Tom Brokaw: Obama's Resurgence 'Lazarus-like'
The panel on Wednesday's "Morning Joe" on MSNBC gushed over President Obama's recent legislative success, and former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw likened Obama's resurgence to Lazarus rising from the dead.
"It looked like the day after the election that [Obama] was on his way back to Chicago. Now suddenly he has arisen, Lazarus-like, again," Brokaw attested.
The disastrous mid-term elections? They are simply a distant nightmare, the panel asserted. Co-host Joe Scarborough, as well as guest columnists Mike Barnicle and Charles Blow, stated that the election results are not news anymore. "No one's talking about that anymore," remarked Blow, a New York Times columnist, over the election.
Instead the media will be writing a different script, Scarborough suggested. "I guarantee you with all of the end-of-the-year reviews, the story is not going to be 'Obama loses 65 seats in the House,'" he predicted.
"It's going to be 'Wow, the comeback kid. Came back pretty darn quick.' Look, that's the narrative the press is going to be writing about at the end of the year," he said. Mike Barnicle added that the media has already started praising Obama. "They're already writing it, and deservedly so," he opined. "Who remembers the election at this point?
Joe Scarborough, meanwhile, thought Republican opposition to the START treaty signaled a jealous obstruction rather than sensible opposition. "I've just got to say...they really don't have a good substantive leg to stand on," he said of the GOP opposition. "Therefore you can only assume ...that they don't want Barack Obama to have all of these successes going into the new year."
A transcript of the segment, which aired on December 22 at 7:02 a.m. EDT, is as follows:
MSNBC MORNING JOE 12/22/10 7:02 a.m. EDT
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well Tom, it is just fascinating times. The President had just a miserable eleven months, the first eleven months of 2010 could not have been worse politically for this man. And the last three weeks, though, are going to give him victories that he can ride into the New Year.
TOM BROKAW: For the 250 millionth time, I'll remind you of my favorite theory in American politics, the UFO theory – the unforseeable occurs. This is a perfect example of that. It looked like the day after the election that he was on his way back to Chicago. Now suddenly he has arisen, Lazarus-like, again. And the 9/11 bill will be another test of that.
(...)
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I've got to say, though, Charles, given the choice between going into the New Year with stories talking about how your party lost 63 seats in the House and were brutalized in senate and governors campaigns, this is preferable.
CHARLES BLOW: No one's talking about that anymore.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, no one's talking about it anymore.
BLOW: Nothing succeeds like success in America, and it is – the momentum of that success is what Barack Obama is experiencing right now, and you don't even have – Mitch McConnell said, what? The next two years or so, we're going to make you play by our rules. But the Presidential campaign starts next month.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
BLOW: So the – he doesn't have to – enough success, enough momentum coming into that first part of the year – any successes that they deliver him, he can run on those. It's really hard for a body, for Congress to say "We did something." McConnell – as much as we may know him around this table, the people don't know him. And when the Republican nominees start to emerge, they become the face, not McConnell.
MSNBC MORNING JOE 12/22/10 8:09 a.m. EDT
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well first of all, the Republicans would prefer this taking place in January or February, when they have more people in the Senate. But Republicans will tell you that a tax deal has nothing to do with national defense. But-but all that being said, I just – I've just got to say, as we go through these points exhaustively as we have, these three main points exhaustively, they really don't have a good substantive leg to stand on. Therefore you can only assume – and I understand this type of feeling – that they don't want Barack Obama to have all of these successes going into the new year.
MIKE BARNICLE: That's it.
SCARBOROUGH: Because he's been knocked back on his feet with the election, but I guarantee you with all of the end-of-the-year reviews, the story is not going to be "Obama loses 65 seats in the House." It's going to be "Wow, the comeback kid. Came back pretty darn quick." Look, that's the narrative the press is going to be writing about at the end of the year.
BARNICLE: They're already writing it, and deservedly so. Look at the storyline of the past four weeks, look what the special session of Congress has done. Don't Ask Don't Tell, the START Treaty appears to be on the verge of passing today, and you've got the tax bill.
