Up next
Author
Tags

As we’ve often noted here at RedState, NBC News “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd is about as partisan an actor in the mainstream media as it gets.

Though he tries to put on a good front when he wants people to believe he and his colleagues on the news side at MSNBC and NBC News are “objective,” in reality Todd is one of the most notorious when it comes to acting as an apologist/cheerleader for Democrats and their pet causes.

One of the left’s pet causes, of course, is bashing Fox News, which naturally Todd in his role on a rival network as host of the longest-running show on television is all too eager to do when the opportunity presents itself.

Sunday was no exception, as we saw when in the middle of an interview on a completely different topic (chiefly, what his future political aspirations were), New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu was asked by Todd what he thought Fox News needed to do in order to “regain some trust” after a court filing from Dominion Voting Systems in February that included texts and emails alleged that some Fox News hosts and anchors knew what they were saying on air about alleged election fraud in the 2020 presidential election was false.

“What do you think Rupert Murdoch and Fox News need to do to regain some trust after what we’ve learned about this?” Todd asked. “And are you at all concerned you can have an honest conversation with Fox viewers?”

Sununu’s answer was more than Todd bargained for. While he predictably lumped Fox News in with other news networks, Sununu clapped back at the idea that other news outlets that had skeletons in their own closests as it related to deliberately skewed and partisan coverage (like CNN and MSNBC) could with a straight face indignantly accuse Fox News of doing the same:

Sununu: “Oh, well, I don’t think it’s just Fox. I mean, I’ll put them in there, but all of media, all of television media, and everyone has to own a little bit of the lack of trust, the lack of accountability. It’s okay to get something wrong in the news, but you’ve got to come back and own it. And whether it’s Fox, or CNN, or MSBNC, or, you know, whatever, everyone just has to own it. As a governor, I might try four or five things, and if one or two don’t work I’ll say, ‘Hey, that didn’t work.’”

Todd: “What about intentionally lying to viewers? … that to me seemed to cross a line. You can make a mistake, but that wasn’t a mistake.”

READ RELATED: 'Satanic' Statue Celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Abortion Placed Atop NYC Courthouse

Sununu: “So explain to me – look, I’m not defending anybody because I think you’re all in the same basket, I really do. But I could go to CNN when they’re going to ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story, we could talk about the virus truly coming out of the lab in Wuhan, we could talk about a lot of different things. If you’re not owning that you misrepresented the story, whether it was intentional or not, everybody does it, and that’s the problem. America is losing faith in media, and you guys have a huge opportunity to regain that.”

Watch their exchange below:

I haven’t had a chance to pore over all the texts and emails at the center of the claims about Fox News other news outlets are making, but Sununu is absolutely right here on other outlets needing to own up to it when they’ve misrepresented (deliberately or not) the facts about a story. The best part was that he said it to one of the worst offenders in the media when it comes to taking a partisan narrative and pushing it as factual even when you know the point is debatable.

Any day Chuck Todd’s Democratic spin machine can be turned on its ear is a good day, and Sunday was definitely one of those days.

Flashback: Chuck Todd Clutches Pearls After GOP Senator Calls out Media’s One-Sided Hunter Biden Coverage

Trending on RedState Video

Source: