Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf of America” in their style guide.
But despite noting that most outlets where not overtly coming to the AP’s aid, the duo held particular contempt for Fox News.
Near the top of their conversation, Todd equated what President Trump was doing to “testing the electric fence” like the Velociraptors in the original Jurassic Park movie. He went on to lament that the media wasn’t giving Trump a proper jolt, calling it a “moment of collective weakness”:
Addressing what he seemed to…
