Will Tom Brokaw take down Karl Rove?
The Frost/Nixon book by James Reston, Jr. gets a makeover.
When it turned out that Nixon -- "the man who committed the greatest felony in American history" -- was never going to stand trial for his crimes, it fell to journalists to provide the conviction-by-proxy that justice, democracy and the American people so desperately needed.
It is now thirty years after Frost gutted Nixon on national teevee, sparing us (or so we thought) yet another, inevitable Nixonian rise from yet another political grave followed by yet another giddy, fascist Conservative wilding through the streets of America.
But far from having learned from our mistakes, we instead repeated them.
On steroids. And cut with Hulk gamma-irradiated monkey growth hormones.
We got the Bush Regime, arguably the most incompetent, corrupt and outright-treasonous Administration in American history. A regime so reckless, savage and gleefully bestial that it made the career-Nixon-hating Hunter Thompson actually pine for the good old days of Tricky Dick:
"I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal."
And, like Nixon, it is more than likely that not a single one of the smirking traitors who nearly wrecked this country will ever spend a day in jail.
Instead they remain lodged in our flesh like so many ricin pellets, oozing their poison into our national bloodstream, waddle from one fawning audience to another, worming their way into major media outlets, or dispatching their degenerate children and underlings out into the world the keep their poison pumping.
They soiled our good name, bankrupted the country, shredded the Constitution and kicked the crutches out from under the global economy on their way out the door, and while it is sometimes hard to focus on them through the flames of the world they set on fire, we must.
We must, because if we do not formally, culturally shun them, break with them and come to look back on them forever with horror and shame, they and their imitators and fanboys will fester. And without cleaning and binding up the deep and ugly wound they slashed across our national soul, their disease will continue to rage and rot us from within.
Which brings us to Sunday.
In four days, one of the principle architects of this depraved Administration will be on teevee.
Pimpin' a book.
A book which Media Matters has documented is full of lies.
He will be interviewed for approximately 30 minutes by Famous Journalist, Tom Brokaw.
You perhaps see where I'm going with this...
Rove, of course, is a known quantity; a conscienceless thug who would be rotting in prison cell over in the Better Universe.
But we don't live in the Better Universe. We live here, which means this is about Tom Brokaw.
If he has any reporter left in him at all, on Sunday he has a chance to do some old-fashioned, journalistic public service flogging. He has been handed on a platter of the finest Sterling the opportunity to do what none of us out here in the cold, bloggy world will ever even come close to getting a shot at: demanding answers from Karl Rove face-to-face. To act as an advocate on behalf of the public's right to know. To honorably "afflict the comfortable" and restore a small portion of the trust which the Fourth Estate has spend the last few decades frittering away so easily and cheaply; an cynical erosion of one of the most critical, load-bearing pillars of democracy that reached its nadir during the Age of Bush.
If he has any reporter left in him at all, he can help to lay the Foundations of History on which the judgments of future generations will rest.
If not -- if Tom Brokaw lets this oily little Judas slip through his fingers in the name of the clubby, malignant courtesy that elitist Villager insiders habitually extend to their lodge brothers, then the the best and possibly last opportunity to bring Karl Rove to some kind of public book for his crimes against democracy will have passed.
And like that...
...he'll be gone.
Which gives us just a few, short days to email, blog, Twitter and in every other way we know how contact Tom Brokaw and NBC and let them know that "We The People" are tired of having a Freedom of the Press for which so many millions of Americans have fought and died used a puke funnel for everything from the tribulations of drunken celebrities to long-discredited Neocon drivel, but never for anything so genuinely vital to the survival our democracy as holding some of its worst predators to account for their predations.
On your marks.
Get set...
Cross-posted from here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I doubt Brokaw's going to do any cross examining at all. If he does, I won't begrudge it, but I'll be really surprised.
And besides, it won't really matter. This isn't Nixon/Frost (and if the movie can be believed, Frost wasn't all that gung ho for cross examining Nixon anyway . . . it just sorta happened), but if it were, in today's climate, Brokaw would simply be vilified the next day by the rest of the so called mainstream media (which he defends).
See, it's not so much that we didn't learn our lesson. It's that we failed to realize that the bad guys learn lessons too. Nixon got caught, and was forced to resign in disgrace. We figured that yes, we can kick a corrupt leader out. But the corrupt leaders of the world learned that they needed to be better at being corrupt too. Nixon was taken down by reporters, so the corrupt leaders knew to co-opt reporters and the media at large.
