Chuck U Todd said…………. “How do you define media?” asks Todd. There are “actual journalists, like what we do,”

After you all stop laughing, when has Todd been an actual journalist this year? I think he gets his stories from RRK and Ted.

Chuck Todd………The President’s ‘Boy Toy’.

gordonbloyershow said:
Chuck U Todd said…………. “How do you define media?” asks Todd. There are “actual journalists, like what we do,” After you all stop laughing, when has Todd been an actual journalist this year? I think he gets his stories from RRK and Ted.

Gordo, there are not many folks you like, are there?

Steve Wrote: “President Obama is beginning his vacation today,”

It’s not the first time we heard this.

More Liberty said:
Steve Wrote: “President Obama is beginning his vacation today,” It’s not the first time we heard this.

Oh I get it: You’re making up for all the nuts on the left who complained about all the vacations Pres. GWB took, right?

Chuck Todd should be happy to be linked anywhere,
he is so damned insignificant!!

I generally like F. Chuck, but he’s way off base here.

We recently had a Justice Department Investigator QUIT his job over allegations of RACIALLY-MOTIVATED Prosecutions!!!!

—– and a MEDIA WHO IGNORED THIS BLOCKBUSTER BECAUSE IT WOULD HURT OBAMA!

Ask yourself, would the media have ignored this story if it were the Bush DOJ prosecuting on the basis of RACE?

CASE CLOSED – We need alternative media, because the old mainstream media’s impartiality has been CORRUPTED!

JimBob said:
Chuck Todd should be happy to be linked anywhere,he is so damned insignificant!!

Like the confederate states of America?

JimBob said:
Chuck Todd should be happy to be linked anywhere,he is so damned insignificant!!

And all the world has heard of the great JimBob!!!!!!!! Great retort, ace!

All the people in the media take themselves far to seriously for the service they provide, and have disdain for those who haven’t followed the same route they took.

That seems ridiculous but in this day and age of how the media now is defined by everybody across the board, whose got a Twitter feed, or a talk radio program

Or a talk TV program like Keith Olbermann who is then allowed to anchor the news coverage of events as he did last on the troops leaving Iraq.

Whether you like KO or not, he has no business anchoring news coverage. He’s shown himself to be too much of a partisan. Reporters can report; commentators can comment; but they can’t do both.

SteveMG said:
That seems ridiculous but in this day and age of how the media now is defined by everybody across the board, whose got a Twitter feed, or a talk radio program Or a talk TV program like Keith Olbermann who is then allowed to anchor the news coverage of events as he did last on the troops leaving Iraq. Whether you like KO or not, he has no business anchoring news coverage. He’s shown himself to be too much of a partisan. Reporters can report; commentators can comment; but they can’t do both.

Agreed — which is why I have a problem with Fox News. They have tons of commentators intertwined with newsmen, and it is often difficult to tell when one is giving news, and when one is giving their own opinion. The latter is often done by the newsmen who choose to hone in on some topic that should not even be the big news of the day — rather, something that has a political spin.

The Great JimBob is not a Public Figure, Alamo 2!!
Wait a minute, neither is Chucky!!

King Obama the Just is finally getting away for some rest . No more small people for a while . ” Gibbs ! Reggie ! Bring me refreshments ! Bring Moochelle ice cream ! Wax my golf clubs ! Let’s go , staff !

JimBob said:
The Great JimBob is not a Public Figure, Alamo 2!!Wait a minute, neither is Chucky!!

Good retort! I’ll give ya that one!

Apostrophe jones said:
King Obama the Just is finally getting away for some rest . No more small people for a while . ” Gibbs ! Reggie ! Bring me refreshments ! Bring Moochelle ice cream ! Wax my golf clubs ! Let’s go , staff !

Oh I get it: You’re making up for all the nuts on the left who complained about all the vacations Pres. GWB took, right? (Just in case you didn’t see it the first time….)

Well, it’s good to know that Chuck Todd thinks this is a much needed vacation for Obama’s staff because they’re really really frazzled and that he, Chuck Todd, isn’t part of the media telling folks that Obama is a Muslim.

