Todd is one of those journos that came from Democrat political circles — having worked for Iowa Democrat Senator Tom Harkin’s 1992 presidential run — and then crossed over into the world of “journalism.” With that you just know that he can be as unbiased as the best of them in his reporting. Well, if he can we’ll never know it because so far he has not been. Just the opposite, really.

Todd has done a bang-up job for the left in his journalism career. Likely Todd’s loyalty to the Democrat Party is probably why he felt the need to slam Senator Joe Lieberman last year, for instance. Proving his blindness to real political analysis, Todd claimed that Joe Lieberman was the “polar opposite” of the Senate’s lone socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (officially an “independent”).

In a discussion on the Today Show about the then yet to pass Obamacare bill, Todd said of Lieberman and Sanders, “Meanwhile, the Senate’s two Democratic independents, polar opposites ideologically, are split over the bill’s government-run public option and both are threatening to scuttle the process if they don’t get their way.”

This claim that the two are “polar opposites” is just plain absurd. Lieberman is not very far to the right of socialist Sanders at all except in one respect; support for the war. Other than for his outspoken support of the war on terror and the efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Senator Joe Lieberman is a dyed-in-the-wool, liberal Democrat all the way down the line. He does not much differ from the left-wing ideas that Sanders spouts and never has.

Chuck Todd, however, felt the need to make some sort of conservative out of Lieberman perhaps because the Senator jettisoned the Democrat Party and ran as an independent for his Connecticut Senate seat. Obviously Todd was dutifully punishing Lieberman in fealty to the party line.

Over the last year, Todd has repeatedly gone out of his way to help Obama soften his failures and push the Democrat’s talking points all while pretending at being a journalist.

In one case last month, Todd appeared on MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown” and waxed hopeful that Obama would use the BP oil spill to push new energy regulations on an already over regulated nation. Echoing White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel’s desire not to let a “good crisis go to waste,” Todd hoped that Obama could use the disaster to his own ends.

“So if energy legislation isn’t taken up and dealt with, this would basically be — I hate to put it this way — a wasted disaster,” Todd said in agreement with guest Tom Daschle’s points. Daschle himself is a politician famed for being fired in 2003 from his Democrat Senate leadership position when voters turned him out of office. (See the exchange at about one third of the way through the MSNBC video.)

Chuck Todd is also all about helping The One distance himself from controversy. In a July interview with the president Todd brought up Obama’s controversial recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head Medicare but seemed quite keen to help Obama obviate why the appointment was controversial in the first place.

When he asked Obama about the Berwick appointment, Todd never once explained that Berwick was a proponent of rationing healthcare, preventing the poor and sick from getting it, which is why the appointment is outrageous. Instead, Todd helped guide Obama to blame “the broken system” on the appointment’s controversial component.

Do you think Washington is broken? And the reason I ask you this, because when you appointed – you did the recess appointment of Donald Berwick. You seemed to send the message of one of two things. Either you didn’t want to debate about health care again on Capitol Hill, which got a little raucous a year ago or you know what? “The Senate process is broken and we gotta go around it?”

(See video from The Today Show at about the 9:30 mark).

This appointment had nothing at all to do with Washington being “broken” and everything to do with Obama’s inability to fool enough Senators into agreeing with his appointment of a healthcare radical to head Medicare. Chuck Todd to the rescue, though.

And the Internet? Our friendly NBC correspondent is no fan, especially of the Drudge Report. In an interview conducted by Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher, Chuck Todd revealed his conceit that he and his Old Media cohorts are the only proper guardians of what is “news” when he slammed Drudge.

“You know it when you see it,” Todd told Christopher, “where you see it’s an opinion article allegation, not even a factually based story, that suddenly draws a question simply because the Drudge Report linked to it… There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it… I just don’t happen to think that that’s the proper way for us to decide what’s news.”

We don’t want anyone on the Internet trying to “decide” what’s news, right folks? Let’s leave that to the pros. The rest of us just aren’t qualified.

But wait, Todd isn’t just saying the Internet is illegitimate for determining news. He has also signed on wholeheartedly with the lefty meme that Fox News is similarly illegitimate. Just last February Todd claimed that Fox was “out to undermine 90%” of the journalists out there.

“…there is certain news organizations out here whose agenda is to undermine the 90% of journalists who are just simply trying to cover stories out there. And that’s what really frustrates me about what’s happened in the media landscape. It is a business for some media organizations to undermine the quote-unquote mainstream media because it’s good for their business.”

Interestingly, about “90%” of the rest of the Old Media is filled with leftists as extreme as Todd, as recent evidence suggests.

But it isn’t just the Democrat Party and the Old Media Chuck Todd is out to safeguard. Why, he also wants to protect the Republicans. Mr. Todd wants to make sure none of that unwashed rabble in the tea party movement is allowed to influence the GOP.

In an April ‘09 Today Show segment with host Matt Lauer, Todd was keen to guide his viewers into dismissing as inconsequential the tea party events then being held by the hundreds all across the country.