The real lesson to learn is the old "eternal vigilance" line. The fight against corruption is a constant battle. It will never be won.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
On August 9th, 1974 Gerald Ford said “…our long national nightmare is over.”
No, it wasn’t. There were at least two Nixon staff members that learned too much from the previous year’s proceedings to let it be over. They resented the attacks on their administration, and knew that if they could do it over again, the mistake of “not going far enough” could be remedied. They were Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney – and they got their chance. We got to relive our nightmare.
No, the long national nightmare isn’t over, nor is the fight to keep our county out of the hands of such criminals. The dream that someday we won’t have to remains, but the fight continues.
He runs his mouth. Don't forget he was Tricky Dicks fake speech writer.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Brokaw is Brokaw. Contact him all you want and he's still Brokaw.
you targeted by limbaugh and then hannity etc.- and the screaming dittohead teabaggers will be screaming into the phones and emails, while theyre not doing it to the stupak group.
NO.
and I would pay to be there.
of course not, he's Tom Brokaw.
At least Nixon got one thing right: that America needed to become energy selfsufficient to avoid entanglement in the Middle East's quagmire.
I doubt that Bush & Co. will be shown to have gotten anything right.
Of course, Nixon's "southern Strategy" set the GOP on the ruinous course that has led us into Tea Parties and the Religious Right/Wrong, whatever.
If Brokaw does any serious cross examining at all I'll be shocked. Brokaw is not even in possession of the main facts and is therefore unable to quickly react in an interview to Rove's slimy nuanced lies. Now if Rachael Maddow were doing the interview, that would be worth watching. Brokaw hasn't been a journalist for years and now just pontificates in his smug above-the-frey manner. Exposing Rove's hypocrisy is above Brokaw's pay grade. I doubt he is even willing to give it a good try.
so right about Rachel Maddow. She is probably one of the best interviewers I have seen in a long time. She sets the bait so perfectly that it is hard to see it coming. Does not back down and will challenge.
I saw Matt Lauer interviewing this snake the other day and he let Rove off with his sorry excuse for outing Valerie Plame.
That is one area that the Novak's,Roves ands all the rest including Cheney have been able to scurry away from.Imagine Hannity with this, or Mr Independent O'Reilly. They are still talking about Monica Lewinsky in 2010.They would do the same to Rove if he were a Democrat.
The guy I'd love to see interview him would be that Sanchez guy from CNN. He is sharp and well read. Toss up between him and Rachel whom Liz Cheney is avoiding.
Brokaw will schmooze & soft ball Rove to the surprise of no one.Give this task to a real journalist such as Rachel Maddow or David Shuster.To much to ask of NBC!
Brokaw hasn't the will to do anything to Karl Dances with Gregory Rove.
What part of "villager" don't you understand?
I'd be ( pleasantly ) surprised if Brokaw calls Turd Blossom out and challenges him to any degree , I'm not holding my breath . The porky pig lookalike has got lying and weaseling out of lies down to an art form .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
This will be tightly choreographed.
My prediction: Rove and his handlers will allow Tom one breath-taking gotcha, but the rest of the time will be spent setting up Rove's critics with strawman arguments, then having Rove dismiss them as foolish and impossible, as per the script.
Hell no.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
call out old Turd Blossom.
Really really doubt it after the tisk tisking he gave MSNBC for their efforts over the old admin.
...he uses big words like 'particularly' and 'delicatessen.' -- Jack
RT (video) - Splitting the Sky: Bush is a war criminal
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
The mass murdering terrorist enters a country illegally and when a citizen attempts to arrest the terrorist, the local cops stop the citizen, not the terrorist. Amazing.
the Canadian government (like ours) would rather let the "war criminal known as George Bush" remain free.
Splitting the Sky was arrested. I hope it freaked Bush out. I hope he spends the rest of his life in fear that some day, somebody will get him. He deserves that fate.
..he thinks what he did is right. What he did we prosecuted people for in the past. Its up to the current administration to realize that and act. Of course, just like the emperor with no clothes, the administration has no balls.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
You captured the flaming disaster and bloody misery left on our lives by the "REPUBLICAN/CONSERVATIVE" Bush Crime Family.
Let us always remember it was the diseased "REPUBLICAN/CONSERVATIVE" POLITICAL AGENDA which Bush implemented to perfection that caused catastrophic suffering, in oh so many ways, to millions of decent people.