SCARBOROUGH: The massive stimulus bill –
BARNICLE: Who remembers the election at this point?
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Is anyone surprised?
Submitted by Phryj1 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 6:10pm.
Of course the leftist lapdogs in the MSM are going to spin all the 11th hour revenge legislation by the embittered lame duck Congress into a resurgence for Obama. Does anyone really need any more evidence these guys are in the tank fo the Dems? They're completely shameless. And Brokaw calls himself a journalist. If that's journalism, then journalistic integrity really is dead.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Successes? You have a
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 6:13pm.
Successes? You have a communist congress in the final weeks of its life thrashing out any anti-American legislation it can because the fear of running for re-election is gone, and we have an anti-American president who is more than willing to do anything to screw this country.
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Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
The big question is
Submitted by ghost of Mary J... on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 6:23pm.
What is SCARBOROUGH going to do when MSNBC goes under?
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The stench eminating from the
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 6:26pm.
The stench eminating from the Ass Clown makes his final ascent seem more like Davy Jones rising up in ' Pirates of the Caribbean ' if you ask me.
Either way the ( democrat ) party's over in Washington starting in January.
I hope they all enjoy their last hoorah before reality hits them like a ton of bricks next year.
Let the investigations begin. Can anyone say Watergate?
Barack_Must_Go.....
Sepulcher aroma
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 9:37am.
Indeed, The One has been ensconced in office for roughly two years, wherefore he stinkith!
Quick, roll the stone back!!!
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
These journolestas are so
Submitted by Reaver on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 6:25pm.
These journolestas are so marvelously unselfaware - Charles Blow, stated that the election results are not news anymore. "No one's talking about that anymore," - Scarborough suggested. "I guarantee you with all of the end-of-the-year reviews, the story is not going to be 'Obama loses 65 seats in the House,'" - "It's going to be 'Wow, the comeback kid. Came back pretty darn quick.' Look, that's the narrative the press is going to be writing about at the end of the year," he said. Mike Barnicle added that the media has already started praising Obama. "They're already writing it, and deservedly so," he opined. "Who remembers the election at this point?
And yet if you suggested to anybody at that table that they were even the slightest bit biased they would be highly offended.
Dude! We're just waiting for
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 6:42pm.
Dude! We're just waiting for the shellac to dry!
We all better hope the GOP really does get its act together
Submitted by lsudolemite on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 6:43pm.
in the 112th. We have 11, count em, 11 GOP senators signing onto the START treaty. That doesn't bode well for what the Tea Party people will be facing from their own party in January.
Having said that, of course this gushing coverage was totally predictable. If Obama is going to get reelected, then he needs his to get his biggest cheerleaders behind him and all on the same page.
"It's going to be 'Wow, the
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 7:11pm.
"It's going to be 'Wow, the comeback kid. Came back pretty darn quick.' Look, that's the narrative the press is going to be writing about at the end of the year,Of course, he's right. He is so obvious, stating the narrative, and Barnicle is actually bragging about the media's plan: They're writing it already! They have decided what the template is, and it's to ignore November and build Obama up for every little thing he does, proclaiming everything a "great victory."
No one is writing about how he was dragged kicking and screaming to tax cuts, it's all about the brilliant deal HE forced on Republicans.
Make way for Messiah 2.0
More like....
Submitted by suburbanite on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 7:17pm.
KJV: Rev 13:3
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
It's your only way" Triumph
Libs/Lefties making out with themselves
Submitted by Slyrr on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 7:38pm.
After a really bad year, it looks like the libutards in politics, the press, et. al., have started hitting the booze a little bit early. They've ridiculously gone from patting themselves on the back to making out with themselves in public. It was bad enough when Matthews got thrills in his pants while sitting behind his desk, now he's doing it while standing up and applauding.
But if the liberals think that American citizens are as pleasured by the sight of their crooked behavior as they are themselves, it means they truly learned nothing from the last election cycle. They may derive some kind of sick ecstacy from 'getting away with it', but Americans are getting more and more disgusted with liberals every time they jump in front of a camera or open their big fat mouths.
