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Jonathan Jewel @JonathanJewel
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if you're not yet boycotting @nbcnews perhaps this will help you to switch channels. Hint: @chucktodd
1:26 PM - 13 Oct 2014 102 Retweets 28 favorites
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/14/a-tweet-or-two-142/
Donna NoShock @NoShock
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In 2012 NBC told PBO & Romney 2 take down ads using NBC hosts in campaign ads. Crickets from @NBC on the @chucktodd Kentucky ad.
7:00 AM - 14 Oct 2014 83 Retweets 21 favorites
Joe Sonka @joesonka
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.@chucktodd: "McConnell has hidden himself from Qs 4 mnths...highly cynical campaign we are witnessing in KY." But not "disqualified" #kysen
6:08 AM - 14 Oct 2014 28 Retweets 8 favorites
Media Matters ✔ @mmfa
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The media's double standard for "disqualifying" candidates is on full display in the Kentucky Senate race: http://mm4a.org/1s9JU4s
1:15 PM - 13 Oct 2014 60 Retweets 8 favorites
Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert
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McConnell wont' answer simple Q's abt climate change, healthcare, gay marriage. but Grimes is one who ducks; http://bit.ly/1s9KP54 #awful
6:03 AM - 14 Oct 2014 61 Retweets 14 favorites
Steve Benen @stevebenen
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McConnell's healthcare gibberish carries real-world consequences. Grimes' 2012 vote is a shiny-but-irrelevant toy http://on.msnbc.com/1wz110e
2:50 AM - 14 Oct 2014
McConnell flubs health care basics in key...
Either the Republicans' Senate leader is confused by the basics of health care policy or he's choosing to mislead the public on purpose. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mcconnell-flubs-health-care-basics-key-debate
msnbc @msnbc
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TheObamaDiary.com @TheObamaDiary
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Remember @ChuckTodd said it was not his job to expose GOP lies?
Seems like he believes it's his job to spread them.
7:26 AM - 14 Oct 2014 135 Retweets 45 favorites
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/14/msnbc-a-liberal-news-station-chuckle/
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)UpChuck
Cha
(297,240 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And I will bet a big wad of money that as a music major he didn't take a single economics course before he dropped out of college, either!!
merrily
(45,251 posts)at MSNBC to begin with.
Please read his wiki. Such a competitive field and nothing, but nothing in his CV stands out until he gets a job in broadcasting. Who knew it was that easy?
Cha
(297,240 posts)http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chuck-todd-takes-helm-meet-press-n180916
Course, we might have to take her with the ol grain of salt considering what she had to say about David Gregory in same article..
merrily
(45,251 posts)Nor why he got the plum, MTP. I don't think his morning show had huge ratings and he has zero charisma. His rage is from aggravating to boring, not exactly what you want for a TV host.
Now that he has the job, for whatever reason, though, sure, she'll pretend he's perfect for it. It's either that, or lose her job.
Cha
(297,240 posts)"... the place where newsmakers come to make news, where the agenda is set".
The "agenda is set" alright!
I dunno.. he was on c-span a long time ago and was the reality oriented one.. and then he got big time at msnbc and then he's what he is today.
Funny, that they tried to get Jon Stewart for the job first though.. kind of a 180 from Chuck Todd.
merrily
(45,251 posts)appropriate for journalists to play any part at all in setting agendas
Gots to go get some sleep. Good night.
Cha
(297,240 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)They gave Chuck the check directly instead of funneling it through McConnell's campaign.
Cha
(297,240 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I read here at DU that's how much money the Koch brothers have given to McConnell's campaign, so far.
I guess they do that through their corporations.
Must be nice to be able to afford to just outright buy a Senator.
Cha
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McConnell's healthcare gibberish carries real-world consequences. Grimes' 2012 vote is a shiny-but-irrelevant toy http://on.msnbc.com/1wz110e
2:50 AM - 14 Oct 2014
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And then he looks shocked if someone was actually listening to any of the complete garbage he was muttering.
He is the most worthless piece of white trash in the Senate the Republicans have these days!!
I can't wait to hear his concession speech!!
It'll probably go something like this ---
Wulla, I wunt ta say dat Mss Grimes ran a gud campain an I am proud to welcum her to the U.S. Senate
The people hav spoken, ant dey hate my guts.
Cha
(297,240 posts)your word for it.
Come on Kentucky.. boomerang this back on Chucky Todd.. when Mitch loses.. Oh, it Looks like Alison wasn't disqualified after all, Tool.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Ya know, so we could hear what he was mumbling sbout.
The Filibuster King talks with his lips just barely parted, speaking in a low voice, and adding to that his Southern drawl, he is very hard to understand most of the time.
But, he does that on purpose.
Because when he really wants to be understood, all of a sudden, he drops the Southern drawl, and actually speaks quiet clearly.
