Chuck Todd's Christmas Eve confessions, Part 2

[Dennis Donovan]

http://pressthink.org/2019/12/the-christmas-eve-confessions-of-chuck-todd/

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.

26 DEC 2019 1:40 AM THE CHRISTMAS EVE CONFESSIONS OF CHUCK TODD

Jay Rosen

‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a short interview with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press.

Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird.

Three years after Kellyanne Conway introduced the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into go-get-em points with the base, while pocketing for the party a juicy dividend: additional mistrust of the news media to help insulate President Trump among loyalists when his increasingly brazen actions are reported as news.

Todd repeatedly called himself naive for not recognizing the pattern, itself an astounding statement that cast doubt on his fitness for office as host of Meet the Press. While the theme of the interview was waking up to the truth of Republican actions in the information warfare space, Todd went to sleep on the implications of what he revealed. It took him three years to understand a fact about American politics that was there on the surface, unconcealed since the day after inauguration. Many, many interpreters had described it for him during those lost years when he could not bring himself to believe it. (I am one.)

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Well stated!

[Boomerproud]

1. The last thing true journalists are is "naive" Chuck.

I have seen real journalists in action. They have an extremely important job. Chuck Todd-you are not a journalist, or even a reporter.

[Merlot]

2. Or willfully ignorant and now trying to salvage his reputation

[UniteFightBack]

3. And perhaps the higher ups don't really like this kind of thinking. nt

[riversedge]

4. Chuck Todd is the Chris Cillizza of Tucker Carlsons

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The Volatile Mermaid
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Chuck Todd “discovered” Republicans are bad faith liars the way that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America. By accident after POC had been there all along.

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[Dennis Donovan]

5. That is epic - I can't compete!

[riversedge]

8. I loved it also.

[Hortensis]

6. Stupid people aren't hired to push lies to an entire nation.

He does it, it's planned with high-level strategists beforehand, and he now does it with the polished skill of long experience, which has been rewarded with a daily show to gullible daytime audiences, prime assignments for special events such as debates, and of course the corrupted MTP with its national audience.

We know his story of becoming enlightened is just another lie. This COULD suggest he's not confident of what's ahead on his track and planning a step to higher, safer ground. Or not.

But, could he have have become newly scared of what he's part of? Could he be alarmed by something like growing power of the religious right and/or nativist fascists over his conservative kleptocrats, say? Or is he still all in? Is this really a backing away from the plotters he's been working for, or it is part of protecting/rebuilding an image of probity for the plotters, and for himself as one of their faces?

[robbob]

7. My question for Chuckie...

Now that you have “discovered” that Repugs are mostly all bald face liars, Chuckie, what are you going to do differently in the future? My guess; nothing at all. More softball questions with no real follow up, more head nodding as the lies are spewed, more “both sider” bs, more horse race coverage of arguably the most important election in US history. You can feign naivety for your past behaviour, Chuck, but if you don’t change your ways we will all know what you really are.

Complicit.