Posted on 01/30/2017 5:13:50 PM PST by markomalley
If you thought there was something fishy about the way the mainstream media kept trying to tell you that Hillary Clinton's election was a foregone conclusion, you were right:
NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing “sexist.” What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to “tell the stories of all Americans.”
“Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland,” the “Meet the Press” host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the “1947” podcast.
“And I think it was a fear of, ‘Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’” he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous “Hillary for Prison” signs adorning the front yards of rural America. “I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears,” Mr. Todd said. “No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.
“If we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred that’s out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would have at least made the viewer know, hey, you know, she’s not well-liked in some places in this country in ways that’s times 10 when it comes to Trump,” he said.
Groupthink is an occupational hazard of reporting, as every reporter wants to break a story but nobody wants to be the first to tell an unpleasant truth. Todd, who began his career working on former Iowa senator Tom Harkin's DOA presidential campaign, has been a Democrat shill for his entire career, and in fact may be the most visible symbol of what the late Andrew Breitbart famously called the Democrat-Media Complex.
If this election results in nothing more than the end of MSM dominance over the public discourse, it all will have been well worth it. Instead, the lefties on the media (many of whom, like Todd, have blocked me on Twitter for the crime of publicly disagreeing with them) have continued to double down on a losing hand, thereby exposing just how very dishonest and desperate they really are.
UP chuck is a democrat party HACK!!
FUCT!
Reporting the news is not sexist. The problem with today's media is that they want to present their candidate in the best light possible. Journalism is dead at the alphabets and most newspapers. They are just the propaganda arm of the DNC.
Apparently you are hateful and sexist if you believe Hillary should pay for her crimes.
If you think they are hated now, wait until the trial where all her crimes are exposed in court.
If you think they are hated now, wait until the trial where all her crimes are exposed in court.
Trump’s DOJ needs to investigate this as possible voter fraud:
ITEM-—Journalists Dined at Top Clinton Staffers Homes
Days Before Hillary’s announcement of her candidacy
Wikileaks via Breitbart ^ | October 17 2016 | Ezra Dulis / FR Posted by grey_whiskers
ITEM..... Several top journalists and TV news anchors RSVPed “yes” to attend a private, off-the-record gathering at the New York home of Joel Benenson, the chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, two days before she announced her candidacy in 2015, according to emails Wikileaks published from John Podesta’s accounts.
ITEM-—The guest list for an earlier event at the home of John Podesta was limited to reporters who were expected to cover Clinton on the campaign trail. —snip—
ITEM-—Wikileaks revealed earlier that late night talk host Stephen Colbert, and his team at Comedy Central, were making TV episodes at the request or order of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) back in April of 2013.
So, viewers thought they were vote-smart because they’re informed by a comedian, yet same said comedian was doing Hillary’s bidding the whole time.
ITEM——I hope talk hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Maher, Seth Myers, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien have their lawyers on retainer and speed dial.
ITEM....because if the Trump Administration uncovers that the DNC and the Clintons were directly working with any member of media and their writing staff during the 2016 Presidential election, they could be charged with violating Federal election laws.
So Chuck, are you saying that you aren’t worried about blowback from all the vitriol aimed at Trump because he is a White male??
fixed it..
"Chuck Todd Admits Media Created #FAKENEWS by Treating Hillary with Kid Gloves to SWAY THE ELECTION"
Interesting for me to now know that F.Chuck Toad got his start working for the nasty, arrogant Harkin. FWIW, I’ve never understood his rapid rise. I consider him a no talent. Very lucky. Tim Russert liked him...
No Chuck, we wanna know how much they paid you? Or, how much did they threaten your life?
Chuck Todd Admits That Media Is Part Of DNC
The right kind of gloves to handle a goat.
not working, uniparty propaganda arm.
you are all going down hard like your mom.
MSM is paid promotional political advertising according the list of “employees” exposed by Wikileaks.
He should get a prize for outrageous understatement of the year.
They are DNC activists is why.
Since the media have no intention of changing anything, what difference does it make that someone now “admits” it? They’re not telling us anything we didn’t already know. Are they supposed to get some credit for honesty, now that they’re confessing to the worst-kept secret in history?
Hahaha! Unless they are conservative conservatives!
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