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)we're adults.. we can handle it!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Alert the personal opinion police.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)AikidoSoul
(2,150 posts)kentuck
(111,095 posts)I still don't know what he said??
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I would love to see it.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Earth to media: McConnell is being totally deceptive on Obamacare. By @DannyVinik http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119819/kentucky-debate-mitch-mcconnells-word-salad-obamacare-not-gaffe
4:39 AM - 14 Oct 2014
MCCONNELL'S OBAMACARE LIE IS WORSE THAN GRIMES' VOTING GAFFE..
by Danny Vinik
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119819/kentucky-debate-mitch-mcconnells-word-salad-obamacare-not-gaffe
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)As he so deserves. Can't stand the Toad.
Cha
(297,240 posts)sheshe2
(83,770 posts)Trigger warning please!
I felt the need to Up Chuck!
Please Please Please a warning before the Toadstool comes on my screen, that hurt my eyes, Cha!
Cha
(297,240 posts)a lot of good information in the OP.. not just chucky's ugliness.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)After the tremendously poor ratings his rein at MTP is getting these days, and after he fails to deliver McConnell's race for the Republican party and the Koch brothers, he will be ceremoniously thrown out of that chair on MTP.
He will be totally useless to all of them forever after this election, and known as just another biased "reporter", so why would they keep a hack that can't even use his bully pulpit of a tv show to save McConnell's ass in the Senate for the Republicans?
Todd disqualified himself last weekend on MTP by being so narrow minded.
That is not how real journalists or political pundits act.
Todd is no longer qualified to give political commentary on anyone anymore!!
He showed us his hand of cards this last weekend, and they are all Jokers!
He is just like Billo the Klown now.
He's just another big bag of hot air!
brer cat
(24,565 posts)Nice post.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)to God's ears.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)He has disqualified himself. NBC needs to hear from us
https://twitter.com/NBCNews
https://twitter.com/ChrisJansing
Cha
(297,240 posts)And, I mean one who is not a hack!
kentuck
(111,095 posts)I would agree.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)She did a great job when given the chance over the summer.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/chris-jansing-to-mtp-staff-its-been-a-long-year-but-great-things-are-ahead_b236631
Cha
(297,240 posts)but not just any woman.
I know she said President Obama was from Kenya but she apologized for it and said it was his Dad! So, I like that.. anyone can make a mistake.
Good to hear that, thank you!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)a huge step forward from Chuck Todd, without a doubt. She's not only impartial and more professional-acting, but she also seems to ask more hardball questions.
Cha
(297,240 posts)thank you for that info on Chris Jansing!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)They would have a conflict of interest with all of the corporate misogynists on their board of directors!!!
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)unless there is some hack like Gregory or Toad to fawn over them and throw them softballs. If a real journalist were sitting in that chair asking real questions they'd all poop their pants.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)If they hear from enough people, they may do it.
Meanwhile. Write to NBC News and remind them that they suspended Keith Olbermann for giving token contributions - in private! - to democrats running in 2010. Todd can go on Scarborough's completely biased program and virtually endorse Mitch on the air without repercussions.
Unacceptable.
http://www.nbcnews.com/contact
https://twitter.com/NBCNews
https://twitter.com/chucktodd
https://twitter.com/ChrisJansing
12AngryBorneoWildmen
(536 posts)She'd be excellent. https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.608019665503259360&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0
Joy Reid.jpeg
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)But she hasn't put the amount of time in yet to merit hosting Meet The Press, IMO.
Cha
(297,240 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)n/t
MSNBC must have forced Chris Hayes to have him on his show tonight. First up, I believe. Broke my neck diving for the remote to change the channel. Chuck is all about Chuck, isn't he?
Cha
(297,240 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Follow the money.
Viewers = ratings =sponsors = ad dollars to NBC.
Don't watch.
Cha
(297,240 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)i wonder how someone like that ends up in the position they are. i'm sure there are many more others out there that could do better on tv and are much more informed to discuss things.
so did he get where he was similar to luke russert ?
irisblue
(32,975 posts)he doesn't have any talent, so I suspect blackmail
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)That he feels "sick" about being used in a Mitch McConnell attack add against Allison Lundergan Grimes, but "she brought it on herself."
Cha
(297,240 posts)Follow
In 2012 NBC told PBO & Romney 2 take down ads using NBC hosts in campaign ads. Crickets from @NBC on the @chucktodd Kentucky ad.
7:00 AM - 14 Oct 2014 83 Retweets 21 favorites
Joe Sonka @joesonka
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.@chucktodd: "McConnell has hidden himself from Qs 4 mnths...highly cynical campaign we are witnessing in KY." But not "disqualified" #kysen
6:08 AM - 14 Oct 2014 28 Rethweets 8 favorites
Media Matters ✔ @mmfa
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The media's double standard for "disqualifying" candidates is on full display in the Kentucky Senate race: http://mm4a.org/1s9JU4s
1:15 PM - 13 Oct 2014 60 Retweets 8 favorites
Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert
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McConnell wont' answer simple Q's abt climate change, healthcare, gay marriage. but Grimes is one who ducks; http://bit.ly/1s9KP54 #awful
6:03 AM - 14 Oct 2014 61 Retweets 14 favorites
THanks Trollbuster!
