Chuck Todd's hackery: Michael Steele could turn into Howard Dean
By John Amato Wednesday Mar 04, 2009 4:30pm
It looks like becoming a WH reporter for NBC has really gotten to Chuck Todd's head. He actually had the nerve to say this to Joe Scarborough about Howard Dean.
Todd: One one hand, you gotta hand it to the White House. They wanted to elevate Rush...
With Michael Steel, this has been as rough of a start, you know he is bordering on becoming a version of Howard Dean on the Republican side. When Howard Dean stopped having the respect of the party insiders---Steele, if he's not careful will not have the respect of party insiders and I don't care how much the grassroots might like, and I don't want to offend Mr. Steel, who's coming on. He's gotta be careful..
Howard Dean actually won an election and became the governor of Vermont before he was elected to run the DNC. I think that trumps being a Lt. Gov and then Michael Steel lost his bid to become a Senator. Also, Howard Dean's fifty state strategy while running the DNC helped the Democratic Party to make incredible gains in the House and the Senate and gave them huge majorities there even when "party insiders" made fun of that tactic. Just because some party insiders do not like Howard Dean does not mean he's been ineffective.
Can Todd name us some of Dean's failures that have made him a target of Chuck? Michael Steele has looked like a bumbling fool as he dealt with Rush that made him acquiesce and apologize repeatedly to the Limbaugh National Committee. Steele is in trouble with Republicans before he's even printed up his cards.
Apology to Rush Limbaugh aside, new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is coming under fire from his own GOP troops to shut up and focus on his job of organizing the party and raising money, not fighting with his own political kind. Several Republican advisers to Congress and the previous Bush administration told Whispers that they are worried that the war of words is fracturing the party when it should be healing the division between conservatives and moderates in the wake of the 2008 election.
"If his implosion continues, RNC members are likely to call a special session to dump him for an effective chairman. There is not much patience for failure."
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The fifty-state strategy will never win an election.
OR...he could just fizzle and flare out like a wet firecracker. Who really knows? Nobody ever predicted Bush the first time, much less the second.
Except the people who ran the caging operations or helped rig any other part of the election.
or at least the closest approximation to 50 states as we re likely to get. Not continuing it would be a serious misstep backwards.
to his sister's non existent company from campaign funds.
Howard Dean was a successful doctor, he was a successful governor, he turned the Dem political machine around.
But hey, get a scream taken out of context by the MSM and voila, insta-villain.
Mr. Steele should wish in his wildest dreams that he could "fail" at the level Howard Dean did.
Orwell could have never envisioned the level of propaganda, subsumption of the truth, and rewriting of history that Chuck Todd and the rest of the MSM hacks have gotten away with during the past few decades... and all out in the open.
I think you might have a point. For instance, the term redistribution is seen by many as some abhorrent thing because people have been trained by the MSM to think it that way. When in reality redistribution just means a more equal distribution of income and wealth, something that we readily had before Reaganomics. Propagandists have turned something like more equal distribution of wealth and income into some heinous anti-American idea. Next they'll tell me that women wanting to work outside the house is causing the current economic cluster*u%c$. I'm sure Fox is already on that.
One last thing...people talking to the media have to watch carefully how they phrase things and what terminology they use because certain words already have bad connotations in the American consciousness thanks to the wonderful propagandists (i.e. the term redistribution, nationalization, etc.). It's come to the point where a person will actually explain something that is extremely beneficial to the American public as a whole and yet if they use one "wrong" term it hurts their cause.
I hope this makes sense. I am extremely ineloquent and verbose today.
Chuck---Michael Steele could only hope to be 1/10 as effective as Howard Dean. Dean did a masterful job as chair of the DNC, a fact that you conveniently don't want to acknowledge.
You have a lot of nerve asserting that Dean lost the support of party insiders. In reality, Steele is the one that is losing support, because he is the head of a group of incompetents with no ideas, no leadership ability and no clue. The Neocons are reeling back with their hate of America and what do you do---defend them. You are a real piece of work, pal.
