Tom Brokaw to Obama: What can Israel learn from Buchenwald about its treatment of Palestinians?
posted at 2:45 pm on June 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
I thought, or rather hoped, that Powerline was kidding. Nope. You’ll find the exchange here, around 4:05. (Obama thankfully rejects the analogy.) For added disgust, note that this interview was conducted in Dresden, ground zero of the neo-Nazi revisionist movement to draw moral equivalence between Nazi atrocities and Allied bombings of German cities. You’ll fit right in at MSNBC, Tom.
I’ve reached my saturation point with videos of The One so I’m skipping the clip of him at Buchenwald. You’ll be glad to know that he vowed to resist the spread of evil in our time, which will make for a grimly ironic flashback soundbite the day Iran announces they’ve got the bomb. Instead, here’s three minutes of reflection from a guy who really has confronted evil, literally and recently. His oratory is the flip side of Obama’s, short on style and very, very long on substance. Tremendously moving. Don’t miss it.
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Under the protection of the American gov’t, anti-Israel/anti-Semitism sentiment has been contained. Now, the first American president since Israel’s founding has lifted the veil with his own anti-Israel Pro-Arab/Muslim/Palestinian slant. Watch out Israel, watch out world Jews. You are in for a bumpy ride. As for TOTUS, he, too, may find the waters a bit choppy in the years to come. http://www.thecjpoliticalreport.com/barack_backlash.html
The CJ Political Report on June 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Greetings, Loxodonta!
INC, how do you fire the retired?
maverick muse on June 5, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Thanks for a very good answer.
Loxodonta on June 5, 2009 at 3:23 PM
The statement by Brokaw,is a slap to the face and
an insult to Israel and the Jewish people!
How in gawds name can any human being connect to how
the Jewish people in World War Two,that were herded in
cattle cars,and were shipped to one of the death camps,
be anywhere,shape or form to the plight,or the way the Palestians are treated!
For the love of gawd,the situation that the Palestians
find themselves in is not the result of Jewish treatment!
I am sooooooooooooooooooo sick and tired of Liberals con
necting Israel as Nazi’s towards Gaza,and the Lefty loons
thinking Gaza as a huge Concentration camp!
With idiot media types like Tom Brokaw,who needs enemy’s!
And besides Tom ought to know better,he wrote a book,the
Greatest Generation!
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on June 5, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Well speaking as a ‘Depression Baby”– I can say I’m no more or less conservative than I was 50+ years ago. About the same would be my assessment. Lot of folks my age were influenced by their parents who thought the sun rose and set on FDR. This same generation was very pro-union in a time when unions had a role in the culture they no longer hold. Many, if not most, still subscribe to these points of view. Also, many people in my generation simply do not follow the details and nuances of today’s political scene. They do, and will always, subscribe to what they see as the Democratic Party’s being for the little guy, the everyday folk. This is no longer true, but many do not notice or take the time to re-evaluate.
jeanie on June 5, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Thanks for letting me know that about you!
INC on June 5, 2009 at 3:24 PM
I think the Israelis have learned from Buchenwald to never, ever do something like that to another human being.
So that’s why they actually over-compensate and try to be as humane as possible to the Palestinians – who absolutely do not deserve that humane treatment, but get it anyway.
I hope that answered your unbelievably and mind-blowingly repugnant question.
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM
All of the above. I think the SDS was there handing out literature at my freshman orientation!
INC on June 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Is Brokaw retired?
Then he should be denounced in some way. They should not just let this slide.
INC on June 5, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Oh man I wish.
It isn’t easy taking care of a liberal parent who does nothing except go to work and sleep. :( and it is only getting worse.
upinak on June 5, 2009 at 3:26 PM
You beat me to it. A large number of Baby Boomers were raised on the Kennedy Myth and have spent their lives vainly searching for the Next JFK to inspire and lead them. They were young teens when JFK was killed and it had a huge impact on them. Those who protested the Vietnam war and dodged the draft tend to still be liberals today as well, and even though the war was started by JFK and turned into a quagmire by LBJ, they somehow blame Nixon and the Republicans for it.
My parents are conservatives who hated the Kennedys and LBJ. So all of us baby-boom kids are too. My husband grew up in Massachusetts and his whole family are Kennedy-worshippers to this day.
rockmom on June 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Nationalizing Israel
Obama dictates Israel policy on settlements.
