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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 12:36 PM Oct 2014

Chuck Todd steps in it again with poor political analysis and partisan call


Chuck Todd and the national talking heads thinks Alison Lundergan Grime (D-KY) was caught off guard for not saying she voted for President Obama. Really? She was not caught off guard with that question.

Chuck Todd and the talking heads think all voters are unsophisticated or that they need their guidance. Alison Lundergan Grimes ensured there was no usable sound bite for an ad.

My full blog post explaining why Chuck Todd is absolutely wrong.
http://egbertowillies.com/2014/10/11/chuck-todd-alison-lundergan-grimes/
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Response to egbertowillies (Original post)

merrily

(45,251 posts)
2. I agree. She was not caught off guard. The entire Republican strategy
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 12:49 PM
Oct 2014

across the nation seems to be to run against Obama and maybe Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They have nothing to run on. No Democrat has to accept their framing. Hard to believe Toad doesn't get that, so I'm going with dishonesty on his part.

Even Scott Brown who voted "with President Obama" 78% of the time, even though he was not in Obama's Party or in the Democratic Caucus, keeps wanking about Jean Shaheen's voting with her party 99% of the time and has little else to say.

How bad does a Republican have to be before Chuck Toad will peck away at him or her, though?

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
5. He only has his job because a comedian didn't want it
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 01:44 PM
Oct 2014

That tells me a lot about his employer's opinion of him.

marble falls

(57,077 posts)
7. Chucks a comedian, he's just funny in a different way. And I'll laugh harder when he's the ....
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 02:53 PM
Oct 2014

former moderator of Meet the Press. Rachel Maddow, Keith Olberamnn come to mind.

Blue Idaho

(5,048 posts)
6. It's a testament to the complete failure of modern journalism
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 02:14 PM
Oct 2014

That Chuck Todd is seen as any sort of expert in anything beyond getting dressed in the morning.

Real journalism ended decades ago and sadly we are left with shallow, vapid, untrained morons like Todd filling the air with scripts written for them they frankly don't even understand.

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