This week’s Liberal Media Scream features Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, this time quoting a letter to the editor claiming that supporters of President Trump “believe in fairy tales.”
On Sunday, he highlighted a “fascinating” letter to a newspaper, which suggested that people support Trump “because people have been trained, from childhood, to believe in fairy tales” and “the more fairy tales and lies he tells, the better they feel.”
Still reading, Todd said, “Show me a person who believes in Noah’s ark, and I will show you a Trump voter.”
Todd proceeded to make clear the letter matches the view of his staff, as he relayed how something “my executive producer likes to say, is ‘Hey, voters want to be lied to, sometimes. They don’t, they don’t always love being told hard truths.’”
Todd devoted the Dec. 29 edition of his show to “Alternative Facts: Inside the Weaponization of Disinformation.”
Todd read the letter during a segment with guests Marty Baron and Dean Baquet, the top editors of the Washington Post and New York Times, respectively:
“I want to read you guys a letter to the editor that we found in the Lexington Herald-Leader. It was a fascinating attempt at trying to explain why some people support President Trump. Here’s what he says. ‘Why do good people support Trump? It’s because people have been trained, from childhood, to believe in fairy tales. This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good. The more fairy tales and lies he tells, the better they feel. Show me a person who believes in Noah’s Ark, and I will show you a Trump voter.’ Look, this gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, is ‘Hey, voters want to be lied to, sometimes. They don’t, they don’t always love being told hard truths.’”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “That Todd felt so comfortable about showing such disdain for the ‘deplorables’ who support Trump, with a twist of anti-Christian bigotry thrown in, shows just how little respect those in the press corps have for those with a differing political view. Todd would never deride any ‘fairy tales’ believed by liberal voters and it’s hard to imagine him daring to make such a flippant remark about the religious beliefs of any religion other than Christianity.”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
