This month, the public has witnessed the mainstream media at its very worst in circling the wagons to deflect or dismiss the new evidence on how government officials, including President Barack Obama, laid the foundations for the Russian collusion hoax. However, the most telling admission may have come from Chuck Todd on the mentality of many in the media. In denouncing the decision to interview Hunter Biden, Todd lamented how the coverage was bad for the Democrats and the Bidens. He then declared, “I make choices,” which is precisely why he was widely criticized for bias as a former Sunday show host. His “choices” often seemed to run in favor of one party.
I have been a long-time critic of Todd’s for his slanted questioning, open bias, and misleading coverage (here, here, here, here, here, and here). He used his position to denounce investigations into the Bidens while giving false accounts of conservative court rulings.
Now, he is irate over the Hunter Biden interviews last week. What is telling, however, is that he is not lashing out at the content but the fact that the media interviewed a figure who proved so damaging for the Democrats and President Biden.
Let’s take a step back for a second. Hunter Biden is news. He was at the center of a massive influence peddling scandal, the subject of a controversial presidential pardon from his father, and recently accused of exercising inappropriate control over his father as president. He was also a key witness on his father’s alleged mental and physical decline in office.
By any measure, he is news.
Yet, Todd is irate that he was given a platform after it backfired on Democrats, including suggesting that his father was on Ambien. The profanity-laced interviews made headlines around the world, but Todd felt that the media should have prevented the public from seeing them.
On his podcast, Todd declared:
“I will never book Hunter Biden. Number one, he’s not the candidate. He wasn’t on the ballot. Anything he says in defense of his father, I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but it doesn’t matter. He’s a son defending his father…I have a real problem with the folks that are booking him. If you’ve chosen to book Hunter Biden, you’ve chosen to book spectacle. You’re not interested in – and you know, the two interviews that have gone viral were both designed to get attention, not to surface new facts, not to give you a better understanding of what may have happened. It was just, ‘Let’s give him a platform to settle some scores that maybe he wants to settle.’…I don’t think this does Hunter Biden any good. I don’t think this does Joe Biden any good. It certainly doesn’t do the Democratic Party any good. That’s why it’s surprising to see the former DNC chair start a podcast and decide that the best way to market it is Hunter Biden.
…It’s a choice who you book. I make choices. Everybody makes choices. It’s a choice who you book. If you’re putting Hunter Biden on, you know what you’re doing. Look, I think there’s a lot of things going on there.”
Todd could argue that he was merely noting that one of these interviews was conducted by a former head of the DNC, who should have known it could backfire on the party. However, the two interviews produced real news from an insider in the White House. Nonetheless, Todd felt that the two interviews should have been scuttled.
That was the signature of Todd’s journalism. He routinely chose to conduct interviews with a heavy slant in favor of Democratic talking points or slamming Republicans. He is still advancing that type of advocacy journalism in slamming interviews that were newsworthy but bad for the party and the Bidens.
In these interviews, Hunter Biden gave his own account of his father’s mental and physical conditions while suggesting a previously unstated cause for the former president’s disastrous debate performance. Todd would have prevented the public from hearing that account because he “makes choices” for them.
When Todd was called to account for misleading clips, the network shrugged and blamed it on editing that was “inadvertently and inaccurately” performed. His choices included running clips that were widely denounced as misleading. Conversely, he would conduct interviews with figures like Hillary Clinton without asking about breaking news on her campaign, secretly funding the Steele dossier despite earlier denials.
During my two contracts with NBC, I had the honor of working with Todd’s predecessor Tim Russert. Tim was the ultimate professional and honest journalist. He would ask probing questions of all sides and pursued the news regardless of its potential political impact for either party. I respected him greatly for his integrity and his intelligence.
NBC’s former political director, Todd brought a different approach to the chair. He would often use questions to make statements like asking whether Trump supporters “just want to be lied to?” However, when it comes to Democrats, Todd would prefer to make choices for them in refusing to air news that was bad for the party, as he did as host on Meet the Press.
It is all part of Chuck Todd “making choices.”
Chuck Todd is a first-class slime ball!
As a news anchor who claims to be an unbiased reporter of the news you have to be dumber than a box of rocks to outright say that you wouldn’t report something that would bring to light the paying of millions of dollars by foreign nations to the son of a sitting President because it would hurt the Democratic Party. Obviously no such generosity was afforded to the Republican Party through not reporting on the Russian hoax. My apologies to any box of rocks who may read this post.
Been out of town for a few days.
I see our leftist friends are spreading conspiracy theories, gaslighting and outright lies. Again. Fortunately for those of us with critical thinking skills, logic, common sense and who can discern facts from opinion, we know better. Then them.
“Hunter Biden is news. He was at the center of a massive influence peddling scandal, the subject of a controversial presidential pardon from his father, and recently accused of exercising inappropriate control over his father as president. He was also a key witness on his father’s alleged mental and physical decline in office.”
This column tells us nothing that we did not already know in detail and depth. Todd and his Democrat and MSM fellows are intent on suppressing any and all news that does not align with their partisan biases and interests. Period, end of f*n story. I have no doubt that there are partisans on the other side who are capable of the same; we should keep a close eye out for that happening as time goes on. However, at the moment, by far the most egregious abuses regarding truth suppression come from the Dems and their a$$h0l3 sycophants like Todd…
Chuck Todd Slams ‘THE TRUTH’ as Bad for Democrats and Biden
“The Chuckster” was a disgrace to Journalism, where there no longer exists any difference between a fact and an opinion.