You’re in the clear, Todd. You’re one of the president’s little good guys!

Remember alamo, I like lots of people. I like Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, Michael Reagan, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Mitch Daniels, Clint Eastwood, Ernie Banks, Mitch McConnell, Jon Voight, Ann Coulter, Aramis Ramirez, Tyler Colvin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Jon Miller, Jeb Bush, Tom Selleck, Norbit, writer, Michelle F, Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, and many many more, do you want to list them all.

Now list that one person you like.

Hey Gordo, I’ll give ya Ernie Banks — now that was some ballplayer! And I like Tom Selleck’s movies. He was also great in that TV show “Rockford Files.” And of course, my favorite actor is that all time right winger, John Wayne. Greatest movies: “The Searchers” and “Fort Apache.”

Really getting tired of Chuck Todd and his MSNBC cohorts constantly referring to themselves as “actual journolists”. Keith says it, Matthews says it, enough. You have a slant. You have an agenda. You would get more respect if you just stopped repeating/ denying that you are actively engaged in influencing political opinion. I don’t understand why they won’t give up the charade. Its either they’re arrogantly delusional or insecure, but whatever it is they just look silly doing it. Chuck has said this before to Mediaite:
“There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.”

Got that? All of you people out there that are independently trying to decide what is and is not news, knock it off! The great Chuck Todd and the rest of the MSNBC elite will decide what news is and sort it out and disseminate it based on their superior intellect. You will drink one flavor of kool aid only! And we will have none of these Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, John Edwards, Van Jones, shenanigans!

You just have to love that image of Todd using “air quotes”. That’s a keeper.

I also love how Todd tries to impugn the general public because we all have not literally “seen” Obama go to church:
Maybe this means the President is going to have to publicly go to church and they have to see it more, the public has to see it. That seems ridiculous but in this day and age of how the media now is defined by everybody across the board . . .

Actually “Chuckles”, what is rediculous is that we have to explain to a self-described “Actual” journalist like yourself that after a year of being in D.C. the Obamas still had not selected a church to attend, publicly or otherwise. In order to “see it more” it first has to take place, you understand.

Gollllee! You dun sure told off all us fokes who caint think for ourselves, dint ya. Yo shure is smart, dambetcha!

MartiniShark said:
You just have to love that image of Todd using “air quotes”. That’s a keeper. I also love how Todd tries to impugn the general public because we all have not literally “seen” Obama go to church:Maybe this means the President is going to have to publicly go to church and they have to see it more, the public has to see it. That seems ridiculous but in this day and age of how the media now is defined by everybody across the board . . . Actually “Chuckles”, what is rediculous is that we have to explain to a self-described “Actual” journalist like yourself that after a year of being in D.C. the Obamas still had not selected a church to attend, publicly or otherwise. In order to “see it more” it first has to take place, you understand.

OK, Marty, where did Ronald Reagan go to church? That is, the very few times he went….. I have nothing against him for that. He can invoke God’s name all he wants and not go to church. It’s just you wingnuts who are making up another controversy about Obama and his church-going.

And what makes me a wing-nut exactly, alamo? That I don’t suckle at Chuck Todd’s teat? I have no clue what Reagan has to do with Todd’s comments. I was not “making up another controversy’, Chuck Todd brought up that matter, in the body of the article at the top of this thread, and I was responding to that.
I was stating that people are skeptical of Obama’s faith because he has not been going. Chuck has a problem putting that together. You have a problem following along apparently.

Matt Herrick said:
All the people in the media take themselves far to seriously for the service they provide, and have disdain for those who haven’t followed the same route they took. (emphasis added)

Same could be said for Mediaite commenters.

Limbaugh,Hannity and Beck with TV,books.web sites and radio shows(no TV for the Drugster) are all uneducated morning zoo disc jockeys with a background in nothing.But they talk as experts on government,economy,military,law,medicine,history,religion,science,education and race relations.And millions of people are so fucking stupid they believe them.Chuck Todd is right. We have no standards when it comes to who should be taken seriously in this country.

chucken said:
Limbaugh,Hannity and Beck with TV,books.web sites and radio shows(no TV for the Drugster) are all uneducated morning zoo disc jockeys with a background in nothing.But they talk as experts on government,economy,military,law,medicine,history,religion,science,education and race relations.And millions of people are so fucking stupid they believe them.Chuck Todd is right. We have no standards when it comes to who should be taken seriously in this country.

