Chuck Todd: Walker Supporters Bunch of Bitter-Clingers
Shades of bitter-clingers!
Chuck Todd has developed an interesting device to delegitimize support for Gov. Scott Walker, depicting his backers as uneducated, frustrated, blue-collar people who are willing to "lash out at government workers."
Yup, there's no respectable basis to support Walker and his call for reforms on a collective bargaining system that has nearly wrecked Wisconsin and many other states. No, there's just the irrational reaction of the embittered, ignorant masses.
Todd offered his analysis on today's Morning Joe in explaining that the Obama administration is backing off a bold stand on Wisconsin, given its swing-state status.
View video after the jump.
Watch Todd trash support for Walker.
CHUCK TODD: They [in the Obama admin] know it's a swing state, they know that this is, that there has been ratcheted-up rhetoric against government workers. Forget whether the pension thing [?], but during this low-unemployment [sic] crisis, and they know that this is really an effective message strategy, particularly with non-college educated, sort of white blue-collar workers who are frustrated that they can't find a job, or frustrated by the lack of manufacturing jobs, and are willing to lash out at government workers.
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NBC News and MSNBC --- No Difference
Submitted by libBuster on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:07am.
Chuck Todd is remarkable for his total lack of insight and his political hack behavor. It just shows that NBC News and MSNBC are one and the same.
Chuck, having the
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:17am.
Chuck, having the intellegence of a frozen french frie ( generic brand at that ), is always the number one parrot of the latest in disgusting vitriol, hurled at the ordinary American people, by the Obama regime.
Chuck is always the first to float the lastest propaganda of the supposed president of the United States of America.
Never before in our countries history has the person living in OUR White House hated the average American citizen like Barack Obama. He is the worst thing to happen to this country in the past 50 years. Not to mention the fact he has singlehandedly set race, class relations in America back at least as many years.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
And
Submitted by jpk3 on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:19am.
I'm still clining to my guns and bible
"Limitations"
Submitted by mad53PA on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:20am.
Todd is a perfect example of the saying " A man has got to know his limitations".
Unfortunately at MSNBC, exceeding them and looking stupid is a job requirement.
Working Middle Class in 2010 Demanded Change
Submitted by Retired Geek on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:32am.
The 2010 elections gave control of House of Representatives to the Republicans for one reason and one reason alone - to stop the spending.
The middle class in America are the ones who elected those who campaigned on cutting the spending by Barack Obama and his Liberal Progressive band of thieves.
Liberals claim it was NOT the middle class who demanded by voting to cut spending and elected Tea Party Candidates and Fiscally Conservative Republicans.
Are Liberals really that ignorant that they don't believe the middle class voted to empower Tea Party Candidates and Fiscally Conservative Republicans?
We know that the 'Poor' did not vote the Tea Party Candidates and Fiscally Conservative Republicans in power.
We know that the 'Unions' did not vote the Tea Party Candidates and Fiscally Conservative Republicans in power.
We know that the 'Wealthy' did not vote the Tea Party Candidates and Fiscally Conservative Republicans in power, the 'Wealthy' are a very small percentage of the voters.
We know that the 'CEO's' did not vote the Tea Party Candidates and Fiscally Conservative Republicans in power, the 'CEO's' are a tiny minority of the voters.
The hard working - NON Union MIDDLE CLASS were the ones who voted the Tea Party Candidates and Fiscally Conservative Republicans in power for one reason and one reason alone - STOP THE SPENDING.
http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2011/02/retired-geek-working-middle-class.html
I look forward
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 11:09am.
to the spanking coming in the Senate in 2012.
There exists a real possibility that Republicans will gain the 60 votes there that the Democrats held. If we think the lefties are crying now, wait until Republicans (if they do the right things now) win that level of control in the congress plus the White House.
In 2006 and 2008 elections, I submit that the American people put a challenge to the Democrats. We said - Put up or shut up. They were delegated complete control of government and all they did was infringe upon Liberty and spend money. They didn;t do anything they campaigned on and did just about everything they claimed to oppose.
We are in the middle of the pendulum swing of the two cycle process it takes to swap total control and so long as Republicans do not bow to the bogus "bi-partisan" garbage, we will see 2012 deliver a Reagan kind of election where the vast majority of the country is going the same direction. Old Media will have no choice but to drop this progresive bologna.
Lashing out? AT government workers?
Submitted by KC Mulville on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:33am.
Who are the ones squatting in the capitol, with angry shouting and Hitler signs? The ones lashing out are the government workers, Chuck ...
Up is down, white is black, and liberals think blue collar people are "lashing out" ...
Welcome to Bizarro World,
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:52am.
Welcome to Bizarro World, KC!
Listen to Chuck, trying to defend a president who is breaking yet another campaign promise.
Nancy Pelosi said it very well:
There are are number of things he was for....on the campaign trail.
I guess he only meant if it wouldn't hurt him politically.
What a stand-up guy!!
Yet, after this betrayal, these same unions will pull out all the stops to get him re-elected; just like women with Bill Clinton.
And they're supposed to be the "smart" ones.
KC: Captain Redbeard is a
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 6:51pm.
