This exhibit by Chuck Todd shows how our MSN stooges don't listen to responses from the person being interviewed. Todd was hell-bent on continuing the propaganda that Obama has no strategy in the Middle East; he's soft on defense; he's using other events to divert attention away from the problems in the Middle East, and so on.

This is why I have stopped listening regularly to network news and the Sunday morning programs. They're a joke! These pretty boys and hot blondes behind the cameras aren't even journalists.

want to deviate from it.

and the editor and producer refused to cut it that way.

I wouldn't put it past CT. I just think it's hysterical the producer left CT's comment in the interview instead of cleaning it up for him.

honestly, why didn't Obama ask him what the hell he was talking about?

to question reacting to the response. I remember a time where it was the norm that the host of any such show could do this at least reasonably well. I have long considered that by watching hearings where witnesses are grilled, I could better evaluate a Senator or Congressperson by their followup questions than the first (possibly staff written) question. I was amazed by the number who do not ever follow up anything. The ones who impressed me were those who heard a person say something new and who immediately asked intelligent follow up questions. I also respected other Senators who, speaking later, referenced questions and responses of those asked earlier. The ones, often in an act of grandstanding, who spent their entire time reading long, well phrased "questions" that were not even intended to elicit any real responses did not impress me.

As a talk show host, this is what Todd was like - he had his prewritten questions and even, in this case, where the question obviously should have been skipped or changed to simply ask about the very real difficulty of what Obama intended to do in Syria, he blindly read from his script.

....is the perfect example of what happens when a brown-nosing Asst Mngr is promoted to Regional Sales Director. He's all card and no parking space.


Carry on.

In the monologue he talked about how a host on Meet the Press has to know everything going on on the show, and he mentioned Chuck Todd....as an illustration of how Chuck Todd was not paying attention.....


Letterman played FOUR FOUR FOUR FOUR FOUR instances of President mentioning Syria, then he played Chuck Todd saying, "You haven't mentioned Syria yet, Mr President"

I love David Letterman....he can't retire, he just can't.......

Do you know who preceded Paul Shaffer as sidekick, pre "late night"?

I think this is a trick question or are you pulling a Todd?

of his own damn voice.

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He is not paid to think about things. Such is the sad and sorry state of affairs in our newsrooms.

Nor for that matter, are most of our elected officials paid to think about things. Or the current, and past, occupants of the Oval Office.

Guess this is what happens when you are more interested in yourself than in your guests.

He had not said it.

The official transcript:
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-transcript-september-7-2014-n197866

And they should put a disclaimer saying so.

You are absolutely correct that the link I provided does NOT contain a transcript of the entire interview (but it is an accurate transcript of the SHOW itself)

... AND in fact, Pres. Obama DID say "SYRIA" FOUR TIMES during the interview before Chucky Todd tried out his "Gotcha" quote - even though he was wrong

So here's the link to the ENTIRE INTERVIEW:
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/president-barack-obamas-full-interview-nbcs-chuck-todd-n197616

least 3 times that I caught.

and not said.. "You've not said the word 'Syria'", IBW?

What a freaking way to expose himself on his Debut MTP..

job of pointing it out.

He has mentioned this many times, change comes from the bottom, and who is more at the bottom than the likes of us?

And this time the opening the propagandized mass media gave is too large not to begin the process for real.

PBO didn't correct Todd -- although his facial expression may have betrayed his grace -- PBO would have embarrassed CT and that would have reduced the Prez to the level of the self-centered Todd. As is his wont, the Prez rose above the slight, refusing to get down into the muck.
Sometimes I'd like to see him lay his adversary out for all to see, but PBO is more dignified, and I respect that.

He's a class act and the only thing one can say to a question like that is "was I talking to myself for the past 5 minutes?"

Glad you're both here! I think President Obama IS a class act, and probably wanted to keep as much dignity and decorum as possible. And he never seems that interested in active iin-yer-face confrontation. Another reason why I like him and am still proud to support him. I respect him. He's brought respectability back to the presidency, especially when you recall the dry-drunk clown we were stuck with before him.

I suggest revising the link in your OP to http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43816_Video-_President_Obamas_Full_Interview_With_Chuck_Todd since the link you are showing directed me to a different article.

