Tag: Chuck Todd

Today I watched a clip from a recent episode of Meet the Press.  It must be at least fifteen years since the last time I watched that show and apparently, I hadn’t waited long enough.  The show had been degrading for decades when I gave up on it sometime early in the Obama era but I wasn’t prepared for what the 2021 edition had become.  I believe Vox Day may have coined the term “midwit.”  If not then at least it’s one of his favorite descriptive insults.  Well, Chuck Todd and his panel probably aspire to one day reaching the towering heights of the mid-witted.  Currently they’re about halfway up that slope.

The clip I watched was a discussion, if that term could be used for the bed-wetting panic that was on display, over whether Bison Man was preparing to storm the studio at NBC and put the whole panel to the sword.  I remember when Meet the Press used to consist of the most senior NBC journalists and guests from the leadership of both parties and senior administration officials.  Todd was surrounded by nobodies who wouldn’t be able to get their parking tickets validated in Mid-Town Manhattan never mind get access to Capitol Hill.  He might as well have been surrounded by those animated yellow characters called the minions or maybe brightly colored parrots that can recite short snatches of obscene poetry.  The nonsense they were spouting was not quite as intelligible or amusing as those alternatives but equally ridiculous.

Chuckie and the munchkins were describing how the current Republicans in Congress are in the hands of insurrectionists who are preparing to undermine all future elections by being mean.  Worst of all they intend to prevent voter fraud.  Egad!  And what they found most upsetting is that tens of millions of Americans inalterably believe that the 2020 election was won by voter fraud.  And these poor deluded fools believe this even though Chuck Todd has assured them (himself!) that this is not true.  Heavens to Betsy!  One of the geniuses on the show assured Chuck that he had brought to bear every piece of proof and assurance of accuracy that he could but this particular New York City fireman that he confronted wouldn’t believe him.  Shocking!  I wondered to myself if during this debate had the fireman mentioned that these same journalists trying to convince him about election honesty were also the ones who had assured him that Russian collusion was responsible for the 2016 election outcome?  Ah well.

I have to confess that I had to fast forward through some of the show because one of the kids, Kimberly Atkins, was just so annoyingly dull-witted that it exceeded my patience to listen to her rant.  She somehow got back to the Civil War and I just didn’t think I would be able to live long enough to get back to even the 20^th century in time.  So let me just get to my takeaways from watching this charade.

The first point is that Meet the Press is no longer watchable by grownups.  The level of debate is about on level with what you might here at the Mean Girl’s Table during the 10^th grade lunch period.  There is no usable information unless you are engaged in the study of some obscure aspect of abnormal psychology.  To describe the point of view as hyper-partisan is to miss the point.  These people are in no way different from what you’d see watching Joe Scarborough and his sock puppets.  It’s the same act.

The second takeaway is that they are very, very worried.  I guess it’s because no one is listening to them anymore, except in the echo chamber and the majority of the country want Dementia Joe to disappear and take the Cackler, Drunk Aunty Pelosi and Crying Chuck Schumer with him.  This is existential terror.  They need someone to do something about this.  The army or the FBI or Dr. Fauci has to do something to make all those tens of millions of Americans believe Chuck Todd and his minions when he tells them that the 2020 election was 100% honest and Joe Biden is the greatest president in history and the economy is just wonderful and there is no such thing as inflation or supply chain.

Now back in the 1990’s Tim Russert hosted the show and of course he was a lefty but he tried to maintain the appearance of even-handedness.  And he was a relatively intelligent man.  I have to assume if he were brought back to life and he was trapped as a guest on the current show he’d run screaming for the exit in under ten minutes.  Chuck Todd is an odious partisan hack with the appearance and personality of a rat.  I don’t imagine I’ll have a reason to watch even snippets of that show again for the remaining decades of my life on earth.  But if for some reason I must watch it I’ll make sure I’m under some powerful opiate to prevent me from trying to do myself in.