I'm to the point where I can't watch Chuck Todd without getting pissed off. Smug people tend to have that effect on me and lots of others, but Todd is particularly hard to take because he is clearly so convinced of his own superiority, and hardly even bothers anymore with the pretext of being honest.
He's just a jerk, and his primary business is to propagandize on behalf of other jerks. The fact that NBC puts this jackhole on television, and that other people see him as some sort of paragon of good journalism, is one of the reasons I often question whether the United States can outlive me. Most days I doubt it.
What happened to America? It was the indispensible nation!
Sorry. Chuck Todd became host of Meet the Press and no one thought there was anything wrong with that.
Wow. Well, you had a good run.
Let me set this up for you so you don't miss what's going on. This clip is more than a week old, and I wish I'd seen it sooner, but it's perhaps even more powerful now considering how much has come to light about Antifa and what they're really all about. Contrary to the media narrative that they're just "opposing Nazis," these thugs oppose free speech, the U.S. Constitution just about anyone who doesn't embrace leftist orthodoxy. And they believe they are justified in using unprovoked violence against their opponents.
Does Chuck Todd have any problems with this? Well kinda, sorta, but the problems he has are . . . interesting:
So when the Antifa sympathizer expresses in no uncertain terms that he believes the group's practice of unprovoked violence is justified, Todd's big concern is that it might a) make the people they attack look sympathetic; and b) give credence to President Trump when he is "trying create a false equivalence" between Antifa and the Nazis.
In other words: We're out there scolding Trump for saying you're as bad as the Nazis, and here you go acting as bad as the Nazis!
Because, as we told you right after Charlottesville happened, they are as bad as the Nazis.
Todd's stance here is utterly astounding. His problem with Antifa's violence is not the violence per se, but rather that it might be counterproductive as a propaganda strategy - particularly insofar as it vindicates Trump.
In the above-linked piece about the alt-left, I explained one of the real dangers of this movement is the fact that the mainstream media are willing to carry its water. They don't need web sites equivalent to the Daily Stormer, because they have the New York Times, CNN and, as you can see here, Chuck Todd and Meet the Press.
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Chuck Todd is a dispicable human being
The MSM have run as hard as they could with the "false equivalence" narrative that claims Antifa are just peace-loving opponents of Naziism. It's hard to expect people to buy that when supporters of Antifa are coming on your show and making no bones about the fact that they'll resort to violence - indeed, they'll be the ones to start it - whenever they think they've encountered an opponent who deserves it.
Even then, Todd doesn't raise even the slightest objection to the violence itself, only to the way it might complicate the MSM's propaganda efforts on Antifa's behalf.
Chuck Todd is a dispicable human being.