Since the US has been providing billions to Israel every year, Obama thinks he can dictate to them like he can to GM and Chrysler and AIG and CitiGroup etc.
Pretty soon he will be demanding Israel change its CEO.
Israel better watch out.
stillaneocon on June 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM
WTF? How can you even draw a comparison? Is Israel rounding up Palis and putting them in camps and starving them? Killing them in ovens? Performing medical experiments on them?
Palistinians are in camps of their own making. Their ill treatment is at the hands of their own leaders. They keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. They are all insane. As is Tom Brokaw! SHeesh! Idiot!
JAM on June 5, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Thanks for letting me know that about you!
INC on June 5, 2009 at 3:24 PM
You mean being Christian or once-being a bleeding-heart liberal?
(laugh)
I had to warn my wife too, before she married me. I told her a hideous secret that almost cribbed the deal.
I voted for Clenus the first time. I sincerely apologize for my naiveté and abject stupidity at the time.
Though that pales to Brokaw’s moronic deed today. Talk about your moral equivalence.
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:28 PM
I was responding to Brokaw’s question, not yours. I was not referring to you or any other commenter.
Janos Hunyadi on June 5, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Well, in his apology speech yesterday, Obama mentioned the holocaust and the Palestinian “suffering” in the same sentence sounding like he was comparing the two. I think Browkow was set up to ask this so Obama could make a big deal how that is wrong.That’s my take anyway
sandee on June 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM
I can sympathize about your situation. I know it is tough. My mom was a total empath, but thankfully she kept a grip on the whole “right and wrong” thing. She did know good from evil at least. That made it a lot easier.
She just tended to feel that folks deserved a fair hearing, even if they were wrong and stupid. (laugh)
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM
ty jeanie very insightful.
upinak on June 5, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Yes
What the Israelis do is just Hitlerian in nature.SARC
They give flyers to Palestinian areas to warn them about imminent Israeli action
blatantblue on June 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM
+1 I need to make another Pizza-IDF donation. It will make me feel better.
I don’t know how any sane person could have let Brokaw’s comment air. Anti-semitic, ignorant and insulting. Any shred of respect for him is gone.
BakerAllie on June 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Being a Christian. My husband and I both became Christians in college.
We can go you one better. We both voted for McGovern. (I will now put a bag over my head!).
But we were Reagan Democrats who became Reagan Republicans.
INC on June 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Between this crap and who’s the good doggie, it’s hard to decided which one is more worthy of a Pulitzer.
Blake on June 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM
ty and sorry.
is your husband more a moderate then?
upinak on June 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM
You are absolutely right. I visited Buchenwald when I was 13 and it was most definitely one of the most influential days of my life. You felt it, just as Wiesel wrote it so many years before. Even though most of the buildings are gone, you felt what had happened there down to your bones and I’ve never forgotten that feeling.
Brokaw and Obama just don’t get it.
gatorgirl on June 5, 2009 at 3:33 PM
I’m ashamed to admit I voted for Jimmie Carter twice. My husband voted for Reagan.It just took a little time for me to come around and I haven’t voted for one Democrat since.
sandee on June 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM
One of the founders of SDS is one of the behind the scenes honchos in ACORN.
Great. We now have the knuckle draggers from the weather underground..the black panthers..the SDS, union thugs, and the nation of salami having voice in our government.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
Itchee Dryback on June 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM
What can the Israelis and by extension the rest of us Joos learn from Buchenwald, Brokaw?
What I learned through bitter experience. Very few people like Jews. Very few people would stick up for Jews if they were run out of business, lied about, thrown in gas chambers and ovens. If we do not fight for ourselves, no one else will. That’s what I learned.
mjk on June 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM
The lesson to be learned is that negotiating with tyrants will cost you more in blood and treasure than if you take a hard line with them in the begining. Negotiate in good faith with muslim scum and they will stab you in the back.
Kuffar on June 5, 2009 at 3:35 PM
mjk on June 5, 2009 at 3:36 PM
I think it is pretty clear that as soon as Obama says there is no equivalence, there is an awkward cut that would suggest part of the answer is laying on the cutting room floor?
Could it be the part where Obama admonishes Brokaw for his astounding stupidity?
jstewart1759 on June 5, 2009 at 3:37 PM
How effin arrogant can they get!!! Israel treats the Palestinians much better than do their own Muslim kind!
