***** CHUCK TODD IS A GIANT NEO-CON ARTIST TOOL - OFFICIAL THREAD *****

SIgn if you agree. Someone needs to shut the mouthpiece up. Who in the hell decided it was a good idea to give the "numbers guy" a hosting position?

The usually Todd.

Mr. Todd is a moderate democrat, who in his personal life supports the Barack Obama campaign.

His interview with Linda Douglas was disgraceful. He brought up every irrelevant GOP smear he could think of, even Farakkan. Yuck!

dependent on if you believe it or doubt it. Your view is based solely on your interpretation of how he does his job. His job duties are, in fact, distinct from his personal life outside the studio.

who supports John McCain's campaign. He was practically crying last night about the latest polls.

I had posted a thread about the extreme pressures being placed on the MSNBC staff by NBC. A few MSNBC journalists refuse to change their reporting; their shows are on between 7 and 10 pm est. Others have reacted differently. But, to be far, Chuck Todd's job duties are very different from the hosts of those three shows.

The characteristics of moderate democrats and moderate republicans who either live in or off Washington, DC are similar in many ways.

He also approaches his job as a pretty darned objective statistician, so of COURSE he looks at data from all perspectives, including some that might make our side grumpy.

Besides, anybody who saw his barely concealed glee over Obama during the primaries HAS to know that he's not a rightwing tool. It was a pleasure watching his genuine excitement, and I suspect election night will be just as fun whenever he pops up on MSBNC.

in regard to if some feel the need to "flame" me or my response. It's part of the fun of participating on DU. (grin)

Really?

Well he doesn't sound like one.

He sounds like he just came from a daily talking points breakfast with

Karl Rove.

Do you have anything to back up your assertion that

"Todd is a moderate democrat"

I can easily back up anything I say. However, when someone says something as silly as "He sounds like he just came from a daily talking points breakfast with Karl Rove," I feel no need to.

Thanks for the giggle.

I disagree based on his performance

"I can easily back up anything I say" Go ahead then

Tell it to Media Matters


Since joining NBC, Chuck Todd has had only good things to say about GOP

Since Chuck Todd assumed duty as NBC News political director on March 12, he has made numerous appearances on the network in which he spoke positively about Republicans, making broad, unsupported, and, in some cases, rebuttable assertions, while making negative, equally unsupported comments about Democrats.

For example:

* On March 12, Todd asserted that former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) is "one of these people that can probably keep the entire conservative coalition together, the social conservatives, the economic conservatives, and the religious conservatives." Approximately two weeks after that comment, prominent social conservative James C. Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and chairman, said of Thompson, "I don't think he's a Christian; at least that's my impression," and added that "such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party's conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination."

* On March 28, Todd asserted that "t would be easy for" Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) "to criticize the war. The maverick thing to do is to actually take the unpopular stand." In saying this, Todd suggested that McCain's position on the war is one of a "maverick," despite the fact that other leading contenders for the Republican nomination also support President Bush's Iraq policy. As NBC News chief Washington correspondent Norah O'Donnell noted during the same segment, "McCain's chief rivals for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, also oppose a timeline for withdrawal and support a surge of U.S. troop strength." In addition, McCain voted with the vast majority of Senate Republicans to remove a redeployment goal from the Senate's Iraq funding bill, as Media Matters noted. And, contrary to Todd's suggestion that McCain has taken the politically unpopular approach of not criticizing the war, McCain has described himself as the "greatest critic of the way the war was being conducted."


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is distinct from his personal life. Perhaps that escapes you. But hety, please keep sending the links. More, keep those wonderful "breakfast with Karl Rove" lines coming. Did you think of that one all on your very own? You have a real future ahead of you.

He might not be a great host, but what did he do to make himself seem like a right-wing shill?

"Jesse Jackson said this about Obama, Obama's too cool and doesn't show enough emotions, I have your leaked talking points, nub, and Obama doesn't have experience."

Hell, earlier today he said that McCain's CEILING was 274. On his trusty map, he basically said that McCain would have to win every single "battleground" state to win the presidency. Needless to say, he also said that if Obama won just one of those states (Nevada not included, I think that's the one), it would put him over the 270 mark.

From everything I've seen, he's far from a Neo-Con. As some have said, it's probably in his best interest to have a "close" race considering what he does, but when I hear him speak, he's usually fair, to very fair for Obama.

It seems like the main thing that people get concerned with is his comment about no one thinking it's really a 10% difference, and I can see where he's coming from. I don't think he's saying that because he's secretly some McCain lover. Besides, don't the "Neo-Cons" hate McCain, anyway?

thread..his email addy?

chuck.todd@nbcuni.com And this thread from yesterday?

book_worm (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-14-08 07:04 PM
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"Chuck Todd: "Nobody believes Obama is ahead by double-digits"
That the CBS poll has a history of "over sampling dems"

Really? Chuckie it's not just CBS but ABC has Obama up by ten. Gallup has had him between 9-12 points. The Research 2000 tracking poll has Obama up by 12. The GW University Tracking poll has Obama up by double-digits.

