Discussion: Chuck Todd To Matt Drudge: I Never Turned On Obama

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Based on a NBC/WSJ poll, you opine that Obama is over?

Isn’t that a bit hyperbolic and silly, Chuck?

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Clearly Chuck Todd is just reporting on perceptions he himself helps shape, aka ‘facts.’ Report, analyze, repeat. What is it with some people? Does Chuck Todd have to report and analyze the facts about what some people perceive to be his reporting and analysis of what other facts could potentially mean based on his analysis of other reporting on the analysis of reporting of people’s analysis of his previous reporting? Besides, it’s not his job!

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And Chuck Todd is thrilled THRILLED that Drudge mentioned him.

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Chuck never turned on Obama as he was never on his side to begin with.

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Unlike some in blogosphere, I don’t insert my opinions either way. So there is no “turning”. I simply report and analyze.

Analyze. IOW, give your opinion.

Sheesh.

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Right. Facts are facts. And the fact is that a poll runs the country. The great chuck Todd has analysed and made his determination. Obama should just quit.

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Wait, I thought it wasn’t Chuck Todd’s job to correct misinformation spouted by Drudge and Republicans? Unless it’s Chuck Todd’s job to protect Chuck Todd’s job at all costs? Shouldn’t that be the White Houses job?

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What did Chuck say a few months ago about how it wasn’t the media’s job to report facts?

(not a rhetorical question, it’s legit)

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As asinine as Chuck Todd’s analysis is, Drudge’s take on the subject (which pretty well matches the rest of the right-wing hive mind) is worse. Anything outside of the Fox bubble is in the tank for Obama, so naturally, any time they say or do something negative towards Obama it’s necessarily “turning.”

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Never mind, I found it:

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So much for the aphorism that polls reflect a mere snapshot in time, which may or may not be anything more than transitory.

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I’m sorry, but it’s not Chuck Todd’s job to call out why Drudge is wrong about Chuck Todd … he’s not supposed to be selling that …

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MSNBC host Chuck Todd said Wednesday that when it comes to misinformation about the new federal health care law, don’t expect members of the media to correct the record.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chuck-todd-it-s-not-media-s-job-to-correct-gop-s-obamacare-falsehoods-video

He said the media shouldn’t do the job the White House has failed to do. But until people signed up, it was sort of hard to tout the program. Instead, all the negative reporting by the media kept some people from doing just that.

Wonder what he’s saying about that now.

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Todd is a walking zero and calling him a stenographer insults the stenographer.

That being said, his comments underscore the fact that a Congress which uses procedural rules, the MSM and the Wingnut Noise Machine to aggressively block every act and utterance of this President can, in fact, stop government in its tracks, alter it or certainly slow it down appreciably. Not to mention the fact that the Fourth Estate has been criminally negligent in pointing this out for about five years. This is not Parliamentary Procedure Europe. The U.S. government is heavily weighted toward Congressional authority.

Many people, euphoric that Mr, Obama won in 2008, were ignorant of that. Those who wished to stop Mr. Obama in his tracks were highly cognizant of it. Their 2010 takeover of one half of one third of the Government of the United States of America (The House of Representatives) and the subsequent “election” of John Boehner as de facto President underscores this.

No legislation will be passed for at least 30 months because President Boehner will not allow it.

This is the political landscape that Chuck Todd is “reporting” on. What he should be saying is a version of what I am saying here.

If this were another country with different socialization patterns, different standards for certain age cohorts and less of a tendency to continually resurrect as many wedge issues (like this obsession with “race”) as possible, perhaps the public would demand a halt to infotainment disguised as “news”. Perhaps the public would fathom that one day every two years (voting day) is a reasonable price to pay for the only thing on earth that can control rapacious corporate OR political tyrants: representative government.

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very few times has Todd NOT expressed an opinion, he is asked for his opinion all of the time when he’s on air. WTF Chuckie, smile and say cheese.

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BREAKING: Drudge embraces “skewed” polls.

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The tautology here is epic.

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Didn’t Todd begin his career sporting that same goatee on SCTV? (“Let’s go to the vuddeo.”)

Loved his cover of “Turning Japanese”, but he really should stick to late-night music and avoid politics.

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HIS PRESIDENCY IS OVER!!! *

    • definitely not an opinion

Oh neat! Auto-bullets. Anyway, I was trying to be clever, but I guess TPM’s super, awesome, not at all annoying comment system is more clever than me.

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