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Tom Brokaw lectures Chris Matthews over NH election coverage: “We have a lot of explaining to do.”


Tweety was completely out of control yesterday during the NH coverage and frankly he should not be part of any more election coverage from here on in. As the night went on and it became evident that Hillary Clinton would beat Barack Obama—Chris Matthews tried to take some of the heat off of the Village elders and himself for their egregious behavior towards Hillary after she lost in Iowa. Tom Brokaw would have none of it.

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Brokaw: Chris, I was watching you earlier today and you kept referring to the Suffolk University poll as being the anomaly in the group because it showed a 1% margin between Obama and Hillary Clinton and it turns out that was the poll that was correct and the others were wrong. So my investment advice to you tonight Chris is invest in the Suffolk University poll….

Brokaw: Let me just read you some of the headlines of the last 24 hours here. “So Yesterday,” with a picture of Hillary on the front page of the Boston Herald. “Panic,” in the NY Post with Hillary. “The End of the Clinton Era,” a lot of pundits saying that on this channel and all the other channels as well.

Brokaw: This is one of the great triumphs in recent years in American presidential politic—Hillary Clinton is back and the rest of us who were saying out loud that this was not going to happen, you know we have a lot of explaining to do.

The Big losers in NH: The “Village Elders”. I hope this starts a very unique trend in our political discourse the rest of the way: the Villagers do their jobs and report the news and then add some reasonable analysis along with it. Fat chance of that happening, I know.

UPDATE: Glenn has more… 




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162 Responses for “Tom Brokaw lectures Chris Matthews over NH election coverage: “We have a lot of explaining to do.””
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Terrible Says:

Twitty couldn’t ‘explain’ anything if his life depended on it.

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katy Says:

hey thanks, john!
my motto: it never hurts to ask!
good remarks from brokaw… hope he is listened to…

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katy Says:

oh… i’m mistaken… this is not the clip i asked for…
ah well… or, “never mind”…

Good work, Mr Brokaw. Keep yanking his chain until he behaves like a sane person. It might work. Let’s hope it does or else, show him the door.

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Hail to the Chimp Says:

Thanks John. SC and NV will be better. The pundits needs to stop. Chris Matthews has been out of control on both parties.

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Webster Says:

Next to “bloviate” in the dictionary is a picture of Tweety. Unbearable.

Something else that drives me crazy, speaking of dictionaries–no offense meant, but something is either “unique” or it’s not. You can’t modify “unique.” It’s like fingernails down a blackboard to me.

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JudyLou Says:

Brokaw can “news” circles around Tweety. He was generous in saying “we.” Har de har har.

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Travis Says:

I’d argue the “village elders” scored a huge victory, with the DLC candidate winning by way of a cheap ploy (aka her “outpouring of emotion”)

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Limp-Dick Blimpaugh Says:

Tweety pukes out what the Reslugs tell him to.

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Kathleen Says:

The big losers in New Hampshire are the Iranian people, and the American soldiers in Iraq, if the U.S. or Israel attack Iran based on unsubstantiated and hyped up claims

What terrifies me about the results of the New Hampshire vote is that the two war candidates won.

Senator Clinton and Senator Mc Cain who sang “bomb Bomb Bomb Iran” with delight a while back both voted for the Kyl Lieberman amendment in October….which Senator Webb described as “tantamount to declaring war on Iran”. The “cakewalk in Iraq” zealots who have been repeating unsubstantiated claims about Iran for the last four years have not stopped pushing for military action against Iran. We recently witnessed the MSM turn an event in the Straits of Hormuz into an inflamed event.

Justin Raimando of Antiwar.com writes “The commander of one of the U.S. warships has been quoted as saying that they were “a heartbeat away” from opening fire on their Iranian tormentors, and that just about sums up the chances of an armed conflict breaking out – we’re an incident away from going to war with Tehran, and there is every indication that the administration is marshaling its forces, political and diplomatic as well as military, to launch an assault before Bush leaves office.”

I am deeply worried by this vote in New Hampshire. I do not want to witness the U.S. attack Iran based on unsubstantiated claims.

I have not heard Hillary or McCain talk about focusing on diplomacy in regard to Iran. Our invasion of Iraq has destroyed the Iraqi peoples lives. This vote in New Hampshire for the war candidates has me worried about the Iranian peoples lives.

The cakewalk in Iraq zealots are not backing down. They continue to stir the lies and inflame our relationship or lack of with Iran

Read Justins latest

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12176
January 9, 2008
‘A Heartbeat Away’ From War
With Iran and Pakistan

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Doug Says:

It’s too bad I don’t watch Faux News, I’ll bet Britt Hume looked like he just kissed the business end of a toilet brush.

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myiq2xu Says:

But if the great unwashed masses stop listening to the Village Idiots Elders then how will they know who to vote for?

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Rocky Says:

Tom Brokaw. Head Meme Pusher.

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Kathleen Says:

Matthew has truly lost it. He has shown once and for all he is incapable of being fair and balanced. Always injecting his agenda.

