Chuck Todd: Stephen Colbert is "Making a mockery of the System"

[DeathToTheOil]

Statement at 52-second mark

Is that the crackle of a lightning bolt I hear?

[Happyhippychick]

1. How can you make a mockery out of a mockery?

He is simply shining a flashlights.

[rhett o rick]

10. .

[harmonicon]

32. +1 nt

[Cleita]

2. Chuckypoo. That's the idea, to point out what a joke this has become. n/t

[BrendaBrick]

14. Took the words right out of my mouth!

[Prana69]

31. EXACTLY! The system IS the joke! n/t

[PA Democrat]

3. I think the Supreme Court did that

[rocktivity]

4. DUzy candidate!

rocktivity

[rhett o rick]

11. In 2000? or the Citizen's United case? or both? It's past time to put the SCOTUS

back in it's place.

[sakabatou]

26. Both

Especially when it came to the Super PACs.

[brewens]

5. And a travesty! n/t

[liberal N proud]

6. Someone needs to do it

The system is pretty fucked up and needs some calling out!

[Armin-A]

22. exactly

[PuraVidaDreamin]

7. Chuckie would know a schtick when he sees one

is what I'm thinking

[DeathToTheOil]

15. Remember this classic?

Scahill's owning of Chuckie Boy starts at 6:36

[Quantess]

17. Thanks for that!

[DeathToTheOil]

18. You're most welcome!

[CanonRay]

8. Chuck; Got a flash for you:

The system IS a joke.

[think]

9. No Chuck section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA makes a mockery of the system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012#Indefinite_detention_without_trial:_Section_1021

[FSogol]

12. "I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a ...

mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham." Woody Allen - Bananas

[FSogol]

13. Next, everyone will realize that Chuck Todd is just making it up as he goes along.

[CTyankee]

16. oh, please shut up!

nobody really wants to hear from YOU. AFAIC, you have no opinion. You just run numbers on campaigns. You are not a deep thinker about this campaign. You are an idiot. Didn't you know that?

[JJW]

19. Mafia Don

Sounds like Todd is trying to explain this to his Mafia Don. Todd is trying to pretend the "establishment" isn't the broken sewage system, that it is. The people who doesn't need a reality check, are those outside of DC and also Colbert and Stewart.

[Blue Owl]

20. Mission Accomplished

UpChuck -- pfft what a fuckin' tool

[pacalo]

21. Chuck is having a hard time facing the fact that the Republicans have themselves turned their party

into a circus. It is what it is. They earned the "circus" connotation; don't blame Stephen Colbert because his schtick fits in so well.

[nonoxy9]

23. In other words, "Yes the system is fucked up...

And we in the media are part of that system, but comedians shouldn't be able to call us out on it!" What a stooge!

[rexcat]

24. He is one of the least intellegent people covering the political mess this country is in.

He does not get it.

on edit - He is part of the problem.

[DeathToTheOil]

25. One Big Incestuous Elite

Any time a "journalist" has a launching party for a book, politicians as well as other "journalists" attend; the reciprocation is also true.

[stlsaxman]

27. "... or is it simply to marginalize the Republican Party? I tell you- if I was a Republican-"

oh wait- i AM."

[Prophet 451]

28. Yes, that's rather the point n/t

[marmar]

29. Doesn't Chuck Todd look like Hans Gruber from "Die Hard"?

[DeathToTheOil]

30. Hans Gruber was more evenhanded