Lol, Brokaw is miffed at Letterman

[EarlG]

On MSNBC right now, huffing about how "This could help McCain! If they go too far this could help him! People might think they're picking on him!"

:rofl:

[1corona4u]

1. LOL....yeah, right...

[sabra]

2. "leave McCain alone!"

youtube clip coming soon...

[tinrobot]

66. Palin already has one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi7pYuQU3RE

[terrya]

3. They're just flailing about.

They literally have nothing right now. This is just sad to watch. No..actually, it's funny as hell. :-)

[Cha]

46. Right..not sad.

I'm steely eyed when it comes to mediawhore$ and prigs trying to steal our country AGAIN.

[crappyjazz]

4. wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Bensthename]

5. And acknowledging Sara is a joke too helps them they say.

[John Q. Citizen]

6. Ain't life rich?

[ShortnFiery]

7. ...

Worst. Spin. Ever. :rofl:

[FloridaGrl]

8. Which people?

Brokaw and em. Is this trying to save McCain's ass day?

[melbel8301]

9. Brokaw

Brokaw is an old McCain buddy besides being a blatant rightwing shill. I wish the hell he would stay out to pasture!

[Window]

17. Yes, and take Pat Buchanon with him.

[cliffordu]

10. Brokaw reminds me of that South Park episode where everyone

loves smelling thier own farts.....

[Neecy]

11. I hooted when I heard that

What a tool.

He also followed the GOP talking points about Letterman being an 'entertainment' show during these very very serious times. No mention that McCain flat-out lied about getting right back to DC when he cancelled the Letterman appearance. Lying is apparently par for the course for these Rethugs...

[loudsue]

43. At least McCain didn't lie about a blow job.

Lying is ok as long as it's not about a bj.

( :sarcasm: )

[AllieB]

Brokaw is a one-man, right-wing spin machine.

:eyes:

[RichardUK]

12. Bless his little cotton socks

I can't imagine to many people who haven't had their heads caved in after a serious car accident are going to take John McCain's side over Dave Letterman. Nasty old Dave Letterman picking on poor defenseless lying bastard John McCain.

[Cha]

49. That's one way to put it, RichardUK..

Welcome to the DU of American Politics! :toast:

[RichGirl]

13. Since when do we make...

...heros out of people based on feeling sorry for them.

[Uncle Joe]

36. Since the Republicans cornered the market

on sorry candidates.

[Cha]

51. That question(which is a good one) was just

begging for your answer!

[Window]

14. Thank God for the levity.

:rofl:

[SaveAmerica]

15. I saw that and told my daughter I think Brokaw is the only one who thinks that.

I see his true colors shining through....

[eShirl]

16. What Brokaw doesn't understand is, hell hath no fury like a Letterman scorned.

[ErinBerin84]

18. oh my god...literally flailing around...hilarious.

I'll never forget Brokaw's gloomy face after Obama's convention speech.

[tridim]

19. I hope Letterman is watching this. He lives for this kind of stuff..

They're all fair game now. Go get em Dave! :rofl:

Brokaw is a freaking idiot.

[uponit7771]

20. McCain In lil Daryl voice "....leave. me. alone!!!...."

[Cha]

53. Bet, brokaw loved it when they piled on Obama

with his Rev Wright!

[Kalyke]

21. Screeeeeeettttchhhhhhh

big baby

[City Lights]

22. Oh Tom, your bias is showing. McCain's a POW! He lived in a box for 5 years!

He's tough as nails!

If he can't withstand a ribbing from Letterman, how will he keep Uhmurkinz safe from the real bad guys? :rofl:

[Metta]

23. His lips must be brown by now.

From kissing so much ass. Poor baby.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Brokaw would sell his soul to Satan in exchange for a decent bowel movement

You can see it all over his anal-retentive right wing face. He's Brit Hume's apprentice.

[AlCzervik]

25. I wonder is he was pissed at him in 2000 when Letterman gave Bush shit for months until

he appeared on his show. Anyone else remember that? Funny schtuff.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

26. McBrokaw

[blm]

27. Brokaw has been shilling for GOP since Welch headed GE. Every NBC anchor has kissed Welch ass since

and it's STILL part of who they are.

[Cha]

54. matt lauer named his

kid "Jack".

