Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Chuck Todd: You'll Need A Hearing Aid To Get Into The Right's Echo Chamber!

Chuck Todd wrote an op-ed slamming Fox News and right wing agitators for stroking fear similar to the 1950s and 1960s.
GOP Sundays host Chuck Todd slams the right wing carnival barkers for driving up fears.

The usual suspects include that old fart Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, cuntservative Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Matt Sludge, Tucker "Peckerwood" Carlson, Breitbart, drunk ass Jeanie Pirro and Sean "Softball" Hannity.

They are still stuck in the 1990s. Todd said they're stuck in the 1950s. He says the right is cranking up the racism at unprecedent levels.

Todd says that these individuals made themselves wealthy scaring "old white people."

He is so right.

Fox News general audience is at average of 62.4 years old.

Todd said the time is now to fight against the misinformation being spread by these outrage pimps.

Portions of his op-ed cites Roger Ailes, the disgraced former president of Fox News and 21st Century Television. Todd said that Ailes driven the United States into this partisan divide. Ailes was forced out of Fox News after Gretchen Carlson sued him for sexual harassment. It opened the door to a handful of executives and personalities to be fired out the cannon.
Chuck Todd specifically singled out Sean "Softball" Hannity as one of the outrage pimps. The softball has promoted years of misinformation. Todd wants people to hold him and his allies accountable.
Currently the disgraced co-lead of Fox News Bill Shine is now a part of Trump's White House Communication team. Shine is pushing forth the kookspiracies and slander campaign right now.

In the piece by The Atlantic, Todd wrote:

"Antipathy toward the media right now has risen to a level I’ve never personally experienced before. The closest parallel in recent American history is the hostility to reporters in the segregated South in the 1950s and '60s." 

"Then, as now, that hatred was artificially stoked by people who found that it could deliver them some combination of fame, wealth, and power." 

"Some of the wealthiest members of the media are not reporters from mainstream outlets. Figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the trio of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people. They are thriving financially by exploiting the very same free-press umbrella they seem determined to undermine."

Todd wants journalists to ignore the complaining from the right. He asks for the Americans to hold journalism accountable but not totally dismiss the practice as bias.

Yeah, the junk food media.

The for-profit corporations that pander controversy for ratings, shock value and antipathy.

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