Brokaw on Russert: "he wasn't going to forfeit his opportunities along the way."

[KoKo]

Did Brokaw make a "slip of the tongue" in what he revealed in his comment below?


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MSNBC Transcript from MTP MEMORIAL:


MR. BROKAW: I always thought that if Tim had gone into the priesthood, he would have been a cardinal, or maybe...

MR. CARVILLE: A pope. Come on.

MR. BROKAW: I was going to say. The first...

Ms. KEARNS GOODWIN: Don't stop at cardinal.

MR. BROKAW: Yeah, the first holy father from this country. If he'd gone into politics, he certainly would have been a governor and maybe president of the United States. He had enormous ambition, and people need to know about that, and I mean it in the right sense of the word. He had this path that he could never have imagined as a working-class kid from Buffalo, that would take him to the summit, and he wasn't going to, he wasn't going to forfeit his opportunities along the way.

MR. BARNICLE: Tom...

MS. KEARNS GOODWIN: And ambition, ambition is a worthy thing, though, if it's put in the purpose of the country.

MR. BROKAW: Right.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25171251/page/3/

[datasuspect]

1. americans love a good horatio alger hard on

[KharmaTrain]

2. Can They Pile It On Any Deeper?

What got so agonizing on Friday night was seeing the same talking heads appearing on the different networks telling the same stories. It just demonstrated how provincial the bubbleworld of the beltway media is...as well as their own self-importance. Everyone has to chip in with something...and the game now is to one-up the last person with praise or some memorable story. It's as though the corporate media has shut off the rest of the world...caught up in its own cult of personality and not caring how the rest of the country sees it. Most are totally ignorant as to how little Russert really meant in the overall fabric of American life other than being another television talking head. Nothing more, nothing less.

[KoKo]

4. What I got out of what Brokaw said was really a "slip" about what Russert and MSM have become...

and an acknowledgment that Russert just did everything bigger and better than the rest of the media whores in the "self-promotion" and "payola" arena of McCorporate Media because, to quote Brokaw:

He had this path that he could never have imagined as a working-class kid from Buffalo, that would take him to the summit, and he wasn't going to, he wasn't going to forfeit his opportunities along the way.

I found it very telling what that revealed...but then...that's just me parsing something that might not be what others read into the comment.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Yep...He Became Jack Welch's Boy...

$5 million a year salary, on the "A-List" of beltway celebs and political gatekeeper...maker and breaker of careers. His "working class" was a defense mechanism for being labeled the elitist he was...just as others in the corporate media attempt the same game (like Mr. Brokaw's "Greatest Generation"). Russert was a company man first and foremost...what ever integrity he had was always intertwined with the interests of the corporate and the more he intertwined them, the more he profited.

[Scurrilous]

3. Why stop at Pope?

C'mon this is Tim Russert we're talking about.

"He could have been...A GOD!"

[Benhurst]

6. ...

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