"I'm having a quick flashback to the O.J. trial, frankly, where the facts were damning, but it didn't matter," Todd said in November of last year.
That's pretty much par for the course when it comes to Todd and President Trump - and now, thanks to coronavirus, we have him giving disclaimers before Trump coronavirus news conferences.
"And the White House coronavirus briefing is about to begin. But before we go to it, we want to note a few things," Todd began.
96%. 4%. It's curious to hear someone from MSNBC - Todd in particular - discoursing about how the president's briefings regarding COVID-19 had "a tendency to veer in a lot of different directions, not all of them are informative or relevant in the midst of this crisis."
After lamenting for the first three years of his presidency that Donald Trump didn't hold enough news briefings, the media is now livid that he's holding too many of them during the biggest crisis of his presidency.
"Since reviving the daily White House briefing - a practice abandoned last year by an administration that bristles at outside scrutiny - Mr. Trump and his coronavirus updates have attracted an average audience of 8.5 million on cable news, roughly the viewership of the season finale of 'The Bachelor,'" The Times reported March 25.
There's no need for condescending warnings before the president's media conference, no need for a hyperventilation about the media briefings costing lives, no need to talk about how dangerous they are.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/chuck-todds-outrageous-disclaimer-trumps-covid-briefing-flushes-medias-last-shred-credibility
That's pretty much par for the course when it comes to Todd and President Trump - and now, thanks to coronavirus, we have him giving disclaimers before Trump coronavirus news conferences.
"And the White House coronavirus briefing is about to begin. But before we go to it, we want to note a few things," Todd began.
96%. 4%. It's curious to hear someone from MSNBC - Todd in particular - discoursing about how the president's briefings regarding COVID-19 had "a tendency to veer in a lot of different directions, not all of them are informative or relevant in the midst of this crisis."
After lamenting for the first three years of his presidency that Donald Trump didn't hold enough news briefings, the media is now livid that he's holding too many of them during the biggest crisis of his presidency.
"Since reviving the daily White House briefing - a practice abandoned last year by an administration that bristles at outside scrutiny - Mr. Trump and his coronavirus updates have attracted an average audience of 8.5 million on cable news, roughly the viewership of the season finale of 'The Bachelor,'" The Times reported March 25.
There's no need for condescending warnings before the president's media conference, no need for a hyperventilation about the media briefings costing lives, no need to talk about how dangerous they are.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/chuck-todds-outrageous-disclaimer-trumps-covid-briefing-flushes-medias-last-shred-credibility
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