NBC's Chuck Todd Flips The Bird On Live National TV
Was someone asleep at the switch of Morning Joe's vaunted seven-second delay?
On Morning Joe today, Chuck Todd was seen flipping the bird as the show went to break and he waited to come onto the set. Hat tip reader Ray R. In defense of the NBC political director, he might well have been operating under the assumption that his off-set antics would not be televised. Screengrab and video after the jump.
Will there be repercussions for Todd? Stay tuned.
Todd tweets: "The camera is always on. A lesson some of us never learn. My apologies. Am personally embarrassed. Was a joke with someone on other side."
Fair enough. But by "someone on other side," did Todd mean . . . a Republican? ;-)
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Freakin Class Act - NOT
Submitted by scottyusmc on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 9:01am.
This optimizes the liberal feelings of the American public. Unfortunately, for America it symbolizes what this administration has been doing to us for 3+ years.
Someone on other side?
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 9:20am.
Did he mean it was directed at one of the off-air workers on the set who do all the real work while he reads what the teleprompter scrolls?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Well, there's Mark Halperin again!
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 9:28am.
Remember when Halperin called Obama a "d*ck" and the punishment was 30 days off the air, and PAT BUCHANAN got fired from the show, per White House orders I'd bet my bottom dollar. Halperin is still there, I see. I don't even watch it anymore without Pat there to laugh in Mika and Tina Brown's faces.
Funny how normalized flipping
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 9:43am.
Funny how normalized flipping the bird is now - when I was a kid, we were shocked when someone {usually in a rage} did this. Now it's a yawner.
Ronald Reagan
It's not often that MSM
Submitted by celator on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 9:55am.
It's not often that MSM "reporters" publicly and openly reveal their true character. Thanks for being honest, Chuck.
Leftist media hacks are an incensed lot
Submitted by ChrisNH on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:25am.
Self-professed to be 'tolerant' and 'compassionate' and 'inclusive,' Libs are none of those things. Read anything by anybody at The New York Times. Or watch TV Lib media hacks like Todd and Gregory...two Leftists in a pod.
This next year will be self-immolation time for these Leftists. They may rescue the White House but will most certainly lose 'control' of Congress. Through it all, these Leftist media hacks will be livid beyond belief...and episodes like these will seem tame. Leftist media hacks have lost the hold they thought they had on 'The Narrative,' and they don't quite like it. OBAMO will enter his second term a lame duck of the best sort. His radicalization of America will have basically ended then.
I'm pretty certain in some way Chuckles was.....
Submitted by Wiiliam1972 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:07am.
......flipping off the racist Conservatives.
Back at cha, Chuck!
Submitted by notinstl on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:07am.
He even looks stupid doin't that.....
A Conservative must have walked in front of him ...
Submitted by ombdz on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:16am.
... that, or a Blue Dog Dem ... www.ombudizen.com
Maybe not.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:40am.
Was Baaney Fwank on the show this morning?
Then it would have been his
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 2:35pm.
Then it would have been his whole fist............
Dude?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 3:01pm.
There went my appetite for the day.
Well, given the way you
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 4:40pm.
Well, given the way you looked wearing your ascot around your waist (with the help of a 48" bungee cord), as well as being covered with that hideous body paint during the Fantasy Festival, I'd say that I'm doing you a favor by helping you skip a meal!!!
That is sooooo mean!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 5:55pm.
See if i ever send you more pictures.
Well, you were kinda cute -
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 6:04pm.
Well, you were kinda cute - in a 'Deliverance' sort of way. I guess I'm being a little harsh - I'm sure that some wildebeast would be attracted to you!!!
Rush Limbaugh refers to him
Submitted by povertypimpin on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:22am.
Rush Limbaugh refers to him as "F. Chuck Todd". Now I guess he should start calling him "F.U. Chuck Todd"
Todd
Submitted by Jersey Girl on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:53am.
Chuck Todd and David Axelrod so perfect together.
Classy guys. Always civil and always dignified.
I am sure the family of Christina Green are mightily impressed with the civility Obama brought to our political discourse in her honor.
I believe he was flipping off
Submitted by Firmworm on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:53am.
I believe he was flipping off the president of Hair Club for Men.
"In defense of the NBC
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:57am.
"In defense of the NBC political director, he might well have been operating under the assumption that his off-set antics would not be televised."
Integrity is doing the right thing even when nobody is watching you. Why would anyone post a statement "In defense" of poor behavior? Am I to take from this that the level of professionalism somehow magically increases when a camera is on with someone like Todd? Because I'm just not seeing it. If you are so callous and flippant about vulgar gestures in the workplace, what does that say about Todd's integrity in general, on or off camera?
And another point: "A lesson some of us never learn." I see this as a candid admission that he is a fool. Todd has a front row seat to seeing the most historic gaffes made by politicians and reporters alike. Yet his ability to learn from those mistakes, by his own words, is non-existent.
That Braggart ...