This is one of the most brilliant comments to have ever graced this website!! Take note, usual folks who spend their workdays here: If you are on the very, very right, chucken is talking about those whom you listen to/watch the most. They are not experts on anything; what they are extremely competent at is attacking personalities, not ideas.

MSNBC should put on some of these really bright College Boys like Olberdork, Maddow, Matthews,MR Ed, Chuck, Andrea, Dylan et al to help get the truth to all these stupid fucking people. That should wipe out all these silly unedumakated Rednecks that host these dumb shows. Damn those pesky
Radio and Fox morning zoo disc jockeys with their zero backgrounds.
I notice also all of the above College Boys are writing a lot of Liberal position books to help us fools see the the progressive light! They are selling so well I can’t seem to find any on the shelves!
But, you are obviously a VERY SMARt man, chuken!!

Matt says:

the people in the media take themselves far to seriously for the service they provide, and have disdain for those who haven’t followed the same route they took.

I think it’s more than they think they are WAY more important than the folks do. We see them for what they are, liberal clowns.

JimBob said:
MSNBC should put on some of these really bright College Boys like Olberdork, Maddow, Matthews,MR Ed, Chuck, Andrea, Dylan et al to help get the truth to all these stupid fucking people. That should wipe out all these silly unedumakated Rednecks that host these dumb shows. Damn those peskyRadio and Fox morning zoo disc jockeys with their zero backgrounds.I notice also all of the above College Boys are writing a lot of Liberal position books to help us fools see the the progressive light! They are selling so well I can’t seem to find any on the shelves!But, you are obviously a VERY SMARt man, chuken!!

Wow! You sure told us off, JimBob!! And tht classy way of saying “Olberdork,” why that was shear Shakespeare! You must be a college graduate, unlike Limbaugh, Beck and the rest of the draft dodgers who spew “Patriotism.” As for myself, I don’t read any of the political screeds, left or right. They all are downright disingenuous and silly. They rarely get at the truth of a matter; they would rather stretch the truth to make a personal attack. And your use of the F-word was just fantastic. How about the N-word. Try a little more hate, will ya?

Too funny, Chuck said this:

There are “actual journalists, like what we do,”

to Andrea Mitchell! LOL Andrea hasn’t been a journolist for years and years, she is nothing but a DNC hack (much like F Chuck himself).

This is priceless, “air quotes” for “journalist”…..are Andrea and Chuck members of JourNoList????? Haven’t seen their names on the 150+ names that have been released to date, but I haven’t heard either one of them make a disclaimer that they were NOT part of it, so given the way “journalism” is conducted today — if they have denied it they must be part of it.

Chuck thinks MSNBC does “journalism”

Bwahahahaha

Edit function please.

“if they have NOT denied it, they must be part of it”….

Alamo I used the “f” word only because Chucken did. I regret it already and it will not lower my self to that level again. Yes I went to college. But it is obvious to me that all the bright college boys I was referring to are not doing nearley as well as the so called morning zoo disc jockeys with zero background in identical choisen fields!
I have a lot of friends that did not go o college that I am proud to say are doing as well or better than I am.
I was trying to make a point against a very stupid post by chucken!

Thank you for your post. Your points are well taken, and well stated.

The fallacy of the argument from authority (a quick crib from Wikipedia (yes, I’m lazy today):

Appeal to authority is a fallacy of defective induction, where it is argued that a statement is correct because the statement is made by a person or source that is commonly regarded as authoritative. The most general structure of this argument is:

Source A says that p is true.
Source A is authoritative.
Therefore, p is true.
This is a fallacy because the truth or falsity of the claim is not necessarily related to the personal qualities of the claimant, and because the premises can be true, and the conclusion false (an authoritative claim can turn out to be false). It is also known as argumentum ad verecundiam (Latin: argument to respect) or ipse dixit (Latin: he himself said it).

