Chuck Todd is really in his element tonight

[CreekDog]

talking about who's winning, who's losing, who campaigns well and who doesn't.

and like usual, not a care about what any of them would do as President, what their policies are and what their words mean in terms of what they would do as president.

Chuck is all about optics.

He has his money, he has his health insurance, he has his job.

And if he can get paid to keep score, why should he have to talk about policies and positions and what particular candidates would likely do as head of the government?

That doesn't matter.

How many marriages Iowa voters think is too many in one's past is what Todd cares about.

Because he has that luxury, as do almost all the mainstream talking heads in DC.

Now the Kennedy's had all that power, money, luxury and more, but for some reason they actually cared and spoke about policies they cared about because it mattered to people besides themselves.

But not most DC punditry, and worse, not to most mainstream DC journalists, who aspire not to educate and inform about the fate of the nation --but actually many aspire to recount the score among candidates many of their viewers know precious little about, in large part, because those same people aren't telling them.

[frazzled]

1. To be fair, his job is to count the numbers and analyze polls

Not to comment on what any of the candidates positions are, or what they would do as president.

I don't care for him myself, but I think it's a bit unfair to knock him for doing what he's assigned to do.

[Old and In the Way]

2. I agree...he's OK when he's crunching the data...he's not supposed to be reading between the numbers

and giving his opinion on the various candidates. That's Rachael's, Lawrence's, Ed's, and the rev's job.

BTW, I think Rachael is doing a terrific job anchoring this coverage. She does her homework.

[CreekDog]

4. funny how the political people provide more journalism (Maddow, O'Donnell, Ed) provide more

than the journalist on the program.

it was the three i named above that talked about the actual platform of these candidates.

and the "journalist" todd, that's probably tweeting about their marriages or some crap like that.

he went to school for all those years and got a nice job to aspire to this?

he is surrounded by people doing actual analysis and, he, the journalist, who did gigs as White House Correspondent, never could be troubled to do.

he should be play calling whatever the current Poker Show is.

[CreekDog]

3. he was doing that when he was White House Correspondent!

his job my...umm...I beg to differ.

[provis99]

5. he seems to be drunk to me.

every time Rachel went to him, he look like he'd just taken a belt of corn whiskey out of his hip flask.