Chuck Todd received plaudits from his media peers for lambasting Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's investigation of the FBI as "Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff" during a hostile 10-minute "Meet the Press" interview on Sunday.
'" The Daily Beast declared, "GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Loses It on 'Meet the Press.'" Business Insider went with "GOP Senator Ron Johnson had a 'Fox News conspiracy' meltdown." Columbia Journalism Review covered the story under the banner "The Sunday shows turn on Trump's enablers."
Unsurprisingly, the interview went downhill after Todd made his accusation against Johnson.
The "MTP" host said, "Senator, please. Can we just answer the question, instead of making Donald Trump feel better that you're not criticizing him?" How could Todd possibly speak to his interviewee's motivations here? Is it not possible that Johnson, who hardly has a reputation for being a defender of Trump at all costs, simply thinks that the president has been treated unfairly with two years of specious theorizing about his ties to Russia, which were improperly investigated and then fed to a press that reported them uncritically?
Relatedly, has Chuck Todd watched any of the other programming on MSNBC, where he appears daily, over the last two years? A little over a month ago, his colleague Lawrence O'Donnell had to apologize for an entirely unsubstantiated report in which he claimed a Russian oligarch co-signed loans Donald Trump once took out.
What Johnson says is news, and it's more than likely that he is privy to all kinds of information Todd doesn't know.
Chuck Todd appeared very interested in why Ron Johnson doesn't think like Chuck Todd.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/08/chuck_todd_and_the_demise_of_true_journalism_141438.html
'" The Daily Beast declared, "GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Loses It on 'Meet the Press.'" Business Insider went with "GOP Senator Ron Johnson had a 'Fox News conspiracy' meltdown." Columbia Journalism Review covered the story under the banner "The Sunday shows turn on Trump's enablers."
Unsurprisingly, the interview went downhill after Todd made his accusation against Johnson.
The "MTP" host said, "Senator, please. Can we just answer the question, instead of making Donald Trump feel better that you're not criticizing him?" How could Todd possibly speak to his interviewee's motivations here? Is it not possible that Johnson, who hardly has a reputation for being a defender of Trump at all costs, simply thinks that the president has been treated unfairly with two years of specious theorizing about his ties to Russia, which were improperly investigated and then fed to a press that reported them uncritically?
Relatedly, has Chuck Todd watched any of the other programming on MSNBC, where he appears daily, over the last two years? A little over a month ago, his colleague Lawrence O'Donnell had to apologize for an entirely unsubstantiated report in which he claimed a Russian oligarch co-signed loans Donald Trump once took out.
What Johnson says is news, and it's more than likely that he is privy to all kinds of information Todd doesn't know.
Chuck Todd appeared very interested in why Ron Johnson doesn't think like Chuck Todd.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/08/chuck_todd_and_the_demise_of_true_journalism_141438.html
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