CynicalOptimist on June 5, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I think you’re right. These are not places that just murders were committed. They were sites of total depravity and evil. There are no words to describe the horror being inflicted in these places.
Granted, other times and other places things were done just as horrible, but there is something darker, more sinister about what went on in these camps.
It is most likely the brutal callousness in which it was done.
Almost professionally – if you can forgive the use of the word. Sterile would be better.
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:37 PM
upinak, you’re funny with the generality, but right on targetting old hippies that never got over being jaded or self righteous opportunistic do-gooders. Does you mom go to high school reunions? Other than feeling frisky again by re-living youth, it may be the natural inclination of a moderate liberal faced with today’s Marxist attrocities in Washington to convince themselves that it’s all for the best, after all. Liberals as Leftists are such nice people; so wise, respectful, tolerant, civilized, how did Pelosi put it when she became House Speaker? Your mom is just trying to fit in somehow, to make sense of our day’s insanity, somehow, defense and survival mechanism.
JiangxiDad, ha. Did you catch this week’s American Thinker article surmising that Joannie Mitchell isn’t such a good liberal–too good a person?
maverick muse on June 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Now that is new to me, but it makes perfect sense.
INC on June 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Brokaw is an unapologetic ass licker… Get off your knees Tom…
Kuffar on June 5, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Brokaw should be ashamed of himself for making such a despicable comparison. His integrity just went due south.
CP on June 5, 2009 at 3:41 PM
What can Israel learn from Buchenwald?
That’s easy.
If you are a Jew do not assume others will protect you. Protect yourself and make damn sure the world knows what would happen if they start screwing with Israel.
AaronGuzman on June 5, 2009 at 3:41 PM
“Almost” doesn’t cut it. No self respecting German would perform duties in any other manner than professionally.
Morons need not imply that I assert all Germans are Nazis.
maverick muse on June 5, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Absolutely right on. That is why Brokaw’s question is so gut-wrenching. Has he not felt that evil? Does he have no soul? When you are in a place such as Buchenwald you cannot escape the shadows of evil that still hang in the air. Unless of course you have no soul……….
gatorgirl on June 5, 2009 at 3:43 PM
All of my family are libs. Some are just run-of-the mill dems, others are active politically in support of far left stuff. Every single one voted for Obama. They all see themselves as harmless, nice, kind, fair people who wouldn’t hurt a fly, and would love to break into a round of Kumbaya with Fidel Castro if they could.
I haven’t spoken to or seen a single one of them since the day before election day, except for an occasional awkward conversation with my mother, who lives 3500 miles away. I hold them personally responsible for whatever Obama does. They don’t think they have anything to do with what he does and shouldn’t be held responsible for anything. Their vote for this obscenity was crossing a line for me. I tried to warn them of what he would do, how he would abandon Israel, nationalize health care, raise taxes, reward his homies, take revenge on those not of his race, institute expensive environmental rules, reduce energy production, etc. etc. but nothing I said mattered. Blood is supposed to be thicker than water, but freedom and my wife and kids’ futures comes before my allegiance to my extended family. But I think you probably understand that since that’s what military families decide all the time when they send love ones into harms way. People I don’t know fight and die for my freedom. My lib. family can take a hike.
JiangxiDad on June 5, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Greetings. Sorry, but still not very cheery though.
Loxodonta on June 5, 2009 at 3:44 PM
no mav. She can’t afford to do any of those things. And she is dragging me into her insanity… check this out.
She told me that israel should just go away and in the same breath asked when I was going to put her on my insurance.
WHA!?!?!
I turned to her, very quietly said to her: What has israel done to you? And when are you going to clean the house, pay the mortgage, the house bills, and the grocery bills since you have a job as well?
She shut up.. and went to clean the kitchen.
upinak on June 5, 2009 at 3:44 PM
That’s why she was rummaging around in my head. I forgot about that article.
JiangxiDad on June 5, 2009 at 3:44 PM
You speak a lot of truth there. This is the country where following the rules is not only expected, but violators are indeed punished.
I recall stories of “jay-walkers” being treated as major law-breakers.
I’m not insinuating they are all Nazis either, because they are certainly not. An orderly society that prides itself on orderliness has a tendency to take that pride too far. Inject some major hate into that (which is a fairly common human failing) and it is not too hard to create a Nazi.
What the Jews learned at Buchenwald and the other camps is what we should all have learned and NEVER EVER forget – Never again!
