Meet The Press: Tom Brokaw Wants Al Gore To Think Of The Children!
By Nicole Belle Saturday Jul 19, 2008 6:30pm
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Somewhere in the darkest recesses of the RNC (or from Norquist's or Rove's office, your pick) the fax machine was working over time making sure that Tom Brokaw had the latest GOP talking points to discredit Al Gore for his appearance on Meet the Press. You know Al, that over-achiever that managed to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Nobel Peace Prize and legitimately the office of the Presidency before the Supreme Court overreached and gave it to George W. Bush, the lifetime underachiever. That kind of superiority niggles at a party that believes that government can't do anything well, so they'll find anything--and I do mean anything--to detract from Al Gore's message.
This one is especially laughable though, and truly beneath Brokaw in its clear partisan bent. When the "Draft Al Gore" movement was in full gear, Gore demurred from running again, saying that he wasn't interested in the political gamesmanship necessary to mount a campaign. Tom Brokaw confronts Gore, worried that he's sending the wrong message to the children:
BROKAW: Let me ask you about your attitude towards politics these days. I was a little surprised. You're a man who was in politics at the highest level in this country: in the House of Representatives; in the Senate; Vice President for eight years and yet you said recently, "What politics has become requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply." Is that the right kind of signal to send to the young people of this country who more than any time in recent memory are deeply involved in the political decisions that we're making this year? And young people who want to get into the political arena look to Al Gore and he said ‘it's all about trivia and nonsense.'
Oh good lord. That's so head-poundingly stupid that I'm surprised that Al Gore took the time to respectfully respond. My first inclination would have been to laugh in Brokaw's face and point out that those kinds of questions are exactly the kind of triviality and nonsense I have little tolerance for. But it gets worse. Gore's response merits the concern troll follow up of "but I can hear Rush Limbaugh saying this about you..."
BROKAW: With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, I can already hear your critics and I don't do Rush Limbaugh, so I will not attempt to. But I can hear him saying on radio, "Well there's Prince Albert. There he was, 25 years hanging out with lobbyists, raising big money, then he lost and now he's above the process, calling it trivial and nonsense."
Tom Brokaw = Concern Troll. Gore goes on to encourage Americans to be on the forefront of alternative energy development and to raise awareness of the ramifications to our environment if we don't and Tom Brokaw--elder statesman of NBC News--wants him to be worried about Rush Limbaugh poking fun at him.
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BROKAW: Let me ask you about your attitude towards politics these days. I was a little surprised. You're a man who was in politics at the highest level in this country: in the House of Representatives; in the Senate; Vice President for eight years and yet you said recently, "What politics has become requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply." Is that the right kind of signal to send to the young people of this country who more than any time in recent memory are deeply involved in the political decisions that we're making this year. And young people who want to get into the political arena look to Al Gore and he said ‘it's all about trivia and nonsense.'
GORE: Well, no....I...that quote you used was about my own personal tolerance for...bear in mind, I was in the political process for almost 30 years. And I...no, I encourage people to get involved in politics. Public service is an honorable calling and I'm very excited by the way, about the fact that millions of young people that haven't been involved in the past are now getting involved, many of them for Senator Obama, of course. And I think that's exciting. I do think, Tom, that we have a very serious set of problems affecting our democracy. The role of big money, the role of lobbyists, the role of special interests, it's a very serious problem for our democracy. I think the new internet-based forms of organizing and mobilizing people and that's what has gotten a lot of these young people involved offer a real ray of hope. I'm optimistic, but I think my best role is to try to help that...bring...come to pass and to focus on enlarging the political space so that we can start focusing on real solutions and not these gimmicks.
BROKAW: With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, I can already hear your critics and I don't do Rush Limbaugh, so I will not attempt to. But I can hear him saying on radio, "Well there's Prince Albert. There he was, 25 years hanging out with lobbyists, raising big money, then he lost and now he's above the process, calling it trivial and nonsense."
GORE: I'm not saying that I'm above the process. I was in it for a long time. When I first was elected 32 years ago, I called for full public financing of every federal election. I introduced legislation and proposed that every year...
BROKAW: And your guy Obama has turned it down...He said he was for public financing and now he's decided to stay in the private sector.
