{"id":185671,"date":"2014-09-09T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/09\/chuck-todd-is-toast\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:47:00","slug":"chuck-todd-is-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/09\/chuck-todd-is-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Todd is Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"197\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/8x1Po7U4\" width=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On <i>Meet the Press<\/i> yesterday, newly minted host Chuck Todd interviewed Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/09\/letterman-needles-chuck-todd-new-show\">did not go well<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As he says, you&#8217;ve got to be on it, paying attention to every word. Watch him nail Chuck for missing four separate mentions of Syria before telling the President he hasn&#8217;t heard him mention Syria.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chuck Todd has just sounded the death knell of his gig as a host.<\/p>\n<p>I give him 6 months. <\/p>\n<p>Hostility and criticism is one thing, but I do not think that NBC News can deal with his being a punch line.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not gonna end when Letterman retires, because Stephen Colbert is replacing him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of like Joe Biden said, &#8220;There&#8217;s only three things he mentions in a sentence &#8212; a noun, a verb, and 9\/11,&#8221; of Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Meet the Press yesterday, newly minted host Chuck Todd interviewed Barack Obama. It did not go well: As he says, you&#8217;ve got to be on it, paying attention to every word. Watch him nail Chuck for missing four separate mentions of Syria before telling the President he hasn&#8217;t heard him mention Syria. Chuck Todd &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1064,982,1027,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-media","category-stupid","category-video","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}