Cha
(297,240 posts)It's always everyone else fault.. it couldn't be chucky's..
It's Beyond "Lazy".. it's Corrupt.
Chuck Todd: Pointing out Republican lies isn't his job
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/18/1239734/-Chuck-Todd-Pointing-out-Republican-lies-isn-t-his-job
Just Whining about Democrats.. that's Chucky's "Job".
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)pop up?
Lot's of other good info in OP, though. Don't be scared!
sheshe2
(83,770 posts)I said it needed a trigger warning, Cali_Democrat
I am going to have nightmares!
Cha
(297,240 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And all of the Republicans are running around in their costumes acting like they are angels!
Cha
(297,240 posts)Now that you mention it, Major.. Rand Paul did put on his angel costume and go to Ferguson, MO. smh Bet he didn't fool anybody, though.
Talk about something kinda scary that's real.. there's this shite again..
Another Big Storm Headed To Hawaii's Big Island
Updated: 10/14/2014 9:59 pm EDT
"HONOLULU (AP) Tropical Storm Ana is forecast to strengthen to a hurricane this week as it moves toward the southern edge of Hawaii's Big Island, which was hit by a destructive tropical storm two months ago, meteorologists said Tuesday.
Ana is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane the lowest level, with winds of 74 to 95 mph on Wednesday morning, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Brenchley said.
The storm is forecast to clip the Big Island's rural Puna district on Saturday afternoon. The storm's effects may be felt up to 100 miles outside its center, so the entire Big Island would be affected if Ana stays on its projected path, Brenchley said.
The storm is expected to pass about 70 miles south of Maui the next morning.
Brenchley added a lot of uncertainty remains because Ana is still far from the island chain."
More..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/14/tropical-storm-ana-hawaii_n_5986676.html
No word on Kaua'i yet.. keeping fingers crossed Ana spares everyone!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I have one of those old-fashioned, blow-up dolls that consists of the head and the upper body of a person.
It is designed so that you can fill it with air and then put it in the passenger seat of your car in order to fool people that are driving in the next lane and get next to your car while they are going down the road the same direction as you are going.
My blow-up doll is of Dick Nixon.
My sister gave it to me one year for my birthday many years ago.
Nowadays, I get it out every Halloween and put it in the front window with a flashlight shining on his face from about a foot below his chin!
Oooh, spooky!
Little kids always ask me "who is that guy in the window", and I tell them, "that's the boogeyman!!!"
Cha
(297,240 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)I LOVE IT!
Cha
(297,240 posts)feel good!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)But, I'll bet you won't hear Todd even mention the fact that the Republicans shut down the federal government last year OR that it cost the federal government $24 Billion dollars!!!!!!!!!
TurtleMan shouldn't even be running for office if he doesn't want the federal government open for business.
McConnell has a bankrupt conscience.
He sold out to the monied interests a long time ago.
Cha
(297,240 posts)Mister Nightowl
(396 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)sheshe2
(83,770 posts)To recap: If you're a Kentucky Democrat and you don't answer a straight-forward question, you may as well take your name off the ballot, according to Beltway journalists. But if you're a Kentucky Republican and you do the same thing, it's mostly crickets from the same pundits.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/13/the-kentucky-senate-race-and-the-medias-double/201129
And~
Can frog pee cause warts?
his urban legend has been debunked so often and so consistently on the Internet, it is almost redundant to repeat it.
Here are just some of the sources - including many medical experts and frog experts.
National Geographic
"Warts are caused by a human virus, not frogs or toads," says dermatologist Jerry Litt. But the wartlike bumps behind a toad's ears can be dangerous. These parotoid glands contain a nasty poison that irritates the mouths of some predators and often the skin of humans. So toads may not cause warts, but they can cause other nasties. It's best not to handle these critterswarts and all!
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9504/can-frog-pee-cause-warts
Cha
(297,240 posts)"To recap: If you're a Kentucky Democrat and you don't answer a straight-forward question, you may as well take your name off the ballot, according to Beltway journalists. But if you're a Kentucky Republican and you do the same thing, it's mostly crickets from the same pundits."
Looking at you, Chucky Todd.. As has been said before.. Alison Grimes refused to say who she voted for and it's not relevant to this campaign.. but, mitch lies about Obamacare and was one of the leaders in shutting down the government costing our country $24 Billion and he's quite qualified to run.
