November 24, 2014

"Chuck Todd's out there... saying 'Obama nourishes me.' What are you doing? Breast-feeding?"

"What in the world, Obama nourishes him?  Yes, F. Chuck Todd says Obama nourishes him.  Whatever this relationship is, it's deeper than ideological."

Said Rush Limbaugh today, predicting that the media will work to build Obama's legacy: "It's gonna be fabricated, made up, and the media is going to do everything they can to write it, defend it, protect it, and prolong it.  If that means destroying the next Republican president, they'll do it without batting an eye... Even if it's a new Democrat president, even if the new president's a Democrat and tries to unravel some of Obama, I guarantee you, the loyalty here is to Obama, not so much the Democrat Party, although that loyalty is indisputable as well."

40 comments:

garage mahal said...

Does anyone think Limbaugh is capable of coming up with a take different than this?

Ann Althouse said...

Oh, come on. "Obama nourishes me" is hilarious, totally deserving of mockery.

RecChief said...

speaking of protecting Obama, the WaPo did a "fact check" on a mildly critical (but essentially correct) skit.

No shit, less than 12 hours after it aired, here comes the Washington Post, fact checking a comedy skit. To my knowledge, it's only the 2nd SNL skit in 6 years that even comes close to criticism of this President.

How many times did the WaPo fact check Tina Fey's portrayal of Palin? Will Ferrell's of GWB?

Ann Althouse said...

"speaking of protecting Obama, the WaPo did a "fact check" on a mildly critical (but essentially correct) skit."

Yeah, that played a big part in Rush's opening monologue today.

garage mahal said...

Oh, come on. "Obama nourishes me" is hilarious, totally deserving of mockery.

Chuck Todd is a tool, but he didn't say "Obama nourishes me".

Original Mike said...

"nourishes me", "thrill down my leg".

Don't want to think about it.

Original Mike said...

"Said Rush Limbaugh today, predicting that the media will work to build Obama's legacy: "It's gonna be fabricated, made up, and the media is going to do everything they can to write it, defend it, protect it, and prolong it."

Peggy Noonan's piece this week claimed that Obama was confident of his legacy because "liberals write the history." She doubted that would be enough.

Diogenes of Sinope said...

In my mind's eye I don't imagine Todd sucking Obama's breast.

Krumhorn said...

Chuck Todd is a tool, but he didn't say "Obama nourishes me".


KING: Do you like him?

TODD: Oh, he's a very likable guy. Yes.

KING: I agree.

TODD: He's very friendly. I mean, he's very easy to talk to – You do – you sit there and have these off-the-record sessions with him. You've had them. And – They're just very nourishing conversations.

Seems to me, that's what he said. There's no other way to read it.

- Krumhorn

garage mahal said...

Checking Twitter and google, every right wing website quotes Todd saying "Obama nourishes me".

It's official. The right has finally embraced postmodernism.

WillowViney said...

Their loyalty is to the Cause. They will support him until he becomes a liability. You'll know when the backlash is in full swing when you start seeing epithets like "the Bush-Obama era" being tossed around regularly.

Mark O said...

Chupa pico.

Big Mike said...

Oh, come on. "Obama nourishes me" is hilarious, totally deserving of mockery.

Amen to that, madam Professor.

dbp said...

"If that means destroying the next Republican president, they'll do it without batting an eye".

In fairness, they would do that anyway--to the extent they can. There is something to this though: I was at a wedding back around the time Obama got elected and everyone there was a hard-core Democrat. One of them sad something very revealing about the President-elect: "He has to succeed."

The comment had been into delicate nudges in the direction that the guy had never really accomplished or run or lead anything up to this point. The tone of the response and conversation is that, 'We took a huge risk on this guy and it will be a disaster for the party and for race relations if he fails'. What is happening now is to paint his very real failed presidency as something other than a failure.

Curious George said...

Uh, that ain't Obama's breast that he's sucking.

Curious George said...

garage mahal said...
Checking Twitter and google, every right wing website quotes Todd saying "Obama nourishes me".

It's official. The right has finally embraced postmodernism.

Every one? You checked them all in 12 minutes?

I just went to NRO...didn't see it.

Michael K said...

"you sit there and have these off-the-record sessions with him. You've had them. And – They're just very nourishing conversations. "

Garage translation

" The right has finally embraced postmodernism."

No, just the awful truth, to quote an old movie title.

Steven Wilson said...

I voted for Carter in 1980 because I was convinced by people who should know that all manner of bad things up to and including the end of the world would occur if we elected Reagan. Then we elected Reagan and I started thinking these people are biased because they are liberal.

Then when Republican presidents did things to please or to compromise with Democrats, such as raising taxes under Bush 1, the press still wasn't happy. By now I had been paying close attention and I realized how extensive and complete the bias was. Aha, I said to myself as I awakened further, "They aren't liberal, they are just democrats. They are purely partisan and in some cases even cheerleaders."

Recently I reread Robert Penn Warren's novel All the Kings Men and then reviewed the movie. The experience seems applicable here. Now we have to the point where some of these people aren't even democrats, they are hero worshipers. I don't think it's a stretch to picture Chuck Todd holding a torch and chanting "Willie, Willie, Willie!!!!"

traditionalguy said...

We folks who never swore personal loyalty oaths in our hearts to the Universal Ruler Obama cannot understand the withdrawal reactions these true believers suffer now that the god-man turned out to be a total potemkin village.

Drago said...