I guess Chuck wasn't happy about the results

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7452163

I think he will win, but I CERTAINLY wouldn't put money on him winning more than 10%, for a variety of reasons. That is a pretty incredible amount to win by. I think that's all that Todd was saying. I think even in a best case scenario, Obama wins by maybe 5-8 points. I would be incredibly surprised if he was to win by double digits.

asking me if I bet my life. Fuck that.

If you don't believe it, why would he? Most objective observers WOULD say that it would be improbable for Obama to win by double digits. It's not impossible, but most people would not say that is likely. So, why would Todd get skewered when he says that most people don't believe he's up by 10%? I think Obama is up, and he's up by a sizable margin, but I would still be surprised if he actually won by double digits, since that is not an easy thing to do, regardless of the political climate.

he has been kind of pushing certain GOP things lately...like the "women are FLOCKING to Sarah Palin!", that was debunked about two days later. I think that he needed to make up for his incident with Peggy and Mika, to maintain an in with the McCain campaign.

Cromwell is playing Papa Bush in W. Todd was an incredible tool when questioning Cromwell and of course tried to smear Stone in the process.

Todd is a POS and I question how he got his job.

Many of us caught that at the same time, he could hardly speak.


Chuck Toddy is not having a good week.

:nopity:

or what the role of a journalist is.

cry when a poll comes out is not playing DA. Saying, "Nobody believes Obama is up double digits" is not being a DA. It's being a tool of the media.

believe he's really up by 14 points.

Not all of them, anyway. :eyes:

Pat Buchanan = shill
David Gregory = shill

I do not consider Matthews to be a shill AT ALL

Chuck "Toad" fits him perfectly.

But even hotter in red on a double chin.

He was an old-school journalist then. If he had an opinion, he did not share it.

Now, I get tired of him down-playing pro-Obama poll numbers. The spread is either too broad, or mccain's negatives are solely due to black voters.

If he truly is a democrat (and I don't doubt that he is), he is WAY overcompensating, IMO.

I don't really think he's a shill in the Republican sense, but I think that the NBC people want him to make clear to the people that a "horserace" is still on, to get ratings. Or, like I said, he's overcompensating for the open mike thing with Peggy and Mike.

Just like Scarborough, Buchanaan, David Gregory, Lou Dobbs, Andrea Mitchell and Tom Brokaw

so he'll just cut the lead down to within the moe, and say this is the correct number because im a psychic you see.

every person who is good at the particular job they do, who the audience seems to like, gets pushed in a role they are not prepared for. David Gregory is a good reporter - he looks like a clown as a host. Chuck Todd was a brilliant number cruncher during the primaries, he is awkward and shows some odd opinios as a host.

The guy makes good pizza, people like to talk to him and watch him work - lets make him the restaurant hostess. Its just odd.

Why is it we pile on people unless they only say "Obama is great!" all the time?

During the height of the RNC/Palin bounce, Todd was on Countdown with KO explaining that the electoral map still favored Obama, and the election was his to lose.

:evilgrin:

msnbc runs out of 'hosts' at times--they give too many people 'auditions' who will never make the show, if ya get my meaning....

to somewhat go off thread---would you rather have chuck todd or mika brezwhatever-? she, in my opinion, is dreadful!!1!!1

Since joining NBC, Chuck Todd has had only good things to say about GOP

Since Chuck Todd assumed duty as NBC News political director on March 12, he has made numerous appearances on the network in which he spoke positively about Republicans, making broad, unsupported, and, in some cases, rebuttable assertions, while making negative, equally unsupported comments about Democrats.

For example:

* On March 12, Todd asserted that former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) is "one of these people that can probably keep the entire conservative coalition together, the social conservatives, the economic conservatives, and the religious conservatives." Approximately two weeks after that comment, prominent social conservative James C. Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and chairman, said of Thompson, "I don't think he's a Christian; at least that's my impression," and added that "such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party's conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination."

* On March 28, Todd asserted that "t would be easy for" Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) "to criticize the war. The maverick thing to do is to actually take the unpopular stand." In saying this, Todd suggested that McCain's position on the war is one of a "maverick," despite the fact that other leading contenders for the Republican nomination also support President Bush's Iraq policy. As NBC News chief Washington correspondent Norah O'Donnell noted during the same segment, "McCain's chief rivals for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, also oppose a timeline for withdrawal and support a surge of U.S. troop strength." In addition, McCain voted with the vast majority of Senate Republicans to remove a redeployment goal from the Senate's Iraq funding bill, as Media Matters noted. And, contrary to Todd's suggestion that McCain has taken the politically unpopular approach of not criticizing the war, McCain has described himself as the "greatest critic of the way the war was being conducted."


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