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babylonsister

(171,201 posts)
Thu May 8, 2014, 06:16 PM May 2014

Harry Reid Rips Chuck Todd and the Corporate Media for Covering for Republicans [View all]

All Dems should be calling these enabling clowns out.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/08/harry-reid-rips-chuck-todd-corporate-media-covering-republicans.html

Harry Reid Rips Chuck Todd and the Corporate Media for Covering for Republicans
By: Jason Easley
Thursday, May, 8th, 2014, 4:48 pm
Video @ link~


During his interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) ripped Todd and other Beltway journalists for not being honest about what the Republican Party is doing.

Chuck Todd tried to float the old both sides do it false equivalency to explain why the Senate is obstructed, but Harry Reid was having none of it. Reid said, “One of the problems the has with modern-day journalism is everything you do a tit for tat. You won’t call things the way they actually exist. What has happened here is that the Republicans have stopped everything from happening, and there’s no question that that meeting took place. That was the agreement made. They know who was there. They know what has happened since then, so you can give me the tit for tat all you want, but the fact is we want to legislate. We want to legislate and take votes.”

Sen. Reid spoke the truth. Chuck Todd is one of the biggest purveyors of the Republican talking point infused Beltway media groupthink. Todd is a reliable talking head that will always suggest that both sides do it, when the reality is that one side held a meeting after President Obama took office and decided that they were going to obstruct the Obama agenda.

The media has been covering up for the Republicans, and it was good to hear Harry Reid call it out.
No matter what people like Chuck Todd want to claim, both sides aren’t doing it. One side has decided to shut down the legislative process. Democrats are still managing to accomplish some remarkable things despite the obstruction, but Chuck Todd doesn’t want to talk about the ugly politics of Republican obstruction. Instead, Todd is living in a magical land where both sides do it, and all politics is an extended version of the election horse race that the mainstream press is so addicted to.

Chuck Todd got called out on his BS, but that won’t stop him from not reporting the way things really are, and who is responsible for the congressional gridlock.

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wash, rinse…. dhill926 May 2014 #1
Todd is playing safe..so he thinks Vietnameravet May 2014 #2
Todd defends himself ( more bullshit from him! Vietnameravet May 2014 #3
If he is jus a recorder he can easily be replaced. Does he realize that? rurallib May 2014 #13
Chuck Todd predicted week before election that Romney runaway win as most likely outcome in 2012 Byte606 May 2014 #4
Welcome to DU, Byte606! calimary May 2014 #6
Thank you for that LittleGirl May 2014 #12
I second that madokie May 2014 #26
Third that!! 12AngryBorneoWildmen May 2014 #34
Please come out of retirement JustAnotherGen May 2014 #31
I don't get what the name byte606 refers to. tclambert May 2014 #36
Fuck Chuck, he's one of the know-nothing bullshit artists trying to appeal to younger viewers. Major Hogwash May 2014 #40
Nonsensical False equivalency K lib May 2014 #5
Welcome to DU, K lib! calimary May 2014 #7
Thanks K lib May 2014 #8
That is why Benghazi is still alive today! Dustlawyer May 2014 #10
Todd is just playing the corporate media game .. he likes the money, selling out his scruples > YOHABLO May 2014 #9
He should give out coupons for selling his scruples. tclambert May 2014 #37
I doubt that Harry Reid's asseverations will go unanswered........... wandy May 2014 #11
Harry has disappointed me in the past, but not lately. Where the hell has this guy been? GoneFishin May 2014 #14
Todd's just a parrot Plucketeer May 2014 #15
Chuck Todd: It's Not Media's Job To Correct GOP's Obamacare Falsehoods spanone May 2014 #16
Chuck Todd is a pathetic excuse for a journalist Stainless May 2014 #17
I can't believe he said that. Geez, we have our work cut out for us, don't we? nt okaawhatever May 2014 #18
it says the truth is irrelevant spanone May 2014 #19
If the rest of us did our job as sloppily as Todd does we'd be fired. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2014 #21
not a journalist's job to report the facts eShirl May 2014 #22
Chuck Todd is an example of what's wrong with the media today Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2014 #20
The biggest lie out there watoos May 2014 #23
Thanks for truth. appacom May 2014 #25
"Why give right wingers like Limbaugh publicity by showing their clips?" BumRushDaShow May 2014 #30
You make a very important point. Over and over, MSNBC will air RWers, ladjf May 2014 #35
From the great Driftglass...! Grins May 2014 #24
k&r for the truth. n/t Laelth May 2014 #27
Astonishing Todd is quite comfortable defining his job as, I provide a platform and do not fact Jefferson23 May 2014 #28
K&R and President Obama gets blamed for not doing anything despite this fact. nt BumRushDaShow May 2014 #29
Chuck Toad is a mealy mouth two-faced creep. olegramps May 2014 #32
Chuck Toad pretends to be objective, which makes him more dangerous than merrily May 2014 #33
Chuck Todd waiting in the wings of David Gregory Waltg May 2014 #38
I'd take more heart from Sen Reid's much deserved outrage ProfessorPlum May 2014 #39
I hope that hurt! lunatica May 2014 #41
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