Now they think that before the year end, that cramming as many unconstitutional bills as they can down our throats shows some kind of 'political savvy'.
I'm sure King George III thought he was being cute and clever when he was taxing everyone. He was probably bragging about it with heavy breathing, just like the liberal press is now.
Until a funny thing happened. The people in the Americas woke up. And one day, there was a shot heard round the world.
So while these losers on their dead network are joining Newsweek in saying that Obama is a 'god who stands above us all', they might do wisely to remember that there is a point at which the American people will wake up and let their government know they've finally gone too far.
Then it won't be Obama threatening his enemies with mobs and pitchforks. He already said it - he declared to Latinos that the American people are his enemies. Unless he and Democrats and liberals retreat quickly from their agenda, they'll be finding the mobs and pitchforks at their own doors, with no one to call them off.
It all amounts to
Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 7:42pm.
just a load of journalistic masturbation. They can't even get a date with the truth, so they indulge in their own self-pleasure.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
RINOReminder
Submitted by MdWhig on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 7:47pm.
Alexander, Bennett, Brown, Cochran, Collins, Corker, Gregg, Isakson, Johanns, Lugar, Murkowski, Snowe, Voinovich. All must go.
MCain
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 8:30pm.
MCain
Alexander, Bennett, Brown,
Submitted by Martin2717 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:01pm.
Alexander, Bennett, Brown, Cochran, Collins, Corker, Gregg, Isakson, Johanns, Lugar, Murkowski, Snowe, Voinovich. All must go.
For the ones who aren't leaving in two weeks, is it possible that we can recall these people who'll be in Congress for a while? That's what I'd do. No more of this nonsense.
election
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 7:50pm.
Sure, to those libs on msnbc , the Nov election is old news. They hardly reported on the fact that the election that took place is the best and most important news in the past two years. No president in history has ever referred to American's as enemies and hostages and come Nov. his name calling hopefully, will take a huge turn. Hopefully all this hoopla will be repealed, come Jan
If Obama is like Lazarus then
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 8:31pm.
If Obama is like Lazarus then who is playing the savior, Soros?
Power source....
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 9:35am.
...methinks the MSM view themselves as the makers of the king, the resurrection power, and the glory forever, amen.
*barf!*
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Memo to irrelevant
Submitted by Edhenry on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 8:41pm.
Memo to irrelevant media
Date: December 2010
Re: Resurgence of Socialists/Liberals/Obama/Professional anti-americans
Nov 2010 is only a precursor to Nov 2012
So impressed...
Submitted by jimbo297 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:08pm.
...by Barry's ability to get his democrat-controlled Congress to do his bidding. All that shows is that he has a knack for back-room deals. I'm just glad they didn't do any more damage than DADT, START and unemployent. And Obamafood.
No one's talkong about Nov. 2 anymore? And this guy dets paid to sit there and say something that stupid?
Probably the main reason you're not hearing alot about Republicans and the Tea Party is because they're a little distracted by --pardon the expression Nina--CHRISTMAS.
...and a merry one to you all.
Impressed?
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:58pm.
Actually the dimwits are sooo stupid, they actually think Obama has half a brain and in-fact knows what he is doing. When it's pretty dang obvious to the rest of us, he is going down for the third time.
The complete disconnect
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:40pm.
The complete disconnect between media & government liberals and the rest of the country just keeps getting wider and wider and wider...
Rush Limbaugh enjoys playing this exchange between
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 11:19pm.
Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose prior to the presidential election in 2008:
Here is the AUDIO, of Brokaw and Rose discussing Obama, with comments from Rush.
Here is the VIDEO of Charlie Rose's conversation with Tom Brokaw.
This is the type of President that is elected when the Mainstream Lame Media refuse to vet a candidate, because as Tom Hanks stated when he endorsed him: "I want Barack Obama to be the next President of this country, a country that once said that people of his skin color were only 3/5ths of a human being."
I guess if Barack Obama had not run, Tom Hanks and Tom Brokaw would have been comfortable endorsing Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson for President. They are Black and have also not really been vetted. Perfect candidates for President of the United States.
