In a contentious “Meet the Press” interview over the weekend, Sen. Ron Johnson refused to sit quietly when host Chuck Todd accused Republicans of engaging in conspiracy theories over allegations of election fraud during the presidential election.
In a mocking tone, Todd suggested Johnson and fellow Republicans are lying over claims of election fraud, which Todd insisted are unproven, and hence the GOP leaders are “arsonists” who started a political fire they now want to keep going to fool the public.
“Because you didn’t have the guts to tell the truth,” Todd told the Wisconsin senator, “that this election was fair.”
That naked attempt to mock and shame Republican lawmakers, however, didn’t go over well. Picking up on the theme of a political “fire,” Johnson reminded Todd that the Left openly announced its “coup” against President Trump in January 2017, when he entered the White House.
“This started,” Johnson continued, “when the mainstream media stopped — dropped — any pretense of being unbiased and actually chose sides during this election.”
The senator wasn’t done, either. He continued with the example of the media running from the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
“Now we find out after the election,” Johnson continued, “no, there is a fair amount of evidence to the point that we have a real FBI investigation –
“Senator, all right,” Todd interrupted. “I’ve had enough of hearing this.”
“No, listen, I’ve had enough of this, too,” the senator responded after a moment of cross-talk.
Scott Whitlock of Media Research Center tells One News Now that Johnson was making good points in the interview and most Americans know it.
“We’ve seen over and over again the journalists don’t like being called out on their bias,” Whitlock says, “despite the fact that 73 percent of Americans think media bias is a major problem.”
Regarding Todd’s attempt to shame Johnson over over questioning election results, Whitlock points out that Democrats claimed George W. Bush stole the election from Al Gore in 2000, and some Democrats contested the Electoral College vote just as some GOP lawmakers are expected to do this week.
None of that honest history was raised by the “Meet the Press” host, however, who went on to ask Johnson if he planned to hold hearings on the moon landing and to study if the 9-11 attack was an “inside job.”
The senator got in the last word, however, after Todd poked at him with most juvenile insults and attempted to end the interview. The media, the senator pointed out, pushed the “Russia collusion” hoax to hurt Trump despite a lack of credible evidence.
“You carried that water for years,” Johnson shot back. “You destroyed the credibility of the press.”
“There’s a reason the American people ultimately turned to Donald Trump,” Whitlock observes. “And that’s because for year after year, for decade after decade, they’ve been told fake news from the media. Or the major media simply won’t cover things that are demonstrably news.”
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Good old Chuck Todd, go to your safe space and clutch your Barbie Doll.
Todd and that ilk should be in full song this evening after the protests at the Capitol Bldg today. No peaceful candlelight vigil by BLM and Antifa this time.
I’d rather believe an ambulance chasing day time, used car salesman, than any of these media hacks.
I lost trust in the news media a long time ago. Our media has ceased being objective reporters of the news and have become propagandists for a number of left-wing causes.
Fox has joined them, and newsmax is slowly going that route too.
I watched NBC’s coverage of election night and its aftermath. I have noticed they include words such as baseless and unproven as an adjective for the President’s claims. Keep in mind that so far no court or journalist has given the president’s team a chance to present their claims. If the claims are baseless or unproven let the president’s team show what they have so we, the American people can see that.
I don’t recall ever having seen this tactic of editorializing in “news” reports used before by those who consider themselves to be professional media. What we are seeing is a clever effort to try to con the American people into thinking this whole effort was above board when it appears that it wasn’t.
I watched Chuck during this video clip. His demeanor looks like that of someone who is guilty. This clip has caused me to have less confidence in Chuck Todd and has strengthened my intuition that the election probably was rigged.
I’m at church when Meet the Press airs. Based on this clip it looks like I haven’t missed anything of value.
IF thanos was real, and so too was the infinity gauntlet, i’d HELP HIM Complete it, just so i could personally SNAP OUT OF existence, every damn one of those feckless so-called reporters……
“You carried that water for years,” Johnson shot back. “You destroyed the credibility of the press.”
It’s beyond not having credibility, they are conspirators in the take down of a sitting president.
It made me sick, when i saw those on Fox calling, those protesters who stormed the capital building, “ENGAGED IN A COUP ATTEMPT”..
WHEN that’s what the entire bloody establishment has been doing to Trump, SINCE BEFORE HE got inaugurated!
PsatriotUSA is right on. The “Press” has had absolutely no credibility since the campaign for the 2008 election, and it probably had its beginnings well before that. Josef Geobbels would be proud of them.
Maybe they’re all DISIPLES of gobbles.
Chuck has already been punished, he’s Chuck. Imagine spending your life betraying your country and lying to your fellow citizens every day just out of greed for money. It must take a toll. You can see he is starting to look like he is sick.