I'm always baffled by the insistence on DL that Chuck Todd is a Republican who belongs on Fox News (and that anyone who disagrees must be a Russian troll).
I'm no fan of Chuck Todd (He's no Tim Russert), but have any of you bitches actually read some of the stuff that Chuck Todd has written? In this article in the Atlantic, he levels a blistering attack on Fox News, Richard Nixon, Roger Ailes, and the conservative media in general. Here are some excerpts. They don't exactly sound like the sort of things a GOP-loving conservative would say:
[quote] Some of the wealthiest members of the media are not reporters from mainstream outlets. Figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the trio of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people. They are thriving financially by exploiting the very same free-press umbrella they seem determined to undermine.
[quote] The modern campaign against the American press corps has its roots in the Nixon era. President Richard Nixon’s angry foot soldiers continued his fight against the media even after he left office.
[quote] Roger Ailes, who went on to help found Fox News, was the most important of those figures. His sustained assault on the press created the conditions that would allow a president to surround himself with aides who argue for “alternative facts,” and announce that “truth isn’t truth.” Without Ailes, a man of Trump’s background and character could never have won. Roger Ailes was the godfather of the Trump presidency.
[quote] Fox News adopted a similar strategy, rarely showcasing its own reporting or journalism. There are some great journalists at Fox, including Chris Wallace, Bret Baier, and Shep Smith, but it’s not an organization that emphasizes journalism. Instead, Ailes created an organization that focuses on attacking the “liberal media” whose “liberal bias” was ruining America. Almost any big story that was potentially devastating to a conservative was “balanced” with some form of whataboutism. The Ailes construction has been so effective that these days, I often get mail from viewers who say: Now that you’ve focused on all of President Trump’s misdeeds, you are biased if you don’t dedicate the same amount of time to Hillary Clinton’s misdeeds.
Chuck Todd may be an idiot, but he's not a conservative idiot.
