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Tom Brokaw officially joins the Obama White House...
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Posted on 06/17/2009 3:44:19 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

Tom Brokaw officially joins the Obama White House...

(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...


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1 posted on 06/17/2009 3:44:20 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

He couldn’t contain his love for the annointed one any longer.

Will we have another Lewinsky moment in the White House?


2 posted on 06/17/2009 3:44:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

Was there ever any doubt?


3 posted on 06/17/2009 3:44:57 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: newfreep

Wonder what Tom’s wife thinks about this?


4 posted on 06/17/2009 3:45:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

its been a lewinsky moment for the last 18 months.


5 posted on 06/17/2009 3:45:48 PM PDT by omega4179 (America is a Christian Nation.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

...hope the first Mutt bites his a&&


6 posted on 06/17/2009 3:45:51 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: ConservativeMan55
Well, at least he's making it official

Now, if only the rest of them would show the same courtesy.

7 posted on 06/17/2009 3:46:02 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: newfreep

I’m telling you. They’ll need add-ons to the WH.


8 posted on 06/17/2009 3:46:16 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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To: Big_Monkey

Exactly.

Well... I have a feeling he just couldn’t take it anymore.


9 posted on 06/17/2009 3:46:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Add another room lol


10 posted on 06/17/2009 3:46:55 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

All he did was make it “official”.

Now his paychecks from the Dear Leader are above board.

Creep.

He’s DONE as a “journalist”.


11 posted on 06/17/2009 3:47:15 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

B.Y.O.K.P.


12 posted on 06/17/2009 3:47:35 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ConservativeMan55

This news item is from January 20, 2009.


13 posted on 06/17/2009 3:47:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Westbrook

Yep.

We always knew.. but this makes it official.

Sounds like we’ve got another Baghdad Bob in the house.


14 posted on 06/17/2009 3:49:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

Aw heck! The rest of the damn MSM might as well be on the payroll too!


15 posted on 06/17/2009 3:49:43 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Smile you're on Janet's Candid Camera!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL

Two veteran TV and radio journalists have been picked by the President as members of his Commission on White House Fellowships, which will meet this week in Washington to select the 2009-2010 class of fellows.

Tom Brokaw, now a special correspondent for NBC News, and John Hockenberry of Public Radio International and formerly with NBC and ABC, join a distinguished panel that includes General Wesley Clark, Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe, and former Senator Tom Daschle to pick young people to work “at the highest levels of government” and to participate in an education program and complete public service activities.

The commission can choose between 12 and 19 fellows from a pool of 30 candidates winnowed from over a thousand who initially applied.


16 posted on 06/17/2009 3:49:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

Gee, at his age I hope he’s not confused or disoriented.


17 posted on 06/17/2009 3:49:49 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Just adding to the indisputable evidence of Media Bias.
18 posted on 06/17/2009 3:50:04 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

That’s the thing..

He doesn’t have to pay them anything.. they’re willfully and gleefully doing his bidding.


19 posted on 06/17/2009 3:50:16 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

History will show that the “New Media” were nothing but
eager,docile, self-serving whores.


20 posted on 06/17/2009 3:50:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: ConservativeMan55
So much for unbiased moderators in presidential election debates. The next time a republican agrees to any MSM moderator it better be as a part of a panel that includes at least an equal number of similarly unbiased conservatives like Rush, Hannity, or Levin.
21 posted on 06/17/2009 3:51:13 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Liberty Valance

Nice!!!

Those standards only apply to Republicans you know?

Democrats are never confused nor disoriented... hahahahahahahahahahaha


22 posted on 06/17/2009 3:51:20 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

They can give Tommy Brokejaw a trailer in the alley at the WH, near the service entrance.

He will now be know as the “Minister of Propaganda”, or maybe the “Czar of White House Propaganda”?


23 posted on 06/17/2009 3:51:51 PM PDT by biff
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To: Liberty Valance
Gee, at his age I hope he’s not confused or disoriented.

LOL
24 posted on 06/17/2009 3:51:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: biff

I will just call him creep.


25 posted on 06/17/2009 3:52:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

BBFL....butt buddies for life.


26 posted on 06/17/2009 3:54:11 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Liberty Valance

confused or disoriented.... are going to be used alot in the future....Biden, Nanzi,


27 posted on 06/17/2009 3:54:30 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Along with Brokaw there’s some other interesting names on this list:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-Appointments-to-the-Presidents-Commission-on-White-House-Fellowships/

General Wesley Clark..Tom Daschle..John Hockenberry..
Claudia Kennedy..Paul Sarbanes..Maya Soetoro-Ng (Obama’s sister)

and others...


28 posted on 06/17/2009 3:55:21 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: ConservativeMan55
He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Council on Foreign Relations....
Hmmm.
29 posted on 06/17/2009 3:55:50 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: hoosiermama

Been dazed and confused for so long its not true
Obama Obama I never bargained for you.


30 posted on 06/17/2009 3:56:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
This is worse than Pro Clinton favoritism by a mile. It is depraved.


31 posted on 06/17/2009 3:56:58 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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In other news, NBC Headquarters has Swine Flu...LOL!!

http://www.observer.com/2009/media/swine-flu-nbc

Schadenfreude!!


32 posted on 06/17/2009 3:57:12 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: ConservativeMan55
Who is Brokaw's wife?

Amazing how someone could write a book on the greatest generation and then sell them out as a socialist who rejects the values the greatest gen fought & died for.

