I don't much like Tom Brokaw

[jaysunb]

never did.

[SheilaT]

1. Like a lot of persons of privilege,

he's become more isolated from us little people over time.

[hlthe2b]

2. I always liked the late Peter Jennings--elegant, intelligent and...

very well educated-though never completed college.

He is missed.

[CTyankee]

32. I just read a book by his ex-wife, Kati Marton, entitled "Paris: A Love Story" about

their stormy marriage and her subsequent marriage to Richard Holbrooke, who died suddenly in 2011. Fascinating book, altho I hate to tell you Jennings comes across as being a mean spirited husband to her, altho they maintained a good relationship after their breakup as their two kids were growing up. She doesn't trash him, but says he had real problems dealing with the fact that she was better educated than he was, which could have been a real issue in his life...

[hlthe2b]

35. Yes.. I knew they had a stormy marriage. I'm interested in reading her book after an NPR interview.

especially her time with Holbrooke. Sounds fascinating.

[CTyankee]

37. It sure is. She has had a very interesting life, to say the least.

One thing I found out in that book that I didn't know before was that Holbrooke and Dianne Sawyer lived together for 7 years...

[hlthe2b]

40. wow... I did not know that...

Ole Holbrooke certainly got around.

He was a smart guy.. that is appealing.

[CTyankee]

42. There's a lot in this book about Paris and boy, did it make me jealous!

The life they lived as a diplomatic family was certainly grand. It certainly takes you away just reading about the people they knew, their lifestyle, what it is like to live in Paris and jet back and forth to New York and Washington...

[sammytko]

3. He did just say that mitt makes al gore look like a stand up comedian

On Lawrence o'donnell show. They all laughed.

Made me like him for now.

[tblue]

15. He did?! He's usually so.....bland?

Hmmm....

[BlueStreak]

4. Sycophant extraordinaire

[Greybnk48]

5. I never did. He was always a repuke tightass.

I only watched the today show when he took over because I liked Jane Pauley, still do.

[jaysunb]

9. He was a "tightass" when he was a local reporter

here in Los Angeles back before the Today Show. Smug and self righteous.

[calimary]

26. Yeah, I remember that.

He was pretty smug and self-righteous. Pompous, too. Now he's just a self-important old fart. And his articulation isn't so good anymore. Sometimes I find myself wondering if he's had a few before he goes on camera as the presiding emeritus figure. I'm sure he flatters himself as some sort of self-anointed "elder statesman of news."

[Greybnk48]

33. Not surprised. n/t

[Motown_Johnny]

6. "The half-life of an amoeba" ?!?!?

Just WTF was that supposed to mean?


Does he think amoebas are radioactive?



I think he needs to go quietly into retirement.

[Aristus]

7. "Half-life" is a common scientific term that is used for more than measuring radioactivity.

Length of effective action of medications, for example, uses half-life as a measurement.

Half-life simply refers to the time it takes for 50% of any given substance to dissolve, wear away, evaporate, become inactive, etc.

Once 50% of a given whole is gone, half-life measures the 50% decrease of the remainder, and so on, and so on...

[MNBrewer]

21. Half life of an amoeba makes no sense in this context, however

Half life of a population of amoabae, perhaps. An amoeba is either live or dead, it has no "half life".

[PCIntern]

27. Yeah, but it was a "science-y" word...

pompous windbag he is...as is stated below.

[Phlem]

8. yea

he can be an ass gasket usually more than occasionally.



-p

[KT2000]

10. Pompous Windbag - IMHO

As a guest on Letterman he always speaks as if he knows it all and it is just spin - for the ruling class.

[spanone]

11. i grew up with cronkite and huntley & brinkley...journalists with integrity

they weren't about ratings they were about truth

[jaysunb]

13. I did too but, Brokaw was also

a news anchor during the latter part of those journalists careers. ( Actually, he used to be the lead-in anchor to Huntley and Brinkley). One would have thought he'd tried to model himself more closely to them.

[Jennicut]

30. I grew up with Brokaw.

I envy you.

[catbyte]

12. he seems afraid they won't invite him to their next cocktail party

if he actually did his job.

[pacalo]

14. He's a news lobbyist for the Republican party.

Brokaw isn't worthy of respect. He lied in the Reince Priebus interview this morning. His contention that "both sides do it" was a slap in the face to those who have been paying attention.

[zentrum]

22. Absolutely.

That was disgusting.

