Chuck Todd to Ron Johnson: "Essentially, you're the arsonist here."

[Nevilledog]

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Jan 3, 2021
.@chucktodd to @senronjohnson: "You made an allegation of widespread fraud, you've failed to offer specific evidence of that widespread fraud, but you're demanding an investigation on the grounds there's allegations of widespread fraud. Essentially, you're the arsonist here."

.@SenRonJohnson: "This fire was started when you completely ignored, for example, our investigation of Hunter Biden."
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@chucktodd: "Alright, I've had enough of hearing this. You've spent the last 2 years ... carrying a lot of this crazy, conspiratorial water for Pres. Trump."

.@chucktodd:"[You attempted] to somehow blame Ukraine for the interference in the election rather than Russia, you've used your committee to ... create the illusion of voter fraud. ... You're not trying to overturn the election, you just said. Are you just trying to curry favor?"

Watch the full interview here:

Full Sen. Johnson Interview: 'Biden has won [Wisconsin] by twenty thousand votes'
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chair, Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, explains why he might object to the electoral college results despite an absence of voter fraud, during an...
nbcnews.com
8:25 AM · Jan 3, 2021

[Vinca]

1. I think I heard Johnson is up in 2022. We've got to find a candidate who can oust him.

What's Russ Feingold doing these days?

[rsdsharp]

4. Feingold has already lost to this lox twice.

Do you really want to try for three?

[Vinca]

8. I didn't realize that. Too bad. I like Russ.

[milestogo]

17. Hoping for a nice appointment from President Biden

He was special envoy to the Great Lakes Region in Africa under Obama. Trump ignored the position. Feingold really cares about Africa, so I hope he is re-appointed to that position.

[VA_Jill]

2. When you've lost Chuck Toad

you're dead meat.

[KPN]

5. Well, on our side of the aisle for sure and maybe with Is -- but acroiss the aisle?????

[Greybnk48]

3. I saw Todd ask him Why not investigate the 911 truthers? Then moon landing? n/t

[niyad]

6. What the hell happened here? Toadie sounds almost sane??

[mopinko]

12. he feels the cold breeze on his ass.

funny how ppl act when they think about consequences.

[niyad]

14. Took him long enough.

[mopinko]

16. yeah, but he can feel it now.

he took a lot of heat for letting him on the show.

[luv2fly]

7. Fu*k Chuck

He gives RoJo a forum then feigns outrage when RoJo talks nonsense. He knows damn well where Johnson falls on the stupid meter.

[Talitha]

9. Look at Johnson's eyes - his soul is GONE!

[niyad]

15. Did he ever have one?

[cags]

10. He basically admits they are doing it for revenge

[roamer65]

11. Is it wrong that I want to turn Johnson's head into a punching bag?

Quick answer NO.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. A Pie In The Face, Definitely

On national TV. On the floor of the House.
Hot(!) apple pie! Thrown hard!
Need I elaborate further?

[catbyte]

13. NOW Todd decides to push back? What a joke. Johnson has been on MTP more than any other

republican for the past two years yet he's "had enough" now? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the withering criticism Todd has gotten in recent days for continuing to give republicans--and Johnson in particular--a platform to spew their lies and sedition.

I don't know why NBC keeps that incompetent, pathetic excuse for a "journalist" around. I found a great article from 2019:

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.

26 Dec 2019

‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a short interview with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press. Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird.

Three years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.

Todd repeatedly called himself naive for not recognizing the pattern, itself an astounding statement that cast doubt on his fitness for office as host of Meet the Press. While the theme of the interview was waking up to the truth of Republican actions in the information warfare space, Todd went to sleep on the implications of what he revealed. It took him three years to understand a fact about American politics that was there on the surface, unconcealed since the day after inauguration. Many, many interpreters had described it for him during those lost years when he could not bring himself to believe it. (I am one.)

You cannot call that an oversight. It’s a strategic blindness that he superintended. By “strategic blindness” I mean what people mean when they quote Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

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https://pressthink.org/2019/12/the-christmas-eve-confessions-of-chuck-todd/

[Gothmog]

18. Ron Johnson is a Russian asset