Questions to Chuck Todd on Reddit "Ask Me Anything"

I (Chuck Todd) will be multi-tasking during the President’s press conference and answering questions between Noon and 12:30pm ET, so ask me anything!

HI chuck,
As a lifelong conservative, i half to admit i enjoy your political reports.
My Question is: In my opinion NBC/MSNBC has shown a lot of left wing bias towards the Obama administration, has there ever been a moment when you watched a story and just cringe, like the night chris matthews' had the infamous "thrill up my leg" incident?

Chuck, your NBC colleague Ronan Farrow received a Cronkite award after only 3 days on the job. How many Cronkite awards have you received?

Chuck, gun to you head......who wins POTUS in 2016? Dem or Rep?

Who would be on your dream team political panel discussion? and What would be the topic?

The economy stinks, Iraq is burning, Putin's on the march. Do you ask Obama about Beyonce, sports, or House of Cards?

Hello, Mr. Todd -
I personally do not believe that it is possible for humans to be unbiased about contentious issues, and I also feel that those biases can't be kept out of their actions. In the US, many reporters claim they are being objective, from Fox to MSNBC, but I have my doubts about both...
In the interests of full disclosure, what are your personal political beliefs?

Will you be asking tough questions of the President and not softballs?

Do you honestly feel, generally speaking, it is not a reporters/hosts job to correct partisan talking point falsehoods, and will you be dancing onstage with any notorious party strategists anytime soon?

Will we see an openly gay presidential nominee in the next 30 years? Has the country come far enough that they would be willing to vote for a gay president?

How much of interviewing today is total bullshit with prearranged questions, topics to avoid, vs honest no-holds barred unedited Q&A? How many hoops does one have to jump through to interview a President? If there are none, then what might explain the lack of direct questions & holding interviewees to answers? Is this a game of political correctness not to piss people off instead of challenging weak arguments or policies?...

Any of the question tickle your funny bones?... and what question would you have asked?

"The Dirt on Your Sponge"

"Tod Maitland, 56, is a sound mixer and 30-year veteran of the film and television business, having worked on more productions than there is room here to list.... Matthew Flannery, 43, a cameraman and photographer, is also an inventor (his first contrivance, he said, was a cordless phone base station “repeater,” or range extender, which he thought up when he was in high school)"

"In the ’90s, the two crossed paths on the set of “Sex and the City.” More than a decade later, they are presenting their first product, a kitchen sponge cleaning device called SpongeBath that is more akin to a plot thread in a “Seinfeld” episode than anything the “Sex and the City” writers would have dreamed up. Scheduled to go on sale at Bed Bath & Beyond in early September, and Amazon later in the month, it was not available to test. But its YouTube video reveals a sleek, toasterish object and asserts that your kitchen sponge, a smelly, disgusting bacteria magnet, is 200,000 times dirtier than your toilet seat." (read more)

"Bye-bye Car Wash, Farewell Wipers: Future Cars Won't Get Dirty"

"Of course, one challenge is to prevent messes in the first place, says General Motors, which has been conducting research on ways to keep passengers, especially children stuck in back seats known to industry engineers as “the puke zone,” from getting car sick."

“We know through other scientific research that even if our eyes are focused on a fixed point – if we can see the outside passing by in the window – our brain is telling us that we are moving,” explained Don Shreves, GM’s Human Factors engineering group manager said. “But if our eyes are at a downward angle and do not see the view outside the vehicle, our bodies become sensitive to motion and increase the chance of sickness.”

Among other things, the research has shown GM engineers that passengers are less likely to get sick when DVD screens are mounted overhead.