Chuck Todd's "Help me out, I'm an idiot" act isn't an act.

[LexVegas]

He is a genuine idiot.

[RockRaven]

1. It is an act in one sense. He's an genuine idiot AND an asshole.

More often than not his displayed idiocy (partially) obscures his assholery.

[Submariner]

2. He is incompetent in his field of work

He is only where he is because Russert died and Gregory was not only incompetent, he also showed his right wingery more than Chuck does.

He’s over his head and can’t think on his feet fast enough to formulate good questions during interviews.

[uponit7771]

3. +1, he's less informed than the avg US mixed aisle forum user

... or that's the way he acts

[JCanete]

4. He's always sucked. Its a testament to what these producers want to sell

that he has moved up ranks, which clearly has nothing to do with the quality of the analysis, the shrewdness of the questions, or even the charisma or appeal of the personality.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Some what remember Chuckie

Toad's total F--up of Harken's 1992 campaign and how blew the Iowa Caucus's. Appeared Chuckie was so out of his league when it came running a Campaign. Clinton totally ate his lunch. So Chuckie Toad has the Harken Campaign bus doing stops along I 90 in Southern Minnesota,what was that all about.