Chuck Todd: Republicans 'Overreacting' To Obama's Osama Football Spike
Classic MSM jujitsu. Chuck Todd has attempted to turn the issue of President Obama's unseemly spiking of the football on the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, into an attack on Republicans for reacting to Obama's politicization of the event.
On his MSNBC show The Daily Rundown, Todd began his discussion of the matter this morning by asking the Washington Post's Dan Balz whether he was surprised by how "aggressive" the Romney campaign has been on the matter. A bit later Todd suggested to Clarence Page that Republicans were "overreacting" to Obama's boasts. Right. Romney should run a passive campaign, like, say John McCain did! Good-loser Republicans: yeah, that's the MSM ticket! Video after the jump.
Watch Todd turn things on their head. Notice also how he expresses his personal opinion, saying that Republicans are "over-", then tries to catch himself and turn his viewpoint into a question. Interestingly, on Morning Joe today, Mark Halperin acknowledged that the MSM would have hammered a Republican president trying to take a victory lap similar to the one Obama is currently on.
CHUCK TODD: It's foreign-policy week. It's going to be whether the Romney campaign wants it or not, Dan Balz, because of the Bin Laden anniversary. Are you surprised by the aggressive nature that the Romney surrogates are going after, saying that the president is politicizing Bin Laden too much?
DAN BALZ: I'm a little bit surprised about it, but given the nature with which the Obama campaign has put this out front-and-center, the degree to which they are making it a hallmark of what he's done, in a political way, I'm not surprised that they're trying to push back on it.
TODD: Clarence, you've been covering politics a long time. Republicans politicizing foreign policy and being good on this: it happens a lot. And it's always amazing to me: when Democrats try and do it, they usually are awkward at it, they're just not as comfortable doing it. But Republicans seem to be over- . . . are they overreacting to what the president is doing here?
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I'm trying to think about how Dana Perino put it this a.m.
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 10:44am.
Something along the lines of "this administration never ceases to amaze me with the way it mishandles issues".
And old F Chuck is toeing the party line, "can't criticize Obama's blunders". Which is, of course, what the Osama-spike ad is, yet another blunder. I may start calling The Won a "Blunder Bunny".
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Good morning Blonde
Submitted by cocodrie on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 10:49am.
His gaffes sure do multiply like bunnies and he'd just as masculine. Not as pretty though.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Maybe Obama is Carter's....
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:21am.
Killer wabbit.
The two of them deserve each other, truly.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
You mean THIS Wabbit?
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:49am.
You mean THIS Wabbit???
LOL!
Seriously, though, does Chuckie expect Romney to just sit back and let the Democrats say that he wouldn't have given the order?
Yes, I suppose he does. After all, Republicans are not supposed to fight back. It's 'bad form' as the British would say.
Obama and his ilk
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:12am.
Will stop at nothing to get him a second term. It is THE most important item in their plan right now. The second term is where he can do all kinds of things without worrying about re-election. Just as he told the Russian President a few months ago, he will have "more flexibility".
But the jig is up and there are way more people who see him for what he is now. Their only real hope is for the massive election fraud that they are putting in place will work and will not generate any media mention. Most of the MSM is on-board with this plan.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Stop at nothing, indeed
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:39am.
It's not even June, and don't forget, and he has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined,
I'm guessing that by October, he'll be surpassing the record of all previous presidents combined.
His only goal in 2007/8 was to get elected, and his only goal since then has been to get re-elected.
He and Michelle are not getting off the gravy train of perpetual parties and vacations without a fight.
I don't remember
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:28am.
I don't remember Richard Nixon taking a victory lap when he sent a man to the moon
love the analogy
Submitted by tribchet on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 3:35pm.
Comparing Nixon who merely ordered the moon mission to Obama's bold move is...wait...exactly the same thing!
Yea
Submitted by lkotur on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:32am.
Weren't the Dems continually warning Bush 43 not to "politicize" 9-11?
Yea.
Boy, I sure had it it all wrong.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:45am.
Here I thought we were NOT supposed to further inflame the muzzes because it would put our troops in the field in more danger.
I guess it's just our military that needs further sensitivity training and not Obongo, Axledoosh and little F-Chuck here.
Why does Chucky T continue
Submitted by d1carter on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:54am.
Why does Chucky T continue his transparent charade..?
Chuckie Toddler
Submitted by mmilesll on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 11:59am.
Maybe this great "journalist" can tell us why the CIA now reports that our wonderful President had it all set up so if the mission failed an Admiral would take the blame. So much for a "gutsy decision" by the chosen one.
I do understand
Submitted by ronber on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 12:16pm.
I do understand what Barack Obama and Chuck Todd are all about... when you have only one arrow in your quiver, that’s what you use. If all you have is a boomerang, you give that a throw too hoping it won’t return and smash you in the head.
Boy Baraka HAD to counter-act
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 12:28pm.
Boy Baraka HAD to counter-act the news that broke about his own tepid and CYA role in the Osama Obama murder, and he knows that the MSM and the StateRun Media will showcase his own story more than the TROOF!!!
And I still think that F. Chuck should get rid of that stupid looking psuedo-beard..............the only guy I can think of that it would look even stupider on would be Li'l Opie/Lt. Fuzz/Jaybird Carney.
It's the Republican's fault!
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 1:10pm.
I get it, it's the Republican's fault, with their love of "politicizing" foreign policy, and inherently political issue, that is forcing Obama to use the death of Osama as a means of politicizing his own foreign policies. As always, it's never the fault of the Democrats for doing the exact same thing that the liberals blame on the Republicans.
Get this through your thick heads, liberals: Obama is politicizing the death of Osama, not the Republicans. You just can't admit that, can you?
By the way, how is it "over-reacting" to respond to the assertion that Romney wouldn't do something that Obama did, like order the death of Osama? Are the Republicans no longer allowed to respond to blatantly political assertions, which, by the way are unprovable?
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.
Nope
Submitted by Model850 on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 4:39pm.
Are the Republicans no longer allowed to respond to blatantly political assertions, which, by the way are unprovable?
No. No they're not.
Just as they are not supposed to challenge "jobs saved or created," another unprovable assertion.