MTP Daily Panel Frets Because 'Both Sides' Are Wrecking The Country

Ron Fournier, Chuck Todd, and Andrea Mitchell got together in a room in front of a camera so they could whine about political discourse in this country and how off the rails it is. Todd is very worried that our politics cannot survive such horrible rhetoric.

So far, so good, because it is worthy of a conversation, particularly when you have Fuhrer-to-be Trump out there celebrating the notion that his poll numbers will rise as a result of the possibility the San Bernardino shootings were motivated by radical ideology.

After some back-and-forth about how people seem to need to push pieces of the story into their own narratives, the entire discussion went off the rails.

Fournier launched the "both sides" salvo. Democrats, he says, play the Planned Parenthood shootings as a radical white Christian, while Republicans play the San Bernardino shootings as a "radical Islamist attack." This remark followed the observation by Andrea Mitchell at the top that no Democrat has stood up and called yesterday's attack an act of terrorism or otherwise mentioned Islam, suggesting that they are taking the course this group recommends -- silence until facts emerge.

Here is the dialogue they had following:

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