Chuck Todd! Lighten UP, Francis. ("Is (Colbert's) real agenda to marginalize the Republican Party?")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Last edited Fri Jan 20, 2012, 08:21 PM - Edit history (1)

NBC's Chuck Todd lit into Stephen Colbert on Thursday, accusing the Comedy Central host of corrupting the political process with his presidential run and Super PAC in South Carolina.

Appearing at a Winthrop University forum, Todd said that Colbert was doing a "noble" thing by educating his audience about the inner workings of a Super PAC. However, he told the crowd that he had been "very offended" when Colbert testified before Congress about immigration in character, and that he saw the comedian's presidential activities in the same light.

"He is making a mockery of the system," Todd said. "...Is it fair to the process? Yes, the process is a mess, but he's doing it in a way that feels like he's trying to influence it with his own agenda and that may be anti-Republican."

"What is his real agenda here?" he said. "Is it to educate the public about the dangers of money and politics, and what's going on? Or is it simply to marginalize the Republican Party? I think if I were a Republican candidate I would be concerned about that."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/chuck-todd-stephen-colbert-president_n_1218614.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. G.E.

I swear they get a memo .

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I just say the clip on Daily Kos. I always had a feeling he was a republican.

[Quantess]

7. He is a republican!

That's not something he advertises, but a few times I have seen him paired in debates as "from the right" against someone else "from the left".

[southernyankeebelle]

10. I thought he was. I think he use to write for the Hill blog.

[gratuitous]

3. Colbert couldn't lay a glove on your pals, Chuck

If the Republicans weren't up to their armpits in a cynical gaming of the system, Colbert's "mockery" wouldn't touch them. And if you don't know that, you should, you overpaid, simpering sycophant.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Chuck Todd makes a mockery of DEMOCRACY with his stupid maps

He's mad because Colbert is showing the system for the mockery that people like Chuck Todd have turned it into. It's a self-mockery. Colbert only has to turn on the lights.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Excellent point...

...that really is the source of all effective satire. It's never in the "jokes." It's in the way reality is mirrored so effectively that people want to turn away, but they know they can't. Romney's assertion that he can't get involved in the dealings of his Super PAC because he'd "go to the big house" is more ludicrous than anything Colbert's served up so far.

[southernyankeebelle]

13. They hate that both he and Stewart have such an influence on the young. But us oldies love them

also. They speak to the truth. They don't like it.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Chuck's true colors are showing and they are all deep red

The (R)s wanted unlimited funds without accountability and now they have got it. If you aren't sure where someone is going to point a loaded gun, don't hand him one.





























Morons

[DJ13]

6. "He is making a mockery of the system," Todd said

No, you in the MSM fawning over a bunch of idiots that have no chance of winning is the real mockery here.

You are putting ratings above informing the public.

[tinrobot]

8. Mockery of the system? The system is the mockery.

Thank you Colbert for pointing that out.

[Bozita]

11. "corrupting the political process"?? ... What an assclown!

[fishwax]

12. Marginalizing the republican party? Sounds like a pretty good agenda to me.

[RZM]

14. 'Clobert' sounds like a villain from a 19th century French novel

[underpants]

15. No Chuck he is exposing the people who host all your cocktail parties

[fujiyama]

17. I think that crowd is still hurting over that correspondence dinner

God, I can't think of which crowd I hate more - the smug DC cocktail circuit or the arrogant Wall Street investment banking and hedge fund ass holes. I think it's the former, because they have had a duty to report on the latter and keep them in check and they failed their jobs so miserably. The latter is a result of just pure greed...It's to be expected. No one ever figured investment banking to be a noble calling. On the other hand, you always thought of journalists as people with integrity.

Chuck Todd and his fellow band of chumps also reduced politics to the modern day horse race. It's a game to these guys and nothing more.

Fuck you Chuck Todd.

[qb]

16. Colbert's real agenda is to draw more viewers to Comedy Central

and he's doing a damn good job of it!