KC:
Captain Redbeard is a Union guy. All these TV people are Union. They have a vested interest (pun intended) in supporting the teachers unions. Add to that their support of Obama and all things Democrat and it is no surprise that Chucky feels this way.
What is surprising, at least until Obama hit national conscience, is the unabashed extent these media folks now have in revealing their once filtered thoughts.
Hey, Chuck
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:33am.
Did you ever consider that the public employees (not sure if they are actually workers, and pretty sure they aren't servants) are lashing out at Taxpayers? There IS no Management in this negotiation. WE are the boss and we want some control in any agreement they make.
Todd's former employer
Submitted by ferv888 on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:35am.
Why do you think he would feel any different. He worked for that "famous" conservative Tom Harkin from Iowa. Remember his comments about Obamacare? This bill we passed is akin to a starter house, we have much more to add to it.
They never ever lose their stripes!!!!!
FERV888
Chuck isn't arrogant is he?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:55am.
Many, many blue collar jobs are very complicated.
Some of the resentment against government employees is that the average taxpayer is fed up with the teachers and the mailmen and many in government making far more than they do and those government employees are complaining that they don't earn enough.
In the not to distant past, working for the government meant making less than what average workers made in return for job security, and in the case of teachers a 9 month work year.
In the era I grew up most blue collar workers made far more than mailmen and teachers and other government employees.
Chuck doesn't seem to realize that those bitter blue collar workers are forced to pay the salaries of government workers, and they are really tired of government workers making far more than they do, and then complaining they need more compensation.
But what do we expect with reporters that make several hundred thousand a year and never leave Washington, DC, a knowledge of reality?
The fact
Submitted by Marsh on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:43am.
that there has yet to be one major poll concerning which way public opinion is swinging tells me all I need to know.
Chuck is learning
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:46am.
Chuck is learning disabled...he hasn't learned that the "bitter clinger" line just infuriates people.
But then again, a liberal's tactic if something doesn't work is to do more of it....
Obama is "typical"?
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 9:58am.
So pretty much the lying gutless coward in chief is staying out of this because it may hurt him politically and when HE SAID on the campaign trail "that he would put on his comfy shoes (does that line SAY IT ALL ABOUT this effiminate "leader") if need be to protest or walk a picket line if collective bargaining was at risk".... HE WAS JUST UH, UH, UH, UH, UH, UH LYING?
Todd, not even worth commenting on this little wussy, I do wish I attended his High school as smacking him around would have been pure fun and it would have been for good reason.
It's to be expected
Submitted by Huapakechi on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 10:01am.
Whenever there's a groundswell of protest at the deliberate effort to bring this nation to it's knees, the liberal elitists will begin whining that the "unwashed proles" are aspiring above their station in life.
Ugh.
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 10:27am.
Check Todd knows that he himself is a government worker.
I am so sick and tired of the idea that one has to be "college educated" in order to be considered "educated". I participated in the work program during my last two years of high school (Zoology as a Sophomore led me into a fulltime ZooKeeper position) and have never set foot in a college classroom. Does this mean I am stupid? Does it mean I know nothing?
Hardly.
I have learned more since I got out of school than I learned while I was in school. What is noteworthy is that much of what I have learned in that time has been correcting what I was taught in school. I spent the last election cycle attending candidate meet and greets and put questions to candidates that they didn't even understand, much less have answers to - and they all had "degrees". How can that be?
It can be, and is, because this much is true. A degree hanging on the wall doesn't matter, possession of one is meaningless -unless- application of the knowledge they are supposed to represent takes place. All to often, those with degrees are the least able to apply the knowledge those pieces of paper are supposed to represent.
Of course, this is not always the case and sometimes those with degrees are super intelligent and apply a vast amount of knowledge. But the fact of the matter is that some folks can do that very thing absent a wall hanging. I know this much, I would sit across a table and debate Chuck Todd in a heartbeat. He would find himself under it in less time than it takes my 8th grader to run his 5 1/2 minute mile.
Sorry for the rant, I just get so tired of being deemed "uneducated" by straight up idiots.
Bitter Clingers?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 10:57am.
But the union members / thugs are civil right? They care not about anything other than their own pocket books. They point at the wealthy as greedy while they make 30 to 50 percent more that comparable non union workers. How'd that happen? Can you say collective bargaining?
Can you say these union people are the greediest bunch of thugs you've seen? I can.
People like Chuck Todd
Submitted by shannon76 on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 11:53am.
People like Chuck Todd represent the most heinous kind of liberal bias because most would consider Todd to be the straight, objective news reporter; as opposed to a commentator. But he infuses his reporting with biased language. In that respect, Maddow, Olbermann, and O'Donnell are at least upfront about their bias.
Bitter Clingers
Submitted by jschau on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 12:17pm.
The non-college educated, sort of white blue-collar workers who are frustrated that they can't find a job, or frustrated by the lack of manufacturing jobs, and are willing to lash out at government workers happen to be the voters that elected Walker.
Hate to confuse you leftist MSNBC media hacks with the simple truth. But don't let those pesky voters get in the way of your "analysis."
I'm bitter about not being
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 4:50pm.
I'm bitter about not being able to cling to my hard earned dollars.