Then we have folks like Obama and Brokaw who have already forgotten.
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Israel can learn that Europe still hates them.
bluelightbrigade on June 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I am with you. Totally understand. Unfortunatly, I am the only one able to deal with or take care of the parental unit.
upinak on June 5, 2009 at 3:47 PM
I watched Elie Wiesel speak this morning. Every word, came from his heart. The look of Obama was disgusting. Nose up in the air, looking down on this man, as if he were a piece of scum. That’s just my opinion, but Obama was definitely not looking on this man, with compassion.
Then knowing, Obama lied about his talking to his great uncle, about being part of the liberation. The Great Uncle was part of the liberation, but never spoke about it, to Obama. So Obama changed his version, and said his grandfather told him about it.
According to a report, this Great Uncle said his sister, and brother inlaw (Obamas Grand Parents) were comfortable with telling half truths, lies, and embellishing stories, or outright, making it up. So we see where Obama, and his mother get it from, and it doesn’t remain in families, as we see Tom Brokaw today. Evidence, is a grand thing.
capejasmine on June 5, 2009 at 3:47 PM
One good thing I can say about Obama, he sure does bring out all the hidden hate those in the left tried to pretend they didn’t feel.
Theres gonna be alot of akward silence when Obama is out of office yet all the news clips of these guys attacking anyone that isn’t connected to the master are still out there.
Rbastid on June 5, 2009 at 3:47 PM
I think they’ve gotten that. Which is why they respond to any demands about their disarming with serious looks, hand-wringing and revving up the defenses.
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:48 PM
You answered your own question. She is part of the “Baby Boom” Generation, aka the “Damn Hippies” Generation.
AaronGuzman on June 5, 2009 at 3:49 PM
I’m guessing not. And f*ck this nitwit leftist. I have known for years that he is a brainless kneejerker, but I didn’t have the degree right. He’s worse than I had imagined.
Jaibones on June 5, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Yup.
No matter what they do, they are alone until 2012 when we hopefully dismount this bad horsie Obama.
bluelightbrigade on June 5, 2009 at 3:50 PM
I was moved by the Elie Wiesel speech especially the first part.
Talking about his dad dying and he being to afraid to move out of his bed.
I do not agree with him that all wars are absurd though. It was war that caused him to be free but you can see how he could come to that conclusion.
kangjie on June 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Does anyone know what it means when the President, giving a speech at Buchenwald, says, “…history is unknowable [but] it arches toward progress…”? Did he mean to say the future is unknowable? I hope so. We certainly know the history that happened there.
dtestard on June 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM
The MSNBC video interview shows Obama immediately says “BUT” and says their experiences should inform their “EMPATHY” and Israel should therefore get the strength to seek an everlasting peace.
It is infuriating to see him being given credit for rejecting something he merely gave lip-service to before plowing ahead and making an equivalence (as he did yesterday in Cairo).
KittyLowrey on June 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Tom, if you want to talk about your alleged atrocities, there are far worse examples…
Upstater85 on June 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM
I don’t know, but I do know (or at least recall) that the Nazis were pretty gung-ho about progress too. I honestly don’t think Buchenwald was the best venue to talk about humanity’s progress.
Actually though, for me, places like Buchenwald are the major reason why (even at 12) I figured out that secular humanism was frighteningly retarded at best or downright diabolic at worst.
I’m not the brightest person I know, but I did get the idea that actual evil exists. Progress is not going to get rid of it.
Larry Farr on June 5, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Can’t blame Tom for what Obama chose to do. I’m no fan of Brokaw’s but can we please blame Obama for the setting?
On a sidenote, Obama’s pencil mustache was mentioned yesterday but I could barely discern it but the interview video it shows up very clearly and looks bizarre.
KittyLowrey on June 5, 2009 at 3:55 PM
I love that Obama and the state run media daily reinvigorate my hatred for them. Without their daily support, my efforts might flag. Truly, they keep the fire alive.
JiangxiDad on June 5, 2009 at 3:56 PM
As long as you demonstrate love for her and don’t treat her like a political opponent, troll, or idiot, you will be greatly rewarded. However, it may not be in this life. Be patient.
Loxodonta on June 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Marble-Mouthed Mentor of Brian the Bow-Master.
fogw on June 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM
I didn’t..but I’d like to read it.
