Posted on 01/20/2009 10:21:30 PM PST by doug from upland
Tom Brokaw Cheers Obama Inauguration Like 'Velvet Revolution'
By Geoffrey Dickens January 20, 2009 - 17:27 ET
Reflecting on the mood of the crowd at Barack Obama's Inauguration, NBC's Tom Brokaw likened it to when he was present for the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. During NBC's live coverage of Obama's swearing-in on Tuesday, Brokaw declared, "It reminds me of the Velvet Revolution," and while Brokaw noted "a communist regime," was not being overthrown he pointed out, "an unpopular president is leaving and people have been waiting for this moment." [audio available here]
The following Brokaw blurb was aired at around 10:02am EST on NBC's January 20 pre-Inaugural speech coverage:
TOM BROKAW: You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of the Velvet Revolution. I was in Prague when that happened. And Vaclev Havel was a generational leader and was in the square in Prague and the streets were filled with joy. And we're not overthrowing a communist regime here, obviously, but an unpopular president is leaving and people have been waiting for this moment. And there's that same sense of joyfulness and possibility even though, as in Czechoslovakia, they had enormous problems and we do as well.
Tom is so full of it!
Churchill had the same fate after winning WW2.
What a POS.
It may not be the fall of a Communist regime, but its certainly a takeover by a Communist regime.
I contribute to the upheaval Tom...
Someone please tell Tom he is no longer relevant.
Obama is like Viagra to Brokaw, and others. Brokaw probably had an erection for the first time since Nov. 4, 2008.
On a lighter note, if you missed the Hitler rant about Hollywood, it might make you smile on this infamous day - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168502/posts
Wait till the MSM falls Tom.
Then you will know true revolution.
Where to start ?????
As IF Brokaw never attended an American Inauguration before when the party switched (i.e., 1980, 1992, 2000). Those attending are always fierce partisans, very much full of optimism for change (not to mention, hope). It doesn’t begin to compare to the general public dancing in the streets after a dictator has been deposed. Shameful.
I’ve read several Brokaw comments today and seriesly am wondering if he’s not in early dementia.
Did you catch the Brokaw/Roper exchange durin the parade?
Brokaw said the ENTIRE NBC Newsroom was crying with joy as Obama gave his acceotance speech.
German media did the same when HITLER took power.
MAY GOD SAVE US ALL...
Tom Brokaw believes he has special authority to make such pronouncements because of his coining "the greatest generation." He sees himself as the Walter Cronkite of our time.
I might be able to take him seriously if he didn't squint and didn't sound like he had a wad of taffy stuck in his throat, or if he said anything but plain, uninformed observations that could be cut-and-pasted into almost any situation.
No, he just drank the Kool-Aid like everybody else. Exhibit A in that category, to me, is Roe Cohn, who has the afternoon drive time slot on WLS AM 890, Chicago. He was always a "fair and balanced" type, who was occasionally accused by listeners of being right-leaning, but when Obama came along, he warmed up to him, and today, he jumped the shark. Someone mentioned the "white will embrace what's right" line from the Benediction, and he hesitated, just a moment, and then said, "That's cool." Well then Roe, why did you hesitate?
A little later they dumped a caller who got as far as saying he thought that Obama's black supporters were acting as though it was just them, not everybody, who had triumphed. He was about to say something about Obama's supporters in general when he disappeared, and the discussion went on with no reference to the call, as though it hadn't happened.
Newsrooms = Bathhouse boys
Did you also notice when Cheney came out to the dais in a wheelchair, Tom compared him to Dr. Strangelove?
...that Tom Brokaw comparison between Obama's inauguration and the Czech revolution is, of course, deeply insulting to millions of people around the world who know what it's like to live under a tyrannous regime and aren't so parochial and narcissistic as to confuse it with sitting around over a decaf latte and lo-fat granola bar complaining that Bush is shredding the Constitution because some radio station in Texas hasn't put the Dixie Chicks' "Rock Against Libby" CD into high rotation.
The Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, was the first to described a “Quiet Revolution.”
The quiet revolution is one that could be diffused throughout a culture, over a period of time, to destroy it from within. Since the civilized world had been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2,000 years, a culture based on this religion could only be captured from within. Applying psychology to break these traditions, beliefs, morals, and will of a people, could be accomplished quietly and without the possibility of resistance.
Gramsci insisted that alliances with other leftist groups would be essential to victory. These would include radical feminist groups, extremist environmental organizations, so-called civil rights movements, homosexual activists, anti-police associations, internationalist-minded groups, liberal church denominations, and others. Working together, these groups could create a united front working for the destructive transformation of the Judeo-Christian culture of the West.
By winning “cultural hegemony,” Gramsci pointed out that they could control the deepest wellsprings of human thought through the medium of mass psychology. Indeed, men could be made to “love their servitude.” In terms of the gospel of the Frankfurt School, resistance to cultural Marxism could be completely negated by placing the resister in a psychic iron cage. The tools of mass psychology could be applied to produce this result.
The essential nature of Gramsci’s revolutionary strategy is reflected in a 1990’s book, “The Greening of America.” In this book, Charles Reich writes, “There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and the culture, and it will change the political structure as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. This is the revolution of the New Generation.” Of course this New Generation would be Reich’s elite Boomer generation and the mantra for these New Age “foot soldiers” of the Frankfurt School prophets, would be “have the courage to change.”
Herbert Marcuse, who was greatly influenced by the writings of Gramsci, was one of the most prominent Frankfurt School promoters of social revolution among college and university students in the 1960s. It was Marcuse that originated the “make love, not war” slogan.
In 1919, Marxist theorist Georg Lukacs said, “Who will save us from Western Civilization?” Just a few years ago, on college campuses, students chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.” Where do you think they got that?
Most Americans do not yet realize that they are being led by social revolutionaries who think in terms of the destruction of the existing social order in order to create a new social order in the world. These revolutionaries are the New Age elite Boomers, the New Totalitarians. They now control every public institution in the United States of America. Their quiet revolution, which began with the counter-culture revolution of their youth, is nearly complete. It is based on the intellectual foundation of the cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School. Its completion depends on keeping the American male and non-feminist female in their psychic iron cage.
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