Why Chuck Todd is an idiot
By John Amato Sunday Nov 22, 2009 9:00am
John Cole finds Chuck Todd wanking away on Twitter.
Shorter Chuck Todd: It’s only big news if the Democrats fail!
I guess he didn’t pick up on the fact that if they had failed to get the 60 votes, HCR would, for all intents and purposes, be dead in the short run, as the Republicans would filibuster. That is why this is such a big deal- they have overcome the obstructionism of the GOP, and the debate can advance.
Although in fairness to Chuck, he may be more concerned with why Obama didn’t reach out more to President McCain. Not to be too subjective, or anything.
*** Update ***
Can anyone imagine the feeding frenzy for the next two weeks if they had failed to get 60 and advance the debate? Can you imagine the Sunday shows tomorrow? Can you imagine all the headlines speculating if Obama was a lame duck? “Senate fails to advance health care reform. Is Obama’s entire agenda at risk?” and “Obama’s signature legislation killed in Senate. Can he recover?” and “Republicans, spurred by sagging Obama poll numbers and grass roots support from tea party, stop Obama administration in their tracks.”
And Chuck Todd would be leading the goddamned charge with that crap.
Chuck Todd explains in Twitterific form what the Village really thinks. Does he not understand how the legislative process works? Nope. Does he remember that it was a Blue Dog Royal Senator named Max Baucus that helped pass Bush's tax cuts and medicare drug plan:
Some Democrats think Mr. Baucus betrayed the party in 2001 when he supported President George W. Bush's tax cuts, and in 2003 when he was one of two Democrats to help Republicans pass a Medicare prescription drug plan.
If George Bush had failed at getting these through, would Todd be questioning the conservative movement? Nope. They would be telling America that since they elected Bush, the Democrats were traitors to America. But when a Democrat is President all the Villagers look forward to is failure.
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The title should be:
One of the many MANY reasons Chuck Todd is an idiot!
"Can anyone imagine the feeding frenzy for the next two weeks if they had failed to get 60 and advance the debate?"
Does C&L issue barf bags when exposing stinking D-bags?
:)
Todd is the typical Reslug idiot that had to suck his way to the top.
todd is a goofball. It's almost pathetic. he is doing his darndest to climib that ladder, but he sold his soul way too early.
What a turd. he really needs to be insulted in person, on public TV every week to shame him down to where he belongs.
did it and he still comes across as an idiot.
Actually, I think it was Jeremy Scahill.
Chucky Todd strikes again. Him and David Gregory are the two biggest reasons I do not watch MSNBC during the day or on sunday. I don't tune in until 6pm and then 8pm-10pm. Ed, Keith, and Rachel.
luke russert. digby occasionally highlights that idiot spawn's blatherings when he turns up on msnbc opining about irish and italian political blocks.
todd is the distillation of village-think; he never has anything useful or informed to say other than the well-worn talking points spouted by every other wdc magpie. it's funny that one of the sore points is the asia coverage and the criticism is coming from some very well-regarded writers; that chuckles dismisses as bitching from bloggers. but in all fairness to chuckles, he probably doesn't know who jim fallows is...
What a douchebag! This is the same doofus who kept telling us the public otpion was dead. It may well be but, this dick seems to be rooting for it's demise. Does he really think this is what reporters do? Did you see his blathering interview with Obama. Yes, while we all heard Obama say "when the terroist are convicted". He then changed his language so as not to appear that conviction was a forgone conclusion. Who here thinks it isn't? No, my problem was with Todds buffoonish, jibbering style. He seemed nervous and clumsy. Idiot!
It confuses me what this cloture vote was about since Chuck had indeed, as you mention rox, called the public option dead 4 months ago and 3 months ago and 2 months ago...
Rarely watch the talking heads anymore. But we might want to remind ourselves who owns NBC. Lucky they still have Engel but they keep him on the front lines. They would probably make him a star if only he would dance with Karl Rove.
The one where they had two types of opinion. One for public consumption and one for what they really thought when they thought the cameras were off. Freedom of the press, Hail Mary!
While I agree that Chuck Todd is an idiot, I think he may be on to something with this. After all, we've all been disgusted by the inability of Democrats to push through legislation when they're the majority party in government.
I wonder if Todd was making the point that Democrats advancing debate shouldn't be big news because they have had the power to do so all along. I think he's saying that the lack of party unity is shameful -- or would be especially so if they hadn't blocked the fillibuster.
Well, after digging a little deeper, I suppose I need to revise my original comment. Juan Cole is absolutely right. Given the stakes, this is a very big deal.
