Thumbs up to Chuck Todd!

Yes, that's right-to Chuck Todd. He shot down the claim that Obama is the most polarizing president AND Karl Rove's article saying just that. Todd explained that many Repubs. have LEFT the Repub. party and have become Independents, and that Obama's approval among Independents is very strong. He also pointed out that even so, 1 in 4 Repubs. support Obama while only 1 in 10 Dems. supported Bush later on, and Rove undermines his credibility by writing such articles/making such claims. :thumbsup:

truth serum?:wow:

But, I'll take facts when I can get 'em from the corporatemediawhores.

Buchanan were talking about immigration. Pat kept referring to 'illegal aliens' and she corrected him by saying something like "they're called illegal immigrants, not aliens. Aliens are from outer space." :wow:

Of course, Pat ignored her and kept talking about aliens.

In his response to my complaint letter I could tell he was pissed. But I must say he is the only on who has ever responded to one of my complaints.

Gentry Dixon..and, yes, that may be my answer!

...WTF with Todd? A brain transplant??? LOL! :hi:

It sure sounded like it! :hi:

...so true! BTW: Hope all is well with you!

Frankly, I'd be surprised if he did on that show. But I have heard him on other shows take a sympathetic view of the Dems. I think he, like others on MJ, feel they have to tone down their real thoughts because Joe will go ballistic and not invite them back...

but he also said once, on MJ, that he trusts Robert Gibbs and that he has known him for so many years and he never lied to him.

He's liked and the press is warm to him. Joe won't take that on cuz he would just look foolish...

Maybe he just wants to go at Obama, which he's been doing almost daily lately withhis little rants. Or maybe he's a little afraid of Gibbs...:shrug:

he always prefaces attacks by saying, "You know this is a no-bash Joe Biden zone but..." or insert different name. I'm just glad Todd defended Obama and shot down the new "he's the most polarizing President" today.

I also think he doesn't want his buddies inthe press corps to laugh at him. My guess is that they consider Joe to be a loose cannon, unable to control his temper and just off the wall lots of times. Todd has his reputation to protect...

we'll see how long it lasts. He'll probably come out with more of his glib Toddisms tomorrow.

Anyway, it's cool you wrote him and spoke your piece. Couldn't have hurt!!

:hi:

they'd keep it that way.. along with winning over more viewers than CNN.. ratings work... spin is turned off.

and that he's known him for years. This was on Morning Joe when Joe questioned something Gibbs said.

anyway...LOL.

Amazing.

and he knows statistics, unlike many in our pinhead media.

I owe you a coke I guess.

:)

This is Todd's forte: nitty gritty political nuts and bolts, at which imo he is very good. And delivered with a tone of professional, final word, so that anyone who knew how to read crosstabs would be forced to agree with him.

More like that, and Rove's current thrust will be parried.

...with some folks on the right. Even they know when something completely insane has been proclaimed and they make a show of disagreeing with in lest they appear insane as will. It will be back to business as usual quite soon.

I've paid close attention for years, and I don't know of a single fact I could point to as evidence that Todd is on the right or conservative or Repuke, despite the tonnage of vitriol people direct his way.

Can you? And I don't mean where he said something about Obama of which you might be critical. Let's say on any other topic, can you link to a transcript or video that you think shows that Todd is "on the right", please?

I'm not that familiar with him as he's just come on my radar recently. I was speaking in general. There are a lot of people who ARE on the right and who are not generally popular here at DU who will on some rare occasion say something which DUers find uncharacteristically "sane" and nonpartisan. People here seem to be quite impressed when it happens. I'm usually a bit skeptical and suspicious.

On edit: It's simply always been my impression of him that he was on the right. I honestly can't tell you what it was that he said during the presidential campaign that made me feel that way. I just remember him rubbing me the wrong way.

From MediaMatters.

Here's thee link --> http://mediamatters.org/items/200703300009

... I personally give all credit to his man-crush on Robert Gibbs :) or maybe he's looking at the President's poll numbers, but either way, he's been defending the administration more often than not.

That made my day.

before Gibbs



after Gibbs

... I'm sayin'.

Gibbs is a hottie. Who can blame him?

:rofl:

Thanks for not letting BS go unchallenged.

God knows we could use about a thousand more like that. (Not like Chuck per se... but willing to smack down BS instead of just letting it slide, as way way way too many seem all too happy to do.)

Thanks for posting this because I otherwise surely would have missed it. Cheers. :)

I posted it because there are so many posts about Chuck being a RW tool. :hi:

Karl Rove has credibility? With WHO???

and she tells me many of them say they're very impressed with Obama. Now, whether or not that means they "approve" of him is anyone's guess, but I hardly take that as depressing news. :)

Good point. In a poll they may not say they approve but in reality they are still impressed with him. :)

If he did say this then maybe he is coming around to being "fair and balanced". Hope so!

But he HAS spoken up for something Gibbs once said that Joe said he didn't believe and Chuck said Gibbs wouldn't lie to him and he's known him for MANY years. (I THOUGHT he said he knew him for "over 2 decades' but that seems like a long time.)

I hope he continues to speak the truth. I don't watch MJ at all unless I am clicking by and someone is a guest on it that I want to hear. Joe makes me ill - really makes me ill. I heard he has a very bad back and that is why he is gone so much from Pat Buchcanan on another show. You would think he would become more understanding of others because of his pain but he is such a Repub lacky it is unbelievable that MSNBC keeps him on the air!

Even a blind dog finds a tick on his a** every once in a while.

:)

the right is now throwing at Obama and hoping it will stick is absolutely ridiculous if you look at the poll numbers.

So....kudos to Chuck Todd for having a brain on this one - gosh Chuck you really took a chance going out on a limb on this lame assertion.

even a broken clock is right twice a day.