Chuck Todd called out by Chris Matthews for misquote that will provide Republicans a talking point

[kpete]

Chuck Todd: ... They still haven't marketed healthcare very well.

Chris Matthews: As long as you have an intractable opposition -- I was hoping we'd get Orin Hatch in this health care bill. I was hoping to get Mike Enzi. These are all good people. They were negotiating. They all fell off because of fear of the Tea Party people. Same with immigration. Please God have a meeting between the President and the Speaker of the House this week before this ... meeting in public. I like it on television. What is your opposition to this immigration bill. Is it we don't have enough enforcement? I will give you more enforcement. Is it the hiring rules. We are going to enforce them. I promise we are going to enforce them. WHat do you want. So you are absolutely against any kind of amnesty for people who have been here over 20 or 30 years. Absolutely against it. Then when the President issues the executive order, people would understand he really tried to negotiate. Let me tell you something. We are negotiating with Tehran right now. We are desperately trying to cut a deal over nuclear weapons to the last moment. Why don't we have negotiations going on right now, between the two sides.

Chuck Todd then immediately counters Chris Matthews by listening to Matthews' statement from a Republican perspective instead of doing so from the perspective of a journalist. In effect he decided to move into the sound bite talking point arena instead of addressing the substance of the narrative.

Chuck Todd: ... I can hear Republicans now echoing 'He will negotiate with the Iranians he won't negotiate with us on immigration.

Chris Matthews: That's not the way I said it.

Chuck Todd: .. I am telling you how you are going to get requoted

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/16/1345304/-Chuck-Todd-called-out-by-Chris-Matthews-for-misquote-that-will-provide-Republicans-a-talking-point

[RandySF]

1. They've already been using that line.

Chuck Todd is just repeating their meme.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Does the irony not register with them

That PBO is making more progress dealing with IRAN about their NUCLEAR PROGRAM than the US Republican Party over immigration and healthcare?

[Spazito]

2. Gee, Todd helping out the republicans with yet another clip to use...

shocker....NOT.

[belzabubba333]

4. i would hardly call that getting called out. sounds like toad was just pointing out

a fact the cons will seize that statement and frame it just as the toad says

[spanone]

5. todd's book disqualifies him from ever being mistaken as a journalist

The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Stranger-Barack-Obama-White/dp/0316245208

[malaise]

6. Pity Chris Matthews never called him out weeks ago when he was lying about Obama not mentioning

Syria when Obama mentioned Syria four times. Not one fugging person on GEM$NBComcast called him out.

[grasswire]

7. "requoted"?

"requoted"?

[Paladin]

8. Todd is a creepy little Republican pimp.

He ought to give in to his natural inclinations and go to work at Fox.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Here we go again.

The Pundtocracy of D.C. basically taking a victory lap here. Two points,Chris Mathews is a fraud. Mathews brother is a Rethug State assembly person in Massachusetts and his family owns or controls Kinder-Morgan Co,which by the way operates one of the largest pipe line networks on the North American Continent. This turd has tried to hid his Rethug credentials for years. Number two would be Chuckie Toad blew his Journalist standing along time ago. Seems to me his spouse is some kind of big deal in the Rethug Party. Notice years ago statements coming from these two jokers that were talking points from Rethug Strategy Wonks.