33 posted on 06/17/2009 3:57:50 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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From the White House:

President Obama Announces Appointments to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships

Washington, DC – Today, President Obama appointed 28 members to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships

SNIP

Tom Brokaw:

Tom Brokaw is a Special Correspondent for NBC News. During 2008, he served as the Interim Moderator on Meet the Press. From 1982 to 2004, he served as the White House correspondent, the Chief Correspondent for Today, and the NBC Nightly News anchor. He has reported on 23 NBC News documentaries and authored five books, including The Greatest Generation and Boom! Talking About the Sixties. Also, Mr. Brokaw has served as an overseer for the International Rescue committee, a public trustee for the Mayo Clinic, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Museum of Natural History.

General Wesley Clark:

Wesley K. Clark, General, US Army (retired), came home on a stretcher from Vietnam in 1970, where he was wounded in action as an infantry company commander. He stayed with the Army for another thirty years. In his last position, as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, he led NATO forces to victory in a 78-day air campaign which saved 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing. He now heads his own consulting firm and is active in the energy, banking and business services field. He is a noted author and TV commentator. He also teaches at UCLA's Burkle Center, and works with numerous not for profit efforts, including the International Crisis Group. He was a Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 2004. General Clark graduated first in his class from West Point and received his B.A. and M.A. as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He was a 1975-76 White House Fellow and a Commissioner from 1993-2000. Among his awards are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Silver Star, Purple Heart and honorary knighthoods from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and numerous honorary degrees.

Thomas Daschle:

Thomas Daschle is an advisor to the Alston & Bird law firm and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is the only senator to have served twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. Senator Daschle served his home state, South Dakota, in the Senate from 1987 to 2005. In 1988, he became the first Co-Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. He was the National Co-Chair of Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign and continues to be a leading advocate for universal health care. In addition, Senator Daschle co-chaired ONE Vote ’08 initiative and co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center. He is also the Vice Chair of the National Democratic Institute. He authored Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever and co-authored Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. SNIP

34 posted on 06/17/2009 3:58:29 PM PDT by kristinn (New FR Convention Info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2273486/posts)
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To: ConservativeMan55

The real news is not Brokaw,,it is Obama’s sister.


35 posted on 06/17/2009 3:59:09 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: ConservativeMan55

czars, fellowships, wonder how closely Obama’s 5 year plan for America looks like Stalin’s 5 year plan? Because Stalin had one too, it would be interesting to compare the steps Stalin took with the ones O is implementing now.


36 posted on 06/17/2009 4:00:05 PM PDT by EmilyGeiger
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To: ConservativeMan55

Robert Gibbs’ replacement-in-waiting?


37 posted on 06/17/2009 4:00:07 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: ConservativeMan55

He will get the tingle up the leg every day I guess.


38 posted on 06/17/2009 4:00:29 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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Well, well. Brokaw can now lunch in the White House with the previous ABC Washington Bureau Chief who is now serving as Biden's communications director...all on the taxpayer's dime.

It's official...the media creeps are now taking over the Federal Gov't.

39 posted on 06/17/2009 4:00:51 PM PDT by what's up
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Maya Soetoro-Ng:

Maya Soetoro-Ng, PhD. has taught and developed Humanities curriculum in public and private schools in New York and Hawaii for fifteen years. She also taught Multicultural Education and Educational Theory at the University of Hawaii’s College of Education. In 2007 and 2008, she campaigned across more than a dozen states for her brother, President Barack Obama. Her children’s book Ladder to the Moon will be published in the winter, and she is currently working on a book about high school Peace Education.


40 posted on 06/17/2009 4:01:30 PM PDT by Nasher
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Maya Soetoro sounds like an Ayers disciple.


41 posted on 06/17/2009 4:04:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Will we have another Lewinsky moment in the White House?

This time it will be a "blue suit"

42 posted on 06/17/2009 4:06:41 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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To: ConservativeMan55

ABC is not Pravda West.


43 posted on 06/17/2009 4:08:30 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Why join them formally?

He’s already spinning the news Obama’s way?

The entire left wing media should sign up with the WH.


44 posted on 06/17/2009 4:08:40 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: what's up
"ABC Washington Bureau Chief who is now serving as Biden's communications director.."

Just in point of fact, Jay Carney, who is now Biden's Communication Director was the Bureau Chief for Time Magazine.

His wife, Claire Shipman, is the Sr. National Correspondent (currently) for ABC News, and is still a frequent contributor on "This Week's" round table discussion.

45 posted on 06/17/2009 4:09:13 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: tacticalogic

Now we’ve got ABC and NBC catfighting over who gets to carry Obama’s water.


46 posted on 06/17/2009 4:09:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: newfreep

Do you mean the “statist generation”? The left has long celebrated the soft collectivism of that generation. Despite its bravery and sacrifice in WWII, the statist generation did not defend individual liberty at home.


47 posted on 06/17/2009 4:10:17 PM PDT by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Every time a Liberal screams about “the press isn’t biased it’s just telling the truth” or even worse “the media is owned by the capitalist yada ydad yada...”I now have TWO things to point to directly, this and the ABC news “from the White House” infomercial coming up..


48 posted on 06/17/2009 4:11:18 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: Big_Monkey

Carney should be fired. Look at the stupid crap that comes out of Bidens office.


49 posted on 06/17/2009 4:11:50 PM PDT by linn37 (cue the circus music the democrats are back in charge)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Now we’ve got ABC and NBC catfighting over who gets to carry Obama’s water.

I propose the "Solomon solution".

50 posted on 06/17/2009 4:11:54 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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