The "Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house" and Media Matters crowd (which exists to take quotes out of context for political purposes) is very very very very concerned about quotes being "accurate".

LOL

Dan Hossley said...

Breast-feeding? I'd bet that Chuck Todd is sucking on something, not sure it is Obama's breast though.

rhhardin said...

Nourish comes from nutrix, one who gives suck, etymologically.

Obama fits that.

garage mahal said...

"No, just the awful truth, to quote an old movie title."

Like "Obama nourishes me". Or Halbig. Or death panels.

A 6 can be a 9 depending how you look at it.

jr565 said...

Obama nourishes Chuck Todd the way the guy or gal at the head of the human centipede nourishes those at the tail end.

pm317 said...

Even if it's a new Democrat president,

That is what I have been saying -- even if it is Hillary, they will make her look worse next to Obama.. in fact, it has already started. Hillary is an existential threat to Obama's legacy and they don't want her to succeed as a candidate and then certainly not as president.

I'm Full of Soup said...

Why does Todd allow all those off the record conversations? Could he share at least one nugget that tells us how Obama is so darn interesting?

Chef Mojo said...

It's gonna be fabricated, made up, and the media is going to do everything they can to write it, defend it, protect it, and prolong it.

Getting back to what Rush said, this is dead on. They did it with JFK, but given the martyrdom aspect, that was easy and the American people were sympathetic to the whole Saint John thing. Or they felt guilty enough to stay quiet and just let the whole thing roll over them. In the end, a mediocre president swung high in the firmament of American history.

They'll try to do it with Obama, but the job will be much more difficult.

Drago said...

AJ Lynch said...
Why does Todd allow all those off the record conversations?

Because Chuck Todd is a reliably left wing "journalist" (Democrat with a byline) and his wife is a big time democrat/left-wing activist politico.

Drago said...

You'll have to forgive garage.

When their earth-bound messiahs ("he's sort of a God") fall to earth, it's tough for the lefties to hold it together.

But only "sort of a God".

Literally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37B_nOdRTAA

ddh said...

An Obama fanboy who says "Obama nourishes me" is announcing his religious affiliation. It's a cult.

Joe Schmoe said...

No shit, less than 12 hours after it aired, here comes the Washington Post, fact checking a comedy skit.

That's because they know that all of Obama's fans, at least the ones that are left, get their 'news' from watching Jon Stewart. These same folks apparently can't be trusted to watch a comedy skit on another network without thinking it's factual.

Now how these dolts are supposed to stumble across the WaPo article is beyond me. Maybe they're hoping Stewart will feature it on his show soon.

Drago said...

Joe Schmoe said...
No shit, less than 12 hours after it aired, here comes the Washington Post, fact checking a comedy skit

It's not the first time a comedy skit was "fact checked" to protect our li'l community organizer in chief and his adoring minions.

The left is chock full of the most delicate little flowers you ever saw and their delicate sensibilities must be validated continuously lest they become disoriented.

Quick, somebody gin up a social "science" "study" which "proves" that liberals are just so much better than everyone else!! Stat!! I'll bet we can get a gov't grant to do it too!!

donald said...

Chuck Todd is a gaping vagina, which he has in common with Garage Mahal.

Michael K said...

"Like "Obama nourishes me". Or Halbig. Or death panels.

A 6 can be a 9 depending how you look at it."

Yes, but only if you are upside down.

averagejoe said...

Cuck Tard is vying hard to be moderator of a presidential debate. He's saying all the right things, nodding and swallowing when democrat party members vomit forth the propaganda while challenging republicans with progressive talking points. Cuck has his hand raised high and he's waving it and jumping out of his seat saying, "Pick me! Pick me!"

Skeptical Voter said...

Knee pad time for little Chucky.

tim maguire said...

I don't pretend to know liberal media better than Rush, but I doubt they will spend much time rehabilitating Obama. Once he's gone, he's gone and they will be on to the next shiny bauble.

If the quotes here are accurate, then I have to side with garage mahal. There is a big difference between "Obama nourishes me" and "the conversations are nourishing."

The second phrase seems like an embarrassing affectation, like using "delicious" to describe anything that is not literally food. No self-respecting man should use the term in this way. It's not so much about what Obama does for Todd as Todd's icky effeminate word choice.

George M. Spencer said...

Meanwhile, an Iranian thug is screaming at our Secretary of State (who has told the Russians to ignore what our president says) and a Congressional aide talks back to our President on the phone (reported by Peggy Noonan in her blog).

Brando said...

Obama has his cheerleaders and suckups in the media (Krugman's embarassing gushing about how much Obama's "accomplished" being a prime example) but I don't get the sense that even the left-leaning media is going to the mat for him. The Washington Post, for example, has been fairly critical, and CNN at times has taken their shots.

The problem is there's just not a lot that you can work with if you're trying to make this presidency seem like a success. The foreign policy is a nullity (expecially for those on the left--the extrajudicial drone killings, expansions of wars and continuation of torture are not easy to paper over), Obamacare at the very least is not a "success" in that much of it still hasn't been implemented, and his stimulus plan has had no lasting effect. The best the Left can say for this guy is "he would have done more, if not for that dastardly GOP!" which still makes him look impotent.

He'll probably look better in about ten years only because every president looks better when they're no longer in the news and some new guy is screwing things up. Clinton and Bush are a lot more popular than they were while president, and I'm sure Obama will be when President Chelsea accidentally nukes Miami.

richard mcenroe said...

Obama "nourishes" Chuck Todd?

I have a, um, lower impression of Chuck's dietary habits.