Was BROKAW a republican?

[Was_Immer]

It always seemed to me he was a heavy right leaner. Am I wrong.

Honestly Im asking. All these years ive been curious if he was a republican or not.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. I am actually perplexed as to why he's so villified around here.

He never struck me as being particularly controversial or leaning one way or the other. I suspect he's pretty moderate professionally which is why the perpsective from the left and the right makes it seem like he's in the other camp. If you go to right-leaning sites on the internet they are blasting him for being too liberal and bidding him good riddance as well. I never much cared for his voice, but he never really rubbed me the wrong way with respect to his story coverage. I think the fact that no one really knows or remembers his political affiliation speaks to his moderate presence on television. Okay folks, rip me a new one but I refuse to get all up in arms about the comings and goings of network news anchors. We're talking about entertainers after all.

[Was_Immer]

3. well thats why im asking

cause ive noticed he has reported on the left. But he seems so pro right.

I figure him to have a sancturary to nixon in his house. now working on a regan one. haha

[katmondoo]

4. Definitly on the right

When I found out I lost all respect for him. I watched him do suck ups to Bush a few times and he turned my stomach. At one time I thought he seemed like a decent person, changed my mind and made me sad.

[leftchick]

9. all one has to do is think back....

to his coverage of Bill and Monica. Nuff said... :eyes:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. I would rather not have had to recall that

But, your right, nuff said.

[The Zanti Regent]

2. Why even ask?

Every night, he flaunted the brown lipstick he wore.

[Mend]

5. He acted like one...

Years ago, when I still watched the news, I remember during the Clinton years every single thing the Clintons did in their entire lives was analyzed and demonized. Maybe you had to be there to hear about Clinton's haircut ballyhoo as an example of the zillion lies the news media including Brokaw expounded on night after night. *, *1, raygun could never do anything wrong. There has been twenty years of this shit: the choice of stories, the cover-ups for the repukes, on and on ad nauseum. It cannot be over-emphasized just how bad the news has been for our guys and how good it has been for them. If you have watched it, you know that maybe personally he is a Democrat but professionally he is a corporate whore. I miss Media Whores Online....

[Killarney]

6. I don't think so. He was sent the anthrax.

The only people that were sent the anthrax were BushCo enemies... Daschle, Leahy (only Democratic senators), Dan Rather, the paper that printed the picture of Bush's drunken sloppy daughters, etc.

[izzie]

7. Who knows but he looks like the Red states type guy

I lived in the red states. They seem to like people to look like him.

[AlinPA]

8. The way he sucked up to Bush** in the White House interview says it all

[Rob H.]

10. In the aftermath of the 2004 VP debate...

...I thought a fistfight was going to break out between him and Chris Matthews over who got to be first in line to kiss Cheney's pasty backside. When Matthews claimed--bizarrely, imo--that Cheney had "crushed" Edwards, Brokaw agreed wholeheartedly. I remember thinking, "What debate were these guys watching?! I didn't see any of that!"

[el_gato]

12. well he was certainly no journalist

[President Jesus]

13. no campaign donations in the last 30 years. (nt)

[MadHound]

14. Actually in his personal life, Brockaw is moderate to quite liberal

However he has been forced by his corporate masters into an ever tightening corporate conservative straitjacket. I remember reading an interview with him in Mother Jones back in the early eighties where he was bemoaning the increasing concentration of the media into fewer and fewer hands, and how political agendas were increasingly present in the newsroom, even back then. And he did plainly state that he was no fan of Reagan, Bush I, or the Republicans in general.

I think that he was offered a choice, shut up, don't inject his personal politics into the newscast, and he could have a long and profitable career. Speak out too much, and he would be gone. I think that his career was important enough to him to keep him silent on a great many issues, but I'm expecting now that he is retired, that we will being seeing his more liberal side, and possibly even a scathing critique of the broadcast industry.