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Chuck Todd ‘Sympathetic’ to Clinton Campaign Roping Off Press
Appearing on NBC’s Today on Sunday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd acknowledged that “the optics look terrible” for Hillary Clinton after her campaign roped off the press during a 4th of July parade in New Hampshire, but he added: “Look, I am sympathetic to the campaign's complaint. She has a large media horde following her around that it makes it hard, because of the media, for her to…
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Newt Gingrich: ‘Liberal Media’ Impact What Issues GOP Can Run On
During an appearance on Meet the Press, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that as a result of the liberal media there are certain issues that Republicans cannot run on and expect to win. Speaking to Chuck Todd, Gingrich insisted that conservatives can only win on issues with 70 or 80 percent support and Republicans “cannot run in a country that has liberal media with 51 percent issues and…
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Chuck Todd Hits Jindal Over GOPers Critical of His Record in Louisiana
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd did his best to play up Republican criticism of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal following the start of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The Meet the Press moderator stressed how following Jindal’s campaign announcement he wasn’t “getting a favorite son send-off” and how his approval rating in Louisiana was “actually lower than…
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CBS and NBC Fret Missing Hillary E-Mails Represent ‘a New Distraction’
On Friday morning, all three of the major broadcast networks surprisingly covered the latest in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal as 15 e-mails between Clinton and former confidante Sidney Blumenthal were discovered missing from her time at the State Department. Despite the over five and half minutes of coverage, CBS and NBC expressed concern that “the revelation” could create “a new distraction…
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NBC on Marriage Ruling: Will 'Go Down in the Record Books' with Brown
On June 26, following the Supreme Court’s decision to grant a constitutional right to marry for gay couples, NBC News broke in to cheer on the ruling. Pete Williams labeled it a historic ruling and fought back tears while reporting the 5-4 decision to Savannah Guthrie.
Chuck Todd: ‘Proud’ of How NBC Handled Brian Williams Controversy
After NBC announced that disgraced Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will be demoted to handling breaking news at MSNBC in August after serving a six month suspension, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd applauded his network for how it dealt with the entire ordeal.
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NYT's Helene Cooper Defends Obama's Criticism of Cambridge Police
During a panel discussion on Meet the Press, New York Times reporter Helene Cooper rehashed President Obama’s infamous scolding of the Cambridge, Massachusetts police for acting “stupidly,” recalling that at the time Obama's take “made sense to me.”
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Huckabee Hits Left for Ignoring Pope’s Comments on Life
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called out the left’s promotion of Pope Francis’s comments about climate change in his encyclical but ignored his strong comments on the protection of life.
WashPost, NBC Tout How Pope's Paper 'Puts GOP Candidates on the Spot'
In a Thursday item on NBC News's web site, Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Andrew Rafferty asserted that "just like the issue of gay marriage, the Pope and the Catholic Church have gone from being wedge issues that benefitted the GOP in 2004 to ones that now favor Democrats." The three journalists cited Associated Press's reporting on Pope Francis's new encyclical on the environment, and concluded…
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Chuck Todd: Dems ‘Licking Their Chops’ Over Trump Candidacy
On Wednesday night, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd appeared on NBC Nightly News to play up the supposed damage Donald Trump's presidential campaign will cause the Republican Party and how Democrats are "licking their chops" over his announcement.
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Stephanopoulos, Trump Battle over 2016 Candidate’s Mexico Remarks
ABC’s World News Tonight aired a preview clip on Tuesday of Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos’s interview with 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in which Trump battled the former Clinton official over remarks he made during his announcement speech about illegal immigration and his plans to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
How Nice: Chuck Todd Actually Lets Other Journos Question Guest
Today marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. It was on June 15, 1215 that the English King John met his barons on Runnymede field to reluctantly affix his seal to the great charter that granted more powers to the latter. By strange coincidence, yesterday also marked the notable event when Chuck Todd on Meet The Press allowed a couple of panelists to question a guest, Bill…
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Todd Wonders if Hispanics Are 'Justified' to Think GOP 'Doesn't Care'
Reporting on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC's Chuck Todd hyped the size of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign with the rise in “vanity candidates” and wondered to GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham if “Hispanics are justified in believing the Republican Party doesn't care about them right now.”
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Chuck Todd Acts Indignant to Claim Dems Want Amnesty to Win Elections
During an interview with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd appeared visibly shocked when his guest argued that Democrats support amnesty because “they can win more elections.” In response to Santorum, Todd acted indignant and interjected: “You think that the Democrats are for immigration, for more immigration, simply for politics, for votes, they…
