Tom Brokaw

Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Supporter and Former NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw
By Curtis Houck | November 25, 2014 | 2:17 AM EST

President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 18 individuals on Monday afternoon with one of them being former NBC Nightly News anchor and reliably liberal supporter Tom Brokaw.

During Monday’s NBC Nightly News, current anchor Brian Williams used two teases and a segment by NBC/MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell to hype the ceremony. In one tease, Williams touted Brokaw’s big day at the White House: “When we come back, a near and dear member of the NBC family among those awarded a high honor at the White House today.” 

MRC's Notable Quotables: Liberal Journalists Deny Mandate for Conservatives After Election Sweep
By Rich Noyes | November 17, 2014 | 8:32 AM EST

Now online: the November 17 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, as voters dealt Democrats a stinging election defeat, liberal journalists insisted there was no mandate for conservatives. "I don't think this was a big, ideological election," NBC's Tom Brokaw pronounced, while CBS's Bob Schieffer agreed: "It really was a referendum on both parties."

Obama Set to Award Medal of Freedom to Media Ally Tom Brokaw
By Kyle Drennen | November 12, 2014 | 2:58 PM EST

On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Obama would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former NBC Nightly News anchor and current special correspondent Tom Brokaw – among other 2014 recipients. Today news anchor Natalie Morales touted the announcement on Monday, noting: "Obama said in a statement, these citizens have made extraordinary contributions to our country and the world."

Tom Brokaw: Talk Radio Thinks ‘Obama Voters…Live In Excrement’
By Jeffrey Meyer | November 5, 2014 | 11:52 AM EST

Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC Nightly News, had a busy midterm election night as he appeared on both NBC and PBS’s midterm coverage programming. During Brokaw’s appearances on the two networks, the former Nightly News anchor repeatedly minimized the significance of the GOP’s electoral victory. During his appearance on the PBS program Charlie Rose, Brokaw disgustingly claimed that talk radio hosts insist “Obama's voters are people who live in excrement. That was his phrase. And they expect us to lift them out of excrement.” 

Denial: Tom Brokaw Claims No 'Big, Ideological' Win for GOP
By Scott Whitlock | November 5, 2014 | 1:28 AM EST

Despite the Republicans dramatically retaking the Senate, increasing their majority in the House and upping the number of GOP governors, veteran NBC journalist Tom Brokaw insisted, "I don't think that this was a big, ideological election as much as it was 'we want to change the team.'" 

Tom Brokaw Confused as His Phone Rings Live on MSNBC
By Scott Whitlock | November 4, 2014 | 10:17 PM EST

As MSNBC's election night coverage continued into the night, Tuesday, it began to get sloppy. While Tom Brokaw was discussing Mitch McConnell's win in Kentucky, a loud ringing began. "Could that be me," the 74-year-old wondered? "No, it's not," assured Rachel Maddow.

Brokaw: If GOP Wins Senate, 'What Are They Prepared to Give to the Democrats?'
By Kyle Drennen | November 3, 2014 | 4:15 PM EST

Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw was already urging Republicans support liberal agenda items if they win control of the Senate in Tuesday's midterm election: "The question then is, what are they prepared to give to the Democrats to meet them in the middle ground? What are they going to do about immigration? What are they going to do about the minimum wage?"

Tom Brokaw Mocks Obama’s ISIS Coalition With Air Quotes
By Jeffrey Meyer | October 15, 2014 | 9:30 AM EDT

Veteran NBC News journalist Tom Brokaw appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and mocked President Obama’s so-called coalition of nations fighting ISIS. Speaking on Wednesday morning, Brokaw used air quotes when describing the list of countries helping America fight ISIS before wondering “you see that whole list of people or countries lined up as our coalition partners against ISIS. What are they giving?”

Tom Brokaw Appears Unhappy on 'Meet The Chuck' -- So Much for The 'Original Format' Idea
By P.J. Gladnick | October 13, 2014 | 9:12 AM EDT

Tom Brokaw was the NBC news anchor for over 20 years yet "Meet The Chuck" aka "Meet The Press" had him sit at the table with the other panelists while Chuck Todd conducted solo interviews with the guests at a separate desk. As you can imagine, Brokaw was not pleased with that format and he visibly displayed his irritation when Todd returned to the panelists sitting uselessly at the "kiddies table."
 

Tom Brokaw Knocks Obama for Being 'Immobilized' on ISIS
By Scott Whitlock | September 24, 2014 | 12:10 PM EDT

Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw on Tuesday dismissed Barack Obama's air strikes in Syria as too late and not effective. Talking to Ronan Farrow on MSNBC, he chided, "We've known about ISIS moving out of Syria, moving into Iraq for some time and the time to hit them was when they were on the move before they got themselves positioned in Iraq and had taken over cities and created an infrastructure, if you will, for their military."

NY Post: Former NBC Stars and Execs Furious Over NBC News Prez Saying They'd 'Gone to Sleep'
By Tim Graham | August 28, 2014 | 2:49 PM EDT

The New York Post, which broke the story of David Gregory’s decline and “psychological evaluation” and fall at NBC News, reports former anchorman Tom Brokaw and others were “apoplectic” when NBC News president Deborah Turness “dropped the tactless clanger” in a New York Times interview on Sunday that “NBC News hadn’t kept up with the times in all sorts of ways, for maybe 15 years...I think the organization had gone to sleep.”

The headline over TV writer Bill Carter's story was “NBC News President Rouses the Network,” which played on those comments.

NBC Tried 'Unusual' Psychological Assessment to Figure Out David Gregory and His Flagging 'Meet The Press' Ratings
By Tim Graham | April 21, 2014 | 8:36 AM EDT

Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a big Style section front-pager for Monday on how NBC's Meet the Press, "Sunday's most venerable news show has stumbled in the ratings."

The shocking paragraph that will get discussed around Washington today is that NBC commissioned a psychological consultant to figure how who MTP host David Gregory is, and what makes him tick. Or maybe, why people just don't like him very much: