Chuck Todd calling the race a "Special Counsel Election"

[bigtree]

...with no one even suggesting there's any real consequence to Pres. Biden from an SC probe surrounding his voluntary return of inadvertently-retained government docs.

But, of course, what Todd is really referring to is the Hunter Biden Special Counsel probe, which has nothing to do with Joe Biden at all.

CHUCK TODD:

This Sunday, the special counsel election. It's not just Donald Trump's campaign that may go through a courtroom. Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel to investigate President Biden's son.

...then this ridiculousness, hyping a Pence candidacy without any mention of his culpability or responsibility in Trump's abuses, and a pretense that Pres. Biden is 'challenged' by a SC appointment he has nothing to do with.

Todd:

"How much will Vice President Pence make January 6th central to his campaign against his former running mate? I’ll ask him this morning. Plus, challenging Biden. The new special counsel appointed fuels more criticism from Republicans."

As hard as they might, MSM will try and equalize Trump's breathtaking criminal liability with the president, but comparisons of the two is journalistic deceit. This effort by Chuck Todd to muddle the political waters reflects a media too lazy to fully report on the criminality right in front of them, and hoping desperately they won't be forced to just declare the entire republican party a criminal coddling disgrace.

Why is it so hard for Todd to acknowledge that the President isn't on trial, and that Trump and his republican enablers are the ones in the dock right now?

What he can't credibly sell is the notion that a 5-year investigation of a private citizen, one where the prosecutor already had authority to prosecute anywhere in the nation where criminality was found, is suddenly some threat to an uninvolved president because of an administrative change in status.

[marble falls]

1. Fuck Todd. Only a nitwit like him could possibly find parity in these two disparate situations.

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. He is a rethug

dick. Auditioning for a RW job.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Dumbs everything down to his own level

[Cha]

4. chuck todd is A flaming Crock of Shit.

[emulatorloo]

5. Lol and +++++++

[brooklynite]

6. "If it's Sunday..." someone who claims to hate Todd is reliably watching...

[bigtree]

9. what's that have to do with anything?

...where in the op does it say I hate Todd?

What you're deflecting from with this unprovoked cynicism is the undeniable influence of this type of misinformation, and the need to confront and correct it, most effectively at the source, but also helpful to make aware here at DU where, hopefully, 'someone who claims to hate Chuck Todd' can find factual information to support that opposition and valid concern.

[JohnSJ]

16. Well said

[Sky Jewels]

14. The constant spewing of

rightwing propaganda by Todd doesn’t bother you.

Got it.

Not surprised.

[brooklynite]

18. I don't tend to look at all opinions that aren't pro-Democratic as "right wing media"

Neither apparently do Democratic office holders and Party officials who seem to have no problem being interviewed by him.

[malaise]

7. Effie Todd

is an effin hack. I never watch him.
That is all.

[bigtree]

11. it's unfortunate that many still do, and repeat the propaganda he catapaults

...by mistake or design.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd is currently the eighth most popular show on NBC and 34th overall on TV, watched by a total number of 2,336,000 people (0.75% rating, up +13% from last week) as of the daily audience measurement on August 6, 2023.
https://ustvdb.com/networks/nbc/shows/meet-press-chuck-todd/#:~:text=Meet%20the%20Press%20with%20Chuck%20Todd%20is%20currently,the%20daily%20audience%20measurement%20on%20July%2030%2C%202023.

[malaise]

12. Wow - that is a surprise

[Hekate]

8. Did Chuckles chew on the beard around his mouth the way he is inclined to do?

[Recycle_Guru]

10. fuck Choad Toad

[Sky Jewels]

13. One side staged a violent coup attempt

that would have destroyed our country’s democracy and system of government and 250 years of peaceful power transitions.

The other side … umm … something about a relative’s business ties and a laptop.

Obviously, one is just as terrible as the other.

🙄🙄🙄

[Polly Hennessey]

15. I thought Chuck Toad was leaving Meet the Press?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Chuck Todd needs to be fired

Link to tweet

[maxrandb]

19. Chuck Todd is as worthless as a Football Bat

He suffers from "delusions of adequacy".