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NBC's Chuck Todd told an inconvenient truth about Barack Obama on Sunday's Meet the Press. "The rise of the internet media and social media and all that stuff - he hates it" (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHUCK TODD: What I wonder how many people realized at the end [of Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner] when he did his, you know, there's always this part at the end where they get serious for a minute. And it’s usually the part where presidents say, “You know, I think the press has a good job to do and I understand what...

and David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews...

Now Or Never Political Action Committee will spend $800,000 on television ads for Republican Todd Akin, who is campaigning against incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, The Hill reports. The group’s ad asks voters who “don’t agree with everything he says” to back Akin anyway, and it focuses on winning Senate control and defeating McCaskill. “In the Senate, Akin will vote for Romney’s policies to get Americans working again,” according to the ad. “Claire McCaskill would fight Romney every step of the way. To avoid Washington gridlock and get this country back to work, our best choice is Todd Akin.”

A French proverb declares: “What is hard to endure is sweet to recall.” I seldom agree with the French, but, as a former professional boxer, I know this to be true. In 2003 I was fighting Cuban heavyweight Roberto Valdez before thousands at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion. Valdez was big, strong and mean. I was told that, a few years earlier, he had traversed shark-infested waters, alone, on a rickety makeshift raft to enjoy freedom in the land of the free. This, of course, is the very land Barack Obama seeks to “fundamentally transform.” The American vision he shares with many...

Zap2it: Did your son, Army Sgt. Track Palin (who deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year) or your wife, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, influence you to participate in a show ("Stars Earn Stripes") that pairs celebrities with military operatives and first responders on simulated missions? Todd Palin: No. 1 would be the cause, the military charity. Track was major, Sarah was major, and then my working experience on "Sarah Palin's Alaska," knowing (producer] Mark Burnett puts out a great product.

Missouri Republican Todd Akin is vowing to continue his Senate campaign, though the question increasingly is: to what purpose? His continuing candidacy is harming the social-conservative wing of the GOP that he claims to be defending. Mitt Romney and other Republican officials sensibly disavowed the Congressman after his recent comment that "legitimate rape" can be a contraceptive. For Mr. Romney, this was something of a Sister Souljah moment—not that he's getting much media credit for it. But rather than leave the race to another Republican who might be able to win, Mr. Akin has since cast himself as a pro-life...

Intense race week begins for motorheads who love the cold and snow up North! Every racer in this 2000-mile epic journey across Alaska is tough. Period. Lots of self-discipline and determination and amazing mechanical skills are required. You can check standings here and GPS tracking here. Here are some photos of Todd and Trig from the start of the race yesterday. Go Dogs! Godspeed! --- Sarah Palin http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/iron-dog/10150572725263435

Waiting to come onto the set of Morning Joe, Chuck Todd is televised flipping the bird to someone off camera.

MSNBC host Chuck Todd and Donald Trump got into a heated on-air exchange Monday over who requested the interview. The flareup came after Todd, host of the Daily Rundown, said earlier on the program that Trump wanted to respond to a poll that showed voters were less likely to support a Republican candidate if one was endorsed by Trump. When Todd got on the phone with Trump on the air, he was greeted by the irate real estate mogul fuming over what Todd had said.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick said Thursday that he will postpone and possibly disband a special firearms task force following the arrest of its chairman, Rep. Curry Todd, on drunken driving and gun charges....Todd, R-Collierville and the chairman of the House State and Local Government Committee, was a chief architect of a controversial new state law that allows people with handgun carry permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.

Todd Palin’s candid interview with Stephen K. Bannon

“Todd is a good dad”. Governor Sarah Palin said these words often on the 2008 presidential campaign trail when introducing her four- time Iron Dog champion husband, Todd Mitchell Palin, to cheering audiences. The First Dude, as she affectionately calls him, is deeply committed to his marriage, is fiercely protective of his children, and constantly shows patriotic allegiance not only to his native Alaska, but to America. Never slothful or lazy, Todd is always by his wife’s side and works hard to provide for his family whether it be on a Bristol Bay salmon run or in the oil fields...

Trying to play up the idea of chaos in the Republican 2012 field, on Thursday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd argued Sarah Palin's bus tour making a stop in New Hampshire on Thursday was "a little bit of a slap in Mitt Romney's face" on the day he was planning to announce his candidacy. Co-host Meredith Vieira had asked Todd about Romney's upcoming announcement and claimed the former Massachusetts governor would have to "steal back the spotlight" from Palin. Todd declared that Palin was "not even giving him [Romney] one news cycle to make his case."

