Brokaw was only too happy to agree:
"I think it is and I think he carried it to some extremes last night by saying if we cut and run from Iraq, and no one is suggesting that they're going to do that ... "
There goes that parallel universe again!
Posted on 02/01/2006 5:39:27 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein February 1, 2006 - 08:20
Liberals hate to be accused of having a pre-9/11 mentality. But how else can you describe it when two leading MSM lights dismiss the war on terror as a political ploy that President Bush has taken to "extremes"?
That's exactly what happened on this morning's Today show. Matt Lauer, conducting a SOTU post-mortem interview of Tom Brokaw, wrote off the W's war on terror as a political tactic:
"The president talked about this fight against "radical Isam" [note that Lauer raised his hands, painting scare quotes in the air around the term] saying that the weapon they use in the fight is fear and that we cannot retreat, there's no peace in retreat. Is this an attempt in this divided nation to find some kind of term or idea that people can get united behind?"
In other words, "radical Islam" isn't necessarily real. It's just something the President invented, something to be put in quotes, something the president at the very least has exaggerated, and is now using as a "term" to curry political support.
Brokaw was only too happy to agree:
"I think it is and I think he carried it to some extremes last night by saying if we cut and run from Iraq, and no one is suggesting that they're going to do that, OBL moves in and uses Iraq as a base. No one believes that's going to happen."
"No one is suggesting" that we cut and run from Iraq?
Does Brokaw not remember that when Murtha suggested we immediately begin withdrawal, Nancy Pelosi seconded the notion? Nancy Pelosi - who would likely become . . . Speaker of the House of Reprentatives were Dems to regain the majority this November? No one wants to cut and run? Does Brokaw remember Howard Dean declaring "the idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong,"
And what of Brokaw's allegation that if we do cut and run "no one believes" Al-Qaeda would use it as a base of operations? In a country already infested with foreign terrorists, in which Al-Qaeda leader Zarqawi has been operating for years, does anyone doubt that Al-Qaeda would radically ramp up its activities there, given the chance?
The kind of blithe indifference to terror mouthed by Lauer and Brokaw this morning, and echoed by their friends in the Democratic party, explains why it it unlikely the American people will entrust their security to them any time soon.
In other news, readers of this column will recall that last week, a clearly skeptical Katie Couric comprehensively raked Howard Dean over the coals. See: Katie Hands Howie the Crazy Uncle Treatment.
Katie continued her auditions of Democrats this morning. This time her guest was the haughty, French-looking junior senator from Massachusetts, and let's just say that people shouldn't expect to see Couric hosting any Koffee Klatches for Kerry any time soon, as Katie gave him the skeptical treatment she usually reserves for conservatives.
The topic was the SOTU, and Couric began by putting him on the defensive: "Was there anything you appreciated or liked hearing?"
When Kerry accused W's proposals on energy as "falling far short" and started ticking off his laundry list, Katie cut him off: "Senator, the president certainly insisted that he wants to be headed in that direction." When Kerry tried to respond, she brought him up short: "so the question is, will the Democrats work with him?"
When Kerry accused the president of not making the country safer, and described threats including Iran, N. Korea Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, again Couric interrupted. With a skeptical tone she asked: "can you blame all those things, Senator, do you think you can squarely blame them on the administration?"
When Kerry dismissed W's proposals on education and competitiveness as "timid," Couric reminded him that the president said "he wanted to train 70,000 additional teachers in math and science." Kerry answered in his best Martha's Vineyard lockjaw "and that's terrific, Katie" while continuing his carping.
Katie saved her best zingers for last: "in our latest NBC poll, 63% of those asked said the Democrats are doing a poor job at presenting a clear agenda and putting forth new ideas. That is 63%. That's a pretty sizeable number of people, Senator. If the president and the Bush administration had such a rocky year, in 2005, why weren't the Democrats able to capitalize on that in a more effective way?"
When Kerry started complaining about the limited time the Democrats were given to respond to the SOTU, and that "all of you commentators were busy commenting," a clearly irritated Couric interrupted. Flashing a sarcastic smile, she asked "oh you can't blame it all on the media, can you, Senator?"
Sounding a theme she had raised with Dean, Katie then complained of "poisonous partisanship," asked what could be done about it, and recognized that "certainly the president addressed that last night."
Message to Kerry: you're toast in Couric's book. Time to quit presidential politics and get on the Al Gore/MoveOn.org speakers circuit, as Katie continues her Democrat Idol search.
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
Exqueeze me?! What planet has Brokaw been living on? It sure ain't this one.
Rove's secret plan to replace the real Katie Couric with KatiBot 3.0 was pure genius.
I mean, that wasn't really her, was it?
IMO, Katie Couric is carrying the water for Hillary Clinton and will go after anyone who might challenge Clinton for the '08 RAT nomination.
Unfortunately, I am afraid that at this point, that is about all that will get people like him off their liberal political agenda and mentality...and quell their hate for this President.