Two Tom's Endorsements
Submitted by timrfrench61 on Mon, 12/27/2010 - 2:05am.
By that Logic they should be endorsing Michael Vick for president...
...he who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others...
Nicolo Machiavelli - The Prince, CHAPTER XVIII don't recall Lazarus being
Submitted by Cowboy on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 1:55am.
I don't recall Lazarus being overturned for being unconstitutional...
Brokaw
Submitted by WoodstoveBill on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 8:53am.
To quote a favorite from the 60's Lost in Space... Brokaw..."You bubble-headed ninny"!
The is what passes for reporting? Brokaw is nothing and now irrelevant. Good thing MSNBC/NBC are able to give him a platform. Otherwise he would never be heard from again.
We have 25 percent of the
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 10:07am.
We have 25 percent of the rejected Congress passing laws the US public voted against in one last middle finger to the public. We have an even bigger RINO problem than we thought, with 25 percent of Repubs destroying national security as an issue for 2012. We basically made ourselves defenseless against the 1800 ballistic missiles that Iran will be importing into Venezuela. Monroe Doctrine, a dead letter for those 13 RINOs and the Obama Administration. Venezuela may have more ballistic missiles than the US, after this treaty has passed, and the US will have less than one third the ballistic missile capability of Venezuela, Russia and China combined. That surely will make for a safer world. Not!
Looks like yet another "chubbie" for Brokaw
Submitted by redright88 on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 10:26am.
Who need Viagra for these guys...when they can gush about Obama..... BOING!!!
Oh that's rich
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 11:49am.
Obama continues Boooosh tax cuts and it's a great victory for the left....
what next.... still being in Iraq is some kinda wonderful.....
Keep'n Gitmo open takes a real genius.....
The left is being Pissed on by Barry and believe him when he says it's rain'n
roflmmfaotimgd
Lazarus like?
Submitted by Patriot II on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 12:07pm.
Naa.....more "LIZARD" like!!!
A question about Him
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 12:08pm.
I'm curious. If He is the "Comeback kid", can someone explain why His approval numbers keep dropping?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
The Comeback Kid, as the
Submitted by shannon76 on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 1:55pm.
The Comeback Kid, as the sport expression that I associate it with, always referred to someone who made a habit out of overcoming a poor start and rallying for a victory. Personally, I think of Joe Montana. Montana was a guy with real grit. Real calm and leadership. Cool as a cucumber. Joe Montana earned his nicknames. Obama is like one of those guys who gives himself a nickname in order to get those around him to buy into it.
Obama hasn't actually done anything worthy of being called comeback kid. Are his poll numbers suddenly over 50%? Did he get some actual ideological victory? No and no. He's given the impression that he's moved to the center, and for this the MSM is manufacturing this bizarre narrative; which Krauthammer helped put together through no fault of his own. It's sort of laughable to call Obama the comeback kid. Obama basically took a screen pass 12-yards to run out the clock just before halftime, and for that the MSM has got their panties in a wad.
But you can't blame the press. The press has been looking, nay dying, for an excuse to lather Obama with praise. They've been waiting for TWO long years and he hasn't been able to give them one. They've been waiting at their laptops with the sugary odes to Obama, just waiting for that signature Obama victory. Anything. Any little thing that they could produce into a big sappy love poem.
Instead they've gotten the last two years. Every month they try to make the 'unexpected drop in unemployment' seem like a beacon of hope for the One (until two weeks later when those numbers are revised). The MSM have been waiting since the Olympics to write an Obama victory speech. They waited through all those conferences abroad for a significant foreign policy victory. Nothing. Instead the man has had one gaffe after another. Elections? Try as they might to paint a 50 seat loss as a comeback for Obama, they just couldn't do it. Not after a 60+ seat loss (but they probably wrote all those 'comeback kid' pieces back then and had them saved and ready to go on their laptop).
The one saving grace is that for all of this manufactured MSM narrative, it's coming at the worst time. Because for those Americans who do pay some attention to national politics they probably pay the least amount of attention in December just before the Holidays.
shannon---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 10:31pm.
Very good read.
Thanks.
MD