Diary Entry by Mark C. NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw's behind-the-scenes relationship with the McCain campaign, as well as evidence of bias toward McCain in Brokaw's recent reporting on the presidential race, have brought into question his fitness to moderate the next presidential debate Oct. 7.As the New York Times reports today, Brokaw has lately played the role of a liaison between NBC and the McCain campaign and even acted as an advocate for McCain within NBC. In an interview with the Times on Sunday, Brokaw said that he had "advocated" with NBC executives "to modify the anchor duties of the MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews on election night and on nights when there were presidential debates" owing to their perceived unfriendliness toward McCain, in effect dumping Olbermann and Matthews as anchors and using them only as commentators. Brokaw told the Times also that he had "conducted some shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks between NBC and the McCain campaign," aimed at as...
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The son of the great William F. Buckley decided to endorse Obama and the backlash was overwhelming. He offered his resignation to National Review, and surprise! They accepted! When I heard the news, my thought was…who cares? If Michelle makes good on her threat not to vote for McCain because she simply can’t bear to pull the lever for an amnesty shill — which is what he is, I hasten to remind you — are our readers going to desert us, too? Litmus test: There is a huge difference between not voting for someone based on the loyalty to your conservative values and principles and endorsing a marxist radical because of some mumbo jumbo about how you “sense” his potential. Spare me. Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller describes my feelings about this one much better than I can, and with much more colorful adjectives. Let me summarize what he just said in the clip above. McCain is stupid because he knows that what he proposes will not happen and Obama is too intellige...
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Diary Entry by Mark C. NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw's behind-the-scenes relationship with the McCain campaign, as well as evidence of bias toward McCain in Brokaw's recent reporting on the presidential race, have brought into question his fitness to moderate the next presidential debate Oct. 7.As the New York Times reports today, Brokaw has lately played the role of a liaison between NBC and the McCain campaign and even acted as an advocate for McCain within NBC. In an interview with the Times on Sunday, Brokaw said that he had "advocated" with NBC executives "to modify the anchor duties of the MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews on election night and on nights when there were presidential debates" owing to their perceived unfriendliness toward McCain, in effect dumping Olbermann and Matthews as anchors and using them only as commentators. Brokaw told the Times also that he had "conducted some shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks between NBC and the McCain campaign," aimed at as...
The son of the great William F. Buckley decided to endorse Obama and the backlash was overwhelming. He offered his resignation to National Review, and surprise! They accepted! When I heard the news, my thought was…who cares? If Michelle makes good on her threat not to vote for McCain because she simply can’t bear to pull the lever for an amnesty shill — which is what he is, I hasten to remind you — are our readers going to desert us, too? Litmus test: There is a huge difference between not voting for someone based on the loyalty to your conservative values and principles and endorsing a marxist radical because of some mumbo jumbo about how you “sense” his potential. Spare me. Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller describes my feelings about this one much better than I can, and with much more colorful adjectives. Let me summarize what he just said in the clip above. McCain is stupid because he knows that what he proposes will not happen and Obama is too intellige...
