Todd Disses Santorum--But Fails To Ding Dunn On Hedge Fund Hypocrisy
His show's called The Daily Rundown. And sure enough, Chuck Todd ran down Rick Santorum this morning as just another "flavor of the day" who "probably won't be the nominee." Apparently, trouncing Mitt Romney in three contests last week, and leading by a reportedly huge margin in Romney's native state of Michigan, isn't enough to impress Chuck.
But Todd totally swerved around Anita Dunn, failing to question his guest about the story of her big-money hypocrisy making today's news. As Obama's White House communications director, Dunn regularly went after hedge funds. But now as a PR consultant, as the Washington Free Beacon has reported, Dunn is taking hedge fund money for a campaign to promote the industry's image. Incredibly, nary a word about it from Todd. Video after the jump.
Watch Todd dismiss Santorum's chances, while giving Dunn a free pass on the controversy surrounding her.
CHUCK TODD: I want to talk about our upstart front-runner, the newest flavor of the day, Rick Santorum. I've shown some of the soundbites, I don't want to play them again, because I think the lighting is horrible, you can't really hear him. But this is this infrastructure issue Jon Ward, you brought up. We saw this movie before, the last Santorum surged. His campaign can't handle simple things like putting on an event that figures out how to keep protestors at bay . . . The Santorum infrastructure, this is a reminder: he's probably not going to be the nominee and yet we know conservatives are still looking for somebody--it's just anybody.
PERRY WATSON: He's the latest person who's ahead in all the polls.
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Of course he did!
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 4:34pm.
Chuckie Todd doesn't want to lose his place in line at the Obama Kool-Aide urninal....... Should he speak bad of dear leaders top aides would surely move him to the Joe Biden font of recycled Obama Kool-Aide............ all old and wrinkly..................
We know now that MESSNBC is
Submitted by ricklail on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 4:54pm.
We know now that MESSNBC is the voice of Media Matters. They are the puppets of Soros just like Obama.
MSNB-Fail
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 7:17pm.
Who the hell is running the railroad over at MFNBC? Who names a program "Rundown"?
What comes to your mind when you hear it?
"I need a 5-Hour Energy Drink 'cuz I just watched Rundown!"
"Did you see the big pile-up on Capitol Hill? It was an 8-politician rundown!"
"Today's substitute for Chuck Todd is Rundown Ricky Sanchez!"
Geez. Rundown we munch!
Surely Chuck Todd can't
Submitted by ronber on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 7:20pm.
be expected to go fair and balanced on a fellow Democrat. He's one of then through and through.
Just the thought of Santorum
Submitted by buddyc on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:27pm.
Just the thought of Santorum being the Republican nominee warms the hearts of Todd and Gregory and Maddow and Mathews and Sharpton and the other MSNBC idiots.
I am conflicted. On the one hand I want Obama to lose but I don't want republicans to nominate someone as incompetent as Santorum. I think I will just do what I can to urge Paul to run a third party campaign.
AOBS (Any one but Santorum)
buddy
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:29pm.
Just vote for Obama and be done with it.
puppet only
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:26am.
he a puppet for the white house....he's not ever a reporter, he's a reader of the crap line they tell him to say.....PS he is afraid of Dunn.....
Playing by the left's rules,
Submitted by SonnyPalermo on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 1:56pm.
Playing by the left's rules, where nothing is off limits (unless of course someone on the right says something untoward, then they hide behind 'politically incorrect;' and say "it's a disgrace"):
Dunn's mob nickname is 'The Goldfish'
(anyone who was watched clips of her will 'get it')
sorry . . .