Media hacks and propagandists like you really piss me off. You are unprofessional and a disgrace to your profession with your blatant lying and promotion of your partisan agenda. You are just another media weakling with a big salary and important sounding title that cowers before your corporatist masters. You know---those pussies with macaroni in their spine that wouldn't dare speak the truth for fear that they would take your luxuty condo away.
Fuck you, Chuck Todd, selling America down the river for nine pieces of silver.
Thanks for hitting all the high points, including the fact that Todd is a media hack/propagandist. Now can we all e-mail NBC and/or MSNBC to protest his slanted performance?
Ditto.
What this bad muthafuckah said.
:D
p.s. Chuck Todd, you mewling moron:
Dean gripped it and ripped it. You wish you had his drive, boy.
one more thought:
I just love how this fool, and the rest of them, spend so much time sneeringly trying to paint the new WH crew as a bunch of opportunistic, cynical manipulators after fellating everyone from Bushco for 8 full years, never once impugning their integrity. Then all the flattery for that morally bankrupt Rush Limpballs. Good God, make me gag already...
How none of them Bushie syncophants remember anything but, a'la' Orwell, they write reality.
Not being inside of anything I don't understand how Dean has been ignored by the new administration but my sense from Midtown is that people dig him and appreciate his work..
Perhaps this crap from Todd is the begining of an attempt to create a divide among the Dems.
Steele's problems go beyond who he is, but what he is. The media needs to scrutinize the paths he took to get to the top. What they will find is a man who will do anything for power, even if it means selling his soul to the devil. Never underestimate your opponent, no matter how stupid or asinine he (or she) may appear to be. This latest fop over Limbaugh may be the end of Steele, or it could just be the beginning. It's up to us to defrock Steele, not assholes like Todd. Cheers!
either projecting their shortcomings on their perceived rivals, or deflecting their responsibility.
In this case, Todd is caught red handed projecting Steele's failures on Dean.
That is all they do. That is all they can come up with. It is very predictable, I am amazed that liberals in this country have not wised up to the pathetic MO of the GOPers.
Howard Dean got this Democratic party off it's ass. I strongly believe he's the reason in we took back a majority EVERYWHERE!!!! Howard Dean made elections into little pieces instead of one big map. Anyone who's compared to Howard Dean should be flattered. I wish I would run that risk.
OMG Chuck is toast. Can't wait until John Stewart gett a chance at this inanity.
Only in the wettest dreams of Michael Steele and the Greedy Old Plutocrats.
NBC News tonight was more outrageous than usual. From their report on earmarks we got the following facts: Earmarks are Democratic things and definitely NOT Republican things; When it comes to earmarks, Obama is a lying bastard and McCain is heroic; Susan Collins is to be included among the dishonest Democrats because her state got an earmark.
Simply have Ann Coulter call them names and they bend over backward to make their reporting as dishonest as possible - while not reporting a single lie. NBC maintains their barely plausible deniability. NBC is worse than Fox because while they shill for the Republicans they pretend to be a legitimate news organization.
:^(
a Republic... so he even flip flopped on what party he wanted to belong to. wow, he is inconsistent.
The privitized US media system has no integrity.
It's on par with the precoup privitized media system of Venezuala.
Our media system is not here to serve the masses, it's here to serve the corpo/elite monied interests.
Unless something is done to halt the rampant corruption the nation will devour itself.
We will go the way of the Roman Empire.
disses dean ... cannot diss steele straight up.
more of the same. corporate media's hacks marginalize dem/progressives (gore couldn't catch a fair non-scathing word, any few positive notes were couched in a false equivalency or back track; few progressives are even on corporate pgms)
btw dems won the white house; house and senate...not that you'd guess by the focus of any msm tv pgm...50 state plan, not so bad, huh? better than playing to the margins.
Especially on that jerk-hoff morning program he is on. Every one of those folks have to talk around a silver spoon. that time of the day is for workers not BS artists. I'll watch flintstones instead of those guys anymore.
but, of course, they (and their ilk) are dirty leebruls.