The arguments or views of a Limbaugh or a Beck (or an Olbermann or a Ed Schultz et cetera) will stand or fall on the merits of their arguments and not on the background or experience of the person making the argument. IOW, a statement can be correct or false regardless of the intelligence or authority of the person making the statement.

Hey JimBob internet porn and pro-wrestling are much more popular than the rightwing talk show hosts and have more credibility but are the same thing. Trash popular culture is a huge money maker but that does not mean it is helpful to society.

Who is this Little Shultzee on msnbc this week?

Can his demeanor or two-dimensional arguments be any more annoying?

Watching msnbc – outside of Joe, Chuck & Dylan – is like watching a daily Michael Moore depiction of FOX!

I mean, you can save a few bucks giving up FOX, and still see virtually all of it on msnbc Primetime!!

LMAO!!!!!

Those are your standards, mocking career radio hosts as “Morning Zoo” personalities?

Rachael Maddow hailed from radio, where she worked as a host on two morning radio shows before signing on at Air America.

Dylan Rattigan came from CNBC where he hosted the financial show “Morning Call”.
Guess they are no good.

Ed Shultz was a longtime sports broadcaster before he segued into a talk-radio career.

And of course the esteemed Keith Olberman . . . another sportcaster.

. . . Probably not any good either.

Norbit I have to agree with you on MR. ED’S replacement for this week.
I won’t make any silly jokes this time about this guy! Don’t have too!! Whoa!!
THAT GUY IS HORRIBLE! Keep HIM in mind MSNBC management
when you need a replacement for any of your hosts in the future!
Talking about Network suicide!!

Chuck U Todd should appreciate getting lumped any way he can.

Chuck calls himself an “actual journalist.” This morning on First Read, he or one of his minions wrote the following in connection with the poll results about Obama’s religion:

“The big irony of this story: President Obama is more religious than Reagan or H.W. Bush ever was; in fact, he gets Bible verses sent to his blackberry EVERY DAY.”

It takes a lot of nerve (or stupidity) for an “actual journalist” to write a sentence like that. No one, including Chuck Todd, could ever know how much more or less religious one person is compared to another, especially on the basis of whether one signs up for one of those “Bible verse-a-day” email blasts. More revealing, however, is Chuck’s bald statement, without sourcing or attribution, that the president gets Bible verses sent to his Blackberry every day. Obviously, someone in the White House fed him this information and he passed it along without hesitation or qualification. He not only allowed himself to be spun, he willingly participated in the spinning.

Personally, I can’t think of anyone in the news business, whom I view as an actual journalist, in the academic sense. Also, imo, I don’t believe most Americans are as consumed with Obama’s religious preference, as they are with how he refuses to define himself, as an individual. Defining one’s self, doesn’t require wearing one’s religious preference. or other personal preferences, on one’s sleeve. Starting with George Washington and ending with George Bush, Americans want to know what their president stands for and his/her personal position on almost any given topic. Obama appears to believe that if he defines who he is, as an individual, this could possibly cost him a vote. Many Americans, from Christians, to Jews, to Muslims, and in between, view Obama as sending mixed signals, in the name of political expediency, depending on his audience, on any given day. Obama, as the president, must define who he is, as an individual, and let the chips fall where they may. Being wishy-washy has never gained an ounce of respect for anyone. “Respect Yourself”, Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1II2nPmBZJk

Speaking obviously while in the dark, Chucky said
“There are “actual journalists, like what we do,” and then there’s the others: “talk radio” and “infotainment things you see in some of these other television broadcasts” and “even forwarded emails.”

Chuck baby, we have the others sources of information BECAUSE of what you do. Gotta love your naiveté though…you and the other dying ‘main stream media’ (read gasbags).

C. Todd should have investigated further, but just like the rest of NBC or the Times, gets something in his teeth and runs with it, no matter if there’s harm or not.  In this case a man has been besmirched, to what affect.
Todd and others like him should be taken off the air, they shouldn’t be allowed to be a journalist.  For a job, he should be allowed to have a job as a fry cook, similar to Chris. Matthews, another dumb NBC idiot.
Bernard M. Schermerhorn USN (retired)