Jim Palin met both me and calamari for the first time at lunch last month at Evangelo’s, the best Italian restaurant in Wasilla, Alaska. Jim Palin, Todd’s father, has been hunting and fishing in his state for almost 50 years, but somehow he had never crossed paths with a squid, alive or fried. As for reporters from the “lamestream media,” he had met a few, but had never actually sat down to break bread with one before. I had come to lunch hoping to learn a little about Jim’s elusive son, Todd—a figure of enduring fascination who just might, if...

Todd ‘Let’s Roll’ Beamer’s father, David, condemns Obama’s self-aggrandisement over the Osama bin Laden assassination "Nothing Obama does now can ever wipe the slate clean of all the other anti-American, pro-Islamic policies he has put forth."

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — At about 5:00 I found out that the racers were stopping in Golovin due to life-threatening conditions. Apparently race veteran and one of team members who was first to Nome, Marc McKenna, called race marshal Chris Graeber and told her that they were stopping in Golovin because the trail was impassible, they were all wet, and "Someone's going to die out here," (this is a... fourth-hand quote, but I'd imagine that's the gist of it). According to GPS and a since-deleted Facebook post by an administrator of the Iron Dog page, three teams have decided to go...

Feb 07, 2011 (Anchorage Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- For the first time in race history, the start and finish of the Iron Dog snowmobile race will be televised live across much of Alaska. Anchorage's KTUU-Channel 2 will broadcast the Big Lake start and the Fairbanks finish. It will also send broadcast team to Nome for reports that will air on its newscasts. Nome is the only place racers stop for an extended period during their 2,000-mile journey from Big Lake to Nome to Fairbanks at speeds sometimes exceeding 80 mph The station will also offer...

What's with the recent trend of tagging articles with palin or sarahpalin that have nothing to do with Sarah Palin? If your article has nothing to do with Palin, please don't tag it as such. It's bad enough that journalists use her name to get hits to their articles or as a cheap source of writing material. We don't need that attitude here too. Just because people want to increase traffic to their posts, doesn't mean they should tag their posted articles with palin or sarahpalin. This just clutters the keyword/tagging system.

By accident I learned of a screening being held at a local movie 30-plex of Sarah Palin's Alaska on Wednesday evening. I don't pay much attention to local news, but there are a couple of websites I check daily and I never saw anything about this. While checking for new episodes of favorite shows on http://www.futoncritic.com, I saw there was a story about the show. Much to my surprise, TLC was holding advance screenings in 10 cities and mine happened to one of them! All we had to do is make online reservations which was simple enough. Why wasn't this...

Burnett was keen to work with Sarah Palin from the moment she burst onto the national political scene in August 2008 and, interestingly enough, he was just one of hundreds who had similar ambitions even after the election when she became, to so many “experts” from the left and the right, an irrelevancy who would soon melt back into the arctic tundra.

The young lady at the desk of the Dorothy Page Museum and Visitor Center has blue hair -- not the blue-silver of advanced age, but a punk-rock razor-cut style dyed cerulean blue. She is friendly and helpful to out-of-towners who stop by to ask about the town's most famous resident. Has Sarah Palin become a tourist attraction in Wasilla? "I don't know," says the blue-haired woman. "I guess a lot of people have added it to their itinerary." Rumor is that the Palins are out of town and hope of an interview seems doomed to disappointment. Then my cell phone...

On Thursday's Today show, NBC's chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd started building the narrative for the liberal media to spout in case the Republicans win majorities in the House and Senate in the upcoming midterms - that the voters are just cranky about everyone and everything. Todd even went on to absurdly state that if the GOP has a big win it will still be seen as a "A bad election night for all of Washington." All of Washington? Even for the party that is victorious? Todd, on with Today co-anchor Ann Curry, came up with that conclusion after...

Yeah, that Chuck Todd.

Here is video of NBC's Chuck Todd in Boston tonight talking with Chris Matthews and saying the "Democratic Circular Firing Squad" that is already underway does not change the fact that "they all own a piece of this loss." Todd is saying it in the past tense - "loss" - as if it is already a done deal. . . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of MSNBC's Chuck Todd saying that a "nightmare result" for the White House would be "not just a Brown victory, but a Brown victory with a turnout that is more so than the average midterm election." (Video)Chuck Todd said that that "should be truly the wake up call to the Democratic party that this is a bigger problem than maybe they've even appreciated, you can blame the candidate all you want...but bad candidates should be able to win in Massachusetts in a decent political environment." Todd said the fact that Independents are going heavily for Brown "should...

