I miss David Brinkley:
Days before he announced his retirement from regular news coverage, Brinkley made a rare, on-air mistake during evening coverage of the 1996 United States presidential election at a moment when he thought he was on commercial break. One of his colleagues asked him what he thought of the prospects for Bill Clinton’s re-election. He called Clinton “a bore” and added, “The next four years will be filled with pretty words and pretty music and a lot of g—d-— nonsense!” One of his team pointed out that they were still on the air. Brinkley said, “Really? Well, I’m leaving anyway!” Brinkley offered Clinton an apology during a one-on-one interview a week or so later.
Remember it well.
P. Jennings was half-heartedly trying to stop Brinkley from going too far but that was funny!
Brinkley interviewed Clinton days later and gave a 10 second apology that neither he nor Clinton thought was sincere! lol
“I miss David Brinkley:”
During the Tienanmen Square protests in China, Brinkley said something like: “Karl Marx called for the workers of the world to rise up and overthrow the ruling class. But I’m not sure this is quite what he had in mind.”
Still cracks me up!