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'Learned a lesson': Tom Brokaw apologizes for inaccurate reporting on Richard Jewell and 1996 Atlanta bombing
Washington Examiner ^ | December 26, 2019 | Mike Brest | December 26, 2019

Posted on 12/27/2019 10:35:07 AM PST by Eddie01

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To: KC_Conspirator

Perfect


21 posted on 12/27/2019 10:52:25 AM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: Eddie01

22 posted on 12/27/2019 10:54:54 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Buckeye McFrog

For 22 freakin’ years Tom Brokaw carried the deep state narrative, lying to America and protecting communists for 5720 weekdays straight.

... and to this very day he carries the deep state narrative, but now he want’s his fraudulent legacy as “newsman” protected?

NO SALE Tommy!


23 posted on 12/27/2019 10:56:19 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Wouldn’t be the last time the truth would emerge on a Brokaw report


24 posted on 12/27/2019 10:56:23 AM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: Eddie01

But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We’ll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he’s going to win. We’ll tell you any s... you want to hear.

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So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF...

-Howard Beale (Network, 1976)


25 posted on 12/27/2019 10:56:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eddie01

Always shooting their mouth off before verifying details; but that’s the way they do things.


26 posted on 12/27/2019 10:56:51 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: dfwgator

They still eat it though.


27 posted on 12/27/2019 10:58:05 AM PST by Leep (Many shall be deceived ( by liberals ))
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To: Eddie01

They ruined his life, and didn’t care. What’s the life of one old fat White man?


28 posted on 12/27/2019 10:58:36 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: chris37

Brokaw: “i reported that and speculated why”

The above quote says it all. Brokaw knew from his “senior” FBI source that the government was fishing for leads to arrest Jewel. Brokaw didn’t care about Jewel. He cared only about bragging to his adoring fans about how connected he was to the FBI and how he could enlighten them about the progress of the investigation. Now that Jewel is dead, and Clint Eastwood rightly has portrayed the media as hyenas, Brokaw is sorry. Too little, too late.


29 posted on 12/27/2019 10:59:43 AM PST by JGPhila
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To: Eddie01

So, does that mean we have to wait 22 years for the apology about the Russian election interference/Steele Dossier/FISA warrant lies?


30 posted on 12/27/2019 11:02:23 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: SkyDancer; Buckhead
Always shooting their mouth off before verifying details; but that’s the way they do things.

The deep state was feeding Brokaw his lines no different than today.

Hard to wrap your head around, but true.

There was no journalism back then as there is no journalism today, just deep state propaganda only packaged such that it appeared credible.

The deep state handed Rather the memos and he was told to go on air and give them credibility, but he got caught by none other than our very own Buckhead.

Now the mask if off and Brokaw wants us to believe there was another time when journalists were impartial and great newsmen like Brokaw had integrity beyond reproach.

That is all complete BS and Brokaw was one of the very worst ever. It's just he never got caught red handed like Rather and Williams.

My opinion anyway FWIW...

31 posted on 12/27/2019 11:04:47 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

You ALL tried to crucify him, just like you are all trying to do to Special Ops Chief Eddie Gallagher now- liberal media are scum of the earth- You all didn’t ‘unintentionally get it wrong’- You all INTENTIONALLY got it wrong in your attempt to destroy Richard Jewell and now Special Ops Chief Eddie Gallagher- You’ve destroyed folks like Mike Flynn and others-

Sorry- your apology is not accepted- you all don’t mean it- ever!! Your apology is worthless!


32 posted on 12/27/2019 11:04:57 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Eddie01

Notice how so many in the media and entertainment industry just toss an “I’m sorry” statement over the wall, yet they will not accept anything such from a conservative.


33 posted on 12/27/2019 11:05:33 AM PST by Nifty
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To: Eddie01
Brokaw is now fat and unshaven and waddles around in shabby clothes like a homeless person. I tried to find a picture of him that way but Google seems to have purged those pictures from their search engine.
 
34 posted on 12/27/2019 11:07:07 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: aquila48
You would think people like him and Dan Rather would just shut up and disappear.

You clearly don't understand the sort of ego that drove them to want to become national TV anchormen in the first place. They'll be yapping in front of some camera until the day he assumes room temperature.


35 posted on 12/27/2019 11:11:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Eddie01

The mainstream media has been colluding with the FB-lie since 1996?


36 posted on 12/27/2019 11:11:43 AM PST by wai-ming
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To: Eddie01

Hi.

“FUTB!”

Yep.

5.56mm


37 posted on 12/27/2019 11:13:39 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: Eddie01

I bet! Brokaw has about as much sympathy for Richard Jewell as the abortionist woman has for the babies whose vocal cords she severed so she wouldn’t hear them screaming . . .


38 posted on 12/27/2019 11:20:57 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: dfwgator

They haven’t learned shit.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

No, in fact they have only gotten worse.
They know what they are reporting as news is propaganda.


39 posted on 12/27/2019 11:22:14 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: wai-ming

Tom didn’t have “sources” at the FBI, he worked for them reporting what they needed reported.

...and yes, Tom put err’d and put down a marker at 1996, but the FBI was founded July 26, 1908.

The FBI’s history of manipulating the news likely started sometime in the first half of the 20th century and progressed from there.


40 posted on 12/27/2019 11:25:12 AM PST by Eddie01
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