Imagine being Chuck Todd. Sorry if you just ate, but that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? Todd is a left-wing toady and former staffer to Iowa Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, just in case you didn’t know where he’s coming from. His wife makes a fortune consulting for extremist progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders, but don’t worry, Chuck remains above it all and is an honest broker when it comes to the news. Actually, no, he’s a complete fraud and activist with a press pass.
Remember when he declared no one would be invited on Meet the Press to discuss climate change if they disagreed with the left-wing’s orthodoxy on the subject? It was because he cares so deeply for journalistic integrity that he forbids differing opinions, that’s how journalism works.
Why pick on the Ginger Avenger? Because he threw the equivalent of a temper tantrum on Meet the Press Sunday because his employer, NBC News, dared hire former head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel.
I’m no fan of McDaniel; the GOP has managed to lose dozens of winnable elections on her watch, but that a former party Chair would get a contributor gig is nothing new – Howard Dean was hired by NBC News after his tenure at the DNC without any drama, and he’s a certifiably insane lunatic who spews some of the dumbest words ever assembled into sentence form.
But McDaniel is different because of Donald Trump.
It’s easy to say Trump broke these people, but they were damaged goods right out of the box. There isn’t a single honest person at NBC News, on air or behind the scenes, in their editorial process, and they have zero standards. If there were, Joy Reid not only would be fired immediately, she never would have been hired in the first place.
But she has a show. Conspiracy theorist and noted fabulist Rachel Maddow has a show, albeit only one day per week for $30 million per year. Chris Hayes would have a show simply because you have to employ someone to do it and, while he’s as much of sociopath as the rest, he’s easily ignored by people who agree with him as well as those who don’t.
There are no standards at NBC News, there are only orders from the Democratic Party. It’s the video version of Yellow Journalism – random YouTube channels have higher standards.
Chucky started off his segment on the panel of a show from which he was fired by saying, “Look, let me deal with the elephant in the room.” He then went on to apologize to his replacement for having to interview McDaniel because “she is now a paid contributor by NBC News. I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn't want to mess up her contract.”
In what room is this an “elephant”? The coffee room at the DNC, I mean, NBC News. Was there anyone who isn’t a committed leftist fuming over having McDaniel on as a guest who cared? The answer is no.
Weirdly, Chucky has no such qualms about Ginger Goebbels being hired by NBC News to host a show, not just appear occasionally. Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, born on 3rd base and failing up ever since, negotiated her contract while still working in the Biden White House, then continued in that position for two more months before leaving to become a “journalist.” Chuck has never once publicly, or privately (because it would have leaked), questioned whether or not Psaki is expressing her own opinions or simply parroting what she was told to by handlers in the administration. Honestly, it’s impossible to know – she says the same things, spending most of her time defending Joe Biden from his failures and lying about Republicans. That’s a requirement to work for NBC News, so the origination point of those spewings are irrelevant, really.
Chuck Todd is the personification of everything wrong with NBC News, but he can’t be confronted as such by his bosses because they made him, they made all of them. You can’t lecture your kid against smoking with a Marlboro hanging out of your mouth, and can’t scold anyone for lying when you employ, well, literally everyone at NBC News. Not in any credible way, at least. Lucky for NBC News, credibility hasn’t been an issue or a goal for at least 10 years.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.