The Washington Post reports today (via Politico) that NBC political director Chuck Todd is troubled because the Clinton team keeps accusing MSNBC of being biased towards Obama.
While the Obama camp praises Todd, relations have been more strained with top Clinton strategists, who view MSNBC as a blatantly pro-Obama network and have complained about remarks by Matthews and correspondent David Shuster, among others. Clinton aides say Todd is a straight shooter but question his ability to rein in the bigger guns at the network. Todd has told colleagues he is frustrated by the complaints and the perception that MSNBC is biased.
"That's the hardest part of this job," Todd says of fencing with the campaigns. "It's nothing but negative reinforcement: 'You guys are so in the tank for X,' or 'Why are you showing that negative ad 25 times?'"
Well, duh.
Why would this trouble you, Chuck? Do you honestly believe that the Clinton people are telling you what they honestly believe? These people don't live in the same dimension as you and I. They spin and lie relentlessly. Of course they're going to say that MSNBC is biased. They've been claiming that the entire media has been unfair to them from the beginning. Which is kind of funny since everyone in the media had been saying for a full year that Obama had no chance in hell (that in fact he had even less of a chance than Edwards), and that Hillary was clearly going to be the nominee. So, now, even if MSNBC and the media is unfairly biased towards Obama (a point I'm not conceding), how does 4 months of the media saying that Hillary is doomed compare to 12 months of the media saying Obama is doomed?
The Clintons will say anything and do anything to win, Chuck. And you know that. You can no more be troubled by a Clinton lie as you could by the sun rising in the morning. Both are inevitable, and there's nothing you can do to stop them.
