Tom Brokaw's Revenge? Calls Out 'Bigots and Rednecks' on Obama Inauguration Day: 'Take This!'

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Sitting in a Washington bar with the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC Tuesday morning, former NBC anchor grew emotional remembering the 1960s. "I get very emotional. It has been hard for me to walk through the streets. And I think that the day is going to be very emotional." Brokaw even grew bold enough to tell the "bigots and rednecks" he met in the Sixties "when we were evolving as a country" to suffer through the Obama inauguration: "Take this. You know?"

The Morning Joe crew was discussing how Barack Obama was so different than past administrations in their lack of drama and in-fighting:

JOE SCARBOROUGH: As I was explaining to my wife, as my conservative brethren continued to beat me up, 'Why do you say, you know -- this guy is not going to be a leftist, how do you know he will not?' -- I said because of the people he is surrounds himself with. They are steady people. They are professional. A lot of ugliness you have seen in White Houses over the past 16 years, absent with this group.

BROKAW: Comfortable in his own skin, to use that phrase, he had the self-confidence. It was not overbearing and could laugh at himself easily. He could hammer him and criticalof a quote. At one point he burst out laughing, I was in the middle of reading back one of these things. "Some people said nice things about me as well."

Listen, I just want to say one thing. Having been in the South in the '60s and Los Angeles, in Watts and northern urban areas, when we were evolving as a country, I'm thinking of all the bigots and rednecks and people I met along the way. I'm saying to them, "Take this." You know?

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I like that thought. I think you might be right.

A few minutes earlier, Brokaw talked it over with Mike Barnicle and Gen. Colin Powell:

BROKAW, with a quavering voice: I get very emotional. It has been hard for me to walk through the streets. And I think that the day is going to be very emotional. I think that's good for the country. It’s a reminder again of who we are and our inherent strengths. And the inherent strengths are, is that this is an immigrant nation. We have come from all over the world to build this country and this society. And now we have the son of an immigrant as president, first generation. And the rule of law is the underpinning for it. And we’re always at our best when we are more than the sum of our parts.

Barnicle added: "There’s nothing wrong with crying about this country, is there?" Powell agreed: "I’ve been crying left and right for the last few weeks."

It probably did not occur to them that Obama opponents might be crying for opposite reasons.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.


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"Bigots and Rednecks"...

That's Profiling and that's wrong!

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

Well, looks like according

Well, looks like according to Brokaw and the rest of the leftists, caucasions now get to get the shaft...

 

 

What exactly is the Dems issue with Rednecks?

I mean, what is a redneck?  Someone who spends the majority of their time outside...generally working.  So that tells me that they are in the lower tax bracket.  Don't the dems love the poor?  Or is it only the minority poor that gets some lovin?

AFClone, yeah, especially since this redneck was a dem.

http://i70.photobuck...

Hey, the truth sucks sometimes. LOL.

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

Was he really?

Why do I think he was R?  Or maybe I think all actors are like Fred.

Bigots, idolators, and pantywaists

I have neither watched nor listened to Brokejaw in over 20 years.

I've seen more tolerant and intelligent creatures lying face down in the swamps.

Take that. You know?

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

'More tolerant and intelligent creatures

Lying facedown in swamps' Dayem. If we weren't already buddies.....I'd like to Re-buddy you for that one. I'm going to fall asleep chuckling over that. Thanks.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Tom,

would one of the bigots be the "Rev" Lowery, would another be the "Rev" Wright? 

And, son of an immigrant?  First generation?  Which immigrant?  His mother, the "American citizen"?  His father?  I don't believe he ever immigrated here.  So, pardon me if I don't get all emotional, o.k.?  Nothing personal, but your agenda is not mine.

A lot of whites helped win this victory

I wonder if the whites who worked to help make this day possible will get any credit.  It's because of a lot of whites that this could have happened without having to overthrow our government and start over.

Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!

As intelligent as ever Brokaw

So, I guess there were no bigots and rednecks in the north, midwest, or out west, huh Tom.  Tom, you've taken a brilliant career and reduced yourself to the level of Olbermann.  How sad.