Submitted by Karl Magnus on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:10am.
Divulging his I.Q. on MessNBC is rather pretentious methinks.
LOL
What a maroon.
~(Ä)~
It doesn't phase me that he
Submitted by marpel on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:18am.
It doesn't phase me that he did it. It looks like he was joking around, but he knows the camera is always on...
That would have been the only genuine thing that has happened on that show ("the ship of fools") in a long time...
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
Has no one ever taught him
Submitted by inquiringmind on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:24am.
Has no one ever taught him the proper way to flip the bird? He can't even do that correctly. What a wussy.
I'm sure ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:44am.
... that is the liberal, elite, northeastern university fart boy way of rendering "the salute."
Oops! I meant "frat Boy." Sorry.
Liberal apology:
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:27am.
I'm sorry I got caught.
This is no big deal. He was
Submitted by FAR52 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:39am.
This is no big deal. He was clearly joking around.
It's considered joking around ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:47am.
... only if you're a liberal, FAR. Let a conservative get caught scratching his head with his fingers, and it will run 24/7 with "analysis." "What true message was he sending?"
Joking around is not
Submitted by FAR52 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 12:11pm.
Joking around is not ideological. It's just joking around. And of course we all know how the press is unfair to republicans. But their problem (a lack of objectivity) shouldn't be ours.
I love joking around.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 3:03pm.
The most fun is beating the hell out of liberal plicks when their predictable biases are on full display.
So, When Cheney says FU it's a scandal
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:51am.
So, when Cheney is overheard saying FU while walking out of the halls of Congress it's a scandal worthy of public recriminations, but when a TV personalty "flips the bird," another form of saying FU, on national TV, no less, it's just "joking around."
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
That wasn't the Bird!
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 11:51am.
It was the number of new viewers NBC has picked up since hiring Chelsea Clinton.
New Viewers
Submitted by milesll on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 1:21pm.
Now wait, both of her parents were watching. So that makes two people watching who didn't get sick.
NBC's Chuck Todd Caught On Camera With Erect Third Finger
Submitted by StewartIII on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 12:48pm.
ChickaBOOMer: NBC's Chuck Todd Caught On Camera With Erect Third Finger
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2011/12/nbcs-chuck-todd-caught-on-camer...
Will Todd get the Halperin/Buchanan treatment from MSNBC?
Submitted by OxyCon on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 12:58pm.
And that was a very unmanly looking flip off...Todd needs alot of practice. I've seen women who can do that better than him.
When the bird is flipped with ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 7:55pm.
the pinkie, ring, and index fingers clasped against the palm with the thumb folded over the index finger, that is a joking around bird.
When the pinkie, ring, and index finger are folded downwards but do not touch the palm, that is the mean and nasty bird flip - and should not be accompanied by a goofy grin.
As a typical metro-sexual liberal male, Todd can't even get that right; he does the folded finger flip with a silly grin pasted on his mug.
Doofus.
MD
when Rush
Submitted by misterbee241 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 1:01pm.
refers to this guy, he always says "F. Chuck Todd." and the way Rush says it, it sounds just like "Upchuck Todd." I cant watch Todd without thinking of that.
A Journalist?
Submitted by milesll on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 1:19pm.
I graduated from a Big Ten journalism school and in the last 10 years I have been embarrassed to admit that I did. Todd is yet another example of why journalism is dead. This is how a "professional broadcast journalist" acts. I know not. This is not the first time he has proved to be a joke and living proof that journalism is indeed dead. How many more times will he be given "another chance".
Bird-Man and Baboon-Face.
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 2:37pm.
Bird-Man and Baboon-Face.
He wasnt flipping the bird,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 2:59pm.
He was just showing us his IQ score, right, F Chuck? Wheres Ed Sullivan when you need him? That was in response to when Jackie Mason was on his show-anyone know about THAT story?
Interesting Metaphor
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 3:06pm.
This could be seen as a nice little metaphor of how the MSM treats the public, especially conservatives.
Todd and Scarborough can have each other
Submitted by StarAZ on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 3:44pm.
Back when I bothered with MSNBC, Todd was some sort of pollster or designed poll graphics or something--and now he supposedly a reporter and WH correspondent? What? I can't even spend a second of thought on it without screaming and never stopping. As for Scarborough--why is he still on the air--just for his unexpected lack of logic--is that what passes for entertainment or something? And don't EVEN on that blond woman.
looked like
Submitted by jimtrees on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 8:52pm.
He was standing alot lower than David, maybe he lost one of those liberal bets,and it time to pay up.
Blah blah liberals blah blah Axelrod blah blah
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 7:18am.
None of you got it. Sheesh.
He wasn't "flipping the bird," he was giving his colleagues an "up twinkle" (you know, like Anthony Wiener gave that young lady an "up twinkie" photo).
Or, he was trying out for an anchor position on a Russian television news program.
Come on, folks, pay attention. A little cultural awareness, okay?