BRACE YOURSELF!!- Politico: Chuck Todd Will PROBABLY Be The Next 'MEET THE PRESS' Host

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Beltway oracle Mike Allen comes bearing news on this Monday morning. According to Politico's most famous (and best-connected) reporter, NBC's White House correspondent Chuck Todd has been tapped as the likely replacement for the much-maligned David Gregory on "Meet the Press."

SIREN: Chuck Todd, a political obsessive and rabid sports fan, is the likely successor to David Gregory as moderator of “Meet the Press,” with the change expected to be announced in coming weeks, according to top political sources. The move is an effort by NBC News President Deborah Turness to restore passion and insider cred to a network treasure that has been adrift since the death in 2008 of the irreplaceable Tim Russert. Although Todd is not a classic television performer guaranteed to wow focus groups, his NBC bosses have been impressed by his love of the game, which brings with it authenticity, sources, and a loyal following among newsmakers and political junkies.

http://www.politico.com/playbook/

Allen crammed several other "Meet"-related nuggets in Monday's edition of "Politico Playbook," his daily newsletter of name-drops and Washington gossip. And there was some hedging. After reporting that Gregory will likely move on from NBC, Allen noted that his sources have cautioned that "nothing is definite or decided." Nevertheless, it's been widely believed that Gregory has been on thin ice as "Meet the Press," once the Sunday morning standard-bearer, has suffered in the ratings.


The New York Post reported last week that Gregory met with CNN president Jeff Zucker recently. If Allen's scoop does come to fruition, it will mean that fellow Politico scribe Dylan Byers gets to take a victory lap. Byers was already basking in the development on Monday, tweeting a link to a piece he authored at the beginning of the year.




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[JoePhilly]

1. Rename it "Todd and McCain." That's who will be on it every Sunday.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Ain't that the truth

[MohRokTah]

2. So they decided to dump bad for worse. eom

[edhopper]

3. Remember

it's not his job to correct GOP falsehoods. It's the Dems job to get their "message" out.

No facts, no truth, just two sides to be given a soapbox.

This will be a giant he said/she said cluster fuck.

[Stellar]

23. When I hear the name Chuck Todd...

that's about all I can think of.

[Jefferson23]

4. lol. An info commercial is worth more of your time than Meet the Schills. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. he's so obviously biased.

[Little Star]

6. Yuk!

[wheniwasincongress]

7. Basically how I feel about this bloated Hans Gruber

[bigwillq]

8. That's fine.

I never watch anyway.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

9. "After reporting that Gregory will likely move on from NBC" ... any bets

on where he will likely be moving?

[PAProgressive28]

10. Yeah NBC that'll fix things

It seems like everyone except the people at the networks understand what's wrong with cable news.

[tavernier]

11. And Gregory moves to Fox,

right where he belonged in the first place.

As far as Chuckie? Yeah, he will hold feet to the fire.

[City Lights]

12. Promoting Chuckles the Toad will be the big change they need!

Yeah, that's the ticket.

More of the same. Pass.

[Pisces]

13. Great, another reason not to tune in. NBC thinks this is the answer???

[Skidmore]

14. Since when is that little twerp, Mike Allen, considered the oracle of anything?

[flamingdem]

15. Toad was smearing Obama

on Sunday, can't remember the topic but it was really overt.

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16. "..Chuck Todd: Obama Doesn't Have A Doctrine.."

CHUCK TODD: This was not an administration that was eager to Maliki, "You don't want a strategic forces agreement?" You know. Your original question is what did we learn about the doctrine. And I think that I've been trying to figure out this man's doctrine now for six years. He doesn't have one.

He ran basically with a wink and a nod that this was going to be a George H.W. Bush type of foreign policy, stability and diplomacy first, okay? And yet, he has been pulled in different directions. His instinct actually is very George W. Bush-like, which is democracy, freedom. You know, he doesn't want winners and losers.

So look at the way he had intervened early in the Arab Spring. And then we realized that that was a mistake. So then-- I mean it's almost like he's pushes and pulls between the idea of democracy first versus stability first. And he goes back and forth, and he's messed around with democracy first in Egypt. Didn't work. In Libya, didn't work. He admits is now. And now he's trying for stability first. And I think, you know, in this case, he's struggling.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/08/10/chuck_todd_obama_doesnt_have_a_doctrine.html

[flamingdem]

20. Thanks for that

Toad is an arrogant ass. Not only that his foreign policy analysis comes out of his ass.

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24. Yes he is!

Another shillster taking over MTP that promises to continue their romance of fleecing the general public into believing their journalistic objectivity.

[femmocrat]

17. Gack. Terrible choice and won't improve their ratings.

Of course I stopped watching it when Gregory become the moderator.

[TheKentuckian]

18. Whatever, whoever, I have no interest in "Meet the Republicans" no matter who the host is.

[rurallib]

21. The only thing Gregory's accomplished is to make Russert look great in comparison

I look for Todd to carry on that mission.
Oh and Russert was far from great.

[NuclearDem]

22. And NBC totally misses the point.