[LSK]

28. yes keep bringing up the fact that MCCAIN LIED TO LETTERMAN

[TwilightGardener]

29. How dare Letterman ruin his hero worship by exposing McChicken as a liar! A liar

who gets primped and powdered like a GIRLIE MAN, no less!

[JimGinPA]

30. That Was A Pitiful Display

Ol' Mushmouth doesn't even pretend to be "neutral" anymore.

[tigereye]

31. yeah, people vote based on what Letterman says...

:eyes:


Brokaw is so bizarre.

[FatDave]

60. Actually, they probably do.

And Letterman's got an audience the news shows can only dream of.

[zulchzulu]

32. Is McCain a "girl" now? Oooh, they're pickin' on me, maaaa!

[mtnester]

59. Hey, girls can hold their own better than McCain

we can take it, don't lump us (kind of insulting to compare girls to McCain, dontcha think?...to the GIRLS)

[TommyO]

33. Brokaw can huff and puff all he wants, he's wrong

My very apolitical brother saw that Letterman episode and he was completely turned off to McCain because of the blatant lying by McCain.

[GoldenOldie]

35. Remind Me, what, why and how did Brokaw attain his level of expertise????

I am in my early 70's, and I have always pondered why they call on Brokaw when a disaster arises for his in-depth analysis of a situation. Is he a journalist?? I don't remember him ever reporting from a front-line, nor within a dangerous environment. He has no more knowledge or insight of situations than our local pretty faced news reporter. Just what has he ever done to function as the 4th rail of our democracy????

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

37. He was an anchor on a local tv station in Los Angeles a long time ago

It was during the early 70s, and he was a kind of Ron Burgundy prototype. The only remarkable thing I remember about him was his good hair. But I guess everyone starts small.

[FatDave]

61. In all fairness...

I think he covered Watergate for NBC and I'm pretty sure he dug up a lot of dirt on the Iran/Contra business. But that was a long time ago, and he no longer seems like the man he once was.

[orwell]

34. Wasn't Brokaw also miffed...

...about the weeks of wall-to-wall Rev. Wright coverage...oh, that's right...

never mind...

[stopbush]

38. Brokaw = Absolute tool. eom

[juno jones]

39. Where's the 'leave Britney alone' boy when you need him? n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

40. The GOPers have been running this line for weeks: Fund on Real Time, now Brokaw

The only constant is that they've been spectacularly wrong. the constant pounding of McCain and Palin has been working, not backfiring.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

48. "Keep it up". Somebody should have asked that douchebag if he's stopped beating his girlfriend.....

for real.

[d_b]

41. ...

:rofl:

[SIMPLYB1980]

42. I hear it comming up the road, whats that noise?

[SIMPLYB1980]

44. dupe

[Cha]

45. And, I fucking hate this guy who recently said

regarding "troopergate".. "there's nothing there".

Was he always this way?

[hvn_nbr_2]

47. Yeah, right, Tommie.

If they were unfairly ganging up on him, it might help him. If they're laughing at him, he's done.

[The Backlash Cometh]

50. Wake up, Brokaw. Haven't you been paying attention to how mean-spirited

Republicans are? If they can't take it, they shouldn't dish it out.

[pokerfan]

52. You forgot to include a picture of Brokaw

Leave John McCain alone!

[Stevendsmith]

55. McBrokaw = GOP Gasbag Whore (n/t)

[Mabus]

56. Brokaw also thinks McCain's time out was a smart move

He said so last night.

Brokaw: McCain timeout a 'smart tactical move'

Phil West
Thursday, September 25, 2008

OXFORD, Miss. — Republican Sen. John McCain made a smart move when he took a campaign timeout and returned to Washington to take part in the bipartisan effort to deal with the nation’s financial crisis, whether he participates in Friday’s debate or not, broadcaster Tom Brokaw said this evening.

The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics hosted “An Evening with Tom Brokaw” featuring the NBC News special correspondent, who gave an overview of the presidential debate and the election landscape.

Polls showed McCain was losing ground to Democratic Sen. Barack Obama going into the planned nationally televised debate at the University of Mississippi.

“I thought it was a smart tactical move on the part of the McCain campaign. ‘Going to Washington so I can work on my country’ … buy some time to collect your thoughts,” Brokaw said.

Brokaw will moderate the second presidential debate, set for Oct. 7 at Belmont University in Nashville.

more at: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/sep/25/e26speechweb/

The other thing from the excerpted article that I found interesting was Brokaw's focus on "one-liners from previous debates". Let's see if Brokaw gives McCain an opener for a one-liner to help McCain regain some standing in the polls.