Chuck Todd is an idiot.
John Cole - Balloon Juice
Juan Cole - Informed Comment
can push thru legislation. I believe that if the Republican ever regain control of all three branches of government they will make sure that the Democrats will not be able to ever regain control of any of the branch of government. They will pass laws to cripple the Democrat's power bases like the unions, minorities, poors, women and the young. They will destroy community action groups like ACORN. They will make sure that local Republicans control the voting booths. They will do whatever it takes to prevent Democrats from voting. This was done in the past and will be done again.
It looks like Reid is going to quit, Nelson, Lincoln, Landrieu, and Lieberman are going to win, and Obama is going to sit it out and become a one-term President. We'll get either no bill or a bad bill.
And that motherfucker Todd thinks I'm rejoicing.
Once someone's lost, they're lost. Greenwald caught Todd being a moron and Todd stuck to his guns. he's smart, but he's 100% horserace and process and has no concern whatsoever for the truth or for what happens. He'd laugh uproariously at the very idea that he should care.
Chuck Todd might just not understand anything not written down for him to just read. Complex rational thinking and logic might not be his strong point. Perhaps Todd's boss might find someone with more intellect than Chuck Todd to do Todd's job. That may help their business greatly.
The Family wants to "transcend" left and right with a faith that consumes politics, replacing fundamental differences with the unity to be found in submission to religious authority. Conservatives sit pretty in prayer and wait for liberals looking for "common ground" to come to them in search of compromise.
Hillary, Rob Schenck noted, became a regular visitor to the Family's C Street House in 2005. "She needs that nucleus of energy that the Coe camp produces." that summer, she appeared as part of a threesome that shocked old school fundamentalists: Bill, Hillary, and Billy, live in New York for Graham's last crusade.
Before tens of thousands, the patriarch of Christian conservatism said Bill "ought to let his wife run the country." Bonhomie and cheap blessing, maybe, but it was the kind of endorsement that Bill never won, despite Graham's custom of speaking sweet nothings to power. "THE FAMILY"
(and, yes, he is an idiot, too)
if they couldn't clear this hurdle it WOULD call into question the dems ability to be a governing party (even more than usual). sorry, but that should be obvious.
Anytime you have to count on Joe Loser's vote, and especially if that vote is for something that benefits the general public over corporations, your shit is very flakey indeed.
the dems have the ability to make senator droopy dance anytime they like--his homeland security chairmanship
Also too, bitching is a conservative trait. Then again, I could give a rats patooty what Chucky the Twit says or does. He was a Twit long before Twitter came along.
Actually, the etymological trail is somewhat murky. While some experts point to the later Mongolian term "chookntoady," meaning spineless Establishment shill, others focus on the more obscure Lydian "shnucktoddo" or the Macedonian "Toddoschukopolis" both of which reference the psuedo-intellectualism inherent in claiming world class political expertise in spite of a life-long inability to successfully complete basic undergraduate coursework in political science.
Still others just cut straight to the basics: if you have to ask exactly why Chuck Todd is an idiot, you probably wouldn't understand.
lol
Among Clinton's prayer partners were Susan Baker, the wife of Bush consigliere James and a board member of James Dobson's Focus on the Family; Joanne Kemp, the wife of conservative icon Jack, responsible for introducing the political theology of fundamentalist guru Francis Schaeffer to Washington; Eileen Bakke, an activist for charter schools based on "character" and the wife of Dennis Bakke, then the CEO of AES, one of the world's largest power companies;
and Grace Nelson, the wife of Senator Bill Nelson, a conservative Florida Democrat. The women sent her daily scripture verses to study, and Baker, the wife of one of the Republican Party's most cutthroat strategists, provided Hillary with spiritual counsel during "political storms."
Makes Rev. Wright seem tame by comparison.
Are there any people of color in the "Family?"
Mrs. Clinton, meanwhile, recalled going with her church youth minister as a teenager in 1963 to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Chicago. Yet, in her autobiography and elsewhere, Mrs. Clinton has described growing up Republican and being a "Goldwater Girl" in 1964 -- in other words, a supporter of the presidential candidacy of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
However, in her autobiography, Clinton also described going with a Methodist youth minister, Don Jones, to see King speak in Chicago, as well as her reaction to the speech. From Living History (Pages 22-23):
Chuck Todd is keenly unperceptive. He's another Tim Russert, very into the horse race but oblivious to substance or facts, and when presented with substance or facts, scoffs.
that's leading us along the path to the Holy Grail, the American consumer capitalist dream?
do people care about twitter anymore? did they ever? the only time i ever hear about twitter is when the newsmodels mention it.
because of growing despair tied to fretting over his financial ability to maintain his stuff.
