Chuck Todd is lying. He has not "had enough of hearing this." Immediately after this, he asked Johnson more questions and allowed him to lie about the election, again
Not sharing the video because it's pure misinformation. This is performative bullshit from both of them
Meet the Press is laundering election lies on its platform unabashedly by participating in the GOP's misinformation campaign. If you've "had enough" of it, you wouldn't allow it to continue, @chucktodd. And yet you do, every week, because you want to help Republicans spread lies
@chucktodd “I’ve had enough of hearing this. Now let me ask you again: what do you think about the election being stolen? Please use complete sentences in your answer.”
There are 100 senators. You don't have to invite one of the Republicans who believes covid is a hoax, the election was a hoax, and climate change is a hoax. Giving that nut job a platform is a choice you make consciously. You and your producers are the problem. This is not news
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Every journalist at NBC News should be calling on Meet the Press to rescind Ron Johnson’s invitation to appear on the show tomorrow morning to spread the lie that Biden didn’t win the election
This is not controversial. He is an avowed conspiracy theorist who has now signed a statement saying Biden didn’t win the election. Take him off of your show. @richardhudock@JusticeGGreen what is your possible defense of this?
@richardhudock@JusticeGGreen@RJonesNews why is NBC News putting a conspiracy theorist who just signed a letter saying Biden didn’t win the election on Meet the Press tomorrow morning?
Meet the Press has booked a shameless conspiracy theorist, Senator Ron Johnson, for Sunday. Johnson says covid is fake and denied Biden won the election. He is MTP's most-booked Republican and has used the platform to spread lies more than any other senator. It is a true feat.
Johnson staged a conspiracy Senate panel of covid vaccine skeptics, anti-maskers, and fake drug promoters just weeks ago. He is avidly pro-covid in addition to spreading Hunter Biden conspiracies and saying Biden stole the election with "voter fraud" nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/…
Every mainstream news outlet, not just @MeetThePress, books conspiracy theorists because they believe Republicans deserve a platform to spread their misinformation. This is not journalism and @chucktodd does not care one wink about it
2 weeks ago Wolf Blitzer said Democrats and Republicans were equally to blame for holding up covid relief. He said "millions" need it, $700 is enough, and "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good"
Today Republicans alone are holding up $2000 payments. Any opinion, Wolf?
Journalists exist in an artificial world in which opinions like "health care is good" are forbidden because one party says health care is bad. But if both parties compromise, even if it's a shitty compromise, journalists are allowed to say the compromise was "good." Pretty neat
Just think about how weird this is. It’s OK to say covid relief is good. It’s OK to say $700 is good. But it’s not OK to say $2000 is good. Is it OK to say $701 is good? What about $1000? Is more money good because families need it, or not good because Republicans don’t want it?
Once again @MeetThePress is putting a Republican on its "Journalists Panel" with NO DEMOCRAT for balance
Rich Lowry wrote a disgusting pro-Trump column on Oct. 26. He'll be with two reporters on the panel tomorrow
This is the 5th time since August this has happened. @chucktodd?
This is a disgusting display of right-wing bias on the top-rated Sunday show @MeetThePress. Here are the previous "journalist panels" that @chucktodd stacked with Republicans to mislead viewers into thinking GOP talking points are objective analysis:
On Nov. 22 @chucktodd put Republican conspiracy theorist Kevin Cramer on his show to deny that Biden won the election. Cramer was allowed to spread this insane conspiracy theory at length and was never cut off despite lying brazenly *on a news show*
Steve Scalise signed the sedition letter to overturn the election. Today he was on @FoxNewsSunday to spread the lie that Trump won
Alex Azar refused to call Biden president-elect. Today he was on @FaceTheNation and wasn't challenged once about it
The news media is conservative
The degree to which journalists have granted permission to bad actors to spread this ludicrous conspiracy theory is equally disgusting and unsurprising
Neither Chris Wallace nor @margbrennan will ever face questions from media reporters on why they allow and encourage this
In a moment of sheer unawareness, @margbrennan asked Biden adviser Cedric Richmond how they can work with Republicans who don't acknowledge Biden won — minutes after she legitimized Alex Azar and gave him the top slot on her show following his refusal to acknowledge Biden won
For 32 days Trump and the Republican Party have tried to overturn the results of the election. It took the media about 8 days to say that, after sanitizing his bullshit into "sowing doubts" and "contesting the election" and "fighting back"
Even after years of covering Trump, the press always defaults into cleaning up what he says so that it sounds official and presidential rather than what it plainly is
Now that he's tweeted this you should have no reservations about saying the GOP is attempting a coup
The level-one reflex to this is to say “Trump is calling for the election to be overturned” when the actual story you should be writing is “The Republican Party is calling for the election to be overturned”