GORE: There's a new reality now with the internet-based small donor playing the dominant role. And I think that's another example of how the internet has helped to bring about some positive changes that can give us a way to break the back of the special interests dominance that we have in government today.
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Gore!
Gore is a giant among men, Rush is a talentless overpaid blowhard whose only claim to fame being he has a gullible knuckledragging following and being someone who has contributed nothing to society other than to poison it with reich wing water carrying, propaganda, lies and smears. You can't can't even say Limpballs name in the same breath as Al Gore. Brokaw even bringing Limpball's name up in front of Gore as someone Gore would even give a shit about was an insult.
Gore's an intellectual, which is why he--at least while being himself--could never become President.
The children think Tom Brokaw is an asshole.
Tom Brokow is a pretty boy of the rich masters. He is vain, watch him being interviewed ,and he is owned.
To even mention Gore and Limbaugh in the same sentence is idiotic. What in the world is wrong with Brokaw? Limbaugh makes fun of Brokaw, calls him Brokejaw and now Brokaw is ligitimizing Limbaugh by even mentioning his name on MTP. What a joke Brokaw has become. Gore is more of a man than either Brokaw or Limbaugh will ever be.
OK, so let's get this straight, he wants Gore to think of how to send a good example for my generation, when the GOP's taken a crap all over the Constitution and didn't bother to clean up afterwards....why? Shouldn't the current administration have been thinking about that for the last 7.5 years?
timmy was bad but this guy is so faux.
'in ritalin we trust'
Retire Tom, and stop being a shill for the GOP. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
how about the truth for the children...
Tom Brokaw = corporate whore.
They still bitching about Obama turning down public financing?
Christ! A politician actually turns down taxpayer money and they whine. That money could be used to fix bridges, feed children, etc.
This country is a bunch of whiners.
brokaw is just a pawn of the reichwingneocons.
they are desparate now and the is limit to how
low they will descend to smear. they don't throw
mud, they throw their own feces when they are
willing to remove their hands so deeply set up
their cavernous butts.
You may have noticed lately that even those talking heads which once were deemed liberal are moving to the right. This is coming from their corporate masters; if you want to keep your job, tow the line. The corporations will not tolerate losing the finest puppet government money can buy.
Really , Brokaw? The economy is in the shitter, our military is being run into the ground, thousands of US troops - not mention untold hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives - have been lost in a stupid, pointless war, and you're worried about what some bloated gasbag like Limbaugh thinks? Fuck you, Mr. Brokaw. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Attila the Appeaser, No Stomach for Kristol @ 4:
haha, I was gonna say... ya the children do think Tom Brokaw is an asshole. and Brian Williams, and Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. and, Rush, and BillO and Ann Coulter. etc, etc.
why do you think blogs and message boards are a more popular news source than televised media, Mr. Brokaw?
look, I work in marketing. we know the 15-29 demographic is one of the strongest spending powers on the planet. and yet, what do you see advertised on traditional 6:00 nightly news? big boring sedans. investment/retirement packages. pain relief medication.
now, go to any popular blog. left, or right-leaning. look at the banner ads. cell phones with lots of cool, complicated features. rad new Microsoft data mining tools. funny/ironic t-shirts.
wtf, Mr. Brokaw? do you really think Ford is a stronger investment than LG or Samsung? do you really think Tylenol is more popular with the kids than Intel? (or even Snorg, for that matter?)
Mr. Gore is thinking of the children. by calling out crap, old school politics for what it is. crappy, and out-dated.
my generation is very politically active. because we're sick of hacks like you dominating it, Mr. Brokaw. go back into retirement. you suck. and take that useless, flirty little tart Katie Couric with you.
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Turn off your T.V. sets and cancel your cable.
The internet is where it is at.
Period.
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Tom (Not Tom) @ 15:
Eloquent!
Tom (Not Tom) @ 15:
brokaw didn't ride in, he got his head stuck in the
horse's arse and was lead in. you can call it blinders
for the gop impaired.
Some people get wiser as they get older.
It appears that may be the case for Gore; not so for Brokaw.
Amitola @ 20:
ya gotta have brains to begin with.
Bush broke up the wrong republican guard.
I know my children. They would be apalled by Brokaw's B.S. Sellout!
This whole conservative movement is like a bad dream, it's a joke. I wish we could get back to Democratic dominated politics. I could care less what some lame hate jock thinks and so does most of America.
