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Brokaw And Rose: Who Is Obama? (Two MSM Journalists Talk About Obama The Empty Suit Alert)
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 10/31/2008 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/31/2008 3:48:51 PM PDT by goldstategop

RUSH: Now, on Charlie Rose Show last night on PBS. Are they doing their pledge drive yet? Is PBS doing their drive? Because, you know, "Without your Pledge, we cannot dust." He had on Tom Brokaw last night, ladies and gentlemen. Here's a montage. Now, this is last night. As you listen to this, keep in mind everything you've heard from Brokaw and others in the Drive-Bys can for the past six months, three months, two months or whatever. This is a montage of Charlie Rose and Brokaw trying to figure out who Obama is.

ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW: No, I don't, either.

ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

BROKAW: Yeah, it's an interesting question.

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.

BROKAW: Two of them! I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

RUSH: Incredible! (laughing) Let's send the journalist to find out! Why, have you guys ever thought of that, Tom? Have you ever thought about sending a reporter to find out who the guy is? Charlie! You got plenty of reporters there at PBS, at least on the... Have you ever thought about sending anybody out to find out who he is, besides the two books? (laughing) I cannot believe this. We know who his heroes are -- and, of course, that's the point! We know who his heroes are r we know who his alliances are with. We know who his friends are. We know that he chose them all. But to hear... This is last night. This is, what, four days, five days before the election. These are two of Obama's biggest media supporters! You gotta... I gotta hear this again. This is hilarious if it weren't so damn maddening, because the answer to this is, "Hey, Tom? Talk to the bureau chief in Washington, the new guy who replaced Russert. What you do is, you assign a reporter to go out and find out who Obama is." ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW: No, I don't, either.

ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

BROKAW: Yeah, it's an interesting question.

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.

BROKAW: Two of them! I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

RUSH: Well, we know one of his heroes is a member of the Communist Party, Frank Davis. He mentored him in Hawaii. There's a lot we know, Tom. (laughing) Does this not ice it? Does this not ice...? We know as much as can be known about Obama, far more than he wants us to know, and here are these two pillars of Drive-By journalism. "I don't know. I don't know. It's an interesting question, Charlie. It's an interesting question." (laughing) I just think this is... "That's true." Two pillars of journalism, one has an audience and one doesn't, but it doesn't matter. They're both still pillars. Hey, Tom, Charlie, I think we can help here about his view of China. This was last night on MSNBC, and he was asked this question, Obama was. "Is there a possibility you could see in your first term if elected and we need an economic stimulus, an FDR style public works program?"

OBAMA: I've actually talk about this. I think we have to rebuild our infrastructure. Look at what China's doing right now. They, uh, er, uh -- Their trains are faster than us. Their ports are better than us. They are preparing for a very competitive Twenty-First Century economy, and we're not.

RUSH: Okay, Charlie? Tom? You just heard Obama say after you're wondering where he is on China, he thinks they're better than us! And, by the way, to be grammatical correct it would be "better than we." You don't say "better than us are." You say "better than we are." The trains run on time? All this infrastructure? Look at the infrastructure that cannot handle a .0001 earthquake! Basically a giant taking a couple of steps will crap some buildings over there. But here's Barack Obama singing, once again, the praises of China, a communist country -- and what? Criticizing the United States. It was an interesting point. It was a very interesting point to an interesting question. Tom Brokaw said it was "an interesting question," What is his attitude on China, the people advising him. Here it is. He loves China, he thinks the United States sucks. Barack Obama, last night on PMSNBC.


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Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose talked about Obama The Empty Suit last night. The stunning thing is neither of them knows who Obama is! They don't know anything about the man or the people in his inner circle. Who is the real Obama? The MSM/Drivebys, folks - have sold you a lie from Day One about the Messiah, the most merciful Lord Barack Obama. He's a cipher, a zero. He has the ability to talk about nothing like no candidate has in American history but its still a whole lot about nothing!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

1 posted on 10/31/2008 3:48:52 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

The real 0bama is probably more dangerous than any terrorist organization or anything else we’ve faced in quite some time!!


2 posted on 10/31/2008 3:52:55 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (READ MY LIPSTICK!!! I'm praying for Sarah Palin - Keep the vultures away from her.)
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To: goldstategop

I listened to these two ass clowns on Rush today. Unbelievable! They sound like Beavis and Butthead, not (alleged) journalists, LOL.


3 posted on 10/31/2008 3:53:00 PM PDT by webschooner
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To: goldstategop

He’s a Democrat. That’s all some people think they need to know.


4 posted on 10/31/2008 3:53:04 PM PDT by thesetruths
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To: goldstategop

The RNC should package this and play in every battleground state 4 times an hour for the next 96 hours.


5 posted on 10/31/2008 3:55:10 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: goldstategop

Brokejaw and Dead Rose

6 posted on 10/31/2008 3:55:16 PM PDT by webschooner
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To: xkaydet65

Agreed! But we can also cut and paste this and send it out to people we know who are undecided....we all have friends or people we know who AREN’T AWARE of WTF is going on!


7 posted on 10/31/2008 4:02:35 PM PDT by missanne (If we lost the war in Iraq, who won?)
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To: goldstategop

This is mind boggling. Tom Brokaw interviewing Charlie Rose on PBS last night and nether one of them had a clue who Obama was. Tom, all you had to do was send a reporter out to interview the guy and for 2 years you and the rest of the Main Stream Media gave him a pass. Don’t you think it’s a little too late to be wondering WHO he is NOW? I can’t believe it. This is Tom Brokaw, Mr. NBC Anchor Man. You and your buddies were cheerleaders for him.


8 posted on 10/31/2008 4:04:44 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Sarah Palin reminds me of the story about David and Goliath)
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To: goldstategop
BROKAW: Two of them! I don't know what books he's read.

Tom, one he was reading with his finger as a marker about 1/3 way through is Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World.”

Thought you'd like to know that. Source (loaded a little slow a bit ago):

What Obama Is Reading

"Zakaria’s is not another exercise in declinism. His point is not the demise of Gulliver, but the ”rise of the rest.” After all, how can this giant follow Rome and Britain onto the dust heap of empire if it can prosecute two wars at once without much notice at home? The granddaughters of those millions of Rosie the Riveters who kept the World War II economy going are off to the mall today; if they don’t shop till they drop, it’s because of recession, not rationing."

9 posted on 10/31/2008 4:11:01 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: goldstategop

Here’s what I know..

He sat in church under an America-hating, racist pastor, whoe church gave Louis Farrakan the “man of the Year” award.

He appeared on that LA Times tape with the jew-hater.

He spoke of his “Muslim” faith to Geo. Stepanopholous.

He wants to redistribute money.

He has ties to Bill Ayers.

YADAYADAYADA

But America may still elect him. What has happened to my country?


10 posted on 10/31/2008 4:16:57 PM PDT by SerpentDove (Visualize world peace. Now get real.)
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11 posted on 10/31/2008 4:22:16 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: goldstategop

For anyone who didn’t get to hear the Brokaw-Rose admission that
(in so many words) “We’re idiots and we haven’t a clue who Obama
is or what he thinks”...

You can try the audio download service listed earlier today on the
daily Rush Thread.

Here’s pertinent info:

from todays Rush thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120749/posts?q=1&;page=251
see post 281

From Rush Download the Audio here: We Dont Know Obama - PBS 10-30-08 Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw.mp3
Tom Brokaw We Don’t Know Obama

direct URL to “Rapidshare” for the amazing audio of
Brokaw and Rose
http://rapidshare.com/files/159394805/We_Dont_Know_Obama_-_PBS_10-30-08_Charlie_Rose_and_Tom_Brokaw.mp3

I was able to get the mp3 via the slow “Free User” download,
even with
my cranky old dial-up on my Dell PC.

It’s stunning to listen to these two guys sound like they’re the
least “curious” (as in investigative) people in journalism.


12 posted on 10/31/2008 4:29:51 PM PDT by VOA
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To: SerpentDove

It may perhaps be “the judgment of God.”


13 posted on 10/31/2008 4:38:23 PM PDT by evangmlw
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To: goldstategop

The GOP needs to turn that into a commercial.


