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Tom Brokaw says Lindsay Lohan and Donald Trump ruin White House Correspondents' Dinner
Zap2It ^
| 4/26/2013
| Molly Chance
Posted on 04/27/2013 7:56:23 AM PDT by Badabing Badablonde
Tom Brokaw sat out the last White House Correspondents Association Dinner, and he plans to do it again in 2013. The veteran newsman says the increasing tabloid level go the invited guests is what ruined it for him. "For me the breaking point was Lindsay Lohan," Brokaw tells Politico. "She became a big star at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Give me a break."
The former "NBC Nightly News" anchor says the annual dinner must leave home viewers wondering, "'That's the Washington press corps?' I mean, there was more dignity at my daughter's junior prom than there is, what I'm seeing on C-SPAN here."
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Brokaw recalls the year he took author and automobile magnate Lee Iacocca as his guest to the dinner, he ended the night embarrassed by all the drunk reporters asking for autographs.
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Not exactly Pulitzer reporting (misspelled Politico), but amusing still. Exhibiting professional jealousy against Lohan because he's not the center of attention?
To: Badabing Badablonde
Tom's just now realizing that he's nothing but a tabloid celebrity?
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posted on
04/27/2013 7:58:20 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth." --Alan Greenspan)
To: Badabing Badablonde
From the article:
“’That's the Washington press corps?’ I mean, there was more dignity at my daughter's junior prom than there is, what I'm seeing on C-SPAN here.”
What a dad! He chooses to denigrate his daughter in order to illustrate his point.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:03:10 AM PDT
by
bramps
(Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney got in 2012)
To: Badabing Badablonde
The former "NBC Nightly News" anchor says the annual dinner must leave home viewers wondering, "'That's the Washington press corps?'I've been wondering the same thing after watching them operate since 2009.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:05:23 AM PDT
by
Starstruck
(Don't rest. We came close to the 2nd Amendment being field tested.)
To: Badabing Badablonde
But they had PSY this year. How awesome it that?
#pathetic
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:05:47 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Badabing Badablonde
This tripe, from another teleprompter reading moron. Hey Tommy, considering the vile POS that currently infests the White House, the guests are appropriate.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:06:02 AM PDT
by
Common Sense 101
(Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
To: Badabing Badablonde
The former "NBC Nightly News" anchor says the annual dinner must leave home viewers wondering, "'That's the Washington press corps?' I mean, there was more dignity at my daughter's junior prom than there is, what I'm seeing on C-SPAN here." No, Tom, the common people aren't wondering about Lohan and whatever dignity she exhibited. They are actually wondering why in the hell your polluted, biased, destructive news personna, the tripe and lies you reported all those years, the hatred and division you sowed, all that condemnation of decency, and all that exaltation for perversion by you and your putrid ilk actually got as far as it did.
You can take your screwed up pronunciation and stick it up your coddled, undeserving ass, you traitor. Go take some speech classes O'tard.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:06:20 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: Badabing Badablonde
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:06:50 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: bramps
Isn’t Brokaw pushing eighty? Junior prom...did he have a daughter in his seventies? How dignified is that?
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:06:52 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Badabing Badablonde
I say it’s the media that ruins the dinner.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:07:16 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Badabing Badablonde
Save the phony outrage for the biased reporting and blatant politicing of your own network, Brokaw - nobody cares what they do at some dopey dinner that raises money for charity. In fact, invite more celebs and raise even more money, there is no journalistic professionalism on the air so why should there be any at a dopey dinner?
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:12:41 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Badabing Badablonde
Sure, Tom,
Dignity?
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:13:16 AM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: Badabing Badablonde
The Press Corpse has dignity?
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:14:45 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Badabing Badablonde
To: Badabing Badablonde
Tom, of course, a ‘real’ journalist and above it all.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:17:26 AM PDT
by
AdaGray
To: Badabing Badablonde
Brokaw recalls the year he took author and automobile magnate Lee Iacocca as his guest to the dinner, he ended the night embarrassed by all the drunk reporters asking for autographs. Drunk reporters. There's the problem.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:18:46 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Badabing Badablonde
I wish we could get a conservative president who who do away with this stupid dinner. I am sure a ton of money is wasted just trying to stroke each other.
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:23:30 AM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(bahits.com)
To: Chode
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:23:40 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Piffle....)
To: Gaffer
Please.....oh please.... Forward that lil rant to Tom himself!....
Its just too good to waste preaching to the choir here!
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posted on
04/27/2013 8:24:47 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
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