I'm sorrry but Brokaw is nothing more than a whore

[underpants]

Okay there I said it.

From the getgo he mistated Kucinich's position.

He had to be corrected on the "Nation of Islam" stupidity by Sharpton.

Was he drinking?

He stated that the first WTC attack (bombing) was linked to Osama and then questioned whether Clinton (insert BLAME here) was to fault for 9/11.

Please can we possibly get someone who knows what in the world he is talking about to moderate these things and NOT offer the Republican line to preface and direct the debate?

[Nite Owl]

Oh but didn't

our guys do so well. I think he got nervous asking Sharpton questions. It just showed what a jack ass he is against the best.

[brainshrub]

1. I kept looking for his knee-pads.

He must need them every night as he sucks the dick of the media-conglomerates.

[EllieDem]

2. I'm depressed......

Although I'm pleased with how my man Kerry did - overall it just didn't make us look good. Brokaw was really getting some digs in at the Clinton administration. WTF is up with that????

[Eric J in MN]

3. in fairness to Brokaw, he let Kucinich state his position right away, and

in fairness to Brokaw, he let Kucinich state his position right away.

And regarding the question to Sharpton, we all misphrase things sometimes.

I think Brokaw did a good job of letting the candidates talk about their policies.

[Ivote]

4. I Think that

Brokaw did much better than the last one he did.
Maybe the media is coming around to what is happening. I can hope, cant I? After all Rome wasn't built in a day.
One step at a time

[LiberalBushFan]

5. We can deal with that

Just don't give the debates back to Fox ever again.

[Don Claybrook]

6. No argument from me

I'll take Jennings any day of the week.

Big Tom seemed to think this debate was all about him and his ego. On 2 or 3 questions, the candidate would interrupt him to let him and the audience know that his question was based on inaccurate assumptions. In each case, Browkaw tried to justify the inaccurate manner in which he asked the question. That tells me that to Tom Brokaw, this debate was more about him and his ego than about the candidates and the issues. Tool.

[underpants]

12. I'd completely agree with that

He was so ******** sure about what he was ssthaying. I can't belieeve that no one called him on the first WTC attack thing but then the Reverend was quick to point out his misstake. Al is great IMHO and he adds lots to these debates.

[Eric J in MN]

13. It was Jennings who gave long speeches before each question. Browkaw

It was Peter Jennings who gave long speeches before each question. Tom Browkaw's questions were shorter and gave the candidates more time.

[Killarney]

7. He was very anti-Clinton and pro-Bush in his questions.

90% of the questions were about Bush or Clinton rather than about the candidates themselves. That is so frustrating!

[chookie]

8. Don't say mean things about him!

I noticed that Brokaw was off too -- and given that Brokaw has never been "on" -- that's quite an accomplishment.

Maybe he wasn't trying to manipulate the appearance of the candidates, as you seem to be suggesting. Maybe he is experiencing cognitive challenges, that have a medical cause.

I'm really concerned about him -- because of the way he asked the other candidates 3 and in some instances 4 questions, and only ask Wesley Clark one. SURELY he didn't mean to marginalize the General's candidacy! I think he may suffer from advanced glaucoma or Retinitis Pigmentosa, which causes tunnel vision, the inability to see objects in the peripheral range of vision. Wesley Clark was standing on the extreme left side of the stage, and I think it MUST be that Brokaw simply didn't see him there. The good news thogh is that the disease has not advanced so far as to affect his right peripheral vision, because he did manage to include Senator Edwards in each round of questions.

I think it is yet another sign of General Clark's outstanding character that he did not get petty about being passed over in this important debate, and rather exuded compassion for Brokaw's physical disability by not making an issue of it.

So, cool it, Underpants, and feel Brokaw's pain for a minute.

/sarcasm off

[UTUSN]

9. First Time BROKAW Has Been Awake in Years

(I agree with the posts above pointing out his slams against CLINTON.)

I'm talking here only about his demeanor. Since I had stopped watching the networks several years ago, it was a shock to see BROKAW on Election Night 2000. He seemed to have gotten OLD overnight, and not in years, but in attitude. And he was SO jaded, bored, blase. It was the first inkling that night that something was wrong. Even soon into the evening when the Florida problem started transpiring, when it became evident that these media jerks were sitting on top of the biggest story of the decade, BROKAW never "woke up"---always with the I've-seen-it-all and "When I was at the Berlin Wall..." And ever since, when he's plugging his books, he still hasn't looked awake. Tonight, since he had it all to himself and his ego was burnished, he was the most awake in years-----------but as this thread shows, it didn't mean much.

[underpants]

14. I'd agree that he is leaning to those who will buy his books

That doesn't neccesarily mean the right, lest we forget most of the "Greatest Generation" (they were) voted Democrat. In fact, the right was against US involvement in WWWII and actually protested against it. The "America First" movement (later adopted by ___ Buchanan) turned out to be a connection of German and Japanese operatives in the US some of which operated out of a Republican Congressman's Capitol Hill office*.

Brokaw did act like it was about him.

* read Joe Conason's "Big Lies" book.

[mrdmk]

10. Just on a positive note

They did discuss the issues, and for that I am grateful. Brokaw did let the candidates correct him on statements, which is part of discussing issues and not throwing around dirt. This was an informative debate by far.

[Jerseycoa]

11. I agree with mrdmk

Our guys stood way up tonight. I'm proud of them all, even Joe (sort of).

GO DEMS!!

[Missy Vixen]

15. Thank you

I was screaming "Media Whore" at the television everytime Tom Terrific asked one of his ninety-second questions.

If he'd GET TO THE POINT instead of admonishing the crowd to not applaud, the candidades would have had a hell of a lot longer to answer the questions!

>Please can we possibly get someone who knows what in the world he is talking about to moderate these things and NOT offer the Republican line to preface and direct the debate?<

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

My nominees? Bill Moyers from PBS. Jon Stewart (believe it or not,) from Comedy Central.

Julie

[OneBlueSky]

16. well . . . I must have watched a different debate . . .

the moderator's job is to bring up controversial issues and positions, and I thought Brokaw did a pretty decent job . . . I don't think, for example, that he was knocking Clinton with the question about what was done during the previous administration to address the terrorism issue . . . that's a legitimate question, imo . . . and he let the candidates state their positions, correct him when they disagreed with his premise, and overall did an okay job . . . this debate was, imo, several steps above the previous ones with panels of questioners . . .

[copithorne]

17. I thought Brokaw did a great job

He asked questions about policy. And lots of his questions involved providing information that was critical about Bush about the deficit or about the failure to find WMD.

I give him an A, really. No problems at all.

[milkyway]

18. I thought Brokaw was embarrassingly stupid. It's as if he doesn't even

pay attention to what he reads aloud on television every night. I don't say this because he seemed like a bush apologist, but because he constantly mischaracterized the candidates' positions. Sharpton nailed his ass when he called him out on his Nation of Islam line. After that, Brokaw had no idea what to call Islam (how about calling it Islam, Tom?), so he groped for words and settled on calling it the Islamic movement. I wonder when the last time Tom used the phrase "the Christian movement"?