Response to Ben Carson, Chuck Todd's moronic 'welcome to the big leagues' defense of media idiocy

Let's first understand something about knowledge and intelligence. A person can feign either one in a controlled setting by mastering certain customs, or certain conventional wisdom, as long as he can operate strictly in the environment that never questions either. That's why so many people think Chuck Todd is smart. He has mastered media/Beltway conventional wisdom about as well as any person alive, and every time you see him it's in a setting in which he or others who think this way control the terms of the discussion. In fact, Chuck Todd is a moron, but that's a very difficult fact to expose because Todd always gets to ask the questions and rarely has to answer any. But it gets worse: On the rare occasion when someone does lay bare just how idiotic things are in the kingdom where Todd is royalty, there is a standard pat answer: "Welcome to the big leagues."