Sunday - September 26, 2004

Tom Brokaw Sucks

I’ll let this Liberal bullshit artist speak for himself. Victim, my ass ....

NBC’s Tom Brokaw expressed the hope that the CBS News controversy “doesn’t spread the stain across to NBC News” and, on Thursday night’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Brokaw took a shot bloggers and talk radio hosts critical of Dan Rather: “This is not something I am persuaded that he’s out to do deliberately despite what some bloggers will say or radio talk show hosts will say.” Brokaw portrayed his fellow anchor as a victim: “I think he was really trying to get at a big story about the President’s National Guard service. And they got stung by some documents.”

Really, officer, the tree jumped in front of my car.

Immediately after Brokaw sat down on the September 23 Late Night show on NBC, Conan O’Brien asked him to comment on the Dan Rather situation. The MRC’s Geoff Dickens took down Brokaw’s reply: “It’s a difficult time for anyone who’s in the news business and you know we all like to be aggressive about what we’re doing and cover the next big story. And then occasionally you’ll get caught in something like this. And the whole world, especially in our business because we’re so public and we have such high visibility, is looking in on your life and it’s tough. It’s tough for everyone at CBS News. We’ve had a lot of conversations about it in our newsroom. And we hope that it doesn’t, you know, spread the stain across to NBC News but I think that probably for a lot of people out there, they’re wondering, ‘Well what about the standards at NBC? Would the same kind of thing happen there?’ What do you do about checking? We went through our own difficulty here a number of years ago with the Dateline episode where they didn’t disclose everything that they should have about the test they were doing on a truck. It was [the] single most difficult time that I can remember”.

“So I do feel bad for Dan. He’s had a long and distinguished career. This is not something I am persuaded that he’s out to do deliberately despite what some bloggers will say or radio talk show hosts will say. I think he was really trying to get at a big story about the President’s National Guard service. And they got stung by some documents and it’s too bad but they’ve now launched an internal investigation and it’s probably best if we all just sit back and see how that turns out.”

I think Brokaw needs a swift kick in the ass to straighten his butt out. This is just more of the Liberal “victim mentality” that lets criminals get away with murder with claims that they are victims of a dysfunctional family or whatever. BULLSHIT, Tommy-boy! Get a grip. Rather did it to himself with shoddy reporting and a definite bias. If he is a victim, it’s of his own STOOPIDITY! Just like you’re demonstrating right now! When are you people in the MSM going to start taking responsibility for your reporting and learn how to give us fair and impartial coverage of the day’s news? If you don’t hurry up and get your heads out of your collective asses, you may find out that bloggers have replaced you all. Ipse facto, bud!

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/26/2004 at 03:55 PM   
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