Jonathan Capehart spends some quality time with The Chuck

For those of you that thought you were the biggest Chuck Todd fan of all...think again.

The Chuck makes a great cameo on Inside the Obama White House

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The whole thing is fascinating as hell, but The Chuck makes his entrance at 2:15.

The Chuck: The New Lizard King

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Awwwwwwwwkward

You know the next time Gibbs sees The Chuck in private, it ain't going to be "flat for friends".

The Mothership is FINALLY giving THE Chuck his own damn show

We'll let the New York Observer give you the details:

MSNBC Developing a Weekend Politics Show for NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd

The Chuck - International Superstar

Tamron Hall declared Chuck Todd an "International Superstar" on MSNBC during her "3 Things You Should Know" segment because of some blog coverage he got during his euro-trip with President Obama.

According to the NY News Blog:
Chuck Todd Conquers the Globe - It's good to see that, despite the attention paid to President Obama on his inaugural European tour, at least someone over there recognized the real international star in attendance. "OVERHEARD, in heavily accented English," reports Jonathan Martin in Mike Allen's Playbook, "yells from the Prague square where President Obama spoke yesterday: "We love you, Chuck Todd!" -by Dan Amira

Also reported on Politico :
OVERHEARD, in heavily accented English, yells from the Prague square where President Obama spoke yesterday: "We love you, Chuck Todd!" (Jonathan Martin)

Hell, we called this back in August:

Big thanks to Joan for the tip

The Chuck vs. Obama

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The Chuck got called on tonight and stuck it to the man:

"Thank you, Mr. President. Some have compared this financial crisis to a war, and in times of war, past presidents have called for some form of sacrifice. Some of your programs, whether for Main Street or Wall Street, have actually cushioned the blow for those that were irresponsible during this -- during this economic period of prosperity or supposed prosperity that you were talking about.

Why, given this new era of responsibility that you're asking for, why haven't you asked for something specific that the public should be sacrificing to participate in this economic recovery?"

{watch the whole presentation here}

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New Pop Culture Zenith for The Chuck: Candorville

The Chuck puts yet another notch in his pop-culture belt. He's been hilariously and quite accurately rendered in the comic strip Candorville by Darrin Bell. Hat's off to you Mr. Bell.

The Chuck's take on the massive stimulus package as well as the "Honeymoon" being over

This is why The Chuck has the job that he has; becasue he's freakin' good at it.

"Obama never should have allowed his first major piece of legislation to be written largely by a man elected to Congress when the president was only 8 years old. I’m referring to House Appropriations Chair David Obey."

"Chuck Todd starting us off tonight"

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That's our guy on the White House lawn people; how awesome is that?!

White House Press Corps Choir and Band Uniform Decision Nears Agreement

In a statement issued this morning, headwear for the new White House Press Corps Choir and Band has been decided on (as seen here modeled by NBC Chief White House Correspondent, Chuck Todd). The decision on uniforms is still pending with designs from Ozwald Boateng and Project Runway finalist, Austin Scarlett rumored to be front-runners.

The Best Chuck Interview. Ever.

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Bill O'Reilly Interview

The Chuck gives Romney even money in 2012 and is taken out of context on racial uprisings against the white man. Genius.

The Chuck On The Tonight Show

While the reaction shot on Hugh Laurie at 2:03 is priceless, may we remind him that there is no site named "Viva Hugh Laurie"; so go easy on our boy.

TIME Magazine covers The Chuck and mentions a humble little fansite

Randy James over at TIME did a very nice little piece on The Chuck. In the piece, Chuckolytes and Viva Chuck Todd were recognized; as was the sad fact that Chuck no longer has the time to play the french horn. Well, The Chuck has his priorities straight at least. It's not like he was some Secretary of State who apparently had the time and resources to put on a piano recital for the Queen of England or anything.

The Chuck goes on NPR's Fresh Air

It's an excellent interview where he talks about his approach to political news, what Obama did right (and Clinton and McCain did wrong) in the campaign, his new role, plus other stuff. It's close to 18 minutes, and Chuck makes a comment at the end that this was the longest that he's gotten to talk in months.

big Viva Chuck Todd Gracias to Heather for the tip

The Chuck Slaughters The Competition

I mean, it's almost embarrassing but Politico ran a little poll asking folks Who will make the best White House correspondent? Like we needed a poll to tell them...of course it was going to be The Chuck! But ouch; what an ass-kicking the final poll results gave to his WH press pool brethren.

Hey, we ain't Oprah, but...

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The Chuck is no longer a virgin...wha?!

Hey, it is Matthews after all. With that said, I think we can all be thankful he didn't use a "cherry" reference.

hat tip to our buds at Pajama Pundit

Merry Christmas Mr. NBC Chief White House Correspondent

Nice going Chuck.

VCT EXCLUSIVE:Source of Gregory Leak Revealed

According to an article in The Huffington Post, hackles are up on several executives over at NBC due to the leak surrounding David Gregory's ascension to the Meet The Press throne. What was most disturbing about this article was the scurrilous accusation that Chuck Todd was in some way responsible for the leak.

We here at Viva Chuck Todd found this libelous salvo beyond the pale of belief and responded accordingly by mobilizing our entire editorial staff late last night to get to the bottom of who exactly is responsible for the leak and hopefully inoculate The Chuck from any further blame. Our findings as of this morning were both shocking and disturbing.

According to our reporting, it appears that not one, but several people were responsible for the Gregory leak. One of the most surprising aspects of this story is that the leak came not from the news division, but from the entertainment division. Their apparent motive was a complete takeover of the news division paving the way for a revamp where a variety/game-show format would be pursued. According to multiple anonymous sources, the leader of this group was germ-phobe and host of NBC's Deal or No Deal, Howie Mandel. Sources tell us that Mandel has always had an eye on the Sunday morning news show as an excellent vehicle to parlay the success of Deal or No Deal.

The Viva Chuck Todd editorial offices have also come into possession of Mandel's notes where he sketched out changing the Meet The Press set to resemble the Deal or No Deal set where political newsmakers would sit before the 26 terraced briefcase-schlepping models and be directed to get their questions by calling on a girl one at a time who would then open the case and read the guest a probing well-researched news question or in some cases a light-hearted general interest question submitted by a viewer. The Mandel notes also revealed that back-channel arrangements had already been made to have former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton be the first guest of the new show along with a whole new round table discussion group consisting of Ben Affleck, Star Jones, Ann Coulter and The Obama Girl. There was also to be a closing musical number planned for each show performed by cross-dressing manazon RuPaul. A musician who had been hired for show's band revealed that the first number was to be a take-off on the RuPaul hit Supermodel where the main chorus lyric "you better work!" was to be aimed towards the incoming Obama administration.

Where David Gregory fits into all of this is still unclear, but the same musician who revealed the first closing number told Viva Chuck Todd that Gregory would of most likely been retained after the "coup" for his dancing and comedic talents. Over the years, Gregory has displayed an uncanny flair for R&B interpretive dance and impersonations.

While Mandel was the front man for this cadre, the true puppet master was acclaimed West Wing creator, Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin apparently was still harboring ill will towards NBC for the cancellation of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and felt that this remaking of Meet The Press would be the right formula of news and entertainment he failed to capture with Studio 60. As of this morning, representatives for Mr. Sorkin were refusing comment and directed our inquiries to their legal counsel.

Shortly before press time, NBC released a statement saying that this Sunday's installation of Gregory as the new host of Meet The Press will go ahead as planned. No decisions have been made as to whether charges will be filed against Sorkin and Mandel.