For the life of me I can't think of why NBC thinks Chuck Todd....

[trumad]

....will bring better ratings for Meet the Press. The guy is painful to watch.

[MohRokTah]

1. It'll probably work in the first few weeks.

I know I plan to tune in, mostly for that "train wreck gotta watch" thing.

[BillZBubb]

2. Desperate times...

They aren't going to think outside the box, because if they did the corporatist right's message couldn't be guaranteed. Todd will keep the message on target. And, he'll keep the viewers away.

[JI7]

3. that's why i was thinking maybe they want to cancel the show

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. That is not correct.

They have a potentially large following. There is a need for serious discussions and serious questioning of political, business, and arts leaders, movers and shakers.

It could be a gold one, but for one problem. NBCs admin has their heads so far up their ass that their idea of having "that vision thing" involves a polyp. Cancerous, no doubt.

[jeff47]

30. Just because there's demand doesn't mean it will get served

Why would someone decide to go on a Sunday show where they faced serious discussions and serious questions?

"Let's see, I can go to MTP with (someone other than Todd) and have to answer real questions, or go on ABC, say whatever I want, and reach the same number of houses. Decisions, decisions."

[dem in texas]

4. My thoughts exactly

and painful to watch is exactly right, too.

[Journeyman]

5. I stopped watching when Bill Monroe was the host . . .

Haven't watched any Sunday shows in almost 1,900 weeks. And my life's infinitely better for it.

[louis-t]

11. Luckily, I was sitting next to my calculator

when I read your post......

[Vincardog]

6. Probably cause they don't want to admit It isn't the messenger it is the message

Anyone who thinks the RW noise chamber is going to be popular is
Delusional.

[spinbaby]

12. It is the messenger

He's painful to watch because it's obvious that he's not too bright and totally out of his depth.

[Vincardog]

13. We will see if his Toady replacement is any more popular. I think no

[Rex]

7. Junk news...they are already at the bottom of the barrel.

So why not pick a guy that told everyone he WON'T fact check a single thing told to him by the GOP?

[onecaliberal]

8. He's also a liar a partisan hack

He blocked me on twitter because I called him Upchuck Toad.

[GentryDixon]

21. He blocked my email after

I questioned his hatred of President Obama back in 2008.

Replacing one right wing tool with another.

[onecaliberal]

29. Definitely but can't say I'm surprised.

It is the corporate media after all.

[eShirl]

9. These are the same geniuses who picked Stretch, right?

[winter is coming]

10. It actually reminds me of an episode of iCarly I saw years ago.

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Bear with me; I'm not messing with you...

In the episode, some network bigwig is wondering why the studio's latest sitcom is flopping. To his dismay, he discovers that his tween daughter would rather watch Carly's web show, so he buys it... and then little by little, he destroys all the things that made the show appealing. Eventually, Carly and her friends quit and the bigwig revamps the show yet again, and it ends up being a slightly revised version of the original lame-ass sitcom.

Like the fictional bigwig on iCarly, the bigwigs at NBC apparently only know how to churn out one kind of crap and wouldn't know how to handle something better if they had it.

[monmouth3]

14. Jason Linkins of HuffPost wrote about this a few days ago and he concurs with you guys. Chuck isn't

going to make a bit of difference. He wrote a great piece about it...

[LloydS of New London]

15. Starts at 5:13

[Iggo]

16. They thought hiring David Gregory was a good idea, too.

So...yeah...there's that.

[Fla Dem]

17. Chuck's shelf life isn't that long. Nothing will change and the rating will still be in the toilet.

Unless he changes, has guests of some credibility and holds them accountable for what they say, he's just another stooge warming the seat.

[Cha]

18. Maybe this..

[herding cats]

19. It's network bureaucracy not that they really expect him to do better.

Todd was next in line after Russert, but he wasn't ready to take the slot when Russert passed. So, he had to sit and accept being the Contributing Editor to MTP until Gregory burned out.

Now it's his turn to go forth and further destroy MTP, he must be so excited.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. McCain demanded a new Fluffer

He was getting bored with Gregory's same old fluffing technique. McCain is still the star of that sitcom clown show. It's in his MSNBC contract.

[TheKentuckian]

22. Fucking cracking me up. You should see the way this cat is looking at me.

[Uncle Joe]

24. It's just a gimmick, the preeminent qualification for Todd is that he's a tool as well.

The gimmick may work for a little while but the American People are becoming too aware for that to last.

Thanks for the thread, trumad.

[AtomicKitten]

25. DFSH

different face same horseshit

[Lex]

26. He's damn worse than David Gregory.

What a stupid choice.

[rurallib]

27. He has a right wing message to deliver. Makes no difference if he is good

They have deodorant and toothpaste and a corporate agenda to sell.
Don't look to NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN or ABC or Time-Warner to care about truth.
Gregory's problem was that he was doing a very bad job of selling their message. He was too blatant.

Chucky will be just the same but will try to be less obvious.
Does media care about ratings or message more? Ask Limbaugh who still draws $50 million a year as he takes ClearChannel down the shitter.

[RKP5637]

28. He's less painful for me to watch than Gregory (I stopped watching), but Todd will

not inspire me to watch the show.

[Motown_Johnny]

31. Gregory was/is way to stupid to host MTP

Chuckie is a RW hack, but odds are he has a higher IQ.


If he can keep his bias hidden and just ask good questions he will be much better than David.

[Blue Owl]

32. Sunday Morning Up With Chuck

[R B Garr]

33. Totally agree. Chuck Todd is unimpressive.

Gregory was unimpressive and annoying, so it's a slight improvement, but only in the short run. They need someone more worldly with more gravitas (that word is so overused but it fits here), not some youngish corporate shill.