Off topic but here it is:
Let's stop giving people we disagree with nicknames as in (KKKRove, chimpy etc.)and start using their actual names, so as to not be like them.
We're above that kind of nonsense. Name names, and make your point intelligently. Rise above their trivial and junevile name calling. We are the grownups here. Act like it.
You can't make your point by name calling and sounding bitter. That's Rush territory.
That being said, Chuck Todd has proven to be a bit of a disappointment. Sign....
juvenile
And I can't do it.
The cons shit the bad and deserved to be called out on it.
I agree but consistently and civily responding to people like Todd et alii is very difficult.. the problem is that they've actually been given a forum. The level and volume of insincerety is overwhelming. I think the strategy is to create imbalance. The people who are ultimately responsible must see an advantage in mayhem.
But my Grandad was called Mr. Republican of Cooper County in his obituary and he was a big fan of Jesse James because he believed Jesse stood up for the little guy (a debatable belief about Jesse). My mom and dad were 'rock-ribbed' Republicans but they were scrupulously fair, honest, sincere and generous. We do need to reach everyone and name calling won't help.
AND you can bet that many of the crooks from Bushco are busy becoming democrats Simple-minded black/white name calling is anti-democratic. Those who want a destabilized society have won when we follow their Judas Goats.
I have never been impressed with Chuck Todd. Tim Russert died and MSNBC was left in a lurch for a political guru. Todd, as Russerts, assistant got promoted. He has neither the insight or the historical knowledge to be successful in this position. Not to mention he tends to slide way to the right with some of his reporting.
Gregory and Todd, two people that owe all that they have become to Lady Luck instead of hard, honest work.
does rhyme with suck.
Look who this goatee replaced - friggin little Russ.
Chuck Todd owes Howard Dean an apology.
I'll second that. And then Todd can offer his resignation for being such an unprofessional, biased hack.
Chuck Todd's comparison of M. Steele to Dr. Dean is way off the mark!
Dr. Dean is an articulate, intelligent man who is responsible for putting together the 50 state coalition that put Barack Obama in the White House--and that's just the latest of what is a long, impressive list of Howard Dean accomplishments.
Now compare that to whatever the Hell Michael Steele has ever accomplished--you will find that there is nothing on Steele's resume that even comes close!
Chuck Todd needs to act like the professional he seems to believe he is, and offer Howard Dean a sincere apology--Today!
I cannot agree more. What an insult to Dr Dean. The Democrats truly owe him an apology as well - for trying to ignore and downplaying his contribution to their resurrection.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
You had 8 years of patience for the Mid-Reich Cowboy!
But, Steele, is speaking out of turn. And, you know how that looks to the all-white Country Club on the Reich-wing.
Here's a quote from Hitler: "There is no reward for failure but death!"
"There's not much patience for failure!"
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, Jesus, I wet myself...
Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
... but he would risk losing his license and see his car insurance skyrocket.
Yeah right. Steele's intellectual capacity is nowhere near Howard Dean's. He's just another clown in the Republican circus. They're just confused baby elephants and dumb clowns running around trying to look relevant. Then there is the ringmaster of course...Rush Limbaugh.
Which is why Chuck Todd could never replace Timmy Russert (whatever anyone thought of Timmeh), even tho Todd's name was floated as a possible MTP replacement. Yea Right. Todd doesn't know how to keep his thoughts in check and ask relevant questions. He's a rookie.
Also, Howard Dean's fifty state strategy while running the DNC helped the Democratic Party to make incredible gains in the House and the Senate and gave them huge majorities there even when "party insiders" made fun of that tactic. Just because some party insiders do not like Howard Dean does not mean he's been ineffective.
No, but I can tell you what it did mean to the Democratic Party. I donated money (and time) to Obama, and I also gave to Dean's "Democracy for America," but when Schumer's DSCC (and the House's corresponding flunkies) came a-calling for dough, I told them they wouldn't receive a dime from me until I heard Schumer make a public statement of support for Dean or the 50-state strategy.
