***To read the full column, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters***
Apparently, a weekly show on NBC and a nightly show on MSNBC weren't large enough platforms for Chuck Todd to complain about troublesome conservatives, so he's written an article for the liberal magazine The Atlantic titled “It’s Time for the Press to Stop Complaining – And to Start Fighting Back.”
Under the headline, it added “A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News’s Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of news outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work.”
This article doesn’t deserve a rebuttal. It deserves a laugh track. It’s like writing an article claiming there’s been a 50-year campaign to vilify cigarettes unfairly as cancerous.
Conservatives have exposed the so-called objective press as almost universally liberal, and Chuck Todd knows it. Hundreds of studies and tens of thousands of anecdotes don't lie. This entire article only underlines this point (and undermines his).
If you want to deny you’re liberal, you might want to avoid writing an article decrying Fox News for ruining America in The Atlantic magazine, which endorsed Hillary Clinton for president because Donald Trump was a “true national emergency or an existential threat to the Republic.”
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