Chuck Todd, listen up!

[babylonsister]

[malaise]

1. Obama not only sold it and got it passed

The Supreme Court ruled it legal and the American people voted for Obama as President for a second term.

Fuck the ReTHUGs every which way.

[tavernier]

2. What's up chuck?

It's puke.

[Fawke Em]

3. Fortunately, UpChuck is not a journalist.

He's a blow-hard.

[Mr.Bill]

8. Jon Stewart is more of a journalist than Chuck Todd. n/t

[marew]

46. You have that right! nt

[Cha]

4. So Chuck Todd really is that stupid. This is so important

babylonsistah.. thanks for helping to make this go VIRAL!

I wish he would be made to be held accountable for this proclaimation of his.. someway somehow.

"LAZY" over his mouth is Perfect!

I Liked them on facebook!

[octoberlib]

5. Chuck Todd: Pointing out Republican lies isn't his job

MSNBC host Chuck Todd said Wednesday that when it comes to misinformation about the new federal health care law, don't expect members of the media to correct the record.

During a segment on "Morning Joe," former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) speculated that most opponents of the Affordable Care Act have been fed erroneous information about the law. Todd said that Republicans "have successfully messaged against it" but he disagrees with those who argue that the media should educate the public on the law. According to Todd, that's President Barack Obama's job.

"But more importantly, it would be stuff that Republicans have successfully messaged against it," Todd told Rendell. "They don't repeat the other stuff because they haven't even heard the Democratic message. What I always love is people say, 'Well, it's you folks' fault in the media.' No, it's the President of the United States' fault for not selling it."


It's apparently only the media's job to give a bully pulpit to Republican lies.

But, hey, that's not Chuck's fault. It's not his job to, you know, report on things and explain them and clear up misinformation. Because that means research, sifting through facts, figuring out which ones are real and which ones are made up. You know, work.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/18/1239734/-Chuck-Todd-Pointing-out-Republican-lies-isn-t-his-job?detail=facebook

[Boomerproud]

6. I hope Rendell looked Chucky Cheese in the face and said "Bullshit!".

Remember, I said "hope."

[itsrobert]

16. As I recall, he pretty much agreed with him.

Nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

22. So who will be ...

the "journalist" that will write the OpEd piece to the Washington Post/NY Times/Wallstreet Journal calling B.S. to Chuck's claim?

[octoberlib]

26. Good question. nt

[SunSeeker]

40. Calling GOP ACA lies "successful messaging" is defending the lies.

These aren't mere messages. They're LIES. The words aren't interchangeable. Todd sounds like he's on the GOP payroll. Disgusting. MSNBC should fire him.

[Zen Democrat]

7. The shallow mind and big mouth of Chuck Todd. A real du-maas.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Chuck knows about kissing the GOP bigshot's ass...

he is an expert suck-ass. He kissed the GOP's ass before he came to MSNBC.

[pansypoo53219]

10. lazy my ass.

he's a publikan mole/tool.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. Nah. Chuck is just a man who knows his limitations.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. You will find honest ones

Who want and try to do that. Chuckie should call himself what he is, an editorialist, not a journalist.

[hog]

12. Chuck you, Todd

[AAO]

15. When did Todd become a journo? I didn't think he was smart enough.

[hatrack]

42. He's Luke Russert, without the bracing intellectual rigor - or Cokie Roberts with a dick . . .

Your choice.

[LittleGirl]

23. LOL n/t

[ReRe]

13. Does he still have hia 9AM (EST) show on MSNBC?

I make a point to NOT watch his show. I would have thought Chucky Cheese would be off to FOX by now. Actually, MSNBC is a wasteland until around 4PM.

[Jamaal510]

18. Tamron Hall and The Cycle are decent

until it's time for Martin Bashir. Also Alex Wagner is pretty cool.

