"Take THIS, Tom!"
Posted on 01/20/2009 3:52:09 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Sitting in a Washington bar with the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC Tuesday morning, former NBC anchor grew emotional remembering the 1960s. "I get very emotional. It has been hard for me to walk through the streets. And I think that the day is going to be very emotional." Brokaw even grew bold enough to tell the "bigots and rednecks" he met in the Sixties "when we were evolving as a country" to suffer through the Obama inauguration: "Take this. You know?"
The Morning Joe crew was discussing how Barack Obama was so different than past administrations in their lack of drama and in-fighting:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: As I was explaining to my wife, as my conservative brethren continued to beat me up, 'Why do you say, you know -- this guy is not going to be a leftist, how do you know he will not?' -- I said because of the people he is surrounds himself with. They are steady people. They are professional. A lot of ugliness you have seen in White Houses over the past 16 years, absent with this group.
BROKAW: Comfortable in his own skin, to use that phrase, he had the self-confidence. It was not overbearing and could laugh at himself easily. He could hammer him and criticalof a quote. At one point he burst out laughing, I was in the middle of reading back one of these things. "Some people said nice things about me as well."
Listen, I just want to say one thing. Having been in the South in the '60s and Los Angeles, in Watts and northern urban areas, when we were evolving as a country, I'm thinking of all the bigots and rednecks and people I met along the way. I'm saying to them, "Take this." You know?
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Mr. Tom Brokaw, you can kiss my red-neck ass.
"Take THIS, Tom!"
When will we start our own news network? Rush? Where are you?
Slag off, Tom Brokejaw. Are you going to support forced confiscation of property when fed-up whites choose to take their business strictly to other whites?
I can’t speak for bigots. Tom will have to ask his friends how they feel but we rednecks aren’t going anywhere and we will make Zero very uncomfortable over the next few years.
The only speech I want to hear out of Zero is the one that begins with...”I shall not seek, and I will not accept...”.
My intense dislike (bigotry, if you like) for Obama is rooted in the content (or lack) of his character, not the color of his skin. Seems to me that BO was largely elected for reasons of skin color alone - now that’s bigotry.
Take that, Brokaw. You know?
Bigots? What about the bigot who gave the prayer at the end of BO’s inauguration?
It’s mellow if you’re yellow
Whites need to do right
Or some such idiotic, low class tripe.
Wow.
mine too
so he thinks calling people rednecks is a bad thing.
Seems it is he who is out of touch as many round here in north east FL has many folks who proudly call themselves rednecks.
As for racism well the most bigotry I have come across is in Boston and in the black community.
See in Boston I found is that there are many elitist types who preach diversity but of course if they ever saw a black man walking towards them in their town they would cross the road.
That is unless the black person lives in their uber rich white neighborhood
“A lot of ugliness you have seen in White Houses over the past 16 years, absent with this group.
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Um, Hillary, and the other rabid liberals Obama has picked are not ugly? Hell, they are THE UGLY in Washington!
Watts? Can we assume that Tom Brokaw is racist because he’d never live in Watts?
He’s not alone. IMO that is the crux behind the bombardment of Black guy/White girl advertising today...
correct it seems many whites went out for obama because he has black in him.
If the color of his skin is not important then why do liberals keep harping on about it
When is this tiresome old bigot called Brokaw going to retire and disappear from our screens - for good? Brokaw is just an old arrogant elitist and a bigot. Bigots come in all shapes and sizes and colors, and different ones direct their bigotry at different groups.
what about the racist who said she feels out if place with a different colored person and would rather be with her own
or what about the comments by a racist who said typical white people or greedy white folk and also made a remark about Italians
what’s that o sorry blacks cannot be racist according to liberals
That comment at the inauguration was as racist as they come.
Apparently Joe hasn’t met Rahm Emanuel.
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