President Obama TAKES DOWN CHUCK TODD And His Obama Bashing Book

[Segami]

President Obama had one comment when he saw Chuck Todd’s Obama bashing book in a bookstore. With one word, Obama summed up Todd perfectly.

According to the New York Post (take it with a huge grain of salt),

Shopping at a Washington, DC, bookstore Saturday, President Obama spotted a copy of “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd’s new book about his presidency.

“Oh, Chuck Todd!” Obama exclaimed. “Let’s see what Chuck has to say here!”

“How is he writing a book already? asked his 16-year-old daughter, Malia. “Sad.”

“He’s just sad,” the president joked in response.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/29/obama-calls-chuck-todd-sad-during-visit-to-bookstore/

The idea that Todd “wrote” a book is highly debatable. I am working on a review of Todd’s Obama bashing book, and it can be summed up as less of an exploration of the Obama presidency, and more of a dear diary entry from a member of Beltway press centered on why Obama is big meanie who won’t kiss the rings of the D.C. media elite. There is very little in Todd’s book that hasn’t been voiced by President Obama’s critics on the right a million times before. Chuck Todd is sad. He wasn’t even the first choice to replace David Gregory as moderator of Meet The Press. Chuck Todd was NBC’s safety date, which the network turned to after the people that they really wanted turned them down. Meet The Press is continuing to flounder, because Todd is David Gregory with a love of politics. Notice that I used the terms politics, not policy or journalism.


- Faced with a changing landscape that is making them irrelevant, the Beltway press has taken out their rage on Obama. Chuck Todd is sad, and I would also add pathetic. He is quickly becoming a dinosaur facing extinction, because the way political leaders interact with their constituents is changing and no amount of sad whining can bring back the status that is evaporating for the mainstream press.






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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/30/president-obama-takes-chuck-todd-obama-bashing-book.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. For ducks sake, the cover of the book shows a sad looking Obama in a trench coat...that was his

comment on himself..the NY Post is propagandizing something something that may or may not have happened...the comment, if said, was about himself on the cover, not The Toad...but believe what you like, all the news is just for entertainment anyways.

So, yeah, take it with a grain of salt because the grain was pulled out of Murdoch's salty ass.

[tomm2thumbs]

13. exactly

(while looking at his photo on the cover of the book, above)


President: Oh, Chuck Todd. Let's see what Chuck has to say. The Stranger – Barack Obama in the White House... Looking...

Malia: How is he already writing a book?

President: ...Looking lonely.

Malia: Right. Looks saaaaad.

President: Looking... looking resignated. Oh my. He's so sad.

Man off-screen: (laughs) It's true.

Malia: It's true. Looks like a sad photo.

President: Yes. Well...

Clerk: They tried to find the saddest photo they could.

President: I know.

[Fred Sanders]

14. Thank you. The truth is far more entertaining than the misunderstanding.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/obama-jokes-about-looking-sad-on-book-cover-365093443852

And to add:

Obama: "I know", in response to the clerk...and looks around in amusement at the thought...the video is a must see.....

[Ishoutandscream2]

17. Malia. Smart young lady.

"How is he already writing a book?"

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Just another way for the Rethugs

saying thank you for basing Obama in the Mid Terms,here is a couple million book advance. You are just cost of doing business,and,if your book tanks,no big deal. Remember,we took care of Sarah and her book now fills landfills.

[former9thward]

3. He did not call Todd 'sad'. He joked that about himself.

President Barack Obama took his daughters Malia and Sasha shopping at Washington, D.C. bookstore Politics & Prose on Small Business Saturday, and he joked about how he looked sad on the cover of Chuck Todd’s new book, “The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House.”

video at the link:

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/obama-jokes-about-looking-sad-on-book-cover-365093443852

[underpants]

4. Obama played a lot of basketball, like I did, growing up

He knows how to trash talk. When I first heard "passive aggressive" I didn't know it was just talkin trash.

[former9thward]

5. The video is opposite of the OP.

Obama calls himself looking sad.

[pangaia]

6. It was MALIA who made the relevant statement !!!

See my OP....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025889661

[Fred Sanders]

7. It was a comment about the man being depicted as sad on the cover of the book....go look at the cover.

It was comment on how her Dad was being depicted, and he agreed.

So much is lost from the spoken voice to the so written.

[pangaia]

8. Thanks.

But didn't she comment on Chuck writing a book "already"?
I got tired of waiting for the video to load.

You are right about the written word, that's for sure.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, here it is in my OP about it, pangaia

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025889104

[pangaia]

10. Thanks, Cha.

Well, at least I got part of it right.
Whew...

[Segami]

11. Thanks Cha.

I still get the impression that Obama and Malia were sharing a secret moment communicating in code with each other referring to Chuck Todd's book and NOT about Obama's pic. Its my opinion as I read their exchange demeanor.

[mimi85]

12. Fuck Chuck Todd and

the Elephant he rode in on. Damn, I miss Tim Russert!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Most of these Right Wing books are already written and looking for a celeb to grant their name...

We've known this since Ann Coulter got busted. Someone grilled her over a specific part of one of "her" books and she had a deer in the headlights look. I believe it was a defense of McCarthy and shortly after that as everyone was saying she didn't write the book she did a lame PR move (covered her ass) by dashing out to pose over McCarthy's grave.

[Newsjock]

16. Not true; story has been corrected

Correction: This story was based on a pool report from President Obama’s bookstore visit. Video of the event, released later, shows it’s more likely Obama is referring to the picture of himself on the cover of the book when he says “he’s just sad” — and is not referring to author Chuck Todd.