I think Katie is hoping to be Pres. Hillary Clinton's press secretary, so she's picking off the ocmpetition whenever they make the mistake of showing up on the "Today Show".
You bring up a good point about Katie.
Meanwhile, Brokaw is criticizing the killing of people who would slash his throat an a Mullah-minute; what an idiot.
The "enemy" has been advocating we cut and run for years now.
I also noticed Katie allowed the French-One to drone on for a quite a while as he continually berated the President on every question that was asked. I don't give Katie too much credit; seems the gal is posturing for the coveted 'Whirld News Tanite' position.
Kerry's shall we say abortive filibuster was extremely selfish as far as the Democrats are concerned. It hurt them by showing that there are 70 senators who are not willing to filibuster a supreme court nomine as conservative as Alito. But he still went ahead with it in order to burnish his far left wing credentials. Well, Democrats who want to win (like Kouric) did not appreciate it.
Matt would be making all kinds of air quotes if "radical Islamists" hijacked a plane and plowed it into Rockefeller Center.
What's gotten in to Katie?
Obviously a liberal who hasn't been mugged yet...so to speak. One of the things about 9 11 that should touch us all is how it could easily have been any one of us killed that day if we had been out and about doing our business. In a symbolic way the terrorists attacked all of us.
Judging from the decline in ratings and circulation, I don't think that can be said any more :)
NBC's advertisers have a screw loose.
There goes that parallel universe again!
Careful there Matt .. You are sounding the the Loony Howard Dean
Katie managed to get the DUmmies REALLY REALLY MAD with her treatment of Kerry, as evidenced in this thread "Katie Couric is such a WHORE!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x291860
So Tom Brokeback doesn't think much of the President's War on Tewwor.
Maybe she finally sought help for her mental disorder...the one they call liberalism : )
I wonder if an Islamofascist nuke detonated in NYC would convince the 9/10's that there's a war on. I guess they'd just blame it on Bush.
There are 2 major wars going on. The fruitcake Islamofascist war against America, the Jews and Western civilization and the war of the vast left wing conspriacy against freedom, capitalism and America.
It's serious.
Perhaps it's generational or demographic, the left over dregs of 60's baloney.
Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder if that's occurred to them?
Good point.
I am sure he would answer to that challenge by indicating he nor Matt have suggested retreating. It's an elite thing.
LOL. Snort.
Probably found herself a conservative hottie to drool over....
LOL! They're eating their own. :0D
"By Jove, I think he's got it!"
Let's see perky do the same to HILLARY!
Don't hold your breath.
FMCDH(BITS)
"Sure he can, just like he takes all the credit for his combat heroism from others."
But it still sounds as if Senator Rice Butt is toast.
I could not believe that Brokaw said that. The parallel universe of the dem party is spinning out of control.
A colonoscope?
Not a guy.....
Katie's in line for the CBS gig. CBS is worried she'll be seen as too "morning show", "news lite" so she's just putting on a little show for the suits.
LOL! They're eating their own.
.....with some fava beans and a nice chianti (slurping noises)
-that is exactly the reaction I had, she is paving the way for Hillary.
So the President uses "radical Islam" as a political ploy? Gee, I bet Lauer and the dims hope some "extremists" don't fly another "airplane" into a building or set off a, you know, "bomb" in a subway. Bush might go up in the polls if people started falling for this "terrorism" stuff.
I knew it when Bush said it how well those lines about getting along would work. It just makes the Dims look Dimmer and small minded.
"the 9/10's"
I LOVE that term. That's my description of them from now on!
LOL - well "put" ;-)
Maybe her prozac finally kicked in... she seems to be looking at the world through a different set of eyes.
I suppose she just had an epiphany where she looked at the state of her party and realized that they are gonna get their asses kicked to the curb again if they allow the Dean/Cindy Sheehan faction of the raving lunatic left to become the only recognizable face of the Democratic Party.
I think she's already made up her mind that Hillary is gonna be the next president, and it's time to bring the Night of the Long Knives to any internal impediments to that happening.
The Dems had a REAL bad day yesterday, between Alito, the SOTU speech and the revelations about the food fight going on between Dean and Crazy Harry Reid.
They went from the energy rush of Democratic defiance of Bush in the form of s threatened filibuster, to an emotional state that could be compared to the wind inside a balloon after the balloon breaks... just a bunch of losers, let down again.
I don't normally encourage people to visit DU, but ya'll really should peek in there and read what they're saying about all this. I haven't seen them so desparate and dejected since the last election. They are cannibalizing their own... just fascinating!
Matt Lauer accusing the President of using scare tactics. He should be thrown off the air. He ought to watch Flight 93 currently running on A&E and take a 9/11 refresher course. This war is very real. Unfortunately he and his fellow elitist NYers will not get it until NYC is hit again.
Katie bashing Kerry ...she must have forgotten to take her Lithium this week or perhaps the vast right wing conspiracy has replaced her with a conservative clone.
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...and conduct the offensive FROM OKINAWA! I guess Tommy must'a been up on Brokebaw Mountain when that happened.
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