"Fire Chuck Todd" trending on Twitter because of his

[Laura PourMeADrink]

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Comments on Sanders supporters.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/chuck-todd-should-apologize-and-resign-msnbc-anchor-blasted-for-nazi-smear-on-leading-democrat/

[LakeArenal]

1. Chuck Todd is a toad.

[democrattotheend]

2. IDK if he deserves to be fired

But his comments were pretty offensive. Calling supporters of the son of Holocaust survivors brown shirts was way below the pale.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Interestingly, Chuck Todd is Jewish.

Not saying that excuses the comment, but I can think of better reasons to fire him than that remark - mainly that he's inclined to be smug, sucks as an interviewer, and practices bothsidesism way too often.

[democrattotheend]

8. Didn't know that

That makes his comment slightly more forgiveable, but it's still pretty offensive.

[madaboutharry]

27. Bernie Sanders is not the son of Holocaust survivors.

His parents were in the U.S. long before the war. His father, in fact, immigrated to the U.S. in 1921.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Fire Chris Matthews while you're at it

For his comments last Friday about Sanders executing people in Central Park if he wins.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. What? What was the quote?

[Grasswire2]

6. yes...

....and his total ignorance about democratic socialism v. socialism (the red kind).

That rant was nutsoid.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Makes more sense when you read the exchange

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Chris Matthews’ Wild Rant Connects a Bernie Sanders Win With Public Executions
The MSNBC host talked about socialist-led “executions in Central Park” while tying those fears to Bernie Sanders

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FEBRUARY 8, 2020 2:21PM EST



Chris Matthews Wild Rant Connects Bernie Sanders and Public Executions
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’ fear of socialism sparked an unbelievable post-debate rant about a possible Bernie Sanders presidency where he suggested the candidate might have cheered socialist-led executions in Central Park during the Cold War.

Matthews began by praising Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s Friday debate performance but then veered off by warning viewers and a live studio audience about his personal views on socialism. The host suggested that Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders might have supported the violence of past socialist leaders.

Matthews said he’d keep his opinions on socialism to himself, but quickly reversed himself.

“I have my own views of the word ‘socialist’ and I’d be glad to share them with you in private. They go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them. I remember the Cold War,” he said.

Matthews continued, “I have an attitude towards [Fidel] Castro. I believe if Castro and the Reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed. And certain other people would be there cheering, okay?

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. Matthews should know better. He is losing his fucking mind.

Time for Chris to retire.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Nope! He's great. Just scared based on what he has

experienced. If he's off doubt I'd even turn MSNBC on until maybe Rachel and for sure Lawrence.

[JonLP24]

29. He praised Bush's flight suit

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MATTHEWS: What do you make of the actual visual that people will see on TV and probably, as you know, as well as I, will remember a lot longer than words spoken tonight? And that's the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet star. A guy who is a jet pilot. Has been in the past when he was younger, obviously. What does that image mean to the American people, a guy who can actually get into a supersonic plane and actually fly in an unpressurized cabin like an actual jet pilot?

[...]

MATTHEWS: Do you think this role, and I want to talk politically [...], the president deserves everything he's doing tonight in terms of his leadership. He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics. Do you think he is defining the office of the presidency, at least for this time, as basically that of commander in chief? That [...] if you're going to run against him, you'd better be ready to take [that] away from him.

[...]

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Bob Dornan, you were a congressman all those years. Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West. I remember him standing at that fence with Colin Powell. Was [that] the best picture in the 2000 campaign?

(snip)

MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/mission-accomplished-look-back-medias-fawning-coverage-bushs-premature-declaration

I'm just amazed they actually pay for his opinion.

[moondust]

20. Link to that.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/chris-matthews-bernie-sanders-public-executions-949802/

I saw it live after the debate and almost fell off my chair. He's equating socialism and totalitarian communism which is not what Sanders is about and wouldn't have any support if he was. I believe Sanders has stated he favors the "Nordic model" which isn't socialism by most definitions but more like well-regulated, egalitarian capitalism that doesn't allow the greed disease to get out of control.

[Wabbajack_]

4. What a mushroomed penishead he is!

[OliverQ]

10. Todd, Matthews, and Mitchell

just need to go. They are so toxic to the network.

[solara]

19. Hear! Hear! n/t

[Hotler]

31. Joey the scar and Mikia need to go also.

[CanonRay]

11. First Tweety and now Chuck Toad

Get rid of all the dinosaurs

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Hmm. We have "dinosaurs" too

[rockfordfile]

14. Seems that way

[myohmy2]

15. Chuck Todd...

...is a fuck wad...

" MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd was blasted for likening the supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to Nazi brownshirts — despite the fact Sanders is the first Jewish candidate to put together a viable campaign for president and lost family members in the Holocaust. "

...his corporate handlers must be getting real nervous and scared...

...keep up the good work chuck, earn those six figures as long as you can...

[tirebiter]

16. I lived in West Germany when the wall was being built

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The East German communists called themselves democratic and socialist. Most communists did. People were getting killed every day.
When the wall was being built in Berlin, blocks of buildings were being made part of it, windows were bricked in and people were jumping from windows to try and beat what would happen next. This was only 16-17 years after WWII. The folks who jumped from upper stories went splat unless someone in the west was there to break the fall.
















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[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Holy cow man you've got some spacing issues

[ooky]

21. I thought there was something wrong with my Ipad. nt

[arthritisR_US]

28. You find exception with blank space but

have no compassion for what they are relaying. BTW, Bernie’s parents arrived in the US in 1921 so they weren’t Holocaust survivors.

[Hekate]

26. Very interesting! I was a kid in Hawaii but during the summer The Wall was built was visiting Calif

...and staying with a family friend who had fled the Anschluss when she wasn't much older than I was that summer. It was an interesting connection -- it made me sensitive to the news out of Berlin from then on. I remember the news stories being exactly as you say, and as time went on people who tried to escape were shot by soldiers, or captured and imprisoned.

It is an odious thing for the USA to be building walls at the border, and for an American president to be suggesting that our border guards should shoot on sight.

[Behind the Aegis]

22. Fascinating.

[whttevrr]

23. Chuck "Not My Job" Todd should have been fired and put on Fox New years ago.

Chuck "Not My Job" Todd should have been fired and put on Fox New years ago.

https://www.google.com/search?q=chuck+not+my+job+todd

[rpannier]

24. I've been a member of the 'Fire Chuck Todd' for years

That he still has a job as a news host is embarassing

[Fla Dem]

25. Never a fan of Chuck Todd, but just an fyi, he is Jewish.

His mother is Jewish and he was raised as Jewish.

[Fullduplexxx]

30. Any word on trump's army of trumpanzies

Who threaten the lives of people who criticize der fuhrer

[Omaha Steve]

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