MSNBC Daily Rundown hosts Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie attempted to stage a bit of an intervention with Democratic Florida Senate candidate and current Rep. Kendrick Meek, but from the sound of their questions, you’d be forgiven if you mistook Meek for Ross Perot. Explaining the dire circumstances recent poll numbers are putting both Governor Charlie Crist‘s campaign and his own, Guthrie asks Meek, “[if Marco] Rubio wins, can you live with your role in that?”

During an appearance on Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie‘s Daily Rundown, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus may have one-upped Robert Gibbs‘ “Professional Left” comments. Having already written a column agreeing with Gibbs, she told Chuck, Savannah, and Anita Dunn that the left and the blogosphere are “deranged.”

I was all set to agree with her, until I found out she wasn’t talking about their berserk reaction to Gibbs’ comments, but rather, their high expectations of President Obama and the Democrats.

Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd wasted no time on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown this morning before pressing Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod to explain the White House’s reaction to a federal court decision striking down California’s same-sex marriage ban. “I think the American public could be forgiven if they’re a little confused about where the president stands on all of this,” Guthrie said, laying out Obama’s opposition to same-sex marriage and perceived ambivalence in criticizing Prop 8.

David Klinghoffer’s recent column in the LA Times has garnered a significant amount of attention from the blogosphere and even cable news. As a staunch conservative, Klinghoffer is turning heads for critiquing the state of conservatism in today’s society, namely the degree to which radical pundits have become the face of the conservative movement. But while some are (rightly) praising his bold critique, most are overlooking the problematic meat of his argument: he refutes one form of radical conservatism by appealing to another.

While the Keith Olbermanns and Bill O’Reillys of the world continue to live under the media spotlight, an NPR story today takes a look at another TV-news journalist, who gets considerably less media attention: Savannah Guthrie. In profiling Guthrie, NPR not only reveals more about her, but also examines an overall shift in cable news.

Filmmaker James Cameron has been all over the TV talking about how he has been denied access to film the BP Oil Spill, despite the fact that the only images of the leak that are currently available are “crime scene video done by the criminal.” At today’s White House briefing, I took Cameron’s case directly to National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, asking him if having documentation from a source other than BP might be worth a little risk.

NBC News White House Correspondent Savannah Guthrie is on the way up. She was recently named one of 2010′s Faces to Watch in TV by the LA Times, and has just launched a new show, “The Daily Rundown,” on MSNBC (9am EDT), with fellow White House correspondent Chuck Todd.

Savannah gets real with “The Daily Rundown,” on MSNBC (9am EDT), with fellow White House correspondent Chuck Todd.

Savannah gets real with Inside the White House Press Corps, with some surprising observations about Twitter, media bias, and the role of pudits in shaping the news.

Joe Scarborough and the Morning Joe team on MSNBC tossed to another new program at 9amET this morning, The Daily Rundown anchored by Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie.

NBC News’ White House correspondents anchored a very D.C., political junkie-centric show – with an exclusive interview with Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as the centerpiece.

It’s the end of the year, the time for handy lists and timelines recapping the touchstones of the past 12 months, freezing them in our ever-shortening collective memory.

Of course, some people just have to be different. Mediaite contributor and White House reporter Tommy Christopher pulls back the curtain on covering politics in 2009, and shares photos and videos that have never been seen before. Find out who the Secret Service did manage to keep out of the White House, what Joe Biden told his young mentorees, and much more.

MSNBC is set to make some more daytime changes – just six months after it last shook up the line-up.

Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie – NBC News White House correspondents – will anchor at 9amET for an hour, while Dylan Ratigan moves to a self-titled show at 4pmET. It’s a news-personality swap.