Just imagine the ongoing nightmare if McCain/Palin had come to power.
So it never happens again we need to put the blame where it squarely belongs, on the utter failure of Conservatism.
Don't forget, this is what the Republinazi traitors call "Compassionate Conservativism." Hate to see what the mass murdering terrorist war criminals and traitors against America would be like without their "compassion."
We all we be holding our breath if you think Brokaw is going to hold Rove's feet to the fire. Gone are the days Watergate journalism. Really really a sad day in this country. If this had been a democrat I am willing to bet Brokaw would be nailing him/her to the cross.
Southern Yankee
You're dreaming if you think Brokow is going to break the crony code and speak truth to one of the world's ugliest power abusers. Brokow didn't get to the top of the Village heap by betraying his lodge brothers.
None of the architects of the war crime atrocities against Iraq will ever stand trial and answer for their crimes, nor answer for their treason against us. Never happen.
The only way any of these scumbag Republican terrorists could ever be held to accounts would be for kidnap teams from other countries coming in and collecting these people, remanding them for trial at the ICC or other World Courts without the endless extradiction appeals, just like the United States has done with drug lords, war criminals, et al. in other countries.
Japan certainly has the capabilities to come in and collect Bush, Powell, Rice, Rove, and the rest, doing so in a coordinated one-day effort, spiriting them all away safely for a fair trial. That would be very nice to see.
Now THAT would be an "extraordinary rendition."
You're kidding? Right? There's no way he's going to grill Rove. He's establishment 100%. Like nazi underlings who never got caught, Rove will escape justice for his crimes.
The problem with hoping for a "Frost/Nixon" moment from Brokasw is that Brokaw is no David Frost.
Nixon only knew David Frost as a part-time comedic actor, not a serious journalist. So he didn't take the interview seriously, which proved to be his downfall.
The apt analogy here would be if Jon Stewart were to interview Rove.
THAT would be a "Frost/Nixon" rematch!
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
True, but neither is Rove Cheney.
Rove’s claim to fame was his ability to rig and count precincts for elections, and knowing when and how to attack opponents via his candidates’ weaknesses. He was pretty good at it for a while (while it worked), but I never thought him to be “Bush’s Brain”. From the very beginning, that honor belonged to Dick.
Jon Stewart is a talented journalist and skilled interviewer who happens to inject comedy into his opinion and newscasts.
Do not mistake his comedic talents with lack of seriousness. That's the worst way to underestimate him.
But nobody knew Frost as anything other than a kind of playboy media clown. It was the Nixon interviews that gave him a name for serious journalism. Before that he was known for gossip shows and flashiness.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
"And, like Nixon, it is more than likely that not a single one of the smirking traitors who nearly wrecked this country will ever spend a day in jail."
You aren't aware that many of Nixon's crew went to jail?
Haldeman
Erlichman
Libby
Scooter Libby?
In case you aren't making a joke, that should read: "Liddy". :)
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
You're right. long day. thanks
But Nixon didn't. Which is what driftglass said. Read more carefully next time.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
..swords for nixon. Will rove fall on his for w? No way.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
No. Ain't gonna happen. Never in a million years.
This is a book tour interview. Tom will probably get a signed copy...
do the interview.
...but the Grant administration was hands down the most corrupt. Problem is, in this country people don't remember who was president last week, much less know anything about those 19th century losers. Buchanan was a worse president than Bush, and Grant surrounded himself with more crooks and shysters.
I agree with you out about Buchannan, but Grant is a toss-up. Actually, before the TARP fiasco I would say it was a Toss-up. Given the sheer scale of theft that was the TARP/bailout, I give it to Bush.
Why would he when he's part of the same corrupt establishment that feeds us lies and propaganda?
He'll treat Rove, not like the criminal he is, but like a fellow insider with all the respect and adulation all insiders reserve for each other on special occasions like this one.
Let the brown-nosing begin!
The last few years when he has graced us with his appearances, his commentary has been both arrogant and off the mark. It is clear he is no friend of the hard truths and on one appearance he actually mocked the left. I actually repected him long ago, but his time has passed and he lazy now like most of the beltway. There will be no revelations. Rove knows who he is sharing the the camera with and it is not anyone out to produce any real journalism.
To be fair, the mainstream media is very quickly becoming even more obsolete thanks to the Internet. Brokaw will commit treasonous compliance with sucking off Rove simply because it's Brokaw's last opportunity to do something for money.
