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Feb 20 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Today @chucktodd put two Republicans — Peggy Noonan and Bush/Trump ambassador Bill Taylor — on his “panel of journalists” while refusing to invite any Democrats

The other panelists were 3 journalists from the Washington Post, PBS, and NBC

@MeetThePress is a right-wing program
It’s pretty fucking incredible that this happens all the time and nobody says a goddamn word
Isn’t there a subset of journalists who cover the media and could write about this? What am I missing here
This is just Fox News with slightly better music
I thought that if something happens three times then it’s a trend and journalists have to write about it so I’m not sure how many examples you need of this to convince yourself it’s a real problem especially as this party *tries to end elections*
He’s even openly admitted he considers Republicans to be as credible journalists! The quote is right here! Somebody write 200 words on this!
This literally happens all the fucking time
“We don’t invite Democrats on our panel of journalists because we don’t want Republicans who we invite on our panel of journalists to be challenged” is the official @NBCNews position unless someone wants to set the record straight here?
Some of them are actual GOP spokesmen! Not even the Republicans that NBC can label as “authors” or “editors” to try to hide the fact that they’re right-wingers. This guy is just a Republican operative! Sitting at the journalists table! Talking about stuff!

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