Joan Walsh: Sunday best: Chuck Todd loses it

[cal04]

He blasts Jack Welch for "corroding trust in our government" while Paul Krugman drives Mary Matalin insane
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/07/sunday_best_chuck_todd_loses_it/

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To keep from drowning in despair and nihilism over what the Sunday shows tell us about the bankruptcy of American politics, Salon is bringing you Sunday Best: Our choice of the best moment of all on the top Sunday shows. (We may occasionally have to turn to MSNBC’s “Up With Chris” or “Melissa Harris-Perry,” but if we put them in the mix every week, it wouldn’t be a fair fight. We’ll mainly focus on the productions of the big networks.)

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Predictably, Democrats fought back better than Obama did, with Robert Gibbs calling Romney’s performance “fundamentally dishonest” and his budget math “absolutely crazy” on ABC’s “This Week.” On Fox, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told Chris Wallace, “The fact of the matter is in this debate we saw Big Bird meet the big lie.” Also on “This Week,” Paul Krugman told the panel, “The press just doesn’t know how to handle flat-out untruths,” which led Mary Matalin to absolutely lose her shit and call Krugman himself a liar.

You have mischaracterized and you have lied about every position and every particular of the Ryan plan on Medicare, from the efficiency of Medicare administration, to calling it a voucher plan, so you’re hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar.

Actually, Mary, Romney himself admitted it was a voucher program on Wednesday night. Someone’s lying here, and it’s not Krugman. Digression: Paul Krugman probably deserves the Sunday Best award for simultaneously fighting off Peggy Noonan’s gauzy, shimmery fantasies and untruth, along with Matalin’s sharp and ugly lie-daggers, on the very same show. But Krugman would probably win it every week, which wouldn’t be fair.

video of Chuck Todd
NBC’s Chuck Todd Lashes Out At Conspiracy Theorists ‘Corroding Trust In Our Government’
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbcs-chuck-todd-lashes-out-at-conspiracy-theorists-corroding-trust-in-our-government/
1:53 of the video

[longship]

1. Walsh is always a good read.

Here she is on target. If this a weekly Sunday Show analysis, I will be visiting her every weekend.

R&

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Joan is a treasure!

[LiberalAndProud]

3. Love this line.

"Todd can sometimes seem a captive of the Beltway, but on Sunday he staged a prison break"

[Cha]

4. Shocked at Todd! Just

called him a corporatemediawhore on another because I've seen too much of him pushing memes for his "horse race" shit.

Thanks for the article, cal

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

5. MARY....LOL....

I have to admit, Mary has done a lot to pull herself together lately and recite the party line... a few months ago she was bing interviewed in her home in La. wearing a nightgown... It was the night her husband, serpent head was on Bill maher's show... look it up. She was bat shit, bachman territory crazy that day!

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

6. WHO here remembers

The site Media Whores Online? The tag line was something like, "We came to bring the media to their knees and found they were already there."

[AlbertCat]

11. Media Whores Online?

Loved it. whent there every day whan it was up.

[SunSeeker]

7. Matalin needs another glass of wine.

Apparently that is what keeps her from killing James Carville in his sleep.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/mary-matalin-james-carville-marriage.html

[sad sally]

9. Nah, she's on the hard stuff now - doing whiskey shots - the lady who called me and others

parasites.

[H2O Man]

16. I hope she does

a few shots of Old Hemlock.

[DirtyDawg]

8. What I don't...

...understand is why hasn't, and when will, somebody turn to James Carville during one of these exchanges and ask, 'Tell us Jim, just what is it that this woman does to, or for, you that allows you to put up with her shit? Cause if there ever somebody in the public eye that was as much of a 'pussy-whipped' eunuch as you, I can't name em.'

[BumRushDaShow]

10. There were some articles a few years ago

including back in 2008 when they were moving back to New Orleans.

Architectural Digest featured them back then -

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2008-01/carville_article_012008

Some pics here of the mag issue - http://wonkette.com/338595/james-carville-and-mary-matalin-live-in-pink-hellhole

[shireen]

13. i like it

Not my style but i like the playful whimsy of that house.

I think the only way that two polar opposites can exist together is if they're not the people they portray on tv. I'm sure they hold conservative or liberal views, but tv appearances must be an act. It pays the mortgage.

I'm no fan of Matalin, but like the fact that she's an animal lover.

[LiberalAndProud]

15. Most of them already know that Carville is a mole.

[AzDar]

12. Thank Jeebus for Gov. Martin O'Malley... He actually used the word "LIE".

The O Team needs to stop dancing around it...Mitt Romney is a god damned LIAR!

[shireen]

14. O'Malley is great

he has a way of getting to the point. I like him, proud to have him as our gov.