NBC’s Chuck Todd is not having a good week. First he claims that everyone is beating him up just because NBC keeps reporting false news. How dare you peons demand journalists do their jobs?! Now he’s under fire for supposedly saying that it wasn’t his job to correct the GOP’s so-called falsehoods about Obamacare:
Chuck Todd: It's not media's job to correct GOP's Obamacare falsehoods (VIDEO): http://t.co/HENzmm4RDQ
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 18, 2013
But did he really say that? Let’s go to the tape.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell: “If you took ten people from different parts of the country who say they’re against the bill, and sat them down, I’d love to have ten minutes with them and say, “tell me why you’re against the bill.” And if they told you anything, it would be stuff that’s incorrect.”
Chuck Todd: “But more importantly, it would be stuff that Republicans have successfully messaged against it, and they wouldn’t have even heard – they don’t repeat the other stuff, because they haven’t even heard the Democratic message. What I always love is that people say, ‘well it’s your folks’ fault in the media. No, it’s the President of the United States’s fault for not selling it!”
Rendell: “Absolutely.”
Todd ‘s point was purely about the need for better messaging by the White House. But liberals are so angry that Americans hate Obamacare, they’re looking for scapegoats … and Chuck Todd has just the right goatee for it.
@chucktodd WH has done tremendous amt on ACA. Have you reported any of it? No, you've just had GOP on your show to lie about it.
— LiberalPhenom (Obama is my president forever) (@LiberalPhenom) September 18, 2013
.@chucktodd You stand the rest of the media sure did do a good job of selling the anti Obamacare rhetoric
— Eat, Drink & Be Mary – BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED (@MWJ1231) September 18, 2013
@chucktodd You are wrong, Chuck. Allowing a lie to permeate the society, without reporting it, means you are worthless in your job.
— Bo Metzler (@BoMetzler) September 19, 2013
https://twitter.com/denniswortham/status/380486043855638528
https://twitter.com/2LittleGirlsSay/status/380526880098488320
@chucktodd @GottaLaff the very fact you are whining on twitter speaks volumes! Either grow up or move to Fox News! #ChuckToddExcuses
— Ed Harris (@eddaplumber) September 18, 2013
Even Wesley Crusher of Star Trek believes Chuck Todd is a Republican shill who should “probably be fired”:
Chuck Todd admits that he isn’t a journalist. This is very, very important: http://t.co/q0h4lVexvY
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) September 18, 2013
Here’s Oliver Willis of Media Matters making the same false claim:
https://twitter.com/owillis/statuses/380472176522321921
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/380475370006659072
Todd tried to push back:
@ScottMode of course it is. When did I say we shouldn't? That's where folks missed this
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) September 18, 2013
@iloanya1 and I didn't say we shouldn't do it, folks jumped to ridiculous conclusion. Ironic considering what folks trying to level at me
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) September 18, 2013
But once the leftists get going on one of their ridiculous memes, they don’t stop.
@chucktodd stopping so disingenuous. You were not asked to sell, you were asked about reporting the truth. And you know it.
— Nancy Richardson (@nanorich) September 18, 2013
@chucktodd @iloanya1.NO it's NOT ridiculous what we r saying. UR a republican tool! It is sooo..OBVIOUS! U blame us for what YOU said?!?!?!
— orsay (@orsay) September 19, 2013
Chuck Todd a GOP tool! Hilarious! Chuck. Todd.
MSNBC's Chuck Todd Says It's Not His Job To Challenge Republican Lies http://t.co/NukBaIGZjo YOU'RE IN THE WRONG CAREER TODD! #UniteBlue #P2
— R Joseph (@rjoseph7777) September 19, 2013
Poor Chuck Todd. This is what happens when you don’t jump high enough for libs.
final tweet on this topic: thanks to a misleading headline and lack of context, folks are getting wrong idea about what I said. (1/2)
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) September 18, 2013
I was NOT saying it isn't job of journos to call out lies, I said it was not job of media to sell WH's health care message, it is WH's job
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) September 18, 2013
Better luck next time, Chuckles.
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