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POLITICO-Plouffe Plays the Brokaw Card-(Plouffe/Obama Attacking a LIB FRIENDLY Brokaw!)
Politico ^ | 10-2-08 | BEN SMITH

Posted on 10/02/2008 5:48:04 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Speaking to reporters earlier today, Obama campaign manager suggested that Obama could raise doubts about NBC's Tom Brokaw, who is also set to moderate a debate, just as McCain's campaign has suggested PBS's Gwen Ifill shouldn't moderate tonight's.

Plouffe noted that Tom Brokow has been in the paper recently talking about “his communication with the McCain campaign and their friendship."

"I assume they’ll apply the same standard to Tom Brokaw," he said.

The New York Times reported that Brokaw had conducted "shuttle diplomacy" between the McCain campaign and NBC, about which the campaign had complained.

MoveOn.org has also attacked Brokaw for getting a poll number wrong while hosting "Meet the Press."


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brokaw; nbc; obama; plouffe
Brokaw is Lib-friendly, but believes that the media should at least TRY to keep bias out of "NEWS".

That is no longer acceptable in The Messiah OBAMA'S Brave New World...

Plouffe threatening to unleash the STORMTRUTHERS on him

1 posted on 10/02/2008 5:48:05 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

“Shuttle diplomacy” with a campaign “keeps bias out”??


2 posted on 10/02/2008 5:50:39 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: tcrlaf

LOL! Maybe NBC needs to wake up on Obama now that they are going after Brokaw! Never thought I would see a story like this against Brokaw.


3 posted on 10/02/2008 5:51:05 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( BOOMER SOONER -- VOTE FOR McCAIN/PALIN2008! LetsGetThisRight.com)
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To: tcrlaf

Good, replace Brokaw with Sean Hannity.


4 posted on 10/02/2008 5:51:17 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (I would spend more time on FR but I have to make sure my tires are inflated.)
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To: tcrlaf

Is anyone really listening to the knee jerk reactions of the left. We have the proof; they only have cooked up lies according to the book of radical lies which they can not operate or live without.


5 posted on 10/02/2008 5:51:30 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: tcrlaf

Let me know when Brokaw publishes a book that has his nose far up McCain’s nether regions.


6 posted on 10/02/2008 5:51:42 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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To: tcrlaf

Dump Brokaw......bring in Ann Coulter!


7 posted on 10/02/2008 5:53:50 PM PDT by paul in cape
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To: PhiKapMom

“Never thought I would see a story like this against Brokaw.”

Brokaw has broken the CARDINAL RULE:
“thou shalt not speak ill of the Chosen Democrat”

He is nearing retirement in a NEST of New York libs that LONG AGO forgot what Journalistic ethics was all about, while he was brought up in the Cronkite-type world that says that even if you are biased, you don’t let it show....

He’s so like, 1980’s, man!


8 posted on 10/02/2008 5:55:09 PM PDT by tcrlaf (SARAH PALIN-The American Everywoman (Yes, You Really CAN!))
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To: tcrlaf

Liberals eating their own.

Check this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096127/posts

Great video there on how they get rid of their own-

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1


9 posted on 10/02/2008 5:56:10 PM PDT by nclaurel (I think therefore I vote Republican.)
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To: tcrlaf

I still have a fair amount of respect for Brokaw. I think he threw the spear that got Matthews and Oberman marriage broke-up.

I heard an interview that he did with Hugh Hewitt last year and he is certainly a liberal; a tired old left-wing liberal, hippy.


10 posted on 10/02/2008 6:04:54 PM PDT by incredulous joe
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To: tcrlaf

Oh Please, McCain’s ca,p said hey hope she could ut aside her bias and wnt throguh with the debate. Obama is stopping his feet and throwing a fit over a journalist taking to the other camp? Don’t pick fights with people who buy ink by the gallon dumb@$$!


11 posted on 10/02/2008 7:41:40 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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