Thanks to the adults of San Franscisco, they plan to inform the children of what the Republicans stand for. They have qualified a ballot to vote to name a S--t waste plant after George W. Bush. This will be to inform the children to be cautious of the Bush crowd.
Mr Gore is thinking of the children and our children's children and all of us. We are in desperate need of leaders not politicians. People with real ideas and real solutions, not pandering politicians. We have a government that legislates to the trivial and can't see beyond it's collective nose. Things are in a mess and people like Mr Gore are offering ideas that can work. However, it is going to take more than sound bites and psychological legislation to correct the mess made by over 30 years of short term, short sighted polices. We must act now or we face a dire and dismal future. However, it doesn't have to be that way. If we really want change, we the American people must demand leadership not politics from the people in Washington.
He didn't lose! That's the whole point!
When Brokaw asked Gore about his old running buddie Lieberman, Gore gave weak, evasive, guarded answers that sadly reminded me of Gore in 2000. Al could have displayed the strong fearless leadership the Democrats sorely need....disappointing.
Tom Brokaw = Concern Troll = Corporate Shill = Sellout Prostitute
Think of the children. What an Ass. It IS about trivia and nonsense. It has nothing to do with making the world a better place for all-it's about scooping up as much money and power for you and yours. Fuck everyone else...
Add to the "Pot = a Class A Narcotic" lie - "Politics is all about working for and giving to your country." Bullshit Tom. Just Bullshit.
STOP George @ 17:
Actually, some of us can manage both.
Brokaw couldn't carry Gore's gym bag. Tommy should just put a cork in it. (No wonder, after 30 years, that Gore has finally had it up to here with media garbage like Brokaw.)
What a tool. Reality doesn't matter to Brokaw. Gore pointing it out somehow does. Somehow, Brokaw ignores Bush's entire presidency and the role it's played?
Tom Brokaw forgets he's talking to a real journalist.
Gore was on the military newspaper Stars and Stripes in Vietnam.
One could argue that An Inconvenient Truth isn't just a documentary, but a journalistic documentary that would make Edward R. Murrow proud.
If you want future genearations to run for office don't reduce journalism to the level of the paparazzi and then blame those who leave politics because they are fed up.
21 Jo Says: Amitola @ 20:
Some people get wiser as they get older.
It appears that may be the case for Gore; not so for Brokaw.
ya gotta have brains to begin with.
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Y-Gore brought me mine.
Let's hear it for GE Employee of the Month Tom Brokaw.
Gore should have just punched Brokaw in the face. Brokaw deserves nothing less.
This is as bad as Stephanopolous's right wing sycophantry during the debates when he asked Obama about some obscure Black Panther person. Ambush journalism.
Some people get wiser as they get older.
It appears that may be the case for Gore; not so for Brokaw.
Some people stay imbedded in a child like state their whole lives, like Brokaw and Bush.
Haven't we ,not me but America, been listening to this white wing, hate monger spew his filth for eons? Has America moved toward or away from the cave in those years of incessant blathering. Tom what kid do you wish to curse by emulating Rush?
In many ways Albert Gore is not ever going to be face of evolution. Albert can not arguing against rock star celebrity status.
And Tom would make fun of him except it isn't polite.
And yet there is a quality about the man, Albert Gore that cannot be denied. An honesty so basic that it hurts. Albert Gore has a morality that few man can touch.
Obama lied to us about the FISA bill but I have know doubt that Albert Gore would NEVER have violated his oath of office or EVER lied to Americans the way Obama felt fee to lie about that FISA bill and did it without a second thought.
Albert has a vision and I would very much like to act on it. He see an American that he loves, while Obama see an American that he can manipulate.
It is not color of your skin but content of your character, and so it this were the reason we would choose a President than ONLY Albert Gore would ever qualify.
How it sucks to be them. Like anybody under the age of early retirement is listening to Tom Brokaw! I laugh.
Me_again @ 39:
If anyone is lying, it's you troll. Obama changed his position(I hate it too), but he didn't lie. Get your damn facts(?) correct. And what the fuck was that unnecessary color reference about?
Gore should've been president and if he was we wouldn't be in the mess that we are now. But it doesn't mean that he gets a free pass by anyone. You might think you're defending Gore, but all you're doing is mimicking Republican tactics in attacking his questioner.