Twitter is very popular inside the beltway. Seriously. I think too many inside the beltway have a common way of not-thinking. Twiter is the perfect solution for them.
that's fitting
hmmm, follow...? where is that confounded bridge?
where is that confounded cliff?
nobody's fault but mine
Are you Sam Andres?
:)
caught!!!!
back to sam andres' house, err, i mean my house, mwhahaha *pented fingers*
How about instead of making this Dem V. GOP fight we as a collective blogosphere start effectively attacking the media.
This incremental BS that Harry ried and Nancy are giving us is BS and I know WE are all smart enough to see it.
Just look at all the Lobbying Dollars and where they went this year. F'ing joke
Getting all 60 Dems to vote the same way on anything, is so rare, I'm surprised it is not noted on the Mayan calender.
Like herding cats.
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Chuck up another one for the Toddler.
This is news? :-)
Chuck Todd ISN'T an idiot.
Now that's news.
I saw him interview the pres, and I'm not his biggest fan by a long shot, but this freak was aggressive and rude to Obama in a one on one interview in S Korea the other night.
He NEVER would have spoken to dim son that way...
From a PFAW email:
The Senate just voted to move forward on debating a "base" health care reform bill that does NOT include the Stupak-Pitts language attacking a woman's right to choose.
http://site.pfaw.org/Stupak-Pitts
I actually thought he was a pretty good analyst of political campaigns. He is extremely weak on issues; as is Tapper, Reid and Garrett. This White House Press Corps is a failure.
I think they are victims of their own access fetish.
When did the WH press corp even pepper Bunnypants or Darth with questions? (I can't remember a time)
But the RW complains about the liberal media? Where is the liberal media? Surely not in this country.
Ed Henry is also a tool.
The truth is all of them can be tools on some issues or about some things. Even Maddow, Schultz and KO. (IMO)
Of course it is just when I disagree with them - so it really is my issue. Nevermind.
The truth can be a bitch to find when reality is skewed by the prism of our personal senses, knowledge, experience and emotions. I am guilty of this. Todd is still an idiot, though. Ask Jeremy Scahill.
"Somebody will someday explain why so many folks want to pretend like today is momentous for #hcr. If Senate Dems couldn't START debate......."
This must be one of the new GOP talking points. John King said almost the exact same thing this morning in an interview with Mitch McConnell. He - King, not McConnell - went on to speculate whether a party that couldn't muster the 60 votes was capable of governing.
Chuck's ego sure has gotten swelled beyond all proportion since 2005...Now he's just a jerk. He thinks that becoming a conservative advocate (and his new right-hand movement training is REAL annoying), like his heroes Hannratty, Chris Matthews (sometimes when Matthews is cognizant), Limberger and Bill Kristol, Todd has really become more like a bad parrot. He's lost his insight into reality when he was a numbers guy and shunning that skill has made him worthless in the current environment/debate.
Just another worthless blabbermouth/talking face....
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=30265
(effin high-larry-us!)
I've never been a big Chuck Todd fan, but the last bit of his credibility drained away when he spent every on-air moment advertising "Microsoft Surface" technology during last year's Presidential election cycle. the terms "douche" and "bag" come to mind.
Just another lame and incompetent media lackey that does his corporate masters bidding for his nine pieces of silver.
In other words, just another detestable, overrated fraud that should be ignored.
Good one!
Meet The Press, with their half and half political panal, met today to launch the full week of MSNBC's counter to the victory of yesterday's vote to debate the senate's health care bill.
From the Ed Show to the Rachael Maddow show and all in between, the only exception being Keith Olbermann, MSNBC will mount a full scale campaign to diminish Obama's small health care victory. In fact, every time something good happens for this administration, you can count on MSNBC either down grading Obama's record with bias polls like Gallop and MSNBC/Wall street Journal or glamorizing a Republican talking point that make no common sense. They do this to only come back and ask if the same talking point is hurting Obama's poll numbers. How deceptive is that?
This happens so much I have resorted to changing the channel to the History channel and can now announce I am becoming a history specialist. Because MSNBC's attacks are of the subtle nature, most of the viewing public has no idea they are being "worked."
However, in the case of Chuck Todd, he does not have the subtle quality afforded his network. With obvious intent, he is sure to cut down every nuance Obama's actions may affect. All that being said, he's not the worse over at MSNBC. This is the express title of Chris Matthews and the very deceptive Ed show host.
Joseph
Because he wants Maddow and Schultz to be an Obama echo chamber.
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