MSNBC’s self-crowned political referee, Chuck Todd, appeared to throw in the towel on enforcing D.C.’s political rules, or at least the journalistic ones. During the first segment of Monday’s MTP Daily, Todd and two of his panelists, Brian Karem and David Folkenflik, whined about how the media was expected to be impartial with President Trump attacking them. “But look, two generations of us as reporters. We're trained and conditioned to don't show emotion, we're the umpires and the referees.” Todd claimed. “When somebody is insisting on making you the story, what do you do? … I struggle with it.”

It was clear that Todd didn’t know how to be an unbiased reporter as he opined about how he and other journalists weren’t trained to deal with Trump’s “moral failings.” “Somebody tweeted that journalists today were never trained to cover moral failings very well. And in some ways, this is what makes this more difficult,” he told his fellow partisans. “We're not good with having to say what's right and wrong sometimes because again, we have been trained to be dispassionate and the umpire.”

He also championed Brian Karem who recently flipped his lid and yelled at Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a White House press briefing. “And you gave voice this when you said: ‘We're just trying to do our jobs here. What are you talking about,’” Todd hyped.

NPR’s David Folkenflik expanded upon Todd’s frustration with the need for journalists to be unbiased in their reporting. He talked about how new generations were supposed to learn from “mistakes of the past” and denounced the apparently outdated idea that news should be fair and balanced. “You and I, we’re trained on the idea of being down the middle and scrupulously impartial, and you have seen recalibration to the idea that doesn't always capture, not only, the facts in front of you but the truth of those facts assembled to become,” he complained.

And with a stone-cold face, Folkenflik threw away the popularly held belief that the media should show both sides to an issue or story. “But the idea of saying: ‘Well, this is one hand and this is the other hand, and therefore we’ve captured a journalistic fairness,’ is often a deep disservice.” You read that correctly. According to him, it’s “often a deep disservice” to fairly report an issue.

Throughout their discussion, they exposed their biases for all to witness. Towards the beginning of the segment, Todd equated Trump’s tweets to the actions of dictators. “Folks, if these actions and this language was being used by a leader in a different country … our State Department would be saying: ‘Hm. That country is inching toward authoritarianism because that's usually the first sign. When you try to delegitimize a free press,’” he asserted.

Karem touted and laughed about how he had gotten away with letting his unchecked emotions drive his reporting about the White House. “I was surprised. That's not the most viral moment I thought I had in the White House,” he joked, referencing his out of control spat with Huckabee Sanders. “I called Mick Mulvaney a ‘soup Nazi’ during one briefing because he wanted to take food away from poor kids, and it just flabbergasted me.”

The Playboy reporter (Karem) was proud of how he catered to the liberals of America with his throw downs with Trump administration officials. “The American public is frustrated with us for not stepping up and holding him accountable for that moral failing, people want to see that,” he declared with no evidence. He also equated himself to acting as Trump’s “parent,” and remarked that he didn’t want that duty.

This out in the open conversation about how tired they were of having to be fair and impartial in the age of Trump, is the epitome of why in poll after poll the public says they don’t trust the media. Their comments here are why Trump’s war with the media resonates with his supporters and the general public. It’s why they’re losing their credibility.

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