[SunSeeker]

23. Exactly. Well said. nt

[Greybnk48]

34. Like Bob Woodward, IMO. Can't stand his Repuke ass either. n/t

[calimary]

45. Saw him this morning, too, and he is, yet again, THE absolute most constipated on-camera commentator

EVER.

[CatWoman]

16. I read he was the lead person in having Keith push out at MSNBC

[jaysunb]

19. He was.

back stabbin mofo !

[Cha]

17. Happy you made a thread out of

it, Jay. 'Cause I'd just love to voice my distinct contempt for Tom, gop water carrier, Brokaw.

[jaysunb]

18. LOL ! Just doing my bit.

[Raster]

20. Bootlicker Brokaw

[Where was George]

24. Brokaw has always been a tool

Most of them are. One way to tell is when they start saying things (such as Brokaw said to Tweety yesterday)

"Both sides have launched negative campaigns"

Which of course is all bullshit. One of the techniques these "tools" like is to poison both wells. Fouling the Democrats with the poison from the GOP they can then declare. "all politicians are crooks".

Tools are the mainstay of MSN. No major market can claim to be completely free of them. In fact MSNBC has compromised members as well. They're not nearly as bad or obvious as Fox or even CNN but they're there.

Even Amy Goodman has been compromised. There are certain extremely important subjects she refuses to bring up.

Dan Rather was a tool most of his life though towards the end of his career at CBS he straddled the fence more and more often. Sometimes doing the bidding of his corporate masters, other times being independent. 49 years after the fact Rather still refuses to acknowledge that he was coerced into stating the huge LIE that President Kennedy was killed by a shot from the rear. Rather was the ONLY news man to watch the Zapruder film for some 13 years. Until it was released on the Geraldo Rivera Show back in 1976. Even today Dan Rather will not touch this subject.

Cenk Uygur is more honest than the rest. The reason MSNBC had to fire him.

I give Rachel Maddow a free pass for being so soft on the Military Industrial Complex. I know in her heart she'd love to scream the truth but them she'd lose her job too.

Each must compromise his/her integrity at times but Tom Brokaw is a worthless toad. A total run of the mill, milk toast journalist.

[steve2470]

41. just out of curiosity, can you expand on Amy Goodman ? Thanks nt

[Where was George]

46. Just try and ask her about 9/11

but I don't blame her for running. I've had my phone tapped and e-mail read by "them". Have seen them interrogate my neighbors about me too. The attention is not flattering

"They" are very scary types and yet at the same time pitiful. When "they" killed Gary Webb the poor coroner was forced to explain how a man can shoot himself in the head twice with a revolver. Glad I don't have his job. I mean just LOOK AT POOR GARY!

(Warning! Not for the faint of heart. Shows corpse of Gary Webb)




( edited: I'm sorry I thought the page would only post the link not the whole awful picture)


But we can relax. Assassinations are becoming less and less their fare in the U.S. Instead they contract hundreds of thousands of character assassins to run internet forums.

And you were worried about a few tea party types masquerading as Democrats here on D/U? Hah!

And thanks to Dreamnightwind for the nice words. Everyone has been so nice lately. As a newbie i really appreciate that.

[dreamnightwind]

43. Great post

and if you're as new here as your post-count is low, welcome to DU!

Rachel is a product of the military, grew up that way and served herself too, which probably has something to do with it. And you're right bout Rather, he was mostly a tool. There are some interesting anecdotes about him in Norman Solomon's book Unreliable Sources. I like Rather more than most of the other MSM, but that's just a relative statement and shows how compromised most of them are, and have been for many many years. Amy Goodman and Cenk are pretty good, not MSM though.

I read upthread that Brokaw was the main person behind pushing Keith out of MS-NBC, somehow I had missed that, another reason to rec this thread!

[dreamnightwind]

25. Glad to see a thread dedicated to this POS

He's very deserving.

[Zen Democrat]

28. I can't stand the pompous slurring jackass.

[madokie]

29. I, a whole lot, don't like Tom Brokaw

and never did. Furthermore never will

[graywarrior]

31. That voice!

It gives me the creeps.

[indepat]

36. Goes double for me

[librechik]

38. I loathe his phoniness and entitlement--he is no journalist

he belongs to the Tim Russert "What am I allowed to say, your majesty?" school of "journalism"

[GeorgeGist]

39. He and Tim Russert co-founded the ...

INTEGRITY IS FOR PAUPERS CLUB.

[AtomicKitten]

44. In his effort to come off as an elder statesman,

he's become apologist for the rightwing race-infused campaign.