WashPost, NBC Tout How Pope's Paper 'Puts GOP Candidates on the Spot'
June 18th, 2015 5:31 PM
In a Thursday item on NBC News's web site, Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Andrew Rafferty asserted that "just like the issue of gay marriage, the Pope and the Catholic Church have gone from being wedge issues that benefitted the GOP in 2004 to ones that now favor Democrats." The three journalists cited Associated Press's reporting on Pope Francis's new encyclical on the environment, and concluded…
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Chuck Todd: Dems ‘Licking Their Chops’ Over Trump Candidacy
June 18th, 2015 9:03 AM
On Wednesday night, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd appeared on NBC Nightly News to play up the supposed damage Donald Trump's presidential campaign will cause the Republican Party and how Democrats are "licking their chops" over his announcement.
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Stephanopoulos, Trump Battle over 2016 Candidate’s Mexico Remarks
June 16th, 2015 10:25 PM
ABC’s World News Tonight aired a preview clip on Tuesday of Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos’s interview with 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in which Trump battled the former Clinton official over remarks he made during his announcement speech about illegal immigration and his plans to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
How Nice: Chuck Todd Actually Lets Other Journos Question Guest
June 15th, 2015 12:18 PM
Today marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. It was on June 15, 1215 that the English King John met his barons on Runnymede field to reluctantly affix his seal to the great charter that granted more powers to the latter. By strange coincidence, yesterday also marked the notable event when Chuck Todd on Meet The Press allowed a couple of panelists to question a guest, Bill…
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Todd Wonders if Hispanics Are 'Justified' to Think GOP 'Doesn't Care'
June 2nd, 2015 10:12 PM
Reporting on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC's Chuck Todd hyped the size of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign with the rise in “vanity candidates” and wondered to GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham if “Hispanics are justified in believing the Republican Party doesn't care about them right now.”
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Chuck Todd Acts Indignant to Claim Dems Want Amnesty to Win Elections
May 31st, 2015 4:06 PM
During an interview with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd appeared visibly shocked when his guest argued that Democrats support amnesty because “they can win more elections.” In response to Santorum, Todd acted indignant and interjected: “You think that the Democrats are for immigration, for more immigration, simply for politics, for votes, they…
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Chris Matthews Offers 'Centrist' Hillary Free Campaign Advice
May 31st, 2015 12:49 PM
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews appeared as a panelist on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and acted as an unofficial campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Matthews argued that Hillary “has to be herself. And this whole thing about positioning is why people hate politicians. If Hillary Clinton is a lefty, I didn't know it, okay. She’s not a lefty. She is a centrist politician, a…
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Notable Quotables: Hillary's Scandals = ‘Distractions’ and ‘Noise’
May 18th, 2015 9:05 AM
This week, as the Clinton Foundation scandal simmers, NBC travels to Africa to tout the "heartwarming" stories of the Foundation's good works, while CBS belittles the scandals as "distractions" and "noise." Yet, even as they protect Hillary, reporters deride GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina: "I don't think we would be taking her seriously at all if she weren't a woman."
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NBC Harps on Jeb Bush's 'Pretty Bad Week;' 'Apparent Snub' from Rove
May 15th, 2015 9:39 PM
Friday's NBC Nightly News picked up where Today left off earlier in the day by hyping former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's "long week," after his Monday remark that he would have authorized an invasion of Iraq if he had been president in 2003. Lester Holt echoed Savannah Guthrie in underling that Bush has "struggled since then to put daylight between him and his brother's legacy on Iraq." He also…
Comedian: White House Wrote Fox/CNN-Bashing Dinner Routine
May 12th, 2015 5:06 PM
Via Mediaite, we learn comedian Keegan-Michael Key – who performed with President Obama as his character “Luther the Anger Translator” – was merely acting out with attack lines given to him by the White House writers shop. So it really was Team Obama unloading on CNN and Fox and Chuck Todd in the routine.
“They wrote it, the White House wrote the piece,” Key told an interviewer from TMZ. “He…
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Chuck Todd, Maria Shriver Push U.S. to Mandate Paid Maternity Leave
May 11th, 2015 12:59 PM
On Mother’s Day, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and NBC contributor Maria Shriver, former First Lady of California, bemoaned that the United States ranked far behind Norway in government mandated services, such as paid maternity leave, for all women. Todd: "Among 193 member states of the United Nations, the United States and seven other countries have no paid maternity leave. Five of those…
Fiorina Registers ChuckTodd.org After He Cites Her 'Lost' .org Domain
May 10th, 2015 11:21 PM
Chuck Todd should have been ready for this, but he wasn't.
Just a few days days ago, on the very network at which Todd toils, "Late Night" comedian Seth Meyers thought he would be cute and embarrass GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina over not registering the CarlyFiorina.org domain, thereby allowing a critic to take it and use it as a platform for criticizing her tenure as H-P's CEO.…
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NBC Prediction Fail: Network Wrong as Conservatives Surge to Power
May 8th, 2015 11:57 AM
NBC's Today show, Friday, was silent on David Cameron and the British Conservative Party sweeping to a surprise victory in Thursday's election. Perhaps the network's journalists don't want to be reminded of their botched predictions. On Sunday's Meet the Press, Chuck Todd declared the race between the Conservative Cameron and Ed Miliband, the atheist, socialist Labour Party leader, as "too close…
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Chuck Todd 'Impressed' Hillary Clinton 'Ate Up News Cycle' With Speech
May 7th, 2015 5:27 PM
During Thursday's edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe program, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd responded to a question about Hillary Clinton -- the presumptive Democrat candidate for president in the upcoming 2016 election -- by stating: “The one thing I was impressed with this week was she did eat up a news cycle with immigration.”
The host of NBC's Sunday morning news and interview program asserted…