Brokaw's questions were legitimate and Gore gave good, reasonable answers. Brokaw's job isn't to agree with Gore. Brokaw's job is to probe deeper into what Gore meant by his initial statement and to get him to explain it better. You might have understood what Gore said initially, but maybe not everybody did.
Honestly, I'm embarrassed by many of your comments here. You all seem to have just agreed with Nicole's initial comment. Many comments just denigrated Brokaw without explaining why you disagree with his comments. If I wanted that kind of crap I could just watch Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. I expect better from liberals/progressives.
Hey Brokaw, who's going to tell the "children" that their country was bankrupted and turned into the worst type of police state by your right wing NeoCON puppet masters.
Left&Left @ 41:
And another thing liar, if Gore "loved America" so much why did he allow the Republicans to ass fuck him in 2000 and sent home without paying for his cab. Don't revise the truth about Gore(who I greatly admire NOW) while you hide your dislike for Obama with bullshit.
I wish we would forget about what "the children will think" for a minute and worry about the adults for a little while.
Browkaw is way better than Russet, though. He even asked a question where he asked Al to compare and contrast his position with that of another environmentalist. I never saw such a thing happening during Russet years. He would always ask gotcha questions (you said this in 1975 and now in 2008 are saying something else question ...) or throw right wing lunatic talking points (we all know reducing taxes increases tax revenue ...) and never a question contrasting 2 legitimate liberal positions ...
well said, "You know Al, that over-achiever that managed to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Nobel Peace Prize and legitimately the office of the Presidency before the Supreme Court overreached and gave it to George W. Bush, the lifetime underachiever. That kind of superiority niggles at a party that believes that government can’t do anything well, so they’ll find anything–and I do mean anything–to detract from Al Gore’s message" And Brokow goes to the front of the line of media whores. He has the audacity in his best fox impersonation to question a quality person of the stature of al gore. Eat shit, brokow.
Left&Left @ 41:
He was paraphrasing Martin Luther King, and you didn't recognize it?
Argue against it's misuse if you want, but don't try to twist it into one of your anti-racist tirades.
Spreading the message about global warming is doing a 100 times more for the children than any promotion of becoming active in politics. Great, you got a bunch of campaign activists out there pushing you to vote for liar #1 or liar #2 and then you have this man Al Gore who is not interested in running to gain power, but is more interested in promoting environmental education to the public. If Al Gore ran for office this time around, he would most likely get elected....but he has a higher calling and for that I greatly admire him. And my children will know everything about this mans message and cause. Brokaw is completely off on this one.
I have to go back to King Kong now but this final thought.
We've got this one politician of color here in Dallas, an asshole if there ever was one. He's made himself a laughing-stock here. Another city politician (white) was complaining in a hearing about one department where everything, messages, memos, documents, get lost and refered to the the department as a black hole. This is an astronomical feature well known, that once anything, including light enters it, it never escapes.
John Wiley Price and another lesser known politician insisted he apologize for the racial slur. All they suceeded in doing was making Dallas laugh at them, and making themselves look uneducated (although they probably saw subliminal racism in it.)
STOP George @ 17:
agree - i don't even own a TeeVee... wheepa!
C'mon everybody. It's Brokaw's role to challenge. I hope that he asks tough questions of everyone...If I got that he sends softballs to someone on the right I'd be bothered, but I don't have a single issue with him asking tough questions of the left--even if it is Gore.
We need more of this--not less of this. Maybe I'm missing the substance of the complaint. We can't be so predictable as to complain about the tough question of the left figure and say great job to the reporter that slams the figure of the right.
Gore handled it deftly as well. I'm open to other opinions, but remember back in the seventies when we had reporters that asked tough questions?
That line was paraphrasing a line from the I Have a Dream speech.
ysbaddaden @ 48:
If #39 had a point to make concerning his dislike for Obama he didn't need lie on the Senator or go Sean Hannity with that gratuitous color reference. Thank you for the history lesson, but you don't make the rules. I'll always see the world differently than you Ysb, I thank my family upbringing and my education for that....you seem to have a real problem with opinions that you're not accustomed to hearing.
Milton Friedman @ 55:
Trash the messenger---the M.O. of critics like you who do nothing and ultimately contribute nothing. Guess that Emmy, Oscar and Nobel prize that Gore won weren't enough for you. Any of your Republican comrades win any of those lately?
