The day Tim spent 10 minutes of MTP air time giving Hillary Duff gift baskets to Carville/Matalin's kids -- well ... chummy ... good old boys club -- his panels so often had the same mature white men ... chummy ...
That's the facts, Jack.
As to Brokaw ... he's probably registered independent, but he's definitely not a Repug.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110004788(Brokaw's (liberal) media friends wanted him to run for president, or for him to be the VP candidate with John Kerry in 2004 -- they said he's a good ideological fit for Kerry).
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1793Brokaw is a member of the Sierra Club and an avid outdoorsman. In 1993 he was offered the job of Director of the National Park Service by Democratic President Bill Clinton and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. Brokaw, who endorsed the Clinton Administration's environmental policies, told the Washington Post that he considered the offer "very seriously" but decided to reject it because of turmoil at NBC.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1386651http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2003/fax20030903.asp