“The Chuckster” was a disgrace to Journalism, where there no longer exists any difference between a fact and an a LIE.
Fixed that for you.
I see the Biden influence-peddling as a form of treason. Great efforts should be made to root it out and expose it, and punishment should be severe.
I also see an analogy between influence-peddling and copper theft. A copper thief causes an immense amount of damage for a relatively minuscule payout. For every million dollars the Bidens collected on their graft, you can bet that the resulting ongoing economic damage to the United States runs into the billions of dollars.
Excellent analogy.
White population replacement in Europe?
Never heard of her, but she makes some solid points:
(1) Nationalism doesn’t cause war, expansionism does. And within Europe that is only found in Brussels.
(2) Why can’t the globalists abide even one nation (Hungary) not going with the program of importing tens of millions of immigrants? Because then the world will then be able to compare the results of nationalism and a sensible migration policy with the results of globalism and unlimited migration . . . and they will see that the former produces far better results.
“IF COMEY HAD INDICTED HILLARY, COMEY WOULD HAVE CONVICTED OBAMA”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/01/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-emails-key-decision-not-indict-hillary/
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Clinton–Obama Emails: The Key to Understanding Why Hillary Wasn’t Indicted
By Andrew C. McCarthy
January 23, 2018 9:25 PM
New FBI texts highlight a motive to conceal the president’s involvement.
From the first, these columns have argued that the whitewash of the Hillary Clinton–emails caper was President Barack Obama’s call — not the FBI’s, and not the Justice Department’s. (See, e.g., here, here, and here.) The decision was inevitable. Obama, using a pseudonymous email account, had repeatedly communicated with Secretary Clinton over her private, non-secure email account.
These emails must have involved some classified information, given the nature of consultations between presidents and secretaries of state, the broad outlines of Obama’s own executive order defining classified intelligence (see EO 13526, section 1.4), and the fact that the Obama administration adamantly refused to disclose the Clinton–Obama emails. If classified information was mishandled, it was necessarily mishandled on both ends of these email exchanges.
If Clinton had been charged, Obama’s culpable involvement would have been patent. In any prosecution of Clinton, the Clinton–Obama emails would have been in the spotlight. For the prosecution, they would be more proof of willful (or, if you prefer, grossly negligent) mishandling of intelligence. More significantly, for Clinton’s defense, they would show that Obama was complicit in Clinton’s conduct yet faced no criminal charges.
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I love this idiot below who thinks that’s it’s so important what some loser Scots think about our president. When we let them vote in our elections then I’ll give a crap. We already got the best Scots, only the losers stayed behind anyway.
The only “idiot” I see is you!
Have a nice day.
What the left-wing Marxist press in Scotland doesn’t show you is scenes like this, where the actual human beings of that region are giving Trump a warm welcome (notice the “Trump the Legend” sign held by one of them).
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1949105780386382132
I say “actual human beings” to contrast them with the robotic anti-human globalist scum putting out hit pieces, dutifully picked up by the Soros-paid anti-human trolls in this comment section.
..he seemed bright when he was providing stats on TV Election coverage in 2008.. Suddenly he was elevated to his own desk and appeared to became more & more arrogant as he honed his supreme Ultra Left-Wing Bias as time wore on…. Finally, he revealed a shallow side as well while speaking to a Medical Convention in DC when he announced that all problems in the USA were caused by ‘Baby Boomers…’ This illogic was met with ample boos and hisses.
Really: what more do you need to hear other than this windbag thinks he is somehow enlightened enough to make choices for other people to discount it on its face? All I see here is another (well paid) mouthpiece for a class of people that apparently think they are somehow inherently ‘better’. For better or for worse, that is the modern and very much ignorant left in a nutshell. The modern left love to talk about the hypothetical, ‘What if wealth were not a factor?’, but of course, that never includes their own personal wealth. Todd can blow right back to the prep school and family that spawned him; the rest of us want nothing to do with this unenlightened boosheet.
Whatever, Chuck. We will get on with our lives just fine without you and your ilk, and that seems to be the thing that really kills you. Heaven help you if you ever have to actually compete on an even playing field. Given that is unlikely, at least the rest of us when confronted with your idiocy have an off button.
As an aside: how come none of these mouthpieces ever have student loans? Ah, yes. Because they were born into wealth and connections, assured trajectories from birth. Pbblt. Maybe your mom, your aunt, or your cousin will feel bad about your aristocratic failures; the rest of us quite honestly don’t care.
Again, wrong AV. Devices and software make typing errors even without user error at times. Sigh.
Front page of the Scotsman located in Edinburgh. The poor UK, mired in a cesspool of Communism or Marxists-Leninist Socialism, still suffering under an illegal alien invasion from wide open borders spurring on political unrest, chaos, even undertones of a civil war, (something not so easy to do when your an island, I mean the channel stopped the Wehrmacht…),
Nothing new to any of that however. Over there, people can be arrested for praying inside their own home, even if that is technically impossible to enforce. Stubborn to a fault, the Brits not being swayed by reality nor shy to continue trying the same thing over and over again and getting the same result. Best thought of in America as; “We are over here because, they are over there.”
Anyway, thought this was somewhat telling that the Edinburgh Scotsman doesn’t seem to be enjoined to the Marxist Globalist propaganda network of anti-Trump derangement.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/donald-trump-in-scotland-live-follow-along-for-updates-as-the-president-meets-with-keir-starmer-at-turnberry-5243297
The rest of the paper seems to be a CNN wanta be rag, but interestingly this “Engagement Editor”, took the red pill and has stealthy written a truthful article without attempting to empty her spleen.
-Oddball
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