Posted on 11/08/2017 5:13:47 AM PST by MarvinStinson
The portion of former interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile’s book exposing ethically questionable behavior by the Clinton campaign surprisingly got a lot of play on the network Sunday morning shows. But during NBC’s Meet the Press, former anchor Tom Brokaw was not pleased with Brazile for shedding light on how the Clinton campaign bought the DNC and added it to their campaign arsenal. And towards the end of the program, he criticized her for doing so.
As the program was coming back from a commercial, Todd looked to veteran reporter Eugene Robinson and jokingly wondered, “What did the Clintons do to her? … I don't know what other way to ask this question.”
“No, it's a good question. She just said this morning on another network, you know, anybody that didn't like her telling her story can go to hell,” Robinson explained, quoting her appearance on ABC’s This Week from earlier in the day. “So, she's determined to tell her story and I too think there must have been some interaction between her and the Clinton campaign, between her and Clinton, some interaction that left a very sour taste in her mouth.”
Brokaw chimed in as he set his sights on Brazile. “Well, I think this is a manifestation of all that is wrong with the Democratic Party, frankly,” he chided. “I mean, this is a time they ought to be talking about the future and they ought to be organizing themselves about what they want to do with the country.”
He dismissed Clinton’s shady dealings with the DNC as something that people didn’t need to worry about anymore because the 2016 election was in the past.
“Donna is well-known, as you all know, for kind of ready, fire, aim on a lot of the stuff she does,” he sneered, to Todd and one other panelist’s laughter. “But to go back over this now when they're trying to win congressional races and trying to get ready for '18 seems to me to be beyond counter-productive.” Todd then shifted the conversation to the gubernatorial race in Virginia.
But NBC White House Correspondent Kasie Hunt brought it back around when she connected the Virginia race with Clinton’s, arguing that if the Democratic candidate lost it would be because of the same reasons Clinton lost as well. She added:
Look, this DNC controversy, I’m sitting there and watching it. Every Democrat I ask about it tries to ignore questions about it. They pretend they're not even seeing it. They have their heads in the sand about the state of their own liberal base and they can watch the Republicans self-emulate and so they're ignoring their own problems. It's going to come back to bite them. “But that’s exactly it. So, I can make this counterargument about the Brazile book and the allegations, which is that this was going on beneath the surface,” Robinson responded. “Whether or not, you know, it wasn't clearly visible, but perhaps it was a boil that had to be lanced at some point and a fight that Democrats have to have.”
Brokaw’s assertion that Brazile’s accusations shouldn’t be discussed because they’re in the past was ridiculous because that could just be applied to Trump. As a journalist, he should be interested in holding all politicians accountable for their actions and not just the Republican. But this is also coming from the same man who earlier in the program claimed he couldn’t think of a President who put more blame on other people than Donald Trump.
Excellent point.
Tom needs to talk to his old buddy David Brinkley about why he felt the way he did the night of Bill’s second election. It was on of the best off-mic comments of all time.
Brinkley said, “ Among things I admire, almost near the top is creativeness . . . Bill Clinton has none of it. He has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore, he’s a bore, and will always be a bore.”
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/David-Brinkley-Signs-Off-With-Blast-at-Clinton-2960253.php
With, for or to the country. Good catch, very telling.
How “far beyond” Tom?
As far as your head is up Hillary’s bu**?
Where are the other pages?
There must be some deep lurid history here—probably we won’t find out about it until after he is dead.
(see my tagline)
Tom Blowchow closes ranks with his fellow Democrats.
she must be tapping right on the root nerve of the dem party. Plus I posit she knows a lot more about a lot more.
here’s another article:
The msm loves them some Clintons.
And to think Tom, I believe both of them should be in jail.
5.56mm
Tom might have a problem getting a response back from David Brinkley considering he died fourteen years ago.
IMHO, David Brinkley was one of the last good journalists.
“Instead of ‘news’ media, we should call it something else ...... Fluffaganda? Propaguff?”
Fake News seems to work pretty well.
I do NOT remember Brokaw saying anything negative about the Watergate investigation & Woodward & Bernstein uncovering ‘something that happened in the past’.
The American media is nothing but a pack of whores.
Note to Brokaw:
Payback is a merciless bitch.
Tom Brokaw is still talking about Richard Nixon!
Nixon was no way the criminals that the Clintons and obamas are. Not even close.
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