This morning Chuck Todd was raking the POTUS over the coals

[CatWoman]

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(aided and abetted by Scarborough and his "panel&quot for his "harsh" words to the GOP during Obama's address to the nation after the DC shooting.

I fail to see what the problem was/is???

The shipyard shooting is a tragedy. And of course the president was going to speak about it.

But does anyone else agree that he should not have used his tv time to speak out against the GOP obstructionists as well?

[The Magistrate]

1. Chuckles, Ma'am, Is A Waste Of Oxygen....

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Not to mention

a superfluous emitter of CO2 and methane.

[The Magistrate]

5. Methane Particularly, Sir --- Whenever He Opens His Mouth To Comment

[madokie]

14. Very well stated

[djean111]

2. I don't listen to TV speechifying at all - but who cares if Chuck Todd rakes anyone

over the coals? He is preaching to the choir.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I don't think I have ever seen him on the Boob Toob.

I know I wouldn't recognize him, but DU keeps me as informed as I need to be regarding his antics.

[Orsino]

3. "What the Klingon says is unimportant, and we do not hear his words." n/t

[hlthe2b]

7. Chuck Toad.... even a more stupid RW toady than David Gregory--

the later can at least speak French, after all.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Shootings are pretty common. Gun nutz/Republicans/NRA don't care about them.

Nothing will be done about it. Life goes on.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Joe and Chuck criticize that which is good for the President. For them, the problem is

that Obama is right and their Party is wrong. It's partisan politics, the opposition is always going to rake you over the coals when you score a hit on them.
You are intentionally watching a Republican's talk show. Do not forget that.

[CatWoman]

16. I go to sleep with the tv on MSNBC

Therefore, I wake up to it too.

[seabeckind]

10. Joey Scar started his show doing the same thing

Just a.holes finding something to bitch about. A lot easier than talking about issues and complicated stuff.

I guess conservatives have a problem with multi-tasking. They can't do it so they have no comprehension of what it is.

[VAliberal]

11. faux outrage

I watched the Morning Joe crew feign outrage over the President's 'failure' to cancel his economic
speech in light of the tragedy at the Navy Yard.

I wasn't impressed.

The shooting was a tragedy. The president has already addressed the need for gun control that the Republicans and NRA have resisted and successfully opposed. The proposed Republican threats of government shut down, defunding of healthcare, cuts to social programs that feed children & keep the poorest of the poor from the brink, would all be tragic on an even larger scale than the shooting.

[global1]

13. Both MSNBC & CNN Cut Away From The President's Speech On Jobs & Economy Anyway.....

This isn't about the 'failure' of the President to cancel his economic speech - because the networks basically cancelled out his message anyway.

They didn't want the President to get his message across in the first place. I don't believe Scar and his cronies want this economic message out and it is just convenient on their part to again portray the President in a bad light and use this shooting tragedy to do that.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. What DON'T they get outraged about?

If they don't have something legitimate to gripe about, then they just MSU. Seriously, it would be nice if they would expend half the energy they use having a faux outrage over something *awful* that President Obama has supposedly done- like call out Republicans for being obstructionists and not caring about anybody but their corporate backers- over things like invading a country on false pretenses, torturing prisoners, Republican efforts to ensure that sweatshop operators can exploit their workers, etc. Oh, and the Republican obstructionism over gun background checks that Republicans filibustered in the Senate.

[uppityperson]

15. Wasn't Chuck a Duer for a bit? I have a recollection of getting into it here with him

[UTUSN]

17. MSRNC started in on the "Early" circus, said the President's comments were "bad taste"

I've been looking for a full quote of the President's spot-on comments about Rethugs, to open a thread about how we need MORE of this HST feistiness. And MsRNC used the Faux formula of "some say".

[gopiscrap]

18. Fucking Todd is a corporate whore

[kentuck]

19. "Tone deaf"

They said.

I was watching. Joey Scar was reslly wringing his hands. Thee and a bhalf more years! What will we do??

When the President spoke, the situation was not over. Everyone was reporting in the middle of the shooting. It was not yet over. So the President was not wrong to speak about the upcoming crisis with the budget and debt limit.