That never happened, and they never got a donation. And won't.
If Chuck keeps working at this reporting thing he just might fill Joe the Plumber's shoes one day.
but kissing the ass of Tim Russert's ghost isn't good enough. Luke wants your job.
I somewhat liked Chuck Todd when he was playing around with the map...not so much when he's trying to be some political analyst/ reporter. Maybe he could go back to playing with the map during elections?
On a more serious note, comparing Michael Steele to Howard Dean is what most would call a false equivalence. They are indeed in different levels and spheres of political play. Dean was successful in spite of some powerful democrats. Steele just kowtows to Rush. I mean one has a spine the other is an invertebrate. It really isn't that hard to see the difference.
Another key difference, Howard Dean isn't owned by a radio host.
The gop party would kick Lincoln out on his ear, the party of Goldwater was the last time that I saw a real gop. The MSM peaked during the Watergate era, thanks to republican Bob Woodward and radical Carl Bernstein.
Todays press just meows at what has happened over the last 8 years to a large degree. Chuck Todd is a real meower.
I already miss Howard Dean. He was an effective leader and chairman, and the Democratic Party benefited from his intensity and critique of the Bush administration when others in the party were too scared to stand up to the Bush crime family, especially in those years 2003-2004.
In my opinion, the Democratic Party has not treated Mr. Dean with the same respect he has shown to his detractors within the party. It is no secret that Paul Begala, James Carville, and Rahm Emnanuel do not like Mr. Dean. As a matter of fact these three loathe Howard Dean. Dean went against the DLC-Democratic Party ways and that rankled many corporatist Democrats.
It is not any surprise that the corporate owned networks criticize Howard Dean whenever possible. Rachel Maddow gives Dean the most respect of any anchor on TV. Dean has been trashed on an ongoing basis ever since that media-driven-created "Dean scream."
It is too bad that President Obama lacks the political courage to appoint Mr. Dean to a senior position on health care reform or a cabinet post. It is this type of disrespect shown to Mr. Howard Dean by his fellow Democratic Party colleagues which makes it that much eaiser for the likes of NBC's Chuck Todd to pounce on ever more so.
In closing, Dr. Howard Dean, M.D., was a huge welcome and breath of fresh air for the Democratic Party, and it's the enthusiasm he exuded which brought life back into that party. And a Democratic Party which until Dean came along, very much afraid to speak the truth about the criminals in the Bush administration.
Finally, as Karl Rove finally testifies, just remember it was Mr. Dean who boldly called him out on many 'Sunday show' appearances, as other Democrats opted for the safe way of saying nothing.
I am so sick of the way the Washington Democrats and so call "journalists" treat Howard Dean. It starts and ends with the same old Clinton gang. So far, we are not seeing change we can believe in. It's a sequal to the same old movie. "Team of Rivals" my ass.
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I have long forgotten about intellictual honesty regaining a hold in the MSM. These people have Stockholm Syndrome. Even though the thugs who have ruled America the past 8 years are no longer in power, people like Chuck Todd have become so identified with them and still follow the playbook given them by their captors. He is now in the big time now, so he has to act like a big time journalist, and by that I mean, he can't be intellectually honest or even truthful in his statements, and he must, at all costs, kiss the ass of his masters.
It astounds me how Chuck Todd can demean Dr Howard Dean by stating that Michael Steele will be as disrespected by his party as Dr Dean is by the Democratic Party. What absolute nonsense. Dr Dean got the Democratic Party where they are today. In command of both the legislative branches and the Executive branch of government.
Coincidentally, I saw this interview of Dr Dean on the Crooks & Liars' site this afternoon. This is not someone who will be grovelling and begging forgiveness from Rush Limbaugh for speaking their mind. Please watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI75cMQK06w&eu...
Please no more comparisons with Dr Dean & Mr Steele.
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