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kairos12

(12,849 posts)
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 01:18 PM Aug 2014

Chuck Toad Wants to Demystify Washington on MTP

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/chuck-todd-meet-the-press-110309.html?hp=l7
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NBC News chief White House correspondent and soon-to-be “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd said Monday that he plans to “demystify” Washington, D.C., in his new position.

Hey Toad let me help you with this demystifying--you are right wing shill for a Washington society defined by a government controlled by one percent grifters, chickenhawks, Elmer Gantry wannabes, science deniers, and teahaddists.

There toad, that wasn't so hard.

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alsame

(7,784 posts)
1. The only people
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 01:27 PM
Aug 2014

mystified by DC are the media pundits. The rest of us see them quite clearly, as you noted.

Cosmocat

(14,560 posts)
6. I don't think he is
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 04:58 PM
Aug 2014

I think he is simply a corporate sellout POS, who saw that the best way to get ahead was to snark on democrats and kiss republican butt ...

jenmito

(37,326 posts)
8. I watch his show every morning and don't think he's any of those things,
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 11:10 PM
Aug 2014

because I look out for those things in news anchors and I just don't see it in him like I do in

David Gregory for example.

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
10. Because a guy who flat out says "It's not my job to correct disinformation"
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 01:58 PM
Aug 2014

is definitely not going to be fair and even-handed.

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)
7. Meet The Press is a crap program. I don't know anyone who watches it. Cooking shows make more
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 09:17 PM
Aug 2014

sense than that vomit.

apnu

(8,749 posts)
9. And that's going to save MTP's toilet bowl numbers?
Tue Aug 26, 2014, 12:35 PM
Aug 2014

Americans will be put in a coma if you demystify DC. The day to day stuff, the nuts and bolts stuff is boring as hell. It will kill a for-profit TV show.

Maybe MTP is giving Todd all the rope he wants to hang himself?

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
11. I hope they can him fast...
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 05:18 PM
Aug 2014

and replace him with Chris Jansing. Last week's MtP was the best episode of Meet the Press since Tim Russert was behind the desk; not that Big Russ was that great but they've had a pair of real stinkers in David Gregory and now Chuck Todd since then.

The person behind the desk at MtP needs to be an investigative journalist, not a political reporter/pundit. Politics is bloodsport and truth is the only referee. The last thing needed in that job is a fake journalist who feels no obligation to the truth and that it's not his job to challenge disinformation and outright lies.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
13. Chuck Todd could demystify Washington by
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 03:57 AM
Aug 2014

Getting on a plane to nowhere and staying there the rest of his life.

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