I didn't think so. They're too busy sucking up swill from the corporate hogtrough.
es-HUSSEIN-me @ 51:
I canceled my cable about 4-5 years ago because Time Warner couldn't shut off Fox News for my household (it was causing a tick close to my eye). Then I stopped watching TV altogether a couple of years ago (the yelling and screaming men were causing migraines). Then I gave away my TV leaving a huge quiet spot in the middle of the living room.
This little interview sounds like lots of air time for all trivia and nonsense perhaps to avoid air time for any news and information that may increase our knowlege and understanding. If this news reporter really cared about kids he'd discuss the impact of global warming, energy costs, and poverty on today's youth.
Don from Canada @ 22:
Nice!
Milton Friedman @ 57:
BS... you asshats always try to attack the messenger when you have no response to the message. This time the message is too big to hide though. You see it's not about Gore... its about our energy needs and future of the frickin' planet.
Jeesus CHRIIIIST, Tom.
Have you ever actually LISTENED to the OVER-HEATED DIARRHETIC BLATHER that comes out of Rush's mouth while he's actually sitting at his "golden microphone?"
If you did, you would not stoop to mention his name again on the supposed hallowed airwaves of Meet The Press. Rush is a bottom feeder like those Halibut whose lower eye has rotated around the front of their skull because the only thing to look at below is the muddy sandy bottom... where excrement goes to rot with the dead carcasses of the rest of the world.
Did you know that every time his NAME is mentioned on any other media, he will repeat it, ad nauseum, on his own program to PROVE to his idiot listeners that HE is the most important, most commented on, most controversial talker the world has ever seen! Tom Brokaw, you gotta take a listen from time to time to know what the enemy is up to. Over at The AIB... it aint pretty.
I swore off Sunday morning shows and most cable news shows a long time ago but tuned in this morning to catch Al Gore. He is such an inspiring and thoughtful man and I really wanted him to run for President this year. We could have avoided that awful and nasty primary season and had a truly great man as our candidate early on and we could have looked forward to a Democratic landslide. I am really not inspired by Obama but hope his VP pick will help that a bit. And Left & Left - Obama was not honest when he said he would filibuster any bill that gave immunity to the telecoms and then voted for it.
Brokaw lost all credibility when he pondered what Limpballs might say. Gore should have just laughed at him and told him what a stupid thing that was but he is too much of a gentleman. TV went back off when David Gregory and that other guy, NBC's new boy-toy talking head (He's so impressive I can't ever remember his name) showed up.
That's what you get when you put an infantile in for Tim Russert. I'm not saying Brokaw should have knelt before the Messiah of Global Warming, but Tim Russert didn't just "nail" people. That's not what it was about. And when he did, it was by using a person's own words, rather than by using Fox News' usual "Some people say..."
And, Al Gore is thinking of the children, in fact, all the children on the planet and trying to make sure the planet last long enough for them to grow up and have their own children. Brokaw and all those like him are the reason I can't watch those damn shows anymore. The state of our media is insulting to any thinking person.
For what I'm sure won't be the last time, but ought to be, AL GORE DID NOT WIN AN OSCAR. The director of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Not Al Gore. Like Gore needs an Oscar anyway. I'll take the Nobel.
But even though he didn't win one, an Oscar is a good size for someone to shove up Rush Limbaugh's ass.
Gregg Martinson @ 52:
He loses all legitimacy when he quotes what Rush will spit out. Limbaugh is just a hate-filled fear monger who has helped ruin America.
What a schmuck Brokaw proves himself to be! He isn't worthy to lick Tim Russerts boots much less fill his shoes.
They should give Meet the Press to Maddow.
Why is it that I am made aware of the word 'troll' and its meaning just yesterday, and I read it here on this site within 5 minutes?
Also, I believe the 'right' tends to discount Mr. Brokaw; I've never heard him described as a GOP-talking-points-reader before, either.
chuck-a-muck @ 68:
Because this is only the second day you've been reading blogs?
Someday in the future, history will remember Al Gore as a great American that was either the man who was instrumental in changing the direction of our people to save our home, or the one that we should have listened to. Either way he'll be the one people will read about in the history books someday. Those who weren't around to suffer during this terrible time, won't even know who George Bush was. When they read about him he'll be referenced as the unpopular president that nearly destroyed our country and hopefully they'll be reading that he was tried and convicted for his crimes against America and humanity.
