MSNBC host Chuck Todd finds himself in very hot water this morning after he compared supporters of Bernie Sanders to Nazi “brownshirts” during the Monday edition of “Meet the Press Daily,” Newsweek reports:
“Hosting a panel discussion on MSNBC yesterday, Todd said: ‘I want to bring up something that Jonathan Last put in the Bulwark today, and it was about how—and Ruth we’ve all been on the receiving end of the Bernie online brigade.
“Here’s what he says: ‘No other candidate has anything like this sort of digital brownshirt brigade. I mean, except for Donald Trump. The question no one is asking is this: What if you can’t win the presidency without an online mob?'”
Here is a higher quality and more complete video of @chucktodd comparing supporters of the Jewish frontrunner to Nazispic.twitter.com/IDg1NzQTF5
— 29 U.S.C. § 157 (@OrganizingPower) February 10, 2020
It didn’t take long before a new hashtag was born on Twitter: #FireChuckTodd. And reaction on social media was a mixture of horror, rage, and a reminder that members of Bernie’s family perished in the Holocaust. Take a look at some of the reaction:
#firechucktodd Should be trending every day because he’s a horrible “journalist”. Calling the supporters of a Jewish senator “brownshirts” is low though even for him.
— Jared Besemer (@JaredBesemer) February 11, 2020
Equating the supporters of a jewish candidate whose family was killed in concentration camps to Nazis is not only infuriating it is almost one of the most stomach churning things that I have witnessed in the Medias continuing attacks against Bernie Sanders #FireChuckTodd
— Baked Yoshi ? (@saccvan) February 11, 2020
it’s funny that @chucktodd is comparing bernie’s followers to nazi brownshirts, because bernie is jewish and his family died in the holocaust. oh wait, it isn’t funny. #firechucktodd
— ?consommé professional ? (@drugcircus) February 11, 2020
Comcast and @MSNBC need to #FireChuckTodd for his blatant antisemitism and egregious watering down of the horrific violence the Jewish people suffered by actual Nazis.
— ?Kathy Solidarity Durkin ?? (@nowwerevolt) February 11, 2020
Here’s more proof that we have more in common than not. Bernie Sanders is not my nominee of choice but I fully agree Chuck Todd sucks and should be fired. #FireChuckTodd https://t.co/M41pcuRKgp
— LiA (@LibsInAmerica) February 11, 2020
A truly disgusting remark directed at a man who had many ancestors murdered in the Holocaust. This is totally disqualifying for a major TV news anchor and Chuck Todd should be replaced #FireChuckTodd
— arcadiafilm (@ArcadiaFilm) February 11, 2020
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