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FLASH! Tom Brokaw Involved in Soros-Funded Charity that Funds ACORN
NewsBusters ^ | October 17, 2008 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 10/16/2008 9:38:51 PM PDT by george76

"Meet the Press" interim moderator Tom Brokaw sits on the board of a liberal foundation that has given radical left-wing group ACORN $821,000 and that in turn is funded by liberal uber-donor George Soros, research reveals.

Conservatives have long considered Brokaw's political views to be somewhere on the left, but these revelations raise new questions about the former NBC News anchor's objectivity.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: acorn; brokaw; georgesoros; media; msm; oldmedia; soros; tombrokaw
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1 posted on 10/16/2008 9:38:52 PM PDT by george76
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Brokaw sits on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a charity that, according to its website, targets poverty in New York City by applying “sound investment principles to philanthropy.” The foundation awarded ACORN a $456,000 grant in 2003 and a $365,000 grant in 2004. Brokaw does not appear to have played a role in the grants because he didn’t become a member of the board until 2005 according to the guidestar.org database, but these are nevertheless the left-wing circles in which he travels.

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Now come on, this isn’t fair reporting...


2 posted on 10/16/2008 9:40:49 PM PDT by bahblahbah (http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/)
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Brokaw: “Soros and ACORN were just some acquaintances in the neighborhood...”
3 posted on 10/16/2008 9:41:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: george76
Brokejaw is within reproach? Heaven help us!
4 posted on 10/16/2008 9:42:43 PM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (John Gard for Congress; WI 8th CD)
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To: george76

You think Sossel or OReilly will ever moderate a debate?


5 posted on 10/16/2008 9:43:24 PM PDT by nufsed
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WOW! No wonder he was such a louzy moderator who chose the dumb questions to be asked at the debate.


6 posted on 10/16/2008 9:44:04 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER -- VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN2008! LetsGetThisRight.com)
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To: george76

bttt


7 posted on 10/16/2008 9:44:43 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: george76

Well...isn’t THAT special..


8 posted on 10/16/2008 9:48:17 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Socialism is great until you run out of someone else's money (M. Thatcher))
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To: george76
I have an annual report for "THE PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY" from about 15 years ago.... picked it up in a hospital waiting room...I did NOT purchase it!!!

Tom Brokaw is listed as a supporter of that far left organization.

Brokaw is another media "impartial" FAKE.

9 posted on 10/16/2008 9:49:00 PM PDT by Bob Eimiller (appeasement "it's the idea that if you feed the alligator he will eat you last." Winston Churchill)
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To: george76

Move along now, nothing to see here.

Seriously, something is at play here. This guy has been treated with kid gloves by the media since he announced his candidacy. Even the Clintons, with their connections in the media and on the left, had an uphill fight in the press.

I mean, it’s more than just the prospect of the first black president, right? If anything, it looks like an attempt to bum rush the electorate with a radical left wing presidential candidate under the guise of electing the first black pres.

I’ve yet to see a “mainstream” journalist really go after Obama. The time that he was in college and law school seems undocumented. Then he’s in the state senate and that’s all we know. With all of the shady and extreme figures in his life, there would seem to be the fodder for a well done expose.

Sooner or later the truth will come out about the media fluff job done on Obama this election cycle. Now, if McCain can beat Obama in this environment, then I think someone just wasted a bunch of their cash.


10 posted on 10/16/2008 9:49:18 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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...these revelations raise new questions about the former NBC News anchor's objectivity.

Only for the stupid and terminally naive amongst us.

11 posted on 10/16/2008 9:50:36 PM PDT by Rudder (That one, Hussein Obama)
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To: bahblahbah

Dana Carvey on Browkaw, McCain and Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mavvzmLhlA


12 posted on 10/16/2008 9:57:01 PM PDT by afortiori
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Robin Foundation what a name. Spread the wealth by stealing from the tax payer and giving to the non-tax payer.

Now Joe biden and Barack Hussein say that’s a patriotic thing to di!


13 posted on 10/16/2008 10:06:44 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama stands for The New United Socialist State or "TNUSSA")
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Tom Brokejaw, “I think I was like 8 years old when that money was donated ... sound about right?”


14 posted on 10/16/2008 10:26:11 PM PDT by webschooner (Welcome to the wonderful world of Socialism -- kindly check your money and possessions at the door.)
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To: nufsed

Are you kidding. No democrat would let them near the lectern. They won’t even let Bret Hume ask questions and they blocked FOX being part of a Democratic debate sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. The MSM would back them to the hilt if some how the bipartisan group that hosts the debate ever managed to select anyone other than an approved liberal.


15 posted on 10/16/2008 10:42:59 PM PDT by airedale ( XZ)
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To: george76

Why is the public tolerating the selection of liberals only for Presidential debates. This is a scandal. Their choice of issues and the phrasing of questions is obviously biased. The last guy prefaced a question on the necessary cutting of programs with the statement that both Obama and MCCain’s proposed programs would cost billions in new taxes. Obama’s programs obviously outcost McCain’s. The way the question was phrased precluded McCain from making that point.

People should be outraged and flooding the debate committee with complaints.


16 posted on 10/17/2008 12:14:33 AM PDT by marsh2
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**Meet the Press” interim moderator Tom Brokaw sits on the board of a liberal foundation that has given radical left-wing group ACORN $821,000 and that in turn is funded by liberal uber-donor George Soros, research reveals.**

More, more!


17 posted on 10/17/2008 12:19:09 AM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: marsh2

I mentioned several years ago that you don’t need a moderator. Give each candidate two minute slots and let them take turns saying what they want to.


18 posted on 10/17/2008 4:54:48 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Han Solo -- "It just wont matter? Turn that droid off. Never tell me the odds!")
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To: MeekOneGOP; TigersEye; floriduh voter

ping


19 posted on 10/17/2008 5:17:31 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Han Solo -- "It just wont matter? Turn that droid off. Never tell me the odds!")
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To: bahblahbah

Robin Hood Foundation?????

Wow, truth really is stranger than fiction.


20 posted on 10/17/2008 5:23:26 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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