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proselytizing The Gospel According to Jack Welch, but Chuck "Baby Mephistopheles" Todd makes that hack (may he RIP, the Valerie-Plame-outing Bush enabler) look almost capable.

limited if he thinks that anything about Trump is the "biggest story in the world."

in that bubble.

and it just dawned on me that Robert D's depiction of Al Capone is identical to Trump!! Wow!

As far as winning the Iowa caucuses go, Charlie Pierce has observed on his political blog that "the perception among the elite political press that he {Sen. Bernie Sanders} must win here {Iowa} is beginning to harden, which is not fair, but which is the way that it is." I think Pierce is probably right. What's even more unfair, though, is that if Sen. Sanders wins the Iowa caucuses, the same elite political press will then tell us hoi polloi that winning the Iowa caucuses doesn't mean anything.

It'll be tricky, but you watch: If Trump and Sanders win today, the press will alternately extol the perspicacity of Iowa voters on the one (Republican) hand while denying them any legitimacy on the other (Democratic) hand.

It's expected to be close so if it can be argued that it was a toss-up, they will likely declare it a win for HRC anyway. They can then get a horse-race narrative going. If the polls are totally off base and there is a Sanders-favorable turnout, it'll be a "2008 all over again" narrative. They love that kind of thing. They can drag that story for the weeks leading up to Super Tuesday, Hillary winning decisively is a pretty boring story.

then you'd have to call huckabee winning in 2008 a fucking miracle

It's disgusting. Their panel discussion of the usual Wall Street corporatists is beside themselves heaping praise on -- wait for it...JEB! I've said from the beginning, it's going to be Jeb$. Wall Street loves Jeb# and they're going to make sure he is their man. MSNBC's panel is all about how STRONG and awesome the entire GOP field is. The best ever! The GOP has served up the best candidates anyone can remember, but Jeb& has really showed his stuff today.

I'm telling you, it's going to be Jeb@ vs. Hillary. Wall Street has already decided, and their media flunkies are spoon feeding the narrative to us.

life being short and all. However...if MSNBC of all channels, can say with a straight face that the GOP field is awesome...there is no hope for the media. A single celled organism could perceive that the GOP field is weak, inexperienced and basically, downright crazy...

Chuckie would call it a "border skirmish," with details at 11, and get right back to his punditry.

I forget whether it was cspan or public tv. A call-in TV program. And at the time I thought "This guy Chuck Todd is pretty good"
Now he'ss just a tool. That's what money and celebrity does to you.

What a putz.

How can so many Americans be so stupid!