 Someone as ignorant as you, or Matthews, Maddox, Olbermann, etc in your position is a very, very dangerous thing.  Before you start spewing your leftist mantra everywhere, remember one thing.  The political "pendulum" swings back and forth and we have just taken one GIANT swing to the left.  Which means one thing, the swing back to the right will be just as giant.

 Remember.

Wow, Tom, you sure knew a lot of Democrats back in the '60s.

Will this self-loathing, white-guilt ridden, hypocritical tool of the freedom-hating Marxist left EVER just go away?

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

I'm surprised that Brokaw...

didn't put his thumb on the tip of his nose and wiggle his fingers.  Actually,  the more appropriate gesture for him would be putting his fist in the crook of his bent elbow. 

Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration

http://www.despair.com/government.html

Joe Scarborough

Joe, that has been a problem for him from the beginning - the people he surrounds himself with. If you surround yourself with radicals and crooks plus pay lawyers to suppress all your documents you've got a big credibility problem. Bush wouldn't have lasted five minutes if he had all this hanky panky going on.

BROKAW:  I'm thinking of

BROKAW:  I'm thinking of all the bigots and rednecks and people I met along the way. I'm saying to them, "Take this." You know? 

  You know he's talking about (down to) normal Americans.  Imagine the hypocrisy of someone from NBC calling someone else a bigot.

A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own,

.

Nigel Powers Brokaw...

"There are only two things he can't stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch"

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

  LOL The only reason we

  LOL The only reason we still have Brokaw around is because we can't get any friggin' sharks with laser beams attached to their heads!

MidAmerica's on Fire!

 

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

Making distinctions

It's great to be emotional about what "electing a black man" can say about this country. But you have to distinguish that from the liberal Democrat we elected. One is an idea, the other is a real person. In this overdone gushing, we don't note any distinction from the media. They are hiding their enthusiasm for liberalism behind the veil of being happy for a racial milestone.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI

The hood ornament on your kid's tricycle.  What a useless twit.

"I'm thinking of all the

"I'm thinking of all the bigots and rednecks and people I met along the way.. "

 

Sounds like he was on his way from the living room to the kitchen to get a beer out of Robert Byrds refrigerator.

 

 

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Man that pencil neck Brokaw

Man that pencil neck Brokaw damn near hurt my feelings with those hateful comments.  Damn near.

First President to Accomplish Nothing

Is Brokaw still smoking dope from the sixties?
This election is amazing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the first president that we have elected that has accomplished nothing? Trying to compare Obama to Lincoln or Jefferson is ludicrous. He isn't even a JFK. What is he? What has he done?
It is as if the liberals are creating a history for him since he has accomplished nothing.
And all Brokaw can do is criticize bigots and rednecks for stating the obvious. Those remarks would show Brokaw and his liberal friends to be the bigots. Criticism and protest are American rights. Brokaw should be ashamed of himself.
And I don't know what Joe is smoking either. Rahm Emmanuel is hardly steady and professional. He has been pretty ugly. He sent an adversary a dead fish for goodness sake. I don't think the mafia is something to adulate.
TSF Protests!

"but isn't this the first

"but isn't this the first president that we have elected that has accomplished nothing?"

 

Wrong!

He was born half-black.

 

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Disagree Blazer

You don't do anything to be born...so he hasn't even accomplished that.

Did that make any sense or is it the alcohol speaking again?

  Well hey, I was born and

 
Well hey, I was born and I even have the papers to prove it. Now as for Barack..........

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Maybe he could borrow yours...

I mean, isn't he the one who needs it?  Isn't his need greater than yours?  You should redistribute your paper to those less fortunate than you...

I did. I covered a poor

I did. I covered a poor freezing homeless guy up on a park bench the other night with the latest edition of the sunday paper.

Miraculously after the inauguration today, I cannot seem to find any homeless people anywhere. As a matter of fact, I saw the same guy that was sleeping on the bench the other night walk out of a brokerage firm in a three piece suit and get in a limo.

That Obama is good.

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

His speech inspired him...

He picked himself up, looked through that paper for a job, and now is a successful businessman....and probably still has more experience than Pres BHO.

"... the same guy that was

"... the same guy that was sleeping on the bench the other night walk out of a brokerage firm in a three piece suit and get in a limo."