Prostitution for benefit of a mass murdering, baby killing war criminal, yes, but he'll get his 30 pieces of silver.
something from. At least it won't be Gregory.
..then everyone would KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that its a puff piece. At least with brokaw, people will think there's a chance that rove will be outed for the criminal that he is, then it will still be a puff piece.
We should create a pool on how many lies brokaw lets rove get away with. I say four.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
And the winner of the'Politzer' for the Best Political Sentence is....DRIFTGLASS!!!!!!!! "And without cleaning and binding up the deep and ugly wound they slashed acrossd our national soul,their disease will continue to rage and rot us from within". Thanks Bro
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Brokaw: CFR, Bilderberg, Tri-Lateral Commission.
today. But seeing KKKarls mug always makes me feel shittier. If Brokaw can't take him down, just gimme 5 mins w/ the fat fuck...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
It would be better to hold a world-wide lottery to get to see who punishes this scumbag for his crimes against humanity. The money raised just selling tickets would revamp the world economy like nothing else would.
Then the video DVD sales of the terrorist's punishment would eliminate national debt. :)
"...oily little Judas..."? Really? Is that the best you could do? Well, here's some suggestions for pumping it up a little the next time around:
"...oily little hemorrhoid..."
"...oily little maggot..."
"...oily little pustule..."
"...oily little sore..."
"...oily little metastasis..."
"...oily little snake..."
"...oily little in-grown hair..."
"...oily little Hitler..."
"...oily little succubus..."
"...oily little incubus..."
"...oily little canker..."
"...oily little leech..."
"...oily little rodent..."
"...oily little vermin..."
"...oily little shitbag..."
"...oily little turd..."
"...oily little..."
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
How grade-school.
"Judas" is a name that carries specific connotations that fit the situation. All that stuff you posted is just childish scatology that means nothing.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Now take your humorless ass back from whence it came.
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
Tom Brokaw is a turd, that's why he still has a job.
The only one who is willing to call any of these guys on their bullshit is Stewart, and he gets a grand total of 10 minutes.
I don't see Tom Brokaw as a guy dying to take down Karl Rove. He's much too much of a company guy.
"Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.""
You are a simple hater
That's a quote from Hunter S. Thompson, who died in 2005. The "...Nazis we have in the White House now..." were the G.W. Bush administration.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Oh, that's right. Christian terrorists don't hate Nazis.
He's a simple truth teller. Go back and take a look at Nixon's policies. He does indeed look liberal next to the ghouls that dominated the last decade.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Beautiful. I had tears in my eyes. Not out of joy or laughter, but out of sadness at how completely blind we are as a nation to the utter travesty that has been committed upon us by this illegitimate regime, put into power by the supreme court.
"But we don't live in the Better Universe. We live here, which means this is about Tom Brokaw."
Ever since W. was anointed King, I've felt like I live in universe that had gone suddenly askew by some time traveler who popped back in time and altered history as we know it...for the worse. And I'm afraid the writer is going to be disappointed. Frost sought out Nixon with the hope of getting such a confession, but this a PR job to sell books and Brokaw is just another willing whore of a journalist who was bought a long time ago by the conservative media. He will do their bidding.
In the mean time, I pray for another time traveler to come back and set things right again.
the prime role the "press" played in enabling that travesty to play out. Without the constant support of the propaganda machine, none of it could have happened. The media are perhaps the most guilty of all, the supreme enablers.
Yes, either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert would be more insightful than I expect Brokaw to be but my 2 cents is:
Throw him in a room with Helen Thomas for a half an hour's worth of questioning. He'll be begging to be waterboarded. The woman has been kicking politcal ass for 50 years and she was the Bushie's Kryptonite - to the point that the Village Idiots of the D.C. Press Corps threw her under the bus because, you know, they needed access and she was a speed bump.
The next half hour could be with Obama. That would be interesting...
She's the only reporter on the Washington beat with the balls to confront that piece of shit and take him down.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
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*gasp*
hahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahhahaha
Great headline driftglass!
