Who the hell told Chuck Todd he was a political reporter?

cynatnite

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Wed Aug-19-09 11:08 PM
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Who the hell told Chuck Todd he was a political reporter?

On Andrea Mitchell's show this morning, Chuck Todd was on to opine about health care reform. He said one outrageous thing and one right thing. The Toddster said that progressives might be attached to the public option because conservatives immediately attacked it. WRONG.

Mitchell:...how did this become the thing that liberals will not live without?

Todd: ...what's ironic is I think it became a big deal from the left because originally oit was the immediate point of attack from some conservatives. Immediately. That that is the public option so you sort of wonder was it simply a political reaction from the left. "They don't like it, we love it."

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/chuck-todd-gets-one-thing-frakked-and-o

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Lex

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Wed Aug-19-09 11:10 PM
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1. I thought Obama campaigned on the plan of having a Public Option

and that's why so many people are "attached to the idea."

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ejpoeta

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Wed Aug-19-09 11:10 PM
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2. i believe msnbc told him he was. why doesn't anyone tell these idiots that

the public option was the compromise... we wanted a single payer system.

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The Magistrate

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Wed Aug-19-09 11:12 PM
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3. Certainly No One Who Knows Anything About The Trade, Ma'am

We on the left have wanted national health care on a government administered 'national insurance' basis for many decades, and anyone even modestly cognizant of political life must know this....

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Motown_Johnny

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Wed Aug-19-09 11:13 PM
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4. Or, it is because we have been trying to pass health care reform for decades....

and half the democratic party wants single payer, even though nobody wants to talk about that, except maybe Rep. Weiner

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hedgehog

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Wed Aug-19-09 11:33 PM
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5. My bad.

Edited on Wed Aug-19-09 11:34 PM by hedgehog

He was crying and I was trying to cheer him up.

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