That's your "economic stimulus package" at work. Obama really did "hit the ground running."

 

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

You have papers, Blaze?

So....you are pedigreed.

While our new CIC is a mutt....um, an undocumented one at that.

LOL.

 

 

Blonde, even my Beagle has

Blonde, even my Beagle has papers for chrissakes. But for some reason it's toomuch to ask the most powerful man on the planet, to present his.

LOL ! or WTF?.....take your pick.

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Um.....

Gotta go with the latter, there, Blaze.

The cake is a lie.

 

My sentiments too. My wife

My sentiments too. My wife brought this up to a liberal friend she works with. She actually said:

"Did the disciples ask Jesus for a birth certificate before following him as their Messiah ?"

My wife said:

" They would have if they worked for the D.M.V."

: )

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

'the alcohol speaking'

Ya tryin to make me jealous, girl?!
I've been preggers/nursing so long I haven't had a drink in almost 5 years. Never was much for it anyway, but it's nice to have the option.....

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

C3X

You obviously weren't here election night....I think I had 6 wine coolers (probably more, but it's a little hazy) in about 2 hours.

I was crying into my

Tall glass of whole milk.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Made it into Skim Milk

Very creative.  Probably saved a few bucks too.

Rham is off to a Good Start...

New Chief of Staff

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

What is he? What has he

What is he? What has he done?

He is a consumate conman and has bamboozled a nation, similar to what Hitler did.  Uber allies.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Brokaw might want to brush

Brokaw might want to brush up his journalism research on the new bigots...like Rev Wright and Lowery (who gave the innaugural benediction)...

The hate they spew is absolutely divisive.

 

 

"And now we have the son of

"And now we have the son of an immigrant as president, first generation. And the rule of law is the underpinning for it."

No, what we very likely have is an immigrant as President, in total violation of the Constitution of the United States. So much for the rule of law. What Brokaw obviously meant to say is "the rule of what I prefer."

One thing this election does prove: in America, literally anybody can become President.

Ever notice?

It seems not only just fine but very avant garde, cool, hip, etc to racially insult caucasians by calling them rednecks, crackers, gringo's, just name your racial term of choice.  Are any other white people getting tired of being racially attacked like this? Fuck Blowchow, fuck Lowery, fuck Wright and all the other racists.

Ya gotta dirty mouth

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

  technically, dirty

  technically, dirty fingers...

I always know it's him

Dirty and unfunny. I agree with his general sentiment, for the most part. If you're dirty and unfunny though, ya just sound like a liberal.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

That was

That was quite a handfull of dirty fingers.

Jesus Loves You

Clean & Funny or Clean & Serious

Either way, let's not become the KOS or the HuffPo...

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

"Bigots and

"Bigots and rednecks"

Judging by how that went over in Pennsylvania when both Obama and Murtha said/implied similar things, sounds like Brokaw just got another 10,000 at least to vote Democrat next time.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Sorry I can't type more...

It's hard to hit the keys on the computer while clinging to my guns & religion...

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

Scott

Valiant effort. B@lls to the wall, d@mn the torpedos. :-o

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

 No offense, but

 No offense, but Scarborough is delusional.

"Libs never let you down. You don't have to talk to one very long before the stupid comes out."

kiss A--

Brokaw has his nose soooooooooo far up George Soros..who by the way is O's puppetmaster too..what is the name of that group of soros brokaw sits on????robin hood...what a bunch of idiots...we here in Texas might be rednecks but let's see if brokaw can say it to a redneck's face....just a girlieman

This whole day

has disgusted me.

The worst part? All the libs and celebuwhores who are now all of a sudden "proud of their country."

55 million people didn't vote for Obama, by the way. 55 million of us didn't get a tingle up our legs. I guess we're all just bigots and rednecks.

Tom Brokaw can suck it.

Liberals: Proud of their

Liberals:

Proud of their country when their party is in power.

Conservatives:

Proud of their country no matter what party is in power.

Now, who are the real patriots again?