“There’s been some grassroots conservatives who have organized so-called ‘tea parties’ around the company–country hoping the historical reference will help galvanize Americans against the president’s economic ideas,” Todd told Lauer. “But I tell you, the idea hasn’t really caught on,” he assured everyone.

Trenchant commentary that.

So what do we have with a Chuck Todd? A former Democratic operative turned journalist that hates Fox News, denigrates the Internet, covers for Obama, pushes the left’s narrative, and hates the tea party movement.

Yeah… that’s pretty unbiased. And this is why Chuck Todd figures into our top ten most left-biased American journalists.

With only three more spots to fill, please check back tomorrow for left-biased journalist number three as our series begins to wind down.

When real “journalist” Todd – Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News and the co-hose of The Daily Rundown — gave this impish put down of what he calls, “Drudge-Driven Journalism,” his resentment, fear and school-boy petulance could not have been clearer to any sentient observer.

Such a pity, really.  A grown man reduced to whining in front of the White House makes his viewers so embarrassed for him that it’s painful to watch.  He should have saved all that peevish poppycock for Al Gore, the inventor of the internet.  For, in reality, the saving grace of journalism today – the only thing that gives these leftist buffoons in the MSM even a tiny shred of credibility – is the internet’s check and balance on their politically driven narratives.

Their animus is usually aimed at the Drudge Report because of the number of hits.  It’s Drudge’s numbers that drive the most powerful wedge between these MSM indoctrinated monkeys parading as journalists and their monopoly on the “truth.”  And all it takes is a single flashback to know why all the hacks associated with the once-august MSM fear “Drudge-Driven Journalism” – down to their quaking toes in their manure-muddied Gucci’s.

Flashback:  Dan Rather, 60 Minutes Wednesday, September 8, 2004.

This was the program, later dubbed “Rathergate,” in which Dan Rather ignominiously lit the match that started the fire that ended his long career.  It was a mere two months before the presidential election, in which military service records played a huge part  Only three years since 9/11, and only one year following the invasion of Iraq, voters’ minds were clearly focused on national security issues.  The Democrats had nominated a man, John Kerry, who was like George W. Bush a Vietnam-era veteran, although Kerry had actually spent 16 whole weeks in Vietnam before invaliding himself out of the line of fire by claiming his third Purple Heart.

The Bush-disparaging documents, which Dan Rather hailed as “authenticated” were not, in fact, authentic.  It is undeniable that if it had not been for conscientious sleuthing on the part of bloggers – most notably Charles Johnson on Little Green Footballs and Power Line, not to mention the driving of the story by Drudge, the American public might very well have been completely bamboozled by CBS on this most sensitive issue of that presidential campaign.

Now, it’s not at all difficult to imagine why liberal partisans in the MSM were quiteeager to disparage (evidently at any cost) the military service record of President George W. Bush.  John Kerry, the Democratic nominee, had been the subject of a most unflattering book, Unfit for Command:  Swift Boat Veterans Speak out against John Kerry, written by John O’Neill and published in August, just a month after Kerry’s nomination.  John Kerry had followed the national security theme of the Democratic convention by accepting his nomination with the now infamous line:  “I’m John Kerry and I’m reporting for duty.”

It didn’t take a genius or even much of a sleuth to see through the hypocritical nature of John Kerry’s using his military record to shore up his bid for the presidency.  If Kerry was known to Boomer voters outside his own state, it was only in connection to his flamboyant antics as a Vietnam anti-war spokesman and organizer for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  Kerry was remembered, not for his service to his country in Vietnam, but for his activities as a war protestor and his completely unsubstantiated claims before Congress of “war crimes” and “atrocities” committed by U.S. servicemen in Vietnam.

Kerry had returned from the war to become one of its most vociferous critics.  He participated in staged political theater, in which he threw away his service medals – or ribbons, or something.  Those same medals, including his Silver Star, later found themselves on the walls of his Capitol Hill office, however, and he was forced to admit that the medals he had thrown at the White House in protest in 1971 were, in fact, phonies – not his own.  He was also forced to admit that his supposedly emotional and purely spontaneous speech that day had been the work of Robert Kennedy speechwriter, Adam Walinsky, who had also tutored him on how to make the speech appear authentic.

(These details from the book:  Stolen Valor:  How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History; p. 135-136)

These were the kind of embarrassing details John Kerry wanted to hide from the American public and they were the details that obviously prompted Dan Rather and his producer, Mary Mapes, to disregard all fundamental journalistic ethics to rush their fake documents to air in front of curious millions only two months before the election.

So, when supposedly real journalists, like Chuck Todd, disparage “Drudge-Driven Journalism,” what they are doing is as transparent as the childish petulance in their demeanors.

The MSM fears bloggers like the plague. From Rathergate to Climategate, bloggers get the truth out.

In reality, bloggers are the only thing standing between the MSM and the complete monopoly of the news by their leftwing ideology.

Such a pity that they’ve been reduced to such a disgraceful lot as Chuck Todd.