I haven't watched the video yet, but it isn't a surprise that Chuckie fumbled the football this morning. There are sharper tools in the shed so it is curious that they gave him the MTP job.

to the Transcript and Vid!

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/#1Gkh3sso5x9kZpLe.99

...lines, I guess you want to make sure you get a chance to use them.

You know he's been itching to try to trip up the President. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen.

especially after his Syria gaffe.

He seemed smug and arrogant at first, but meek and
somewhat ingratiating by the end.

President Obama gave an excellent presentation I thought;
and his dignity, his sincerety, in my opinion, is exceptional.

It seems obvious Chuck Todd wasn't interested in answers so much as the opportunity to spring a predetermined gotcha.

Good to have you with us! COOLEST three words from a presidential debate! Indeed. Please proceed, chuck.

and thanks!!

Glad to be here!

that's clearly what fukwad was shooting for

nice way to put it, Pablo_marmol!

And a stupid a$$ at that!

My husband absolutely refuses to call him anything other than "fuck turd." He even corrects me when I slip up!

Chuck Todd is SUCH an ass. I doubt he even has the ability to feel shame over this colossal blunder. I just love the President's wtf look.

lolz

And, only pulling them out to hear the sound of his own voice, gordianot!?

They're such slavish gopropagandistas at NBC "news" dept.. they probably all gave chucky todd High Fives after what they thought of as shaming our President. smh The height of the Peter Principle.. all of them.

I doubt he will ever get close to her again.

It will depend on who catches this and decides to try and profit from Chuckies tin ear. Obama was smart not calling him on this will have to wait and see who makes a joke out of a obvious flub when eagerness to a gotcha moment falls flat. He may get a high five from Scarborough but somebody at NBC will be holding their breath waiting for fallout. It may be interesting to if there is any mention Chuckie on Morning Joe. Even Saint Tim of Russert got panned on his interview of Bush the Lesser before he knocked on the Pearly Gates, for playing whiffle ball with W.

I did watch to see what transpired on MTP but at his point will settle how others observe the Toad.

think it was better President Obama didn't say to the Chuckster.. "I just talked about Syria 4 times, Chuck.. how many Times is going to take?!

They brand their Conservative forays in fog that causes almost equal disgust from Fox-bots. Of course the MSNBC line up will not condemn the brand for even something this blatant. Chuck was given a gift and obviously blew it. Obama was instantly aware. Playing gotcha Chuck failed and Obama can make a claim to classy response.

My daughter works student services in College. Recently she passed an exhibitionist caught on tape that was not noticed by multiple female students including her. When shown the tape she was not upset by the exhibitionist but her lack of situational awareness in a professional capacity. Chuckie has nothing to feel smug about when he reviews the tape. It is going to be an ongoing test how he explains this embarrassment. Chuck may well find out that as an exhibitionist he is not very good in that capacity.

nbc, abc, etc.. try to pass themselves off as real news. Kinda of hard though with those such as chuck todd's caliber strutting his line of bullshit. Bullshit Mountain would be proud.

"Chuckie has nothing to feel smug about when he reviews the tape. It is going to be an ongoing test how he explains this embarrassment." Good Points, gordianot, thank you.

Supposedly a liberal station generously peppered with ads for fracking. Screw that.

'uppity'.

It described what Joe Scar's function is in media. A salesman for the worst of the 1%...

It was very well done, but often such graphics are posted with a title that does not describe it, and I can't find it by search.

Anyone who knows where it is, and posts it here, will get my thanks. Because it really needs to be explained many times to sink in.

where the production guys in the back are looking up the answers and telling him what to say and do. How is anyone supposed to hear the production crew when this president guy is talking all the time. Gees.

going on! Brwaaaaaa

else you can think of who can spread the word to help him become the laughingstock he so richly deserves to be.

Jon Stewart and John Oliver would be good to send it to, as well.

since Rachael and Lawrence work for the same entity as Schmuck and the big wigs would consider an internal call out, bad form.

David Gregory go.. one thing they said was he "was too left leaning".

It's like he let loose a silent fart. He thinks he slipped one past you because you didn't hear it, but you sure did smell it.

"Why am I wasting my time, here?"

Won't HE be surprised when the media suddenly shifts to the left....

.....someday....

He doesn't have the brains, the experience, or the intelligence to even spar with the President.

