This happened yesterday but I wanted to make sure we covered it. It’s Chuck Todd bringing up a ‘fascinating attempt’ at explaining why Trump supporters like Trump so much.
Watch:
Chuck Todd plucks a Letter to the Editor to make the point that voters want to be lied to…especially numbskulls who believe fairy tales like Noah's Ark. If it's Sunday, it's contempt for religious people. pic.twitter.com/l022cz8p9l
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) December 29, 2019
Here’s more from Fox News:
On Sunday’s installment of “Meet the Press,” Todd spent much of the show focused on the spread of “misinformation” in the media landscape. But, during a panel discussion, he pointed to a letter to the editor of the Lexington Herald Leader from last January, something Todd thought was a “fascinating attempt” to explain why so many Americans support President Trump.
The letter read, “[W]hy do people support Trump? It’s because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales… This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good… The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feel… Show me a person who believes in Noah’s ark and I will show you a Trump voter.”
“This gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, ‘Hey, voters want to be lied to sometimes.’ They don’t always love being told hard truths,” Todd told New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet.
“I’m not quite sure I buy that,” Baquet immediately responded. “I’m not convinced that people want to be lied to. I think people want to be comforted, and I think bad politicians sometimes say comforting things to them.”
Wow, talk about condescending. Chuck Todd might as well just say what Obama said, that we cling to our guns and religion when we get bitter. I bet he thought that was a ‘fascinating’ explanation too.
What a schmuck!