14 posted on 10/31/2008 4:38:55 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: xkaydet65

Absolutley... where can we get clean audio of the conversation.? The only one on youtube is from Rush’s show and it is awful...


15 posted on 10/31/2008 4:39:22 PM PDT by ARA
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To: Evil Slayer
Tom, all you had to do was send a reporter out to interview the guy and for 2 years you and the rest of the Main Stream Media gave him a pass. Don’t you think it’s a little too late to be wondering WHO he is NOW? I can’t believe it.

In a way I think this media lapdog mentality will in the long run hurt Obama.

If Brokaw and Rose don't know who this guy is and they have the ability to know, and the ability not to tell us

That will hurt him in the voter booth, as Americans will ask themselves the same question as Brokaw and Rose and found wanting. At least with McCain people know who he is

16 posted on 10/31/2008 4:42:43 PM PDT by Popman (Dont worry Barney Frank has your ass-ets covered!!!)
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To: goldstategop; All

So, in terms of his - Obama’s “heroes”, and what the Obama “world view” is that he might have developed from them, Brokaw and Rose cannot even admit in public what they, quite factually do know:

(1) Frank Marshall Davis, a lifelong member of the Communist Party USA and Obama’s mentor growing up in Hawaii;
(2) Reverend Jeremiah Wright, pastor who preaches a variant of Marxist liberation theology, known as Black Liberation Theology; twenty years Obama’s pastor; married Obama; baptized his children; mentioned in Obama’s autobiographical works as an inspiration to him, and from whom Obama got the title of his book “Audacity of Hope”;
(3) William Ayers; a Marxist who calls himself a small “c” communist; former member of SDS and the violent Weather Underground in the 1960s; friend and acquaintance of Obama’s since the 1980s; appointed Obama to run a non-profit board in the 1990s and neighbor of Obama’s since then;
(4) ACORN, founded by another Marxist friend of Ayers from their SDS days; provided the grass roots voter registration and get-out-the-vote troops for Obama in all his election campaigns;
(5) the “New Party’ founded by Marxists in Chicago in the 1990s, with the mission to get their members inserted into the Democratic Party; worked with ACORN and others in promoting Obama, a New Party member, in his Illinois State elections and touted his success there as their success;
(6) the Democratic Socialists of America; founded in Chicago by Marxists who, like the New Party, wanted cover within the Democrats for promoting candidates they wanted; assisted ACORN and the New Party in backing and supporting Obama in every election he has been a candidate in.

I think what Rose and Brokaw were doing was simply confirming, by pretense, NOT what they don’t know about Obama, but what the average citizen was not told about Obama - and they know THAT. The “worldview” all of the above is not a secret, even to the media members who won’t talk about it. To omit that lifelong trail of Obama with Marxists and pretend you have no clue about his possible worldview, is simply a lie.

To project that he is an empty suit is nothing other than a last-minute possible CYA, for Rose and Brokaw, should the Marxist agenda of Obama produce the backlash it deserves.


17 posted on 10/31/2008 4:46:49 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: goldstategop

bump for publicity


18 posted on 10/31/2008 5:08:26 PM PDT by VOA
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To: goldstategop

Rush is right about no one in the media really “questioning” who That One is; it’s disgusting. And it’s completely the fault of Rose and Brokaw and the other talking heads providing defense for That One.

But Rush is 100% WRONG about China’s “0.0001 magnitude” earthquake. The Sichuan earthquake was an 8.0, with a dozen 6.0+ aftershocks. It brought down millions of cubic feet of mountain and land, filling villages and valleys.

It wasn’t a “barely felt thing” - it was freaking huge. Bigger than any earthquake in the US since 1812 - bigger than the Northridge earthquake of 1994 (only a 6.7 - about 1/20th that of the Sichuan in China), and greater than the 7.8 in San Francisco in 1906.

Rush had to get a dig in though, and made himself look like an idiot with this claim...


19 posted on 10/31/2008 5:25:53 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: Wuli

Good information. Thanks.


20 posted on 10/31/2008 10:46:36 PM PDT by Travelgirl
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