It's been pathetic watching him try to carry the water for the GOP.

And, carry it he does..

When he went to college, he majored in music!!!

Honestly, you can't make this shit up.

to mentally spar with President Obama.
Sadly, again IMO, President Obama lost so much of his political capital by refusing to prosecute banksters and other elites for the crimes they committed on the vast majority of Americans, not allowing universal healthcare on the table, and many things that most Americans thought they were electing him to do.
Now (and for most of his presidency) the republicans have found their obstructionism (which has hurt 90% of us) tolerated by Americans
because we feel that the status quo trumped the common good, again.
We managed to survive 8 years of a petulant sociopath as POTUS. We watched as our economy was deliberately destroyed from within
(most of our politicians were complicit), our children and many middle eastern people were slaughtered for fun and profit, our economy was governed by those who had destroyed it, austerity for the majority (not the wealthy) was implemented, basically the poor and struggling have been economically devastated, so much more yet no one was prosecuted for war crimes, economic crimes...crimes against humanity are fine if you are wealthy. The political capital which was plenty, turned into a deficit.
Now when common sense proposals (higher minimum wage, etc..) are put forth by our president and are obstructed by mainly republicans, we the people just feel beat. No where to turn because it is unclear who is really on our side.
There are shining exceptions. Senators Warren and Sanders and a hand full of others have led by example and feel as cheated as most of us.
We are gun shy. what will be the next trick visited upon us? IDK the answer but I do believe if those most responsible for crippling America were held accountable (damn, those statute of limitations....) President Obama could possibly regain that capital. As a "lame duck" president it may not matter.
With real leaders like Sanders and Warren a lot of this would be turned around. Working within the confines of a 2 party system it will not happen and I fear that the Stockholm syndrome will play a major role on 2016.
A (at least) viable 3 party system is IMO the only way that progressives can lead America to the paradigm where we actually have public servants working for US.

The war drums continue their rhythm.

Yeah, chuck toad, who gives a fuck.

Obama is marching to that funky drum beat of the MIC and DU whines about chuck toad.

Sigh.

shit from a republicon propagandist.

President Obama is telling it like it is.. you make up your own shit.

Obama is pounding the war drums all on his own though. READ the things he is saying. We are going back to war.

Children? Family? Friends?

Who are you willing to sacrifice for the fight against the current bogeyman in the desert in the way of our resources?

too busy worrying about something that isn't happening.

No children, no family, and no friends that are about to be put upon the spike of the "war on terror".

I can't wait for your spin on wed after the next big Isis war speech.

shit already going on to worry about them.

I love ya. You were a huge help for me and the district I lived in when I fought Cantor. I know you are a solid Dem.

However, we have the same war drums pounding today that we had over a decade ago. Please, put your bias aside and listen to the speeches being made. We aren't hearing about yellow cake, but the same code words are being floated. Terror, direct threat, months away, danger to our allies.

This was the EXACT same shit Bush used to justify a decade of wrong.

Until they start doing it HERE. We've already had one police chase with a guy waving an ISIS flag out his window. What happens if the ones over THERE with a US passport decide to come back HERE?

would be able to catch any Americans that have fought with ISIL before getting onto a plane. I would think that anyone travelling from that region and that is a younger man, would be flagged as a possible "suspicious person". AND they seem to even know how Western young men are travelling back and forth into this region: They are going through other countries like Turkey to make their way into the fighting front.

I think we also have to ask ourselves what sort of ginned up lies are coming out of the entire story that is ISIL. As of a year ago, this disjointed group of rebel fighters where battling against the Assad regime in Syria. In fact, we had our own Senator Bomb, Bomb Johnny standing over there with these rebel fighters taking pictures with them and yucking it up... At that time, I believe Rachel pointed out that ole' Johnny, hasn't met a world crisis that didn't call for American boots on the ground and bombs in the air, was meeting with Al Qaeda operatives and fanatic religious rebel leaders. At that time, many of us were questioning who exactly it was that "doing something" types popping up on every Sunday talk show would be training and arming with American weapons? AND I'm sorry, but I'm not exactly believing that there wasn't some sort of CIA initiative going on behind the scenes in actually arming and training these rebel fighters. Are we really to believe that these rebels just happened to stumble over US military clothing and boots exactly in each other's sizes or that ground to air missiles are just haphazardly lying about for anyone to pick up or that tanks and other military vehicles are sitting around like its a used car lot for the pickings? OR that the outside funding coming from Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region aren't helping to fund and sway young men into the fight in this region? I'm sure many of these young "militants" care more about a steady paycheck for their families than they care about the extremism of the groups leaders. AND at that, who knows how real or fake this "caliphate" is among the leaders? Is it more akin to a "battle cry" and viewed as a means to excite and bring in support for their rebellion; similar to our Patriotic/ God/ wrapped all in a flag type of mentality goes within our support of our military by citizens of this country (so much so that they see their own lives sucking ass and their children's education suffering as they watch more than 1/2 of all their tax monies going toward building bombs instead of building up our nation)?

