Letters to the Editor
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Chuck Todd
"I don't necessarily blame Todd -- he might have been describing rather than defending the media's favorable treatment of McCain -- but the point is the same."
I'm not defending Todd, but I think it important to make this point clear. Todd is billed as MSNBC's "political director", and is essentially brought on to analyze the story itself and the metaverse of media. The fact that he isn't very critical of the media is certainly something you can peg him on; he actually, as Glenn rightly pointed out, disseminates active media disinformation by his lack of criticism. But he is not a journalist, and I think that's an important point, and his analysis was correct if uncritical. McCain does have enough bullshit in the bank with journalists to get away with this kind of thing.