Isn't that naivety so adorable?
tom doesn't care.
all he wants to do is look to the past--his so called greatest generation.
after his major screwup with his boomers tv special.
tom is void of any chance of looking at anything seriously.
its the disease of the old--they got theirs--screw the rest of us.
and I've never heard of that disease. Egocentrism may be an affliction, but it's not one that exclusively afflicts the old -- turn on MTV and you'll see plenty of it.
on the NBC MTP website:
Mr. Brokaw: It has come to my attention that you will be hosting MTP on Sunday and interviewing KKKarl Rove about his new book. I am hoping against hope that you will have the courage of a TRUE journalist and call him on the many lies he has published in that book---lies that have been documented as such by Media Matters and numerous other internet blogs. If you ARE the journalist you claim to be, you will repudiate the many untrue things he has said. If not, well---then we will be assured that journalism is indeed dead and those who practice it today are all just stenographers who write down what lying politicos say and publish it without question under the guise that "it's not a lie--it's just a different belief." What Rove is doing is trying to re-write history, as Dick and Liz Cheney are attempting to do, and ignore the facts that the Bush Administration bankrupted the nation and brought down this country in 8 short years. Do your duty, Mr. Brokaw and live up to your reputation as the worthy son of a member of The Greatest Generation.
Yeah, yeah....I'm wasting my breath....but SOMEONE at NBC will read it and I feel better now. Maybe, just maybe, Brokaw will have a little bit of shame for the way the members of his profession have folded like a cheap tent in the presence of these lying f**kers and demand some sort of truth out of the little putz.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
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Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
That's pretty much giving anyone a good reason to ignore anything you say from that point onward.
..
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Humans ALWAYS repeat their mistakes. That stuff about "he who does not remember history"? Is pure horseshit. Whether history is remembered or not, the mistakes WILL be repeated, and that's because knowing history is no guarantee at all of UNDERSTANDING it. (Remember A Fish Called Wanda? "Apes don't read Plato!" "Yes, they DO, Otto; they just don't understand it!") When a person is venal and thinks only of himself, then no matter how well he knows history, the only thing he'll take away from it is what will benefit HIM. That's why you've got people who are extremely intelligent and educated doing shit that makes others wonder what the everloving FUCK they could be thinking.
History will always be repeated. There's no way around it. Empires rise and fall and rise and fall, always for the same stupid reasons. Madmen come to power and slaughter whole populations, always for the same stupid reasons. And we march onwards towards our own destruction, every century coming closer and closer to it, always for the same stupid reasons. There may be worthy individuals, but face it - humanity as a whole is a FUCKING MORON WHO NEVER LEARNS.
So Rove and his ilk are no surprise. The surprise would be if miscreants like him DIDN'T keep popping up and making life miserable for us all.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Here is why no one will dare question the Cons ever again.
No.
Frost took hours of questioning before Nixon finally said something stupid enough to show the world the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal"
Rove can easily keep his guard up for 30 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFzC-zvDoPE
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Take Down?
brokaw will probably go down on turdblossom.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And tell the home audience what ysbaddadeb's won....
He's a neocon operative, no longer a journalist. He's going to be working on Rove's side to revise history.
I no longer trust anything he has to say, and would accept nothing he says wothout vigorous fact checking.
He could try to become the modern Edward R. Morrow. I guess that's not going to happen though. The only real journalistic questions are being asked on cable news (1 or 2), Comedy Central and late night HBO.
He will do just like the rest have done the last 9 years, softball, bullshit, stupid, lying, and it will be over and the only thing accomplished will be another hour or neocon lies!
I have not felt this bad about America since I was 18 years old and Vietnam was raging. I am ashamed of 40 million American idiots, liars, and cheats, the republican party.
These people are to stupid to be allowed to participate in government.
I have know all my life that America sucks. But never worse then now.
I feel so much shame that my country, the place I wasted my life in is no better, and really worse then it was 40 years ago.
republicanism/conservatism is a menatl illness it has killed out economy, the morals and the intelligence of 40 million, killed, wounded and ruined the lives of untold millions.
God damn the USA!
he will support Rove with every syllable of every question or statement.
________________
common sense matters as much as truth
"The Alternate Reality of Karl Rove" http://harpers.org/archive/2010/03/hbc-90006669
...ever made you think that Tom Brokaw is a journalist? This will be nothing more than a softball interview opportunity for Rove. If it were going to be anything else, he wouldn't do it.
Let Jon Stewart interview him.
...was the beginning of the end for The United States as we know it. The fact he was allowed to complete one term, little more than two, with out so much as a censure had set in stone a very, very dangerous precedent. Yes compared to Cheney/Bush, Nixon was small potatoes. If another one like Bush gets the throne, he or she will be even worse.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
To even imagine Tom Brokaw exercising journalistic integrity, or even vocalizing the common demands of the human need for decency and humanity from ruthless war criminals, is naive to the extreme.