Where can I find it? Scanned the front page and didn’t see anything. was it just a paragraph in an unrelated article?
Itchee Dryback on June 5, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Honestly though, I’d have to say that Obama seemed genuinely humbled and moved by Mr. Wiesel in that clip. His usual arrogant composure appeared to be thankfully stripped away for a few brief moments there.
BTW…I recommend the viewing of wonderful documentary film entitled “Paper Clips, inspired in part by Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” as well as the Diary of Anne Frank.
The Ugly American on June 5, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Sorry to hear your daily battle is tough.
You’re a great daughter.
INC on June 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Agreed.
Better rest up, as Maobama said, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
Itchee Dryback on June 5, 2009 at 4:03 PM
I try… God knows.
Ugly, I loved Paper Clips.
upinak on June 5, 2009 at 4:03 PM
It’s almost worth it just to hear Brokaw try to pronounce “Israelis.”
Jim Treacher on June 5, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Wow, finally someone asks the obvious.
True_King on June 5, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Itchee Dryback on June 5, 2009 at 3:58 PM
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/joni_mitchell_the_accidental_c.html
JiangxiDad on June 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM
JiangxiDad
upinak
Truth be known, everyone has their relative conflict, whether it’s the moonbat or the conservative hidden in the closet.
maverick muse on June 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM
JiangxiDad on June 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM
thanks
maverick muse on June 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM
I have boycotted all NBC News programming for years (and make sure that I frequently remind them of that fact)but there should be a national boycott of all NBC News/Today advertisers. NBC knows that their remaining audience is only liberals and idiots so their ratings won’t be affected by the disgusting question from Brokaw but no conservative should purchase a single product from any company that advertises on NBC news(and MSNBC).
Money is all that matters (until Obama bails them out too).
chromium on June 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM
I must be suffering shock and dismay fatigue. Enter the age of the anti-establishment conservative.
ronsfi on June 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Mucho Gratseeits..Ameego.
Itchee Dryback on June 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM
upinak, she goes to work. count the blessing.
I almost shared my own mom story, but deleted it. Suffice it to say, no one lasts forever. And you miss what was good, even if it seemed like a constant conflict to find something good.
maverick muse on June 5, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I’m glad you asked. I majored in “Moron Communication Science”, with a minor Obamaphilia (boy, did that gamble pay off, eh?).
The quote you ask about, translated into the “most likely” english phrase, literally means “ice cream has no bones”.
In other words, this is empirical evidence that Obama is either a complete, clincal moron, or the AI heuristics of the teleprompter hasn’t finished “learning” the language of politicians yet.
Bottom line: It’s complete gibberish.
BobMbx on June 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM
The story is touching but he was dellusional when he said,”every war is meaningless”. We must do all we can do to hold the peace. But peace often comes with a price. That price involves legislative fairness and an enforcement of the law. It also involves using brute and often deadly force. If the Allied powers simply tried talking our way out of our differences with Nazi Germany, the Jews would have been slaughtered on a global scale.
shick on June 5, 2009 at 4:12 PM
AaronGuzman on June 5, 2009 at 3:49 PM
You realize of course that not everyone was “in” the hippy clique.
maverick muse on June 5, 2009 at 4:13 PM
If you edit that phrase, it reads correct:
“every war you lose is meaningless”
See? Much better.
BobMbx on June 5, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Yes, God does know, and now some of us here do as well. You can express your frustrations here. You’ll be supported.
Loxodonta on June 5, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Wow. Outrageous.
NoLeftTurn on June 5, 2009 at 4:17 PM
B*astard.
I’d have walked off in disgust (yes, another conservative who is disgusted!) or perhaps I would have just vomited on Brokaw.
mankai on June 5, 2009 at 4:20 PM
FACT: The Israelis treat the Palestinians like kings compared to the Arab/Muslim world.
Tom Brokaw – you stink.
J.J. Sefton on June 5, 2009 at 4:20 PM
What Israel can learn from Buchenwald?
That Jews need and will now always have their own nuclear weapons, guns, tanks, bombs, army, secret service and ammo-no thanks to idiots like President Obama, the mainstream media and any other anti-Jew, anti-Israel forces and garden variety antisemites.
What Israel can learn about Buchenwald vis a vis the Palestinians: the reincarnation of your Nazi foes lives right in your borders and all around you and the whole world pays them jizyah and ignores them murdering you over an over.
