Chuck Todd Goes Full Ministry of Truth in Rant on | Political News

A subject of dialog that has come up in Media World more typically than not in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s reelection in November 2024 has been the extent of their function in the cover-up of then-President Joe Biden’s decline.

As RedState readers could recall, in the aftermath of the notorious June 2024 presidential debate, Chuck Todd – who was NBC News’ chief political analyst on the time – more or much less publicly acknowledged that Republicans had been proper about Biden’s health all alongside.

“At the end of the day, Joe Biden looks like the caricature that conservative media has been painting. And there were no clips tonight, right, this was – you saw it before your eyes,” a visibly surprised Todd proclaimed instantly after the controversy.

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Except that a “caricature” is an exaggeration, and there was no exaggerating the truth that questions had been raised about Biden’s mental acuity as early because the 2019-2020 Democrat presidential main – by different Democrats and media figures. There was additionally no exaggerating the truth that Biden had no business operating for a second time period.

Since Trump’s inauguration, dialogue over what the media knew and when has intensified, with a minimum of three books associated to this matter both already out or popping out later this yr – written by different journalists. 

For his half, Todd made an extremely damning admission in early April about how there was a actual worry in the MSM during the Biden years, telling discuss show host Piers Morgan that “The only thing I can chalk it up to is this, whatever you want to call it, this fear that some members of the media had sometimes that they would be perceived as helping Trump if they somehow diminished Biden.”

Fast ahead three weeks, and it seems Todd is singing a fully completely different tune, telling ex-CNN editor at massive Chris Cillizza on Monday in a wild rant in the context of Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s WHCA dinner speech that touched on the problem that the cover-up of Biden’s decline was not the media’s fault however Democrats’ fault:

This will not be a media failure. This was a failure of the Democratic Party. And the advantage signaling that some people have accomplished to attempt to say that the media missed this story. They didn’t miss this story. I simply refuse to just accept this silly premise! Because it’s a right-wing manufactured right-wing premise in order to stain the media.

The media’s bought loads of issues to assault them for. And there are MSNBC and CNN and pundits that completely carried water for Joe Biden. But they’re not journalists. They’re former strategists that carried water for Joe Biden!

The journalist David Ignatius wrote a very high-profile column in October of ’23 saying, “Is he really running again, this doesn’t seem like a good idea.”

People like me had been selling Dean Phillips’ marketing campaign as a result of he was operating a marketing campaign that made a lot of sense.

[…] This is an attempt by some to advantage signal. And it’s the horrible kind of pitting completely different information organizations in opposition to one another, when in the end, the people at fault are: Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, each elected member of Congress!

Watch:

.@chucktodd went OFF on the “virtue signaling” of reporters who play into the Trump narrative of a cover-up of Biden’s health by the media pic.twitter.com/VUCYsz4K1r

— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) April 28, 2025

So, three weeks in the past, Todd was admitting the media’s reluctance to cowl Biden’s decline as a result of they had been anxious it will help Trump, and but now he is saying it wasn’t the media’s fault that there wasn’t more protection of it? How does that even make sense? This is Ministry of Truth-level stuff, right here.

Further, in making an attempt to distinguish between “journalists” who report information tales and “strategists/pundits” who present commentary on them, Todd extensively misses the mark. The instance he gave of a “journalist” who did write about Biden’s decline was the Washington Post’s David Ignatius. What he unnoticed, nevertheless, is that Ignatius is a columnist. Yes, he was as soon as a straight-news reporter, however when a supposedly unbiased reporter transitions to a columnist function, it is as a result of they wish to take positions on the problems that, as a information reporter, you are not speculated to (although they typically do).

Also, even when Ignatius was a straight-news reporter on the time he wrote that piece, so what? We had been three years into Biden’s time period at that time, effectively after it had grow to be apparent that he should not have run in 2020, not to mention again 4 years later.

Note one thing else, too, from Todd’s rant: That he overtly confessed to selling Dean Phillips’ presidential marketing campaign whereas he (Todd) was nonetheless billing himself as an unbiased reporter. He in all probability would not notice he let that slip out, however yeah, good going there, Chuck, in confirming our suspicions.

Lastly, what’s most telling about Todd’s rant is what he unnoticed: The function he performed in the cover-up. Let’s flash back to about two weeks after the June 2024 debate and how Todd blurted out that a senior cupboard secretary from two years in the past had a dialog with him about Biden’s decline:

“I’m not gonna out the cabinet secretary. But I had a cabinet secretary two years ago, okay- two years ago, out of the blue asked me, ‘You really think he’s gonna– he can’t run again like this?’ And I said ‘Well, you have more interaction with him than I do,’ and they said, ‘I don’t have a lot of interaction with him.’ This is a pretty senior cabinet secretary. So, and this was two years ago. This is one of those, you know, it’s the classic open secret, nonversation, right? It’s the story everybody knows and everybody was afraid to talk about.”

“It’s the story everybody knows and everybody was afraid to talk about”? That fairly says all of it, I believe – not about Democrats, from whom you’d count on a cover-up like this, however in regards to the media on the entire, from whom we have realized to count on cover-ups of Democrats however who we ideally ought to be capable of rely on for goal information protection.

No, the “right-wing” did not “stain the media” right here, Chuck. Y’all did all of it to yourselves. Now it is time for y’all to own it.

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