Corporate Tool Chuck Todd Goes After Stephen Colbert For Exposing Corporate Tool Electoral System

[Mosaic]

Of course Colbert and Stewart are marginalizing the Republican candidates…by typically using the candidates’ very own words. It is the Republicans that are campaigning only toward the racist margins of society. It is the media in general that reduces a candidate to a single sound bite.

Where would our nation be today if Al Gore had not been marginalized for being too “boring” in 2000? Where would our nation be today if Howard Dean had not been marginalized in 2004 for showing excitement? Where would our nation be today if John Kerry, a war hero, had not been marginalized?

The Supreme Court, with a hand up from Congress, has created a money monster that is eating our political system from within. The media (and Chuck Todd, who wouldn’t know when to ask a follow-up question if he was whacked across the head) has created the headline culture which marginalizes all who choose to participate in our democracy.

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[fascisthunter]

1. touched a nerve, did he? HA!

[RobertEarl]

2. Where would we be?

There would be no need for Occupy.

GWBush would not be even mentioned in the history books, and Iraq would not be a crumbled mess. Gas would be $2 a gallon because we would be using alternatives and, well, the Daily show and Colbert would have had to find different material.

For now we are relegated to getting a constitutional amendment passed and go from there.
Can we do it, or what? What does du think? can we do this?

[_ed_]

3. Chuck Todd is a great example of how MSNBC is NOT progressive

They are owned by ComCast. Chuck Todd is a paid corporate shill, put a dollar in his pocket and he'll say anything you want.

[lsewpershad]

4. +1

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. Media Matters has an interesting article on him

Since joining NBC, Chuck Todd has had only good things to say about GOP

[valerief]

11. Anyone half-asleep with one eye open can see that. nt

[rocktivity]

6. This is what he wrote back when he failed at marginalizing Obama

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...For all the hits...(Team Obama)...took (Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, "bitter," the PUMAs, Bill Ayers, Landstuhl, even Joe the Plumber), they were always working toward the prize (270-plus electoral votes)...If you simply judged the last three months of the 2008 campaign by which campaign "won" the daily news cycle, McCain came out ahead...
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And this is what I wrote:

Don't be so quick to pat yourself on the back, Chuckie. Fortunately, we didn't have to judge the election by who "won" the daily news cycles: thanks to the blogosphere providing us with a "public option" of sorts, the MSM couldn't "push" McCain "ahead" the way they could have a few short years ago. If we'd had to depend entirely on the MSM news cycles, a LOT fewer of us would have learned that the Clintons also had ties to Wright and Rezko, that there were plenty of controversial clergypeople in the McCain/Palin camp, and that Joe the Plumber WASN'T a plumber. The blogosphere (despite the attempts of First Read and Politico to muscle in) is the REAL reason why those "hits" didn't stick!
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/rocknation/458

Same script, different election year...


rocktivity

[progressoid]

7. Chuck who?

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Chuck is an ignorant schmuck...

Did you hear his clanger at the very end of the video?
He says: "It (Colbert's parody) is just going to exasperate the problem.
He meant exacerbate, obviously.
What an arrogant, self-important prick.
SG

[DirkGently]

9. Colbert is making a mockery of our mockery of democracy!

[valerief]

10. Colbert makes a mockery of the system the way Todd makes a mockery of journalism. nt