Despite his claims that the liberal media doesn’t exist, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd proved himself again to be a leftist shill during NBC’s Sunday Today as they continued to push a dubious smear of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
NBC Nightly News was the first broadcast network program to give the claims unwarranted airtime to help spread the vague rumors. It’s widely understood that the smear was a last-ditch effort by Senate Democrat Dianne Feinstein (CA) to derail the inevitable confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh seeing as she had held onto the claims for two months before demanding an investigation by the FBI, which they declined to do.
Despite this understanding, NBC was more concerned with new Democratic efforts to delay the confirmation vote and ignored Feinstein’s underhanded shenanigans. “Over the weekend, we learned that a top Democrat, Senator Dick Durbin is now calling for the delay of this expected confirmation vote for Kavanaugh,” fill-in anchor and White House correspondent Hallie Jackson said to Todd.
“As you know, this week these allegations of sexual misconduct dating back to high school have surfaced,” she said, completely overlooking their shady origin. “How do you see this playing out, if you see it playing out at all?”
Todd responded by opining about how we were in “uncharted territory” with such allegations. Of course, Todd conveniently forgot the “high-tech lynching” of Justice Clarence Thomas by Democrats and the media during his confirmation process.
“The whole way this was handled is odd,” he huffed. “I'll be honest, the fact that this has somehow made it into the public discourse in and of itself I think is something that we all have to ask ourselves how did this happen?”
Todd wanted to know “how did this happen” but never mentioned how Feinstein released a dubious statement against Kavanaugh about secret charges from a secret letter from a secret accuser. “You can't un-ring a bell like this,” he declared to Jackson’s agreement. Of course, they ignored how Kavanaugh’s background had been investigated multiple time for federal positions with no sign of these charges.
“We don't know a lot about this allegation beyond the fact that it's in a constituent letter and all this stuff,” Todd added. He basically admitted they were willingly peddling speculation and hearsay. “So look, I think there's a lot of questions to be asked inside that Judiciary Committee on how that was handled.”
Give me a break. Even Todd’s MSNBC colleague Joe Scarborough was able to admit it was “a cheap last-minute trick by Democrats” and condemned it. “Democratic staffers leaked to the press a slur, we don’t know if it’s true or not, but then they leak it at the last second,” Scarborough said. “This is a guy who has been, whose life has been examined by the FBI and has been screened a lot of times in his life.”
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
NBC
Sunday Today
September 16, 2018
8:11:09 a.m. EasternHALLIE JACKSON: On Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court, Chuck. Over the weekend we learned that a top Democrat, Senator Dick Durbin is now calling for the delay of this expected confirmation vote for Kavanaugh. As you know, this week these allegations of sexual misconduct dating back to high school have surfaced. The judge denies it as does the friend that is said to have been with him. How do you see this playing out, if you see it playing out at all?
CHUCK TODD: Look, I think this is an -- to say unchartered territory is a cliché these days in Washington, but this was a-- The whole way this was handled is odd. I'll be honest, the fact that this has somehow made it into the public discourse in and of itself I think is something that we all have to ask ourselves how did this happen?
You can't un-ring a bell like this.
JACKSON: Right.
TODD: And you don’t-- We don't know a lot about this allegation beyond the fact that it's in a constituent letter and all this stuff. So look, I think there's a lot of questions to be asked inside that Judiciary Committee on how that was handled.