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

Who was it that said that,

Who was it that said that, Blazer? Was it Stephen Decatur or Henry Clay? Anyway, very profound. And, on a personal note, it is such a relief to be able to love my country again after hating it with a purple passion for 28 out of the past 40 years.

Jer

I could not stand aside any longer...

     Although it has been many months since I have last made a post here, I have been reading nearly every day.  NewsBusters, and my girlfriend, are the only things that have kept me level-headed during this election cycle, and these last 4 years in general.  But among the NB's community, I want to extend special thanks to members Blazer, Motherbelt, KC Mullville, Popular Science, Scout Finch, Lame Cherry (when you still were posting here), there are many others, and I'm up so way past my bed time, I'm not doing enough people justice here. 

     We have documented so many stunning examples of liberal hypocrisy, liberal ethics violations, deliberate liberal journalistic bias and unabashed hatred and non-tolerance by liberals toward anyone not like them.  I have always found the term "white trash" to be very racially disturbing as well as pervertedly self-loathing, for caucasians such as myself.  Redneck, could just as easily be exchanged for w*tb*ck, n*gg*r, sp*c, k*k*, g**k, etc., etc., etc. 

     People like Tom Brokaw, who are supposedly hyper-intelligent and extremely caring and tolerant, sure do, on a regular basis, expose their true ignorant nature to all those that are paying attention.  Barack H. Obama did give a great speech today.  I couldn't help but think that he attained some of his oratory skills from all of those years sitting in the pews listening to Jeremiah Wright.  Nevertheless, I am quite certain that many more conservatives will embrace President Obama than did liberals for President Bush, and they will do so with a sense of possibility that no matter what, what is done is done, and our love of America and our sense of duty as citizens inevitably will conquere our anxiety over the future.  We will support President Obama, with a watchful eye, and a skeptical heart.  But our support will be there because, unlike most liberals I have ever met, conservatives do not wish the demise of their country in order to justfiy their own political agendas.

      Thank you again for all that most of you have given me: an outlet of rational thought and intelligent, mostly historically accurate discourse that has truly enlightened me.  Keeping fighting the good fight.  We will prevail.

God bless.

 

SIXTEEN YEARS

The hilarity of the comment about the infighting for the last sixteen year.....

Excuse me but did Brokaw not notice that the slimy creatures from the Klinton years are all back in power.

Damn, day late-dollar short again!

I was about to post the same thing, JGirl. You're obviously a very perceptive and astute lady. ;^)

Except, it was Scarborough who made that particular bone-headed comment. Otherwise, spot on.

 

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

For all you Southerners...

As a life-long resident of Michigan...

Thank you for growing the food I need to feed my family when it's winter here. The only thing growing around here is ice.

Thank you for training most of our soldiers in bases in your states.

Thank you for serving in those very units you are hosting in those states. I have yet to see a military unit where someone doesn't have an accent (and I don't mean British...)

Thank you for picking up M-1's, M-14's, M-16's and M-4's and all the rifles inbetween, to fight for a nation where some of those citizens call you ignorant or backwards because your voice deviates from ours above the Mason-Dixon Line.

As a free-lance writer who has been in the South...

Thank you for your hospitality and your patience when my credit card didn't always work. I never failed to have a roof over my head. I was usually told that we would figure it out in the morning.

Thank you for the directions you gave me that helped me find my destination, even though it took us an hour to find the best route because of traffic reports and flooding that night.

Thank you for warning me about wildlife I wouldn't have even worried about before (not much of a gator population in Michigan, nor do we have fire ants or those mosquitos that are the size of a Ford Taurus...)

As an American citizen...

There are bigots, racists and criminals in every society. It is not just relegated to you. Most of us up here know that. Most know that your necks are probably red because I'm pretty sure the sun is about 13 feet above Alabama. At least that's the way it seemed in July.

Thank you for being Americans and decent people in most instances that I've ever met you.

"Take this, you know."

Sorry if this sounded a bit preachy, but the stuff about "hillbillies" gets a bit old, even to a guy from Michigan.

Mike

Mike

I'm not the best person to answer that, as I'm a first generation Southerner, but thank you. And you're welcome.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Welcome, brother

That was a beautiful post. As an Okie from Muskogee, I can't say that I am as worthy as my fellow Okies, but on behalf of those who live here, and on behalf of my family who are resting at the Military Cemetary in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, YOU ARE WELCOME, SIR, AND THANK YOU!

