Posted on 11/23/2008 10:22:30 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Tom Brokaw: talk show host or DNC enforcer? Barack Obama and Harry Reid were willing to let bygones be bygones, letting Joe Lieberman keep his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship.
But Lieberman's professed "regret" for statements he made in the course of supporting John McCain for president wasn't good enough for Brokaw. Interviewing Lieberman on Meet The Press today, Brokaw pointedly observed that he hadn't heard the word "apology" for the senator's lèse majesté. Brokaw broached the subject by asserting Lieberman needed to be held "accountable."
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Ve haf vays of making you apologize ping to Today show list.
You’re nothing in DC until you’ve had the press force you into at least one apology.
Tom, how’s about you apologize to us for representing yourself as an “unbiased journalist” for so many years?
New game show. Biggest Bambi Rectal Kisser.
That propoganda dispenser in the corner wants to educate you. Don't let it!!!!
I don’t get it. What is he supposed to apologize for?
Oy
Does Brokaw or NBC regret not honestly disclosing the
financial and close relationships between his/its
reporters, their spouses, and the Agencies upon which
they purportedly ‘report’? I think not.
Hey, Tom: Did you ever apologize for calling Florida for Gore before the polls closed in 2000?
Exactly, nothing to apologize for. Except his lib views on almost everything except the war.
Why is Lieberman not allowed his own opinion without Dems trying to derail him? I mean isn’t that part of what the rats have said for years, everyone is entitled to their own opinions?
It’s no secret anymore.
Barackaw is just another DNC enforcer.
Old media has-beens trying to look important.
He might think about Rather and what happens to goofballs that go down that road.
How long will it be before we see Lockjaw yachting off of the Vineyard some July afternoon with Cronkite and the Clintons?
Lieberman is a pretty liberal Senator. The only mistake he made was being pro war in Iraq before being for the war was fashionable amongst liberals.
So now watching the left crucify him, I can’t help but wonder what these talking heads telling me that the new government is going to “rule from the center” are talking about...
I heard the interview.
Brokaw referred to vague statements said during the campaign, to which Liberman said he regretted.
Brokaw wanted Liberman to give an apology — but Liberman stuck to his statement that he had regrets, as do most people for some of the things they say during a campaign.
There was never any exact thing — just “some statements”.
Brokaw was also calling for the overthrow of the government this morning, saying that Bush must step down now instead of January, because we can’t wait for Barry to take total control. Tom also took his marching orders from Rahm and kept demanding that Lieberman apologize to Barry and the DNC for saying things during the campaign that weren’t politically correct. The feeble Brokaw should retire before he embarrass himself any further. Even listening to him read from a teleprompter with that Elmer Fudd speech impediment is a chore.
I was watching K-K-K-Katie the other night (please don't ask...it wasn't my TV) and she said that Lieberman had suggested that Hussein was a Marxist.Perhaps that's one of them.
Brokaw and the rest of the mainstream slimes would like Lieberman to apologize for loving his country and for having ethics and morals. Obviously, the MSM have none of those qualifications. How about Brokaw receiving thousands of telephone calls expressing what we think of his dubious ethics? Anyone have a telephone number?
For not supporting The One after the MSM had already anointed him the next president several months before the election. How dare he question the qualifications of The One?
I don’t understand why The Obamassiah wants to establish an Obama Civilian Corps to “out” non-believers and keep us in line.
He already has the mainstream media and nit-twits like Brokaw doing a fine job for free.
Brokaw should be glad he hasn’t heard the words “F.You” either.
“crime against the ruler”....pullllleeeezzzeee.
It was meant sarcastically, of course.
Tom also called on Lieberman to denounce Sarah Palin for her understated characterization of Obama’s relationship with Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers. Tom wanted Joe to apologize for Palin’s comments.
What’s a Brokaw?
What about Brokaw’s lack of vetting the President-Elect?
Apologies forthcoming? Somehow I doubt it.
Brokaw proves yet again that he is not an objective journalist but a hack serving the interests of the political left. Hey Brokaw, who are you to be seeking any apology from Sen. Lieberman???? Why don’t YOU apologize to American for being such a slimy dishonest worm?
It sad to watch a brainwashed person with senility starting to set in. Tom needs to retire and go spend more time with the family.
F YOU
no, I'm NOT sorry!!! I wish I could say it to you in person, but I might PUNCH you in the face.
What idiots.
Things can sometimes get lost in the internet translation, but I can assure you that Finkelstein meant “lese majeste” sarcastically since . . . I’m Finkelstein.
Thats exactly the response he deserved. The MSM needs to be publicly called out for their bias by the folks appearing on these shows.
I thought I saw some reports shortly after the election that reported Caroline Kennedy admitting that Brokaw was shortlisted for VP. Then, nothing more was ever said.
If this is true, it begs some obvious questions. The “short list” comment is telling. This isn’t some wish list, but rather in it’s context is implicit involvement (at least on some level) by the potential candidate. Was Brokaw aware of his position on the VP list? If so, did he provide any preliminary information to the selection commitee? Did he have any conversation, no matter how limited with Obama or any of Obama’s designates?
I just can’t believe that no one has asked these questions of Brokjaw and NBC, or perhaps I’ve just missed them.
B.S.
They want a 60 filibuster proof majority in the Senate and can't afford to burn at this point. Stupid reporters.
Brokow just put himself on the short list for head of Obama’s Re-education Ministry.
The Democrat leadership was bright enough, for a change, to realize that with a recount in Minnesota and a runoff for the Senate in Georgia, Senator Lieberman’s vote becomes even more critical than in the past.
This realization is beyond Brokaw’s pay level!
Brokaw is turning into a major league @sshole.
He needs to retire and stay retired.He tries to make news instead of reporting it.
I could not understand why he was enlisted for NBC during the conventions. Guess that was the network’s admission they have no one on the bench.
But, then, we already knew that.
Brokaw Punk’d America in One-Sided Election Fraud 2008, why not Punk Lieberman out too
I am Finkelstein!
I know it is Sunday and all, but I just can’t help it....Screw that arrogant, self important Brokaw!
Go retire and spend your waning years in the keys, brokaw!
Ddidn’t Rush Limbaug play a clip of Brokaw and Gibson whining about “who was Barack Obama and they didn’t know him or what books he read”, and “Obama was watching them watching him” after the Pres election.
What a bunch of turds. There needs to be some psycholtherapy for former lib broadcasters to “debrainwash them” after working for MSM, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and other far left stations.
Broke Off has alarmingly remarked about how “we really DON’T know Obama” and discussed how “creepy” Obama is. Patriotic in the extreme. Looking down his snooty nose at others while foisting an unknown factor on the rest of us.
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