Tom Brokaw appointed to Obama commission (after June 5th interview)

Drudge Report, White House.gov., msnbc ^ | 6/17/2009 | various

[GVnana]

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

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.

See Brokaw's "in the tank" June 5th interview of Obama here: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/05/1955244.aspx

From NBC's Mark Murray
In an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw, President Obama talked about the World War II generation, what Iranian President Ahmadinejad could learn from Obama's visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp today, and Middle East peace.

[GVnana]

And one day, we'll all have government jobs! /sarcasm>

[Texas Eagle]

The Greatest Suckup.

[popdonnelly]

Selling out, eh, Tom?

[South40]

His signing bonus...

[GeronL]

The Government-Media Complex

[Danae]

Better send him a bib

[Diogenesis]

Old Media = tough, inquisitory, accurate, for America.

New Media = fawning, passive, uncurious, antiAmerican, makes PRAVDA look good every single day.

[South40]

And a bathing cap.

[Danae]

ROTFLMAO. Send him a terrible towel or two.

[theDentist]

Tom Brokaw, High-Priced Presstitute

[South40]

[popdonnelly]

Well, we’ve got former political hacks posing as “journalists”, so why not have a journalist become a political hack?

[YHAOS]

There goes the neighborhood.

[Freedom2specul8]

LoL~!!!!!!!! I laugh, and then I remember—the SADNESS comes back. ((Sigh))

[MaryFromMichigan]

[Tublecane]

I was sick of that whole “Greatest Generation” stuff before it even took off. Stop patting them on the back. Living through adversity doesn’t make you great. What about generations that were successful? That didn’t have to fight a war or slug through a depression. You know, the ones that did things right.

[Mr. K]

Did he bow? (Or curtsy?)

[RoseofTexas]

He is after all “THE LORD OF THE FLIES”! I hear the WH is infested with them...hmmmm makes you wonder. All the scary flicks always show flies as a symbol of demonic work at hand!!! MAKES YOU WONDER!

[Tublecane]

I mean, I know it wasn’t their fault. They were unlucky. I’d just like to know when we’re going to start praising success and peace. Happiness doesn’t have to be so damn hard to attain.

[MarkBsnr]

***I was sick of that whole “Greatest Generation” stuff before it even took off.***

Let us ask ourselves who birthed and nurtured the 60s generation of peace love dope and Marxism. The Greatest Generation produced the Sorriest Generation. And that, in my humble opinion, does not make them great. Quite the opposite, in fact.