The Idiotic Start To Chuck Todd's Stint As NBC's Chief White House Correspondent

[NYCGirl]

from Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-nickolas/the-idiotic-start-to-chuc_b_160080.html

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is holding his very first White House press briefing as I write this. In just the past two days, President Obama has been inaugurated, signed significant executive orders (and here) on Guantanamo Bay, interrogation techniques, ethics reform, banning of all federal lobbying by his former staff while he is president, transparency on presidential records, and spoke to Middle East leaders.

So, what was the third question of the press conference, asked by new NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd?

Well, Todd wanted to know whether Obama would be re-signing yesterday's executive orders given that he retook his oath of office last night, and that resulted in about a five minute back-and-forth about the retaking of the oath idiocy.

Come on, Chuck. What a tone-deaf way to start your White House stint. Just awful and hopefully not a sign of things to come.

I suppose you can reshuffle the networks' White House correspondents, but they will still ask the inane and irrelevant questions when there are some major developments that do, in fact, warrant serious scrutiny and questions.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Sounds tabloidish...

who gives a shit outside right wing blogosphere?

[WI_DEM]

2. Todd's a good political analyst but sucks as a reporter. He is out of his element on the WH beat.

[MadBadger]

4. Hes a good numbers man...and thats it.

[LibDemAlways]

3. Todd is an ass who, no doubt ,votes "R." He has a

big burr up his butt over Obama's having been elected. This kind of nonsense just makes him look ridiculous. Hope Olbermann calls him on it.

[HEyHEY]

5. Do you realize that he's asking the questions that Obama is going to be hounded by?

I thought to myself yesterday, "Does this mean those orders are null?"

Todd asked what I wanted to know.

[NYCGirl]

7. Except that NUMEROUS newspeople have said that Obama was President at noon

on Tuesday WITH OR WITHOUT the oath.

[HEyHEY]

10. So? Who says they're correct.

[NYCGirl]

11. The Constitution. NT

[HEyHEY]

12. Oh, you mean that thing people spend millions on per year to figure out in court cases?

[LibDemAlways]

13. When Kennedy was assassinated LBJ automatically

became President. He did take the oath shortly thereafter, but the country was never without a President. I have to assume same goes for the Obama. Under the Constitution he became President at noon. The oath, though required for him to "execute" the duties of the office, is not a prerequisite to him having become President at noon.

[Phx_Dem]

16. Brian Williams said the same thing in last night's NBC Nightly News broadcast.

[LisaM]

6. He's a smart ass who wants it all to be about him

This is no surprise.

[bdamomma]

8. Chuck Todd and David Gregory two jerks.

[Thrill]

9. I never understood, why the hell they would choose that idiot

for such an important job?

[Cha]

14. The presswhiners need to put away

childish things and join the adults for smart questions and answers.

[sfpcjock]

15. K he's no Tim Russert

He's young, give him a chance to do the job for GE.

[Phx_Dem]

17. Do you know how Gibbs responded?