The Army base at Fort Sill thanks you.

The Vance Air Force base in Enid thanks you.

The Air Force base in Oklahoma City thanks you.

The cattlemen thank you.

The oil and natural gas producers thank you.

The wheat producers thank you.

The two resting Medal of Honor recipients now lying in eternal rest who were from Muskogee thank you.

The seventeen other men who received the Medal of Honor who were either born in Oklahoma or entered service here thank you.

My late grandfather, who landed at Omaha beach and took at tour through France, Luxembourg, Germany, and Czechoslovakia to return home and wear a police officer's uniform thanks you.

My 80 year-old father, who is from Okmulgee, who is the son of a police officer, who went on to spend 30 years in the Border Patrol as well as a tour in the Army, whose neck is red because of the manual farm labor he did during the Great Depression, thanks you.

The Civil War soldiers who fought and died at Cabin Creek, Chustenahlah, Chusto-Talasah, Honey Springs, Middle Boggy Depot, Old Fort Wayne, and Round Mountain, all Civil War battle sites here in Oklahoma, thank you.

Tom Brokaw, go to #&$*, you know?

Hey Tom, I'm thinking of all the omitted Obama

Hey Tom, I'm thinking of all the omitted Obama news stories along the election campaigns, and I'm saying to you on the day after  Obama Inauguration Day, that the proud peacock's ratings are still in the port-o-potty.   

'Take This!' You know?

16 years...

Okay, I finally get it. All the silliness, the "giddy as a school girl"-ness, it all makes more sense now. Those poor sods are tickled to death that they not only won, but there's not a Klinton in the whitehouse. I truly believe that for most of them, the battle cry was "anything but a Klinton!!!", or "if it moves, and it doesn't answer to hey bit*h", vote for it. Oh and the "no McSame" closed mindedness, too, of course...

Like usual the libs need a history lesson

It is endlessly fascinating to me that the libs continue to insult the very people that gave rise to their power.  The term redneck came from the red bandanna worn by West Virginia coal miners that were UNION (emphasis mine) members and their supporters.  Of course the lack of historical perspective has alway been a hallmark of the left as history begins anew each day.  Now I think I will have to find something to drink.

20 Jan 09:  The day the Republic died

Brokaw rednecks and bigots in the 60's were DEMOCRATS

How convenient tom b....why didn't you mention that the rednecks and bigots that you knew in the '60's were democrats?  Fulbright, Wallace, Robert KKK Byrd....check it out.  The dems/leftists/marxists continue to be bigots and hypocrites.  Reference their racist and sexist records. Nice attempt at sharing your devious memories.

http://www.nationalb...

60's DemocratsYupQ:

60's Democrats

Yup

Q: "What is your opinion of the Democratic Party?"

A: "The Democratic Party is responsible for the racism that exists in this country, along with the Republican Party. The leading racists in this country are Democrats. ... If you check, whenever any kind of legislation is suggested to mitigate the injustices that Negroes suffer in this country, you will find that the people who line up against it are members of Lyndon B. Johnson's party. The Dixiecrats are Democrats. The Dixiecrats are only a subdivision of the Democratic Party, and the same man over the Democrats is over the Dixiecrats."

Malcolm X in an interview with The Young Socialist Alliance.

Oh my, and look at what year it was: January 18, 1965

 

 

Right on, m o d... That

Right on, m o d...

That proves the current Democrat party is racist...cuz the Dixiecrats were Democrats, and were led by Strom Thurmond who thought the Democrats got too "librul" on civil rights, so he became a Republi...oops.  Never mind.

Jer

"Dixiecrats were Democrats,

"Dixiecrats were Democrats, and were led by Strom Thurmond who thought the Democrats got too "librul" on civil rights, so he became a Republi...oops."

But LBJ, George Wallace to name a couple never left and the Kleagle sit's in the Senate to this day.

We don't even have to talk about the rapist's, killer's, anti-semites, troop basher's and child molesters who served/ are serving on the Democrat side of the aisle right now.

 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."