Saturday Today Show: Brokaw Pushes Pervez in Anti-Israel Path; Campbell Sees Problems for Prez

The Today Show

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A rare viewing of a Saturday morning Today Show demonstrates that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Gone are Katie and Matt, replaced by Campbell Brown and Lester Holt. But liberal bias is forever.

First up was an excerpt of a Tom Brokaw interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who recently met with Pres. Bush. In the course of the interview, Brokaw managed to sneak in his own opinions on at least two occasions. First, he stated as fact that "the outcome in Iraq is still very much an open question and a matter of doubt."

Browkaw then stated that "even if matters in Iraq are resolved, there won't be peace in the middle east until Palestinians are treated more fairly" [paraphrasing here, but that was the thrust of his statement]. Pervez was only too happy to agree.

Then it was the turn of Campbell Brown [daughter of a Dem Louisiana official convicted of corruption] to interview John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal regarding the latest NBC/WSJ presidential poll.

Brown seized on every opportunity to find a silver lining to the very dark clouds looming over the Kerry campaign. She pointed to the fact that the Bush lead had sunk to 6%. Then she harped on one internal [out of undoubtedly many that were favorable to W]. Apparently 55% of people think the situation in Iraq is worse than portrayed by W, and 37% think he isn't telling the whole truth about the situation there.

"How much of a problem for Pres. Bush is this?" asked Brown, with false concern, or better yet, in the hope that indeed it is a significant problem for W.

An objective reporter would have looked at the totality of the poll and said "any immediate post-RNC bump has settled down, and W still seems to have a solid lead, and the internals suggest that Americans trust him by huge margins over Kerry on the issues they consider most important. Is the race effectively over?"

But Campbell was determined to portray W as the candidate on the defensive.

Harwood gave reasonable answers, essentially saying that no matter what poll you look at, one thing is clear: W is leading. He also mentioned that the Dems have staked the campaign on hitting hard on Iraq from now till Election Day. Campbell naturally fretted as to why Kerry hadn't begun these attacks earlier.

All in all, solid evidence that even when Katie's away, the liberal mice will continue to play at Today.

[Mo1]

First, he stated as fact that "the outcome in Iraq is still very much an open question and a matter of doubt."

They have been saying that since BEFORE the war started

[Pharmboy]

In order for you to withstand the continued exposure to the babytalk as practiced by the NBC hairdos, you undoubtedly rely on Zen. Then I thought you could write a book: Zen and the Art of Watching of the Today Show.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks so much. I enjoy doing these threads, particularly when I receive responses like yours from my fellow FReepers.

And by the way, my method of choice for dealing with the resulting 'agita' isn't Zen, it's Nexium!