Leaked Emails Indicate Democrats Cozy With NBC News’ Chuck Todd
NBC News political correspondent and Meet The Press host Chuck Todd has come under fire for emails he reportedly received from the Democratic National Committee’s Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Wikileaks released the alleged hacked email on Friday.
In it, Schultz writes Todd to discuss a news story by Morning Joe’s Mika Brezinski whereby Brezinski called on Schultz to resign over perceived unfair treatment of Bernie Sanders by Schultz and the DNC.
Schultz titled her email to Todd in the subject line which read, “Chuck, this must stop.”
The head of the DNC voicing outrage over an unflattering news story, and calling Todd by his first name was all critics needed to connect their own dots and come to the conclusion the NBC anchorman was in bed with the DNC and Hillary Clinton. And they took their concerns over the relationship to social media.
Worse yet, the email seems to suggest the DNC employed pressure on the press to censor future news stories which would target the DNC, and the chairwoman specifically.
“Chuck. See below. I would like to discuss this with you today. Can you reach out to Luis (Miranda) to schedule a call? Thanks,” Wasserman wrote Todd on May 18.
And in a more demanding tone, Schultz wrote Luis regarding the news story by Brezinski, “This is the LAST straw. […] This is outrageous. She needs to apologize.”
Todd responded to the criticism, reportedly telling Mediate, “I think it’s clear what it was. Someone complaining about coverage…something that happens daily from every campaign we interact with.”
And in a tweet, Todd responded…
@rooshv lots of misleading stuff on Twitter but this takes the cake. Total distortion. I receive coverage complaints daily from all over
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) July 22, 2016
Miranda then passed along his boss’ concerns to Todd and requested the information be sent to the Morning Joe staff. Miranda wrote that Wasserman “talked in very positive terms about both of our candidates,” adding, “No one wrote or rewrote any rules to help or hurt any specific candidate, these are the Party rules.”
At issue was the use of superdelegates pledged to Clinton before the Democratic primaries began. (For more from the author of “Leaked Emails Indicate Democrats Cozy With NBC News’ Chuck Todd” please click HERE)
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