Oh, Chuck.
In today's opening of "Meet The Press," Chuck Todd introduced the show's theme: disinformation. "We'll look at the anatomy of a lie: how a story with just a kernel of truth can metastasize into a politically potent conspiracy theory." What Todd didn't say was, "in so doing, we will continue to elevate Bill Clinton's lie to the same category of treachery as Donald Trump's lies, thereby perpetuating the disinformation we claim to abhor." (Barbara Boxer had a thing or two to say about that with Joy Reid this morning...whose show is eminently more informative than Chuck Todd's.)
I mean, why WOULD he say that second part? It's not like his reputation has taken a beating for being an uneducated, lazy, anti-journalistic hack recently or anything.
That's right, kids, Todd again compared Bill Clinton's admittedly asinine statement, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is," to Rudy Giuliani's saying, "No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth." Todd claimed disinformation isn't new, and instead of going all the way back to, say, Joe McCarthy — which much more readily squares up with the kind of disinformation happening today — went back to Bill Clinton saying...wait for it..."It depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is." Twice.
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