NBC’s Chuck Todd gets BLASTED for accusing Republican of having incentive to spread misinformation

by The Right Scoop

It’s the height of hilarity when an NBC host actually accuses Republicans of having an incentive to spread misinformation, which is exactly what Chuck Todd did in an interview with Rolling Stone:

FOX NEWS – Todd spoke with Rolling Stone for an interview that was originally published last week but Axios reported an excerpt on Thursday that put the piece back in the news. The “Meet the Press” moderator was asked about a recent interview with Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who was accused by Rolling Stone’s Peter Wade of using “Russian talking points to defend Trump.” Wade then asked why Republicans are willing to go on the NBC News political show and spread disinformation.

“The fact is, and by the way, this isn’t going to be easy to show, but I actually think when we outline this it will, the right has an incentive structure to utter the misinformation,” Todd said.

“Look, I’ll just be honest, when I had the third senator [to spread Russian disinformation], Sen. Ted Cruz, come on my show and do this — who I did not expect to do this — I started to think, he wants the confrontation. He wants to use this for some sort of appeasement of the right,” Todd continued. “I didn’t know what else to think. I was stunned because he’s a Russia hawk.”

Todd then said he was “genuinely shocked” by Cruz, who he said specifically asked to appear on the show.

“So I do think one of the things that I want to explore on this is the incentive structure. One of the things we don’t fully appreciate in mainstream media on these attacks is that it’s become fun to attack the press, if that makes sense, on the right. It doesn’t matter if we’re right or wrong, attack them anyway,” Todd said. “People that are the loudest chanters of fake news and accusatory of us are the ones who, under a lie detector, would probably take our word over any word they’ve heard from the other side on whether something was poisonous or not.”

Regarding his comments about his interview with Ted Cruz, Andy McCarthy wrote an article last month explaining why there’s significant evidence that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. It’s not some bogus conspiracy theory as Todd and his leftist minions want to pretend.

Regarding the other, well let’s just say his comments didn’t go over well at all on the Right:


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