Who can ever forget (or, much less, forgive) Brokaw's infamous declaration at the start of the Iraq imperial campaign, "We will own the place in a short while, anyway..."? That was the most blatant declaration of allegiance to the murderous imperial enterprise. Therefore, Brokaw is an inside ally of the imperial structure. He views America's genocidal imperial actions around the world with the usual and tired hubris of American propaganda (patriotism, the great Savior nation, God's gift to mankind, the "evil" other, and on and on). It is truly sickening. Of course, he has great company- essentially the entire US corporate media- I cannot put up a complete list (think Diane Sawyer, Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer, Lester Holt, the diabolical Fox gang, and dozens of others, including at NPR and other fraudulent "liberal" outlets).
Therefore, I would not remotely bother wasting time or energy listening to Brokaw or the reprehensible imperial murderer and soulless criminal he is supposedly going to "interview".
The references in this essay to Nixon were well made. However, as many have concluded, Nixon and his cohorts were saints compared to this slimy gang of mobsters.
The email:
"To: Mr. Brokaw
Re: Upcoming Rove interview
Please do not squander this opportunity to put Rove's feet to the fire. REMEMBER, you are a JOURNALIST. It is imperitive that you not softball this interview. You MUST make Rove VERY uncomfortible. For the good of the country.
Please, Mr. Brokaw, please be a tough journalist and ask the real questions Rove does not want to answer. Be relentless. Ask follow-on questions. Do not let him dodge or obfuscate. DO NOT LET HIM OFF THE HOOK!
Think of Edward R. Murrow. Imagine he were alive today and try to do an interview that would make him proud.
Thank you"
Flood his email inbox!
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
Here's the email I sent MTP:
Dear Mr. Brokaw,
Heard you were doing MTP this Sun and interviewing Karl Rove over his new book. Had hoped that you would challenge him on the deletions, exaggerations and outright lies he's told, and how he's trying to re-write the past 10 years.
But I've given up hoping that even "elder statesmen" journalists will do their job. It's all about access. If you were to give Rove a "hard time," other conservatives might not come to MTP again, and that's what it's all about, isn't it? Not how reporters expose lies and reveal the truth, but how you can fluff NBC's brand by having the "big names" on the show. Pity. The only reporters on NBC that deserve the name are Schuster and Maddow. They at least check the facts, the rest...
Project:
I have seen your sentiments at this site for a while. I fully relate to the passion you express about the failings of America, and I can empathize that you feel so deeply disappointed by the corporate-industrial-capital-obsessed cesspool that this country has been, and continues to be.
Yet, if there is a silver lining in the middle of this gloom, it is that there are also decent, sympathetic, forward-thinking individuals such as you that inhabit this place. Along with, say, a Carl Sagan, a Hunter Thompson, a Pete Seeger, a Gore Vidal, a Howard Zinn.
I came to this country 30 years ago, and continue to feel the same disappointment and anguish that you feel at the idiocy, ignorance and inhumanity that often is a staple of public life here.
But Rabindranath Tagore, the poet-teacher, who to me was one of the great teachers of humanity, assures us that the destiny of Man cannot be subverted by the vile and low impulses. And I see signs of that wonderful universality of the human spirit every day, in the generous, all-embracing ideas that you care about.
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayou...
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.a...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/featu...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/10/internation...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/07/politics/07...
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/19/y...
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Libya's WMD materials:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/world/25nuk...
German engineer helped Libya with nuke weapons
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagena...
Not the only time Europe secretly helped Arab dictators out before US
attacks....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445450,00...
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Saddam's (and Jimmy Carter's) links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-...
What about Jimmy Carter's links also?
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover0531...
Now back to the King of Swing, Saddam!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=1...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/featu...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/featu...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArti...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArti...
And then these Nazi teachings for all Arabs (Heil Hitler????):
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/...
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Iran on way to atomic bomb capability -- IAEA
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTR...
[The IAEA says this, despite in the spring Obama saying otherwise (that
Iran was just "misunderstood")]
Weapons grade materials at Arab Syria nuke site:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=12...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1227830792945...
http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/ma...
Are laughable. The rantings of a mad man. Or woman if you are.
Here.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
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