While I agree that he has consistently pounded on Hillary often about very stupid things her clothes, her hair, whether she is “warm and cozy”. Matthews truly has been ignoring Edwards all year, and recently had Elizabeth Edwards on after it became oh so obvious that Matthews had completely ignored Edwards second place win Matthews was so sarcastic and demeaning. Why is it that Matthews has it out for Edwards?

Are his corporate bosses instructing him to ignore him, demean him by demanding that he concede. Yet Matthews does not do this to anyone else. You could even see that Olberman had had it with Matthews last night.

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Will America Survive Itself Says:

Site-People … The WMV file wont download, it give an error message that says
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Pawsie Says:

I have major issues with Chris.. because he says things about the person i’m voting for, if she makes it. But I think over all he tries to be honest. I just take him as having a bias.

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Roket Says:

What is it with these people? They’re acting like this is the first time this has ever happened. This crap has been going on for years.

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goatsage Says:

Put tweety out to pasture. He’s done.

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AndyZ Says:

Tweety is an embarrassment. This is the guy who called Bush “Lincolnesque” and drooled over Bush’s flight suit “Mission Accomplished” afternoon. This morning he claimed Hillary won because she’s living off the fact that Bill cheated on her. He uses the public airwaves to push his own personal and financial agenda, masking it at hard hitting reporting. He’s a lazy, self serving bully and the poster boy for all that’s wrong with the media today.

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mellowjohn Says:

“I hope this starts a very unique trend in our political discourse the rest of the way. The Villagers do their jobs and report the news and then add some reasonable analysis along with it.”

as tweety himself would say, “HA!”

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steve Says:

WOO HOOO!

GO SUFFOLK!

That’s my school! And haha, the *only* poll that was right about how things turned out. I FEEL SO PROUD! Too bad I’m a CS major.

But anyways, what is up with Mathews? It seems like “playing hardball” involves being an arrogant hard headed bastard who keeps repeating the same things over and over again until his opponent gives up. Too bad Brokaw knows how to swing the bat and hit the ball.

And I do think this is somewhat bad news. I lean more towards Barack.

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YAYA Says:

if it wasn’t for the village elders, bush would never have been elected. and he never would ahve been able to go to iraq.

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Rasputin Says:

Thanks for putting this up C&L!

There is one part of this conversation that you left off and that was where tweety starts going on about how maybe NBC should revisit their polling methods and how there are Universities and Polling organizations that make specialize in this.

Brokaw, pardon the paraphrasing, went on to say that we shouldn’t be telling the people what they are going to do. Tweety jumped in and said, well we might as well pack it in and go home. Brokaw came back with no there are other things for us to analyze…

As an example of what those other things might be to analyze… how about the frickin’ issues and where the candidates stand, what they are proposing, is it realistic and do they have a chance of getting things accomplished.

I am so sick of these pseudo journalist like Tweety blathering on about the superficial pap and treating this campaign, the candidates, their platforms… as if it were the “runaway bride” story.

This is not journalism… it is infotainment and the stakes in this election are too high to have jackasses like Tweety denigrating candidates as we saw with his Hillary remarks and the interview Elizabeth Edwards and ignoring the substantive issues that all of the candidates have raised.

I am amazed at the speed at which Barack Obama has been slung under the media bus, even though he posted a respectable 2nd place finish, and collected that much more delegates going towards the convention, because at the end of the day, the candidate with the most delegates gets the nomination.

As long as that’s remembered, it’s a race until the end, and it serves both Obama and Hillary right that the electorate is really going to determine who gets POTUS, and not the media, or Tweety Matthews with a turkey neck.

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wvng Says:

from Horse’s Mouth, what Tweety said this morning:

this morning Matthews had already forgotten his newfound respect for her. He said: “The reason she’s a U.S. Senator, the reason she’s a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That’s how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn’t win it on the merits…”

Put aside for a sec just how loathsome this statement is on its own terms. The larger point here is that a mere half-day after acknowledging that he’d gotten it wrong and that she deserved a lot of “personal credit” for winning over voters, Matthews was already imposing his own narrative on her entire political career, the current race included, saying that her past and current success have nothing to do with “the merits.”

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....fter_s.php

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L.A. Confidential Says:

MSM~Lame Stream Media.

Personally I’m going to call it the Ronald McMedia from here on out.

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Mike Says:

I think Chris and everyone has a lot to question about these results.

NH Primary: Pre-Election Polls Wildly Different Than Results Announced for Clinton/Obama

Diebold strikes again???

Has Mathews analized the latest from Rudy Mussolini and his statement from January 8?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f.....A962958260

“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”

huh?

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foolme1ns Says:

I think the people who answer polls are like the people who actually wait on the phone when a machine calls up with “a very important message”.

I would like to see how many hangups or none of your business responses these people get.

Why is it that Matthews has it out for Edwards?

Try jealousy.

