Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf of America” in their style guide.
But despite noting that most outlets where not overtly coming to the AP’s aid, the duo held particular contempt for Fox News.
Near the top of their conversation, Todd equated what President Trump was doing to “testing the electric fence” like the Velociraptors in the original Jurassic Park movie. He went on to lament that the media wasn’t giving Trump a proper jolt, calling it a “moment of collective weakness”:
It's been a, I think it's an interesting challenge, if you will, that the press corps is having at this moment of collective weakness. Let's not pretend it's not, right? This is a moment of collective weakness. Right now this is sort of at least the press corps’ ability to perhaps persuade the public of its righteousness, if you will.
Addressing what he seemed to think was the silliness of the fight, Todd, a Florida native, argued that no one in Florida says anything further that just “gulf.” “I have lived in and out of Florida, my, you know, my whole life. Um, never does anybody say Gulf of Mexico side, Atlantic Ocean side. It is Gulf side, Atlantic side,” he explained.
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