Josh and a number of other bloggingheads are ecstatic with the choice of Chuck Todd as the new NBC Chief White House correspondent... or as Huffingtonpost had it for a few hours earlier, in a headline far too reminiscent of the Daily Show, the "Chief White Correspondent." (Larry Wilmore retains the job as "Chief Black Correspondent," and Aasif Mandvi stays on as "Chief Brown Correspondent." The other colors have not been announced yet.)

I'm not so impressed. In a cynic's take, some of the last moves NBC News has made seem to be trying to "woo the gods."

Luke Russert is a lovable lump like his dad, the late Tim Russert, but network news material? Not really. David Gregory's a 6'5" long drink of water, who's got some decent (if "White Boy") dance moves, but not really the best choice for Meet the Press. (If he "grows" into the job, he'll be darn near 7 feet tall.)

And Chuck Todd? Chief White House correspondent? Nope. Not my pick.  Here's a guy who spent the majority of this election simply repeating whatever was the day's conventional wisdom and, er, "talking points." Nothing original there. Todd spent day after day repeating and repeating meaningless poll results ("Newsflash: white people who don't like black people will probably not vote for the black guy"), giving us the top ten ways John McCain or Hillary Clinton "can still win!!!!" and his latest, greatest hit, "how Blago and not talking about Blago and being in Chicago where Blago is and knowing someone who knows Blago is BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA!!!!"

If you want to "groom" Chuck Todd, give him a comb and brush set for the holidays. But don't put him in the White House press pool.