving the studio and once he was gone all the high fivers said in unison as notsnot said:
āThat has got to be the dumbest thing Iāve ever heard.ā
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