June 30, 2004
I KNOW THESE THINGS, I'M A NETWORK NEWSANCHOR... (via Tom Corcoran):
Brokaw Raps Iraqi PM for Linking Saddam to 9/11 (NewsMax, 6/29/04)
NBC "Nightly News" anchorman Tom Brokaw was so dismayed Tuesday night when Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi linked Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks that he actually reprimanded him during his interview.When Brokaw asked the new Iraqi leader if he could "understand why many Americans feel that so many young men and women have died here for purposes other than protecting the United States?" Dr. Allawi responded:
"We know that this is an extension to what has happened in New York. And the war [has] been taken out to Iraq by the same terrorists. Saddam was a potential friend and partner and natural ally of terrorism."
Plainly miffed that Dr. Allawi hadn't accepted the U.S. media's attempt to cover-up links between Saddam, al Qaida and 9/11, Brokaw reprimanded him as cameras rolled:
"Prime minister, I’m surprised that you would make the connection between 9/11 and the war in Iraq."
Imagine Dr. Allawi coming on the program and trying to explain South Dakota to Mr. Brokaw? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 30, 2004 9:54 AM
No surprise here: last night on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell said that the Bush-Cheney website was comparing Howard Dean to Hitler. Evidently she is just too lazy (or too stupid) to know that the post in question was merely a recitation of MoveOn.org's attack on the President last winter. And John McCain (who could have corrected her, presuming he knew) did not protest.
Posted by: jim hamlen at June 30, 2004 10:11 AMYeah, how would Allawi know? He was only there.
Posted by: John Barrett Jr. at June 30, 2004 10:22 AMImagine Dr. Allawi coming on the program and trying to explain South Dakota to Mr. Brokaw?
I'd bet Friday's paycheck that Dr. Allawi knows more about South Dakota than Tom Brokaw knows about Iraq. Hell, I'd even bet that the good doctor knows more about South Dakota than Brokaw does!
Posted by: Mike Morley at June 30, 2004 10:43 AMBrokaw should have been more careful: this guy used to work for Saddam Hussein.
Posted by: ratbert at June 30, 2004 11:57 AMThe American media is truly an embarressment now.
Posted by: AWW at June 30, 2004 8:07 PMSlightly off topic, but what would Brokaw make of this? (From Um Mushtaq To Abu Hamer)
Posted by: Peter B at July 1, 2004 6:49 AMOh Lord, I had to sit through Brokaw's bloviation at my daughter's College graduation on the 19th. It was awful. I could not tell you what he said as I zoned out and lost track of time and space. The character actor who presented diplomas to the theater program the next night was much better.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at July 1, 2004 5:39 PM