Yeah. That Chuck Todd.

Here is video of MSNBC's Chuck Todd today giving the latest on the Scott Brown - Martha Coakley battle for the Massachusetts Senate Seat. Todd said "Scott Brown has all the momentum," and told viewers that the Coakley message is "all over the place." Todd said if this race were in any other state, he would say it is over. But because "of the strength of the Democratic Brand" in Massachusetts, "it feels like a tossup." He closed by saying, "this is a big one." Clearly, the Democrats and their minions in the media are worried! . . . ....

Todd and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! The Palin family is blessed to all be together among family and friends this Holiday – and that is one of the greatest gifts of all. But while this is a beautiful time of the year for families and friends around the world, we recognize that it is a difficult time of the year for so many others – especially this year. May we remember all those who are lonely or in need on this blessed night, and please join us in saying a special prayer for those away...

KILLEEN, Tex. — Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley has been applauded as a hero across the nation for shooting down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during the bloody rampage at Fort Hood last week. The account of heroism, given by the authorities, attracted the attention of newspapers, the networks and television talk shows. But the story of how the petite police officer and the accused gunman went down in an exchange of gunfire does not agree with the account of an eyewitness who had gone to the base’s processing center, where the shooting occurred, to conduct business before being deployed

Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley has been applauded as a hero across the nation for shooting down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during the bloody rampage at Fort Hood last week. The account of heroism, given by the authorities, attracted the attention of newspapers, the networks and television talk shows. But the story of how the petite police officer and the accused gunman went down in an exchange of gunfire does not agree with the account of an eyewitness who had gone to the base’s processing center, where the shooting occurred, to conduct business before being deployed. The witness, who asked not...

"I think he’s struggling to translate that to policy."

The first people who came across Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the psychiatrist suspected of Thursday's murderous rampage, told tales Friday of quick, calm efforts in the face of danger. By the time it was over -- in less than five minutes, base commander Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said -- 13 people were dead and 38, including Hasan, were wounded. Mark Todd was one of two civilian police sergeants credited with helping take down Hasan. He and partner Kimberly Munley pulled up outside the building where the shooting was occurring at the same time, and Todd saw the shooter standing outside...

Apparently his prediction about the National League playoffs was as good as his prediction during the 2004 Presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON — The fathers of Sarah and Todd Palin will be joining forces this month to help an Idaho congressional candidate who's getting an early start on his 2010 election bid. Both Chuck Heath and Jim Palin will be in Idaho later on this month to help out Vaughn Ward, a Republican candidate for Congress. They’ll be attending events for Ward at the end of the month in Boise and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Ward's campaign spokesman said. The former Alaska governor's father is an Idaho native who graduated from Sandpoint High School in northern Idaho. Palin, Sen. John McCain’s vice-presidential...

Chuck Todd and company at NBC News are outraged that conservative talker Beck won't --or can't-- be fired for calling President Obama a "racist." They blogged as follows: *** On the Glenn Becks and Howard Beales: The White House doesn't want to give Glenn Beck a bigger platform or extra oxygen -- especially regarding his remark yesterday that the president has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" -- so they won't comment, even off record. Beck, after all, is a radio DJ who somehow ended up getting a national platform to give his opinion on politics....

Anklebiters in Alaska are all aflutter because of this story by Sean Cockerham at the ADN. To sum up: On her most recent financial disclosure, Governor Palin revealed that her husband Todd, who is a sponsored snowmachine racer, had received a unspecified discount from his sponsor on the machines he uses for racing. Ethics anklebiters Linda Kellen Biegel and Andree McLeod pestered the Alaska Public Offices Commission to ask Governor Palin to specify the exact amount of the discount. Governor Palin has replied that she legally cannot do so:

Todd Palin: "Nice attempt by Letterman to draw the heat away from himself; however, Willow was the only one at the Yankees game and the only Palin child included in the photo opportunities with the Giulianis, as was obvious. Regardless of which Palin daughter it was, Bristol, Willow or Piper, these sexually-perverted comments are outside the acceptance of mainstream America."

Hard work, sports and family activities formed the foundation of the Heath household. The entire family often competed in five-kilometer and ten-kilometer races. Hunting, fishing, skiing and camping kept them outdoors year-round. Everyone had chores. Whether they were weeding the family garden, stacking firewood or picking strawberries, Chuck and Sally's children understood the value of work. By age 12, each child was expected to earn his or her own spending money and save for college.

