Posted on 09/05/2018 2:04:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Apparently, a weekly show on NBC and a nightly show on MSNBC weren't large enough platforms for Chuck Todd to complain about troublesome conservatives, so he's written an article for the liberal magazine The Atlantic titled "It's Time for the Press to Stop Complaining -- and to Start Fighting Back."
Under the headline, he added, "A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News's Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of news outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work."
This article doesn't deserve a rebuttal. It deserves a laugh track. It's like writing an article claiming there's been a 50-year campaign to unfairly vilify cigarettes as cancerous. Conservatives have exposed the so-called objective press as almost-universally liberal, and Chuck Todd knows it. Hundreds of studies and tens of thousands of anecdotes don't lie. This entire article only underlines this point (and undermines his).
If you want to deny you're liberal, you might want to avoid writing an article decrying Fox News for ruining America in The Atlantic, which endorsed Hillary Clinton for president because Donald Trump is a "true national emergency, or an existential threat to the Republic."
The liberals attempt to define being properly identified as liberal-Democrat partisans as "delegitimization." It's merely classification. Would they submit to a poll of their newsrooms that tries to find the one Republican? They've pretty much avoided being polled on their political views since 1992, when they were 89 percent for Bill Clinton.
It's just as easy to lob that argument back over the wall. The liberal media have engaged in a "50-year campaign of vilification" of conservatives. They've sought to "delegitimize" every Republican presidential nominee from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.
It's especially ludicrous for Chuck Todd, of all people, to complain that conservatives have somehow misled people to assume he's tight with the Democrats. In the last election cycle, WikiLeaks exposed that in 2015, he and Mrs. Todd invited Clinton staffer John Podesta (among others) to their home for "Cocktails & Dinner in honor of" Jennifer Palmieri, another Clinton staffer, and her Democrat husband, Jim Lyons. Is that fact somehow "fake news"?
In the same article in which Todd rips into Fox News and its kind of "manipulators," he strangely tries to claim that they shouldn't be "going negative." The man needs an editor to tell him to stop sounding silly.
Todd blames Fox for having "unique ethical standards." Then there's the hilarious part where he suggests NBC News is fully transparent about its mistakes: "Here's what comforts me: The record is there for all to see." He writes this after the Brian Williams debacle, in which there was next to zero transparency in evaluating his lies, and after the Harvey Weinstein debacle, in which former NBC staffers are now accusing Todd's network of putting out a passel of untruths and distortions.
Has NBC been fully transparent about Matt Lauer? Todd should really retract this whole bungling mess.
If the media wanted to be respected as impartial, there's a simple solution: Act impartial. Be respectful. Quote people accurately. Presents facts, not opinions masked as impartial truth. Report news. Speculate carefully. Never editorialize.
In other words, don't write stuff like this.
Todd might even decide to avoid the furtive wining and dining with the Podestas and the Palmieris. That's the way to build confidence. It's the opposite of what the "objective media" offers us every day.
Gee, Chuck, who knew that Roger Ailes and Fox News have been on the air for nearly 50 years?
Just let the clown keep bloviating his stupidity as it befits him.
Yes. I enjoy seeing him stepping into deeper sh!t every time he opens his mouth.
Fox News founded October 7, 1996; 21 years ago
He's not nearly so smart as he believes himself to be, and Dunning-Kruger is always waiting in the wings.
If NBC really wanted the appearance of impartiality they could start by firing anyone who thinks like Chuck Todd.
Yeah!
Start “fighting back” you should bad mouth everything he ever says or does from now on!
Oh wait a minute... you already do that
He certainly looks the part of “DORK”!
Agreed! He reminds me of Paul Giamatti only with a dumb look on his face. The MSM, Dem’s, Hollywood and educational institutions are proof that the movie Idiocracy is coming true.
These guys tell us each day how much they hate Trump. They all are clowns on these ABC networks. Who cares what they think or say?
Here’s the simple answer,Chuck......just write & speak the truth. If you can’t do that in your present situation,find a different one.
He has scrubbed the internet as there is little proof he was very outspoken at that time and VERY VERY pro Liberal. He was an Liberal operative, always has been a Liberal operative, now trying to pose as a neutral so call journalist. HA!
What a punchable face this guy has.
Step in it....again and again....jack ass.
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