[babylonsister]

57. Brokaw just gets worse; he should have stayed retired. nt

[gauguin57]

58. Not sure what you guys are talking about ... Brokaw is not a Republican.

I'd assume he's registered independent (a lot of journalists do that), but everything I've read about him convinces me he's a moderate Democrat.

Close friend of Bill Moyers; co-owns property with Clinton Admin's Robert Rubin. An environmentalist and Sierra Club member, Brokaw was offered a job in the Clinton Administration in 1993 (head of Park Service), but declined.

The neocons consider him a flaming leftist, and they live to catch him revealing his moderate-Demo. "Brokaw has dismissed accusations that he has a liberal bias, both by saying he has been criticized from right and left alike, and by saying that "bias -- like beauty -- is in the eye of the beholder."

Journalists have to ask the tough questions of both sides; just because he's not a cheerleader for the left, don't assume he's a Republican. Just because he's not KO or Rachel Maddow, don't assume he's in bed with the neocons.

[Bucky]

62. No one is saying Brokaw is pro-McCain. It's just the humor of McCain needing protection

Brokaw is part of the me-too lapdog press establishment. He may work for righteous causes, but he rarely uses his platform as a national journalist to call the wealthy Powers That Be on their baloney. There's a difference between being a cheerleader for the left (which is what Olbermann does) and simply being a solid journalist who doesn't ignore the abuses of the powerful, which is where Brokaw is lacking.

[rvablue]

64. I think he is pro-McCain and journalistically he has no business

moderating one of the debates.

I read in the NYT not long ago that during the 2004 Republican Convention Tom Brokaw AND Bob Scheiffer (who also is moderating a debate) attended an INTIMATE birthday party for John McCain.

They have a personal relationship with the senator and therefore should be nowhere near a debate.

It's journalism ethics 101.

[blm]

69. That was BEFORE Jack Welch infected that whole crowd. Brokaw's a Dem like Lieberman's a Dem -

he's a Bushprotecting shill.

[LisaM]

63. Good. Now Letterman can go after Brokaw

Which, IMO, Brokaw richly deserves.

[Neshanic]

65. Brokaw, go sit on a stick.

[Phx_Dem]

67. Help McCain?!! Good one. Here's what a stranger said

to me today at Walgreens. I was buying a commemorative magazine about Obama's historic candidacy and the checkout lady (probably early 60's) picked it up and said, "oh this is nice." Then she started railing against McCain. She said, "well I guess McCain is going to show up tonight. Can you believe he tried to weasel out of it? And he lied to David Letterman. Did you see that on TV? I can't believe he would do something like that. He should be ashamed of himself!"

It was hilarious.

And, for the record, Brokaw is a shadow of his former self who shills for McCain on a regular basis so who gives a shit what he says.

[slampoet]

68. If Brokaw is pissed he should GROW UP AND BECOME A JOURNALIST instead of just a newsreader.

TOM BROKAW GOT SCOOPED BY LETTERMAN.



That is why he should be ashamed instead of angry.

[Hepburn]

70. Fuck, Brokaw....

...RW asskisser that he is.

[bigtree]

71. he's become pathetic in his defense of his old pal

[Danger Mouse]

72. Brokaw, take your head out of McCain's ass for a FEW minutes at least.

:D

[Hamlette]

73. And that worked so well for Gore (the liar) and Kerry (swiftboated)

how do these dimwits get these jobs? Brokaw is completely pissing me off lately.

Can't watch him.

[HughMoran]

74. He's become a rather simple-minded dope, hasn't he?

He really ought to retire for good.

[mokawanis]

75. Brokaw should retire and stay off the air

some people don't know when they are way past their prime and should just fade away.

[Supersedeas]

76. is that how Tom Brokaw responds to a Republican liar -- Brokaw was totalling confused this morning

on Morning Skank...first blaming Democrats for not getting the deal done before the debate and then saluting Repigs for taking their time with expensive complicated legislation.

What an old fart toady shill he has become.

[Supersedeas]

77. is that how Tom Brokaw responds to a Republican liar -- Brokaw was totalling confused this morning

on Morning Skank...first blaming Democrats for not getting the deal done before the debate and then saluting Repigs for taking their time with expensive complicated legislation.

What an old fart toady shill he has become.