Does anyone feel it seems suspicious that this ISIL group gets their act together so supremely in the span of approximately a year, and that they cross the Iraqi border almost immediately upon the news of President Obama peacefully, through negotiations, getting the Assad regime to hand over all chemical warfare in that country without having to bomb or put boots on the ground in Syria? All of a sudden this ISIL group, dressed in American military garb, driving American military vehicles, and utilizing American weapons, is an extremely dangerous army and they are taking over Iraq. What happened when this group advanced, they took over certain regions and threatened groups of people and regions in Iraq that the American people would be described narratively as the "good guys" in Iraq, we went in with "advisors", we bombed ISIL targets, and we got Maliki to remove himself from office (perhaps mission accomplished? who knows, perhaps he was being stingy with oil contracts? Lord knows the Iraqi people should be making enough oil profits to arm their own nation's army and security without having to rely on the United States). Also, this is popping up just before mid-term elections and making President Obama's narrative of successfully retreating from Iraq a positive item and makes McCain and Romney (media's favorite Sunday morning arm chair quarterbacks), seem as if they were right and the Pres was wrong.. yada yada... Plus, now the beheading of 2 American journalists to espouse shock and outrage among Americans (like torture and drone bombing village weddings doesn't piss the hell off out of people in the region we are warring against). AND that this group is using these items of aggression and beheadings as a direct meme to the world and specifically the West, that they want a war with America. The UK is upgrading there "terra" alerts and fearing a targeted attack.

Is anyone thinking all of this seems a bit staged like "yellow cake". Is the MIC fearing peace? And to be fair, I know there are people within the whole rebel group that are dangerous, would chop off my head if caught exposed over there. I'm not naïve as to how those doing the fighting and killing and dying aren't as manipulated as any soldier of battle who is sent to fight by those at the top of the power structure. Is it just too much to ask that we can try to live in peace. Build schools and homes, instead of weapons that cost a lot of money and only destroy? Could we not try and hand over a more peaceful world to our children? We have been at perpetual war now for longer than my son has been alive. He has only known a world where we have wars in the ME and is taught revised and inaccurate history regarding 9/11, "yellow cake", "War on Terror", and "patriotism". Does this seem like it should be normal--to live in perpetual war/ terror/ fear? Spend all of our tax labor on destruction? Literally destroy local economy, school funding, infrastructure funding on paying for war toys, fighter jets that don't work, bombs and drones... I'm just so fed up with it all, and I desperately am hoping there are no scheduled war games or that the NSA, CIA, FBI, HHS (the alphabet soup of policing) miss something as Thursday approaches. Two years ago we had the Benghazi debacle on 9/11; I'm really hoping that we don't have another anniversary attack.

World Cla$$ Dumba$$..



Thanks she.. Chucky's his own worst reason for not being ready for MTP prime time.

Looks like he's a got a perpetual smirk, too.. must think it's workin for him.

would get their heads out of their asses, and try something fresh like actually hiring a moderator with at least an ounce of journalistic integrity but that was obviously too much to hope for, instead they pulled Todd out.

They're morally bankrupt, stupid to boot and I can't imagine how viewers get the stench out of their clothes before going to church?



Thanks for the thread, Cha.

we're talking about here.. how damn dumb do you have to be to bring in a known hack to head mtp to clean up after the last known hack?!!



You're welcome, Uncle Joe.. .. thank you for helping to expose it.

It used to be (I know this will be hard for youngsters to believe) that news organizations put out their best and brightest. Egads I hope he isn't their best and brightest.