I think there will be certain things that are predictable for tomorrow night’s Democratic presidential debate. You know you suck as a moderator when you get panned by both Democrats and Fox “News.” And I am talking about Bothsiderist Chuck Todd. Seriously, I don’t normally pay any attention to Fox, but this take down of Todd…
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Lamar Alexander: Trump was too ignorant about his job to do the right thing
Sen. Lamar Alexander was one of the key votes in transforming our republic into a cult of personality in which the emperor is completely unaccountable to the law or the people. So you’d think he’d be better able to explain his decision to turn Donald Trump’s impeachment trial into a sham: x LAMAR ALEXANDER: If the…
I Think Senate Democrats Need To Call Republican Bluff On Impeachment Witnesses.
Chuck “I’m no freakin’ TV referee” Todd stated that Senate Democrats and Republican each have a list of impeachment witnesses that are based upon the old MAD (mutually assured destruction) rule with nuclear weapons. Democrats want Bolton and Mulvaney and who knows else that has dirt on Trump to testify, and Republicans have a wishlist of witnesses…
Chuck Todd confesses he was naive about GOP disinformation being spread on his program
A new Chuck Todd interview with Rolling Stone in advance of a special program on disinformation also demonstrates MSM complicity. Bothsideism writ large, and Jay Rosen takes Todd to task. Chuck Todd: “So look, whether we’d liked it or not, our platform has been used, or they’ve attempted to use our platform to essentially disseminate,…
Media fail: The press keeps covering impeachment through the eyes of the Republican Party
The political press corps may have hit peak impeachment failure on Sunday when Meet the Press host Chuck Todd introduced a segment in which voters from a toss-up district in Michigan were interviewed about the House proceedings against Donald Trump. Touted as a way to take the temperature of everyday voters outside of the “Beltway,”…
Impeachment hearings confirm Republican Party is detached from reality. What does the press do now?
Republicans proudly advertised their radical ways during Wednesday's impeachment hearings into Donald Trump, wallowing in conspiracies and embracing debunked claims. The question now: How does the Beltway media cover a party that has aggressively removed itself from reality? How does the news business describe and treat a political party that routinely echoes the most unbelievable claims…
Michael Bloomberg and the media privilege for billionaire candidates
Here’s a quick news quiz: If you were editing The New York Times and advisers to Michael Bloomberg were telling your reporters that the billionaire might run for president, would you run that story on the front page? For how many days in a row? Considering he is the former mayor of New York, I could see the…
The Fox News effect: Can we have an impeachment debate if one side is brainwashed?
“All right senator, I have no idea why a Fox News conspiracy, propaganda stuff is popping up here,” lamented Meet The Press host Chuck Todd on Sunday morning, trying to get a straight answer out of Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson regarding Donald Trump's widening Ukraine collusion scandal. “I have no idea why we're going there.” Todd…
The Fox News effect: Can we have an impeachment debate if one side is brainwashed?
“All right senator, I have no idea why a Fox News conspiracy, propaganda stuff is popping up here,” lamented Meet The Press host Chuck Todd on Sunday morning, trying to get a straight answer out of Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson regarding Donald Trump's widening Ukraine collusion scandal. “I have no idea why we're going there.” Todd…
Chuck Todd performs an actual act of journalism, slaps down Ron Johnson on 'Meet the Press'
As Donald Trump’s guilt becomes more and more apparent, the deflections and obfuscations his defenders engage in have gone further and further off the rails. Today on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd (who, in a watershed moment for journalism, recently started rockin’ a full beard instead of that sad Klingon-with-late-stage-malaria goatee), asked Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)…
Some Surprising Political News and Commentary on Democratic Race from MSNBC.
I’m one of the first to pan the Media and MSNBC, but I was pleasantly surprised by some of what I saw today. First up, MSNBC went into the latest Monmouth Poll. And on MTP, they did go into the fact that there is a 5.7% range in the poll. While I am a Warren…
Three years ago today: Trump promised “I will always tell you the truth”
Presidential candidate Donald Trump made a lot of promises on his way to the White House. Most ranged from the outright laughable to the literally impossible. Predictably, very few of Trump’s guarantees came to pass. He did not “build a wall” and have Mexico pay for it. President Trump did not provide health “insurance for…
How the Sunday morning network shows became willing Trump enablers
When it comes to the Sunday morning network talk shows, no other influential media platform has done so little to adjust its approach to our radical, untruthful president. Sticking to their staid, deeply respectful format where Republican government officials are treated as perpetual truth-tellers, the Sunday shows remain proudly and utterly oblivious to the seismic…
Meet the Press host disappoints serious journalist Chuck Todd
In late May, President Donald Trump shocked many when he rejected the assessments of his own administration and U.S. allies about recent North Korean violations of United Nations resolutions regarding its ballistic missile program. In response to Trump’s support for the “very smart man” in Pyongyang, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd offered a novel…
The Media's “Damned if You Do, Damned If You Don't” Rules for Democrats: The 1st Night Debate.
Besides the odious Chuck Todd, there was another jarring part to the first Democratic Debate for president. I have had to listen to the pundits and journalist say with certainty that Democrats CANNOT spend all their time attacking Donald Trump. Voters want to hear what Democrats will do for the. You have to have a…
Trump says he may build his presidential library on one of his own properties
Because why should he stop grifting us all just because he’s out office? I didn’t watch the entire Donald Trump/Chuck Todd interview because I’d scheduled a colonoscopy. I wasn’t due for one, but it seemed preferable to watching this, and the horse vet was able to squeeze me in at the last minute. So to speak….
Chuck Todd gets his payola
This will be a short diary because — I just can’t. Remember two days ago when people were upset at Chuck Todd when waded in to the whole “concentration camp” pandemonium?” I know it seems like so long ago. Since then we have had a demagogic rally, we almost got in to a World War,…
Chuck Todd gets his payola
This will be a short diary because — I just can’t. Remember two days ago when people were upset at Chuck Todd when waded in to the whole “concentration camp” pandemonium?” I know it seems like so long ago. Since then we have had a demagogic rally, we almost got in to a World War,…
Sarah Sanders: Trump will let Barr decide whether Comey should be arrested
Baghdad Blob* was on Meet the Press this morning to discuss the week in Trump insanity. Needless to say, this exchange was chilling: CHUCK TODD: Does [Trump] expect criminal charges, does he expect — he’s accused James Comey of treason. Does he expect Jim Comey to be arrested? SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Again, we’re going to let the…
To Republicans: Live by the Subpeona, Die by the Subpeona.
Mr. Bothsiderist — Chuck “Not My Job to Be a Referee” Todd – and several other talking heads have bemoaned the fact of the lack of “bipartisanship” by Democrats during the upcoming House hearings, but yesterday, the Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform proved that they cannot be allowed to play by the old…