Chuck Todd: Obama 'Nourishes' Me

newsbusters.org ^ | November 22, 2014 | Scott Whitlock

[Tailgunner Joe]

NBC's Chuck Todd on Thursday night found a new way to compliment Barack Obama. Politicking host Larry King asked the Meet the Press anchor if he "liked" the President. Todd quickly responded "yes" and added, "I mean, he's very easy to talk to...You sit there and have these off-the-record sessions with him."

The journalist enthused, "They're just very nourishing conversations." [MP3 audio here.] Nourishing? Earlier in November, the anchor defended the President's famous contention that "bitter Americans" "cling" to guns and religion. Todd mused that these attacks are simply Obama "observing the way an anthropologist would observe a society."

In 2014, Todd speculated that the Republican governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback, might lose his reelection (he did not) and that Democrats might hold the Senate (they did not). On election night, he declared, "It's a good Republican night, but it's not a wave." (Todd later retracted that remark.)

Later in the program, King, who has been exiled from CNN to something called Ora TV, tried to smear the President's opponents as racist:

KING: But this seeming, like, hatred of [Obama] – McConnell saying we're going to be against him from day one. He tries to do things, for example, executive orders, he's issued much less than Clinton and Bush. And Clinton – Bush the first, then Reagan, did an executive order on immigration and now the Republicans are complaining about his same executive order on the same subject. How much of that is racial?

[Travis McGee]

The Dear Leader adulation is really spilling out.

[VRWC For Truth]

Effe, effe Schmuck.

[Usagi_yo]

I’m wondering what his anthropological opinion is of Ferguson Blacks? Or perhaps Muslims violence?

[Fungi]

You're right. Here is a man whose mind, conscience and intellect are constantly in the dark, and now we what feeds him--bulls***.

[Nateman]

DNA rich nourishment, no doubt.

[gaijin]

“I drink his MAN ESSENCE..!!!”

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

CT needs to wipe his chin.its a mess.

[hal ogen]

Doesn’t nourishing involve “eating” something? On his kneepads...what’s he eating?

[Iron Munro]

Obama nourishes him?

Chuck, try to remember that some doors are better left unopened.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Hey Chuck!

You wouldn’t happen to be a “teabagger”....would-jya?

[Chode]

a small load of protein i take it...

[JaguarXKE]

I just threw up in my mouth.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I think I’m going to be sick.

[SoFloFreeper]

[Seruzawa]

Jeez. Get a room, lickspittle.

[Sacajaweau]

He’s doing a sa job on the new show.

[peteyd]

That just sounds yucky!

[Seruzawa]

Wait. How does BushI give an executive order before Reagan?

[Gasshog]

Obama nourishes me

Is that code-speak for something naughty??

[jonsie]

Hey Chuck, get a room please!