[TeamPooka]

17. UpChuck Todd sucks at reporting.

[Jamaal510]

19. I honestly can't believe

Chucky said this. He all but blew his cover as an "objective" journalist with this comment. He may as well quit pretending to be neutral with his "both sides..." act, and just go full-on Republican and perhaps find a gig across the street. Face it--he is about as competent at reporting as Tom Tucker from Family Guy.

[mtasselin]

20. enough

Any time I see him coming on MSNBC I change the station, he doesn't realize or care that the media has a responsibility to the public. Chuck and David Gregory have a lot in common, that nobody seams to watch them.

[GeorgeGist]

21. Chuckee is a college drop out whose only experience as a journalist was ...

in junior high.

[1ProudAtheist]

24. Chuck Toad

fixed noise reporter all dressed up in MSNBC clothes.

[alp227]

25. SCHMUCK FRAUD. N/t

[Cha]

29. I like that.. so descriptive.

[putitinD]

27. someone should start a petition to have Chuck Turd removed from MSNBC

[Skittles]

28. he whores for republicans

he's not a real journalist

[jwirr]

30. I turn off any program that has him on. Can't stand him.

[Scuba]

31. Chuck's not lazy, he's complicit.

[TBF]

32. Chuck who? nt

[madokie]

33. He's a waste of skin

and facial hair

[OregonBlue]

34. Todd really should be working for Fox Snooze. Then he could ignore the truth and report the lies.

That's really what he's saying. I report what's most entertaining (Republican lies). Reporting the truth is actually work and rather dry. I am going for ratings, not reporting.

[SunSeeker]

39. He's already ignoring the truth and reporting the lies.

He calls these GOP ACA lies "successful messaging." He in essence labeled ithem true, mere "messages." This is worse than reporting the lies. Now he is defending the lies. See post #5 above.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Todd forgets that journalism should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable:

As a journalist in the age of "muckraking journalism", Dunne was aware of the power of institutions, including his own. Writing as Dooley, Dunne once wrote the following passage cautioning against the power of the newspapers themselves:

"Th newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward".

The expression has been borrowed and altered in many ways over the years:

Clare Booth Luce employed a variation of it in a tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt, "Mrs. Roosevelt has done more good deeds on a bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed — or so distressed the comfortable."[11]

Several religious leaders (including one Archbishop of Canterbury) have called it the goal of religion.[citation needed]

Social activist "Mother" Mary Jones was once quoted as saying "My business is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."[citation needed]

A version showed up in a line delivered by Gene Kelly in the 1960 film, Inherit the Wind. Kelly (E.K. Hornbeck) says, "Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".

[polichick]

36. Todd is tool, not a journalist.

[SomethingFishy]

37. The new generation of Journalists think they are supposed to read press releases...

That's what they think their job is.

Frankly, it's only going to get worse. I have seen the kind of shit real journalists get, even here on DU. I have seen many posts slamming the likes of Palast, Tiabbi, and Greenwald for reporting the facts.

Idiocrasy was not supposed to be a documentary.

[Cha]

38. Chuck Todd "I'm a Corrupt gop Doormat that can be Rolled and Used as their Megaphone"..

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/19/rise-and-shine-617/

[BlueJac]

41. Who even listens to UPCHUCK TODD

he is just another tool!

[rocktivity]

43. TRANSLATION: "MSNBC can make more money

by running ads like this..."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023696381


rocktivity

[Blue Idaho]

44. The laziest entertainer on the TV box.

Its would be wrong to call what Fuck Todd does for a paycheck "journalism."

[spanone]

45. then why did chuck and the media sell the benghazi bullshit with such gusto?

[Squinch]

47. He's not lazy. Stenography is actually quite taxing.

Taking down the words just right, spitting them back in a timely fashion. It's difficult.

[Scurrilous]

48. K & R

[CanonRay]

49. He and David Gregory; what a pair of worms

[Faygo Kid]

50. +1

With apologies to worms everywhere.

[Tarheel_Dem]

51. He's a useless tool. But we've always known that. What a complete waste of space.

[Bigredhunk]

52. Such A Douchenozzle

n/m