Pretty amazing interview. As if Brokaw had checked with the RNC to get his talking points. Making a big deal about Gore's house? I don't think that would have been the angle for a supposedly respected news show 30 years ago. But it's exactly the same talking point the right uses to try to distract from Gore's message.
That's NOT the job of the Media. To help shoot down a much needed message that is in the best interest of ALL of us.
The tumbling into shill city by the so-called "liberal media" is one of the most amazing stories of the last couple of decades. Its demise was accelerated by Bush and his cronies. And you will NEVER see the same kind of scrutiny about houses paid to conservatives. Never. Ever. You will NEVER see these so-called journalists treating conservatives in the same way. They just let them have their soapbox time without interruption. They don't try everything in their power to distract them from their message via trivialities. Again, the Brokaws of this world just let conservatives rant.
It's truly gotten out of hand.
"With all due respect, Mr. Vice President,"
Right. When are these chumps ever gonna give Al Gore the respect he deserves?
Gore is a class act who through it all has kept his head above the fray.
in my opinion, brokaw was correct in asking gore to further explain the comments he made on triviality in politics and his tolerance for the nonsensical. actually brokaw did him a service, in that he allowed gore to refine his views and head off the sure to come ditto head smear machine that will pounce on gore's comments.
brokaw's savvy enough to have predicted much of gore's response to his inquiry.
Bluesage @ 62:
No one knows but Obama if he lied or changed his mind whatever his reasoning. I hate what he has appeared to do on FISA also but I don't think he lied.....changing your mind doesn't constitute lying without proof.
On the contrary, I think Tom did a spectacular Rush Limbaugh.
Brokaw came off as a humorless washerwoman, returning to his petty laundry list of GOP talking points with wearying regularity.
tom brokaw, why are you hurting america?
what will the children think?
why didn't gore just tell tom to read his book, "the assault on reason"?
the answer is simple: dumb journalism and dumb politics are hurting america.
stupid stupid stupid
Shame on you Tom Brokaw.
Tom Brokaw has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Elites Cabal , so he never had anything to sell out . Here's what the president of the CFR in on record saying .
And all of the following from Richard N. Haass, CFR President:
“… states (traditionally meaning countries) must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function.”
“Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.”
“… sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalization.”
“Globalization thus implies that sovereignty … needs to become weaker.”
“States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves …”
Brokaw is worthless. I have no idea what he did that made everyone treat him as a wise pundit. He read the news off a TelePrompter. How does that make him a worthy commentator?
Brokaw is as qualified to comment on politics as mccain is to be president. Namely, not.
Typical MSM mentality. Very telling. They can't handle the truth; treat them all like children.
Hey, Brokaw, why not act like a reporter. Forget your self-censorship for once and see how it feels.
When did Brokaw become Michael Jackson?
Brokaw is just another rich media celebrity with a very, very thin veneer of integrity and objectivity. He is as concerned with preserving the status quo and his pampered and priviledged position as is Rush Limpballs. It's all about class interest people.
problem is the talk radio monopoly is more responsible than any other factor for this mess we're in and will continue to do the groundwork for the GOP propaganda and framing juggernaut. the way to deal with it is for Dems/progressives/liberals to recognize it and directly respond to this kind of shit as if limbaugh and co really are determining the flavor of america and only represent a small minority but have the biggest soapbox the country has ever seen. dems cannot continue to ignore the talk radio monopoly as if the internet will cancel it out and just turn the dial. we are in this mess because of the uncontested repetition the monopoly gave to guys like rove. guys like gore need to take the opportunity whenever the media gives it to them, to explain this fact or they will continue to get hit with invisible 2x4s.
54 Left&Left
Your parents don't know there history either?
their.
And as for those who can't stand hearing contrasting opinions I bet you can't even detect the irony of that statement coming for yourself.
Afterall, the original comment I was referring to was impugning Obama's character compared to Gore, not the racial differences, but of course the latter was all you picked up on.
Not very suprising. Brokaw was the pioneer of the $100 haircut crowd of pretty boy announcers as news transitioned from, well, news to entertainment. He only looks good today in comparison to BIll O'Reilly and the rest of the sorry crowd.