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2016 Postmortem

Bluenorthwest

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17. As if Chuck Todd and NBC has been giving proper coverage to racial justice issues, Chuck is the

Reply to daredtowork (Original post)

Sun Aug 16, 2015, 09:22 PM

Aug 2015

one who should be held to account, him and his entire outfit and industry. NBC sure as fuck did not have Black Lives Matter reps on panels shows or in for interviews prior to the primary bullshit. If the media had given them the mic, they'd not have to go out and grab the mics of others. And what is he doing to give them a platform other than exploiting their work in his primary season grab for action? Answer is of course absolutely nothing. Not a fucking thing.

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My Take on Chuck Todd asking if Bernie apologized to BLM on Meet the Press [View all] daredtowork Aug 2015 OP

Chuck should have asked if BLM had apologized to Bernie. Vinca Aug 2015 #1

I doubt Bernie would agree. TDale313 Aug 2015 #2

Agreed: that would escalate daredtowork Aug 2015 #6

That's why Bernie is a much better person than I am. Vinca Aug 2015 #14

Bernie should have asked when Chuck was going to apologize to HIM for conducting gotcha/sandbag MADem Aug 2015 #10

Now that woulda been good TDale313 Aug 2015 #16

We're being pitted against each other... TDale313 Aug 2015 #3

Yep, that was a very clever attack on the Sanders campaign. daredtowork Aug 2015 #7

Do you have any proof to back up that "divide and conquer" claim? MADem Aug 2015 #11

Not only can we, we already ARE 99th_Monkey Aug 2015 #8

The media had no interest in bridging any perceived divide... TDale313 Aug 2015 #12

I totally agree. I don't expect a "well done" from BLM either 99th_Monkey Aug 2015 #15

Compare Chuckie's coddling of Trump ProgressiveEconomist Aug 2015 #4

Nobody seems to care what Hillary's position on BLM is, or on racism for that matter. 99th_Monkey Aug 2015 #5

The Toad is gonna jump. It's what he does. Press The Meat is at a low point--it's like The View MADem Aug 2015 #9

Perhaps his air of non-concern MuseRider Aug 2015 #13

As if Chuck Todd and NBC has been giving proper coverage to racial justice issues, Chuck is the Bluenorthwest Aug 2015 #17

the letter in question elana i am Aug 2015 #18

Serious "Gotcha Journalism" daredtowork Aug 2015 #19

I'm curious - are we the only social media with this level of in fighting jwirr Aug 2015 #20

Hope you don't feel I was being provocative over this daredtowork Aug 2015 #21

No I understand what you were doing - it is just that there is seldom a jwirr Aug 2015 #22