Face it, Edwards is good-looking and chicks dig him (aka Tom Glavine “Chicks dig the Long Ball” ;-)}

Plus, Edwards is articulate and speaks to the every man. He’s also anti-establishment and can admit when he’s wrong. He threatens people like Tweety because they know if he gets the White House, he is in the position of ignoring shows like “Hard Ball” and telling Tweety and other members of the Beltway Cocktail Weenie Circuit where they can go and how fast they can get there.

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actor212 Says:
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NCBlueneck Says:

I think this quote pretty much sums up the entire punditocracy and political consultancy:

“Trust me, one’s view of the world isn’t any clearer from the back seat of a limo.” –Pat Sajak

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Kathleen Says:

Pawsie @ 16:

I have major issues with Chris.. because he says things about the person i’m voting for, if she makes it. But I think over all he tries to be honest. I just take him as having a bias.

I watch Matthews at least three times a week. For over a year he has been hammering away at Clinton, singing the OBamarama spin machines praises and ignoring Edwards.

Come on Matthews is not even close to being fair and balanced. Not even close

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Blue Lensman Says:

John,

I hate to nitpick but if you check your records, I think you’ll find that Tweety was a loser long before New Hampshire.

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Kathleen Says:

The Political Junkie @ 30:

Why is it that Matthews has it out for Edwards?

Try jealousy.

Face it, Edwards is good-looking and chicks dig him (aka Tom Glavine “Chicks dig the Long Ball” ;-)}

Plus, Edwards is articulate and speaks to the every man. He’s also anti-establishment and can admit when he’s wrong. He threatens people like Tweety because they know if he gets the White House, he is in the position of ignoring shows like “Hard Ball” and telling Tweety and other members of the Beltway Cocktail Weenie Circuit where they can go and how fast they can get there.

I’m with you. I think corporate media is really threatened by Edwards

Oh, on that jealousy thing:

As I said, Edwards has an appeal to women, which Tweety, even when he was writing speeches for Jimmy Carter, wishes he had, and can never get.

And the turkey-neck is not a manly look at all, and Matthews isn’t that old to be having such a one.

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L.A. Confidential Says:

Duke Nukem McCain. On with the Rapture!

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nlacey Says:

Please replay Morning Joe Scarborough’s comments this morning. He will have no criticism of his buddies for their clueless predictions.

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Roger from Ohio Says:

video wont play
cant download it either
Id like to see this video, is there another link for it??

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bt Says:

Village elders?
More like Village idiots
.

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Dancer Says:

From your lips to the CREATOR’S ears…let last night be the beginning of the END of the “village elders” (I like that but not as much as what I was screaming at my TV last night)…it killed those overpaid opinion pundits to have to FINALLY declare Hillary the winner last night…let’s all get together and keep on making them look like the money grubbing idiots they actually are…and someone pull the plug on MODO for God’s sake…she and Tweety should have an affair and set each other on fire!!!

Come on Matthews is not even close to being fair and balanced. Not even close

Tweety is so “fair and balanced” I expect an announcement that he’s joining Brit Hume over at the Pravda Network (aka Fox Noise) any day now.

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RB-Chicago Says:

Kinda reminds me of the interview Jon Stewart did with tweety….basically - you’re an idiot so go away…

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L.A. Confidential Says:

Just think 10 years ago, with President Clinton you could hop in your car and rush to the airport, rush into the terminal, buy your ticket, and rush onto the plane. No fuss no muss!

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IgnoranceIsNotBliss Says:

Yo site monitors. Please contact the link fixers.

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Sporty Says:

This just shows how the news media is trying to control how Americans vote.
Looks as if Bush and Cheney are using the cover of the elections to attack Iran with their new propaganda approach, before Americans know what happens.

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Avid Reader Says:

The Political Junkie @ 24:

I am amazed at the speed at which Barack Obama has been slung under the media bus, even though he posted a respectable 2nd place finish, and collected that much more delegates going towards the convention, because at the end of the day, the candidate with the most delegates gets the nomination.

As long as that’s remembered, it’s a race until the end, and it serves both Obama and Hillary right that the electorate is really going to determine who gets POTUS, and not the media, or Tweety Matthews with a turkey neck.

There is growing evidence that the NH primary election was rigged. You know . . . Diebold machines . . . listening to Bev Harris (HBO’s Hacking Democracy) who is contacting NH cities and finding that both Barrack Obama and Ron Paul were under-reported.

It happened before . . . why isn’t it even being discussed . . . the mainstream media is crooked . . . face it.

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enigma4ever Says:

Hey there, can anyone here tell me where to get the ACTUAL NUMBERS ??? I would really like to see the breakdown.( I was without power here by the Great Lakes for the past 12 hours….) if anyone knows best source, please leave messege, thank you, at http://watergatesummer.blogspot.com/

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getalife Says:

Many Dems like kos and his blog agree with tweety.

Like President Clinton said, she will have a hard time winning the primary but will win the general easily.

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myiq2xu Says:

Tom Brokaw was one of the second generation television news anchors, along with Dan Rather and Ted Kopp