I think he acts like a GOP hack (which in turn might have one asking if he's a Koch plant).
As a GOP hack, whether or not he's paid be the Koch brothers, he simply ignores the facts and runs ahead with his narrative. There can be no starker case in point than accusing the President of not saying Syria when the President is, in fact, talking explicitly about Syria and using the name of that country. The fellow conducting the interview is either a hack journalist or needs badly to clean the wax from his ears.
Given Mr. Todd's past statements concerning the President, I think we can safely say that he is a hack. I certainly hope NBC is in the process of replacing him before much longer.
I'm not blaming Raster for thinking that Mr. Todd is a Koch sucker. However, there are different levels of Koch operatives, of which Koch sucker is lowest. A Koch sucker is a Tea Party activist who believes that the Tea Party is a real grass roots movement and not a sinister anti-American organization financed and directed by a couple of billionaires with a Birch Society background. They're the people who showed up in the summer of 2009 at the town hall meetings of Democratic congressmen, after being bussed in a vehicle supplied by Dave and Charlie Koch, in order to shut down discussions of health care reform. Mr. Todd is too powerful, by virtue of his employment by the National Broadcasting Company, to be one of those. As the employee of what is putatively a legitimate news organization, he has facts at his disposal and his ignorance of them must be assumed to be more willful than the bumpkins the Kochs transported to town hall meetings in order to disrupt them. In other words, to associate him with the Kochs is to imply that he's being paid by them. That, by the way, would make him a Koch snorter or even a Koch dealer.
Since the Kochs' goal is to destroy American democracy, that would make Mr. Todd a subversive activist. Therefore, I do not believe this is the sort of accusation should be made as a throw away remark, but only if one has reason to believe that Mr. Todd is being paid by the Koch brothers to act as absurdly as he did last Sunday.
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