WriterMom on June 5, 2009 at 4:23 PM
maverick muse, upinak, JiangxiDad,
It’s not just effecting the old. There are a few yound and middle aged that are seeing the errors of Obama’s ways but most are in denial. They will likely stay that way like the elderly libs. They sincerely want hope and change.
Think about it. Bush wasn’t a bad guy. He wasn’t the best but if you show a liberal Bush’s actions you have a firm case that he was a moderate. But they didn’t want to see it. Things were bad in the world and it was easier to find a scapegoat. Bush was that scapegoat. Now they want a scapegoat and a messiah. (Historically these two words are related, but nevermind). Obama is the problem solver no matter what.
These people do not want to come out of their self delusion.
shick on June 5, 2009 at 4:23 PM
“Uh….Look, ummm….maybe they shouldn’t kill more than you can burn in one day? Those photos from the death camps…um…ya know, the piles of bodies….wow. The process was clearly inefficient with severe bottlnecks. Oh, they could appoint a Czar, maybe?”
BobMbx on June 5, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Yeah, but enough was to royally screw up America. To quote the great philosopher Eric Cartman “They’re not people. They’re hippies.”
AaronGuzman on June 5, 2009 at 4:26 PM
I believe the correct phrase is Jews= Hitler.
I think Bush got demoted.
Have we ever heard anything like this from the likes of Brokaw before? Or is he simply pandering to the Muslims, or new Overlords?
shibumi on June 5, 2009 at 4:27 PM
You don’t have to be old to be narrow-minded, stuck in your ways, hard to train, dogmatic, rude, cantankerous and forgetful.
But it helps.
Loxodonta on June 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM
this guy is such and @ssclown… truly disghusting… and to think that people support him is amazing…
could a more liberal college professor even be found?
gatorboy on June 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM
There’s a contest going on in the Press Corps. They’re all competing for the “historical” event of First Presidential blowjob on live TV.
Olby is, without a doubt, two laps ahead of the pack.
BobMbx on June 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM
The holocaust for me is an example of what one man can do to another when he has absoulte power over you and even worse what a governement can do to man when they have absoulte power over you.
The reality is the Germans are not any more or less hateful than any other human is capable of being.
This is what has always attracted me to the conservative movement, the princple that anything created by man will be flawed because man is flawed(even includes great men) and the acceptance of it by the followers.
The lesson should be the absolute folly of pacifism and appeasement and of expecting mans better angels to always rise up and save the day.
Hope for the best but expect the worse
kangjie on June 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM
It’s amazing how someone as old as Brokaw has no clue of what happened to the Jews during the last century in Europe. There is also no excuse for trying to draw a parallel with Israel turning over land to Palestinians, only to be used as a base of operations to kill Israelis.
Israel supplies medicine and treatment to Palestinians, while their Muslim brothers supply them and their children with ammunition, and uses their ambulances to transport weapons instead of wounded civilians.
If you want a parallel, try the SS and Islam.
Hening on June 5, 2009 at 4:39 PM
It’s because most people don’t get on the public dole until they retire, and then they become as greedy about their monthly checks as everyone else on the public dole is — so they begin to support the guy offering the most “free stuff.” Over and over I’ve seen people who were die-hard small government, free market types go completely nutty over the “sacrosanct” nature of their Social Security checks. One need only look at the state of our country today to see how fast and easy people will become wards of the state if given half a chance. Once you’re gettin’ that government check, you tend to vote for the guy who promises to continue sending the check, no matter how badly it screws future generations.
National health care will be no different, by the way. Some people will get really terrific services, and we’ll all be lulled into complacency. Then, a generation or two down the road, we’ll be killin’ old people in their beds and tossin’ sick babies on the trash heap.
Rational Thought on June 5, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Was there any discussion of what newspapers and magazines the President reads regularly?
benny shakar on June 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Neville Obama.
BuckeyeSam on June 5, 2009 at 4:45 PM
I think it’ll be worse…I’m thinking procreation licenses/permits and Elderly Citizen Viability hearings.
BobMbx on June 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM
This just in:
Brokaw changes name to Hussein Akbar Muhammed.
jgapinoy on June 5, 2009 at 4:48 PM
I’ll tell you why. Because as you get older, you become more who you really are. That’s why. You don’t become “more liberal” or “more conservative”–you just become more yourself. You’ll find out.
labwriter on June 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM
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