@chucktoad
Have a Good Day at work, she~!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I love toads! I've had pet toads...Toadsies and Bigfatsmalltoad, for 7 years...toads are sweet, loveable, gentle creatures.
And they never lie!!!!
This is unfair to TOADS!!!!
Cha
(297,240 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)If you've ever loved a toad, you'd know!
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)How does he still have a job?
Didn't Olbermann end up getting canned from MSNBC for simply donating to a few progressive candidates?
Cha
(297,240 posts)not let their punditry be used in tv ads. But, now with chucky todd helping mitch.. they don't give a shit.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Next time I see or hear anything about "Librul meedja" I'm gonna throw this right in their fat, ignorant faces.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)mentioning his being featured in republican ad. Todd acted all annoyed...
just sayin'...
Paladin
(28,257 posts)As it is, he's not even coming up with a public apology for what he did. The little scumbag. Democrats should NEVER forget or forgive this.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)"Seriously. That's what he just told Chris Hayes on 'All In.' That the partisan hackery that fell out of HIS stinking pie-hole was actually Allison Lundergan-Grimes' fault. "She brought this on herself."
TrollBuster http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025667246
Cha
(297,240 posts)"Seriously. That's what he just told Chris Hayes on 'All In.' That the partisan hackery that fell out of HIS stinking pie-hole was actually Allison Lundergan-Grimes' fault. "She brought this on herself."
TrollBuster http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025667246
treestar
(82,383 posts)Geez, then he's not a journalist.
Cha
(297,240 posts)treestar~
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)gopropaganda mouth.
does anyone else see the phallic symbol in his mouth (bottom image) as a sign to other RWFs that he is much like their falling star - flush rimjob? They seem to be emblematic of their misogynist mindset... to me it says "di*kface... which is apropos regarding his actions which show his true personality.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Motherfuckers up to the usual motherfuckery.
Julie
Cha
(297,240 posts)display. Rolf
Julie!
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)He was on Chris Hayes Tues (10/14) squealing like a stuck pig trying to play it off. As the interview was finishing off, Chris say to the Wodd, 'you're a Democrat'. WFT squared!
Cha
(297,240 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)don't think the word for him exists yet.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)n/t
catbyte
(34,386 posts)anyway, I checked out him live blogging MSNBC on election day 2012. He described Chuckie as "looking like he had slurped Spaghetti-Os out of the can." I had to at that one.
I wish I would've saved the URL for that blog. It went from "Romney Tsunami we're taking over Congress too" in the morning to despair at night. It was a beauty to behold.
Cha
(297,240 posts)catbyte
(34,386 posts)through that feeble brain of his. He's just sad.
Cha
(297,240 posts)exist.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)All she should have said was, I voted with the vast MAJORITY of Americans and Mitch voted for a LOSER!
She would of hit a home run and what an ad she could of made from it!
Cha
(297,240 posts)A-Gain as a hypocritical gopropanda mouth piece.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)He would have run an ad 24 hours a day tying Grimes to Obama.
If she had said that she had voted for Obama, then Mitch would say, "see, she is just like Obama."
Mitt Romney clobbered Obama in Kentucky just 2 years ago.
I hate to say this, but Grimes has to be like the wicked witch in the "Wizard of Oz" when she wanted to get the ruby slippers from Dorothy when she said --
These things must be done . . delicately.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)reason to be ashamed!
You don't be delicate with the turtle. You call the no good bastard out and stand your ground, that's how you win people over! People respect honesty. She screwed up!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And since you can't vote for her, it really doesn't matter what you think of her, does it?
B Calm
(28,762 posts)the road politics, she was ran over by a damn turtle. Now how sad is that!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts). . oh hell, I don't even need a 3rd reason to tell you why you are wrong.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)to do with it, is in your own mind. Personally attacking me as not being sincere, where did you pull that from?
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Explain to me how stating that fact is a personal attack?
YOU can't even vote for Grimes!!!
Yet, here you are, bashing her for all its worth.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Before you have 3 on your record.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)He knows you're not from Kentucky now, too!
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)How he even keeps his job is beyond me.
Cha
(297,240 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)He is a pathetic sellout to the 1%.
My cat is a better journalist than he is.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I can't make it out on the cigar band.
Cha
(297,240 posts)blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-29-09 04:32 PM
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Oh, bite me, Chuck
"We" think Obama hits the golf course so he can smoke without the cameras seeing him...
Chuck Todd is a jerk.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5953792
Rofl
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)There is no doubt that Grimes did the right thing now.
McConnell can't run any ads touting his voting record in the Senate because all he said was, "No!"
opiate69
(10,129 posts)(So, technically illegal for him to be in possession of)
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)As it turns out, I can't even buy one of those here in America!!
The manager of the local cigar shop near here told me that he couldn't sell them!!
Wow.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Grimes still has a 3-point lead over McConnell, according to internal polls in Grimes' campaign.