"Personal integrity is making a hard decision and sticking with it. It's about digging down deep and holding onto your faith, even when you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel." - Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska "Life will test your integrity. There is a cost for doing what's right." - Todd Palin, First Gentleman of Alaska On September 3, 2008 at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Sarah Palin exploded onto the national political scene as John McCain's surprise pick for running mate. Stepping confidently to the podium-and into the history books-as the GOP's first female...

Alaska's first husband is not scared of you, the cops, or his wife. Get a sneak peak at a week in the life of the ultimate stay-at-home dad, hunter, fixer, and champion snowmobiler right here, then pick up the May issue of Esquire for Luke Dittrich's full, in-depth profile.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The lawyer for Gov. Sarah Palin's husband fired back at Alaska state senators Saturday, disputing that Todd Palin and others "ignored" subpoenas issued last fall during the Troopergate investigation of the governor. Attorney Thomas V. Van Flein said that immediately after a judge's decision refusing to intervene, all subpoenaed witnesses, including Todd Palin, filed detailed written responses to lawmakers. "These are not the actions of contemptuous witnesses, rather, they reflect a studied and deliberate invocation of law and due process, and in accord with the rule of law, once the court issued its decision, the parties then...

SOLDOTNA, Alaska — There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope and devising harrowingly zany methods of chasing one another up and down the storied Iditarod Trail. The snowmobile jockeys were the wildest of the wild, and hardly anybody could get the better of Scott Davis. By age 49, Davis amassed a small fortune in the concrete business, raised a son and a daughter to race professionally and won seven championships himself in the Iron Dog, an annual snowmobile contest that has come...

Here is video of NBC's Chuck Todd asking a question of President-elect Barack Obama at a press conference today, January 7, 2009. He asked Obama if he would like to comment about the Israeli - Hamas conflict in Gaza. Todd pointed out Obama has said repeatedly he could not comment because America only has "one President at a time," but went on to say to Obama that he had not followed that when it comes to domestic policy, speaking out repeatedly about the economy. Obama did not seem to appreciate Todd pointing out this inconsistency, and tried to make the...

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hugs a poll worker as she arrives to vote Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, at Wasilla City Hall in Wasilla, Alaska Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks to reporters as she stands next to her husband Todd, after they voted, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, at Wasilla City Hall in Wasilla, Alaska. Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin reaches out to a dog in a car window as she stops for coffee at the Mocha Moose Espresso stand after she voted Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, at Wasilla City...

Video here. Classic line when she refers to the flag pin, an "accessory" Obama dislikes. Anyone who has pictures of Sarah Palin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Laura Ingraham, and other both principled and attractive conservative women, please post them all here. Who can post the most? Let the contest begin.

CNN) -- With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense, they are spilling out in public, sources say. Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue." A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out. McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate....

Todd Palin sparks chants, cheers in W.Pa.By Richard Robbins TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, October 19, 2008 Todd Palin rolled through Greensburg on Saturday in an effort to rally Republicans facing what appears to be a daunting challenge 17 days before voters choose the next president. The husband of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was greeted by a crowd of about 175 volunteers and well-wishers inside and out of GOP headquarters on Maple Street. The crowd on the sidewalk took up the chant "Sarah, Sarah, Sarah" as Todd Palin stepped outside. Several women wore pink campaign T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Sarah Cuda,"...

Voters weigh in on Todd Palin race visit Published: Saturday, October 11, 2008 By Ray Duckler Concord Monitor Todd Palin, husband of rugged Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is bringing his own polar-bear grit and igloo motif to Fremont this weekend. And, with the presidential race in its final stages, Palin no doubt will have more than just racing on his mind. We're a swing state, and there are votes to gather as well. Palin is riding in the annual Grass Drags and Water Crossing, billed as the largest event of its kind in the country. Snowmobile enthusiasts race...

Immediately after watching Greta Van Susteren of Fox News interview Todd Palin this week, the leaders of America's feminist organizations bolted to their any-color-but-pink cell phones to discuss presenting Mr. Palin with their highest honor, the Feminist of the Year Award. Seriously? Hardly. But they should have. It is more likey that they are at Home Depot shopping for ladders to send Governor Palin so that she can more efficiently whack her head on the glass ceiling that they are always complaining about. Behind every successful woman there's a husband (Quick! Run and see if Gloria needs smelling salts!) so...

In response to Gov. Sarah Palin's invocation of Barack Obama's "terrorist" "pal" William Ayers, Democrats have settled on a rhetorical response that inquires, innocently enough, whether Todd Palin's association with anti-American secessionists is fair game, especially in light of Palin's charge that Obama "is not a man who sees America as you and I do."