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10/9/12, "A Look at Chuck Todd and Conspiratorial Media Incest," Erick Erickson, RedState.com
"I got a great laugh out of this Chuck Todd near meltdown on Meet the Depressed
the other day. His voice quivered in moral outrage over Jack Welch
suggesting something was up with the unemployment numbers last Friday.
Chuck Todd proclaimed, “What we’re doing, we’re corroding trust in our
government in a way, and one time responsible people are doing to
control it. And the idea that Donald Trump and Jack Welch, rich people
with crazy conspiracy, can get traction on this, is a bad trend.”
He really does not get it. Chuck Todd reflects most of the media not
getting it. As ratings decline, newspaper fold, and they all scream
about how biased Fox News is, they do not get it.
Neil King is a political reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He is married to Shailagh Murray who left a reporting job at the Washington Post
to take the job of Joe Biden’s communications director. She replaced
Jay Carney who moved to the White House and who himself left Time to take the communications director role for Biden.
John Harris of the Politico is married to an abortion rights activist who used to run NARAL Virginia.
The Politico’s Chief Washington Correspondent, Jonathan Allen, left
the Politico to work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then returned to the
Politico.
Andy Barr of the Politico left the Politico to work for the
Democratic National Committee and now works for Richard Carmona, the
Democrats’ candidate for Senate in Arizona against Jeff Flake.
George Stephanopolous of ABC News used to be a strategist for Bill Clinton and even after becoming Chief Washington Correspondent
still engaged in regular conversations with Rahm Emanuel, James
Carville, and Paul Begala from the Clinton days. (Ironic, isn’t it,
that John Harris wrote that story)
Michael Scherer of Time, where Jay Carney left to go to Joe Biden’s office, got his start in left wing publications, as did Ezra Klein of the Washington Post who famously created the left wing Journolist filled with Washington journalists and pundits to bounce around themes in the left wing echo chamber.
Linda Douglass of ABC News left ABC to serve as Chief Propaganda
Officer for the Obama White House in charge of getting Obamacare
through.
Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times made up the story
about President George H. W. Bush being surprised and taken aback by a
common supermarket check out scanner. The story was made up by
Rosenthal who was not even present. Andrew Rosenthal is now the Editor
of the New York Times Editorial Page.
The BuzzFeed crew are mostly left of center, hang out with left of
center reporters and pundits, and the media considers them and their cat
GIFs the second coming of a supposedly objective Huffington Post.
Chuck Todd himself is married to a former DNC staffer and he worked
as a Democratic staffer to Senator Tom Harkin. He works with Chris
Matthews who worked for a Democrat in Congress and Jimmy Carter. They
both work with Andrea Mitchell who is married to Alan Greenspan, the
former Chairman of the Federal Reserve. And they’re all just a degree
or two removed from Tawana Brawley thanks to their relationship with
MSNBC host Al Sharpton.
In other words, Chuck, it is you and your colleagues in the New
York-Washington media corridor who are corroding trust — not by covering
what Jack Welch and Donald Trump say, but merely by reporting as you do
on the issues you cover or are not covering. The American public has
grown cynical and tired of a left-leaning media establishment that
refuses to acknowledge its own liberalism and that has become insular
and removed from the affairs of Americans across the country. The media
establishment relates to people who live within 25 miles of the
Atlantic or Pacific and relates poorly to people who live within 50
miles of American river valleys other than the Hudson....
Compounding the problem is a bipartisan Washington establishment that
has likewise grown insular, only going home to campaign. These
Republican and Democratic politicos and members of the press are
sometimes married, sometimes having affairs, often times at cocktail
parties together, and over time think more and more alike.
Consider this — I’m willing to bet that Chuck Todd thinks Jim DeMint,
Mike Lee, Rand Paul and the like are fire breathers. Like many other
members of the media, Chuck & Co. lament the loss of people like
Richard Lugar, Robert Bennett, Evan Bayh, Olympia Snowe, etc. Those
Senators “reached across the aisle.” But in reaching across the aisle,
they made the American public reach around and grab their wallets. They
and their wonderful bipartisan compromises drove us to $16 trillion in
debt. The guys who fight the compromises and fight the debt increases
are routinely the villains and the press frequently ignores their heroes
are the ones getting us in the messes. But they are “adults” and
“grown ups” and “mature.”
While Chuck and the rest of the press lament the national debt, they
refuse to hold accountable the bipartisan compromisers who voted on the
measures that got us to $16 trillion in debt.
When Chuck Todd laments the corrosion of “trust in government,” what
he is really lamenting is that the American people have caught on to the
way the game is played and the public now realizes just how complicit
the media is. Compounding that, the public largely now realizes just
how in bed — sometimes literally — the press is with members of the
Obama Administration. There is a revolving door between liberal
organizations and the mainstream press. For every one Republican who
may become an “objective” member of the press, there are many more
Democrats who do the same. Further, for all the Republicans who do it,
there are many more liberal than conservative Republicans who do it.
The press is full of herd mentality, group think, and incestuous
relationship with power and politics. The press also lacks a lot of
self-reflection and accountability. What self-reflection is done is
often subsequently ignored.
What Chuck Todd lamented, with his voice quivering, is that the media
has failed. They are no longer reporters and watch dogs. They are
regurgitators and lap dogs and fewer and fewer Americans believe them.
He can be outraged at supposed crazy conspiracies, but it is the actions
of the American political press and their relationships within the
corridors of Washington that made it possible.
No one trusts the media and that is the media’s own fault. No one
trusts government any more and the media is complicit in that by failing
to be the objective press it pretends to be."
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