Column: Could Chuck Todd Be Any Lazier?

Tim Graham
May 13th, 2020 8:24 AM
The late Tim Russert had a reputation of meticulous preparation for his Sunday turns on Meet the Press. Now it seems Chuck Todd spends more time working on his hair.
 
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Chuck Todd Offers Mealy-Mouthed Apology for Deceptive Edit, Blames CBS

Curtis Houck
May 12th, 2020 6:58 PM

Behold, the epitome of laziness. On Tuesday’s MTP Daily, NBC News political director Chuck Todd offered a muddled and pathetic apology/non-apology for the deceptive edit Sunday’s Meet the Press carried out against Attorney General Bill Barr, saying that he was “very sorry for that mistake” but blamed CBS News clips for this kerfuffle. Only in the final seconds of the 65-second bit did Todd…

 
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NBC Relieved By Senate Hearing Free of Trump ‘Politicking’ & ‘Chaos’

Kyle Drennen
May 12th, 2020 3:59 PM

As NBC wrapped up its special coverage of the Senate coronavirus hearing late Tuesday morning, journalists repeatedly expressed their relief that the proceeding on Capitol Hill was supposedly free of the “politicking” and “chaos” they claimed plagued White House briefings on the pandemic.

 
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Nets Seize on Obama Trashing Trump’s COVID Response

Kyle Drennen
May 11th, 2020 3:17 PM

On Friday, audio of former President Barack Obama blasting the Trump administration’s coronavirus response during a phone call trying to drum up support for the Biden campaign was leaked to Yahoo News. Over the weekend and through Monday morning, the three broadcast networks repeatedly hyped the nasty, partisan attack without one word of criticism for Obama’s unseemly rhetoric.

 
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Nets Stunned By Flynn Case Being Dropped Because They Ignored Signs

Geoffrey Dickens
May 11th, 2020 10:41 AM

In 2020 the case against Michael Flynn began to collapse, as it became clearer that there was an attempt to entrap Flynn. These new developments unfurled from January through May, but the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening news programs refused to report them. So anyone who relied on them for their news was probably shocked when on May 7 the case was suddenly dropped. 

 
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NBC Tweets Apology After Chuck Todd Lies About AG's Comments on Flynn

Kristine Marsh
May 11th, 2020 9:31 AM
Is it really too much to ask that the media report a quote, accurately? Apparently it is for NBC. On Meet the Press Sunday, NBC political director and MTP host Chuck Todd cut short a clip of Attorney General William Barr defending the DOJ’s decision to dismiss the Michael Flynn case in a CBS interview. After Todd edited the clip to take out crucial context, he absurdly proceeded to bash Barr’s…
 
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Morning Fit: Mika Brzezinski Calls President Trump a 'Freaking Nut'

Mark Finkelstein
May 11th, 2020 9:03 AM
On today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski called Donald Trump a "freaking nut." What prompted Mika to use a variation on the F-word to describe the President of the United States? That he had the audacity, via tweets, to defend himself and his administration.    
 
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NBC Cheers Task Force Quarantines as a Rebuke of Trump and Reopening

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 10th, 2020 10:35 AM
Over the weekend, three of the nation’s top health officials and members of the Coronavirus Task Force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, began their two weeks of at-home quarantine after they came in contact with someone with the virus. NBC’s Sunday Today, used the opportunity to take a morbid victory lap and cheer it as a rebuke of President Trump and calls to reopen. Political director Chuck Todd…
 
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NBC Groans About Calls to Investigate Biden: No ‘Huge Appetite’ for It

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 3rd, 2020 5:11 PM
Tucked into the final minutes of Sunday’s Meet the Press, NBC political director Chuck Todd led a panel discussion, featuring Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt, where they groaned about calls to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for an allegation of rape. One even claimed there was no “huge appetite” for it. Meanwhile, the call…
 
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NBC Demands Birx Quit Now, to Save Her ‘Credibility’ From Trump

Kristine Marsh
April 27th, 2020 10:26 AM
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd repeatedly attacked the “credibility” of coronavirus task force doctor, Deborah Birx, as she has refused to comply with the media’s demands she politicize the virus. MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell went even further, suggesting Birx quit now to save her reputation.
 
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ABC, NBC Boost Biden Claim Trump Might Call Off Election in November

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 26th, 2020 11:29 AM
While neither of them has given airtime to covering the woman accusing him of sexual assault, ABC News and NBC News spent portions of their Sunday morning programs boosting former Vice President Joe Biden’s conspiratorial claim that President Trump was looking to call off the 2020 presidential election, or push it back.
 
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VIDEO: Shameless Journalists Blame Trump for Coronavirus Death Toll

Bill D'Agostino and Rich Noyes
April 22nd, 2020 8:04 AM
Even as the coronavirus pandemic occupies our daily attention, out-of-control journalists are using the tragedy to pummel the President as personally culpable for the deaths and economic mayhem that are afflicting not just the United States, but nearly all of the nations of the Earth.
 
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Political Pandemic: Todd Whines Trump Not Taking Hit in the Polls

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 19th, 2020 4:54 PM
After completely ignoring previous polls that showed President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis getting majority support, NBC political director Chuck Todd used a portion of Sunday’s Meet the Press to whine that a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll had found the President’s approval rating was unmoved from a year ago, despite his impeachment and the pandemic.
 
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STUDY: CNN & MSNBC Blast Trump’s Briefings, Don’t Show 13 Hours

Brent Baker
April 16th, 2020 10:05 AM

A Media Research Center study found that CNN has carried just 69 percent of the White House's coronavirus briefings’ runtime of those conducted March 30 through April 14. That’s 999 of 1,435 minutes, leaving seven hours and 16 minutes unaired. MSNBC has aired live 1,088 minutes, or 76 percent, not running five hours and forty-seven minutes. Thus, CNN and MSNBC viewers missed more than 13 hours…