Examples of Great Moderating from Tom Brokaw:

[CreekDog]

after Obama speaks: "you really have to watch your time"

after McCain speaks: "thank you Senator McCain"

:eyes:

[Higher Standard]

1. Exactly

It seemed obvious to me that Brokaw was much more forgiving of letting McCain ramble on and respond when he shouldn't have been given the opportunity than he was of Obama.

[breadandwine]

10. I'm not an expert on how the rules were supposed to be, but

weren't there times when Brokaw was supposed to give Obama a chance to reply and cut him off and said they have to move on? I thought Brokaw left Obama hanging and tried to shut him up after McCain made false attacks. It really looked to me like Brokaw was covering for McCain.

This is part of the problem I see now. The media is playing what I call "intermediation." Normally that's an investment term I think, like where instead of investing in individual stocks directly, an investor invests in a mutual fund that invests in those stocks for him.

By intermediation I mean here that the media tries to interpose itself between the campaigns and the public to re-spin things and tell the public not to believe their lying eyes. Like, "The candidate won because he exceeded expectations" or "It was a tie."

This is the danger ahead, that the public could be TOLD what to think and brainwashed to vote for McCain.

[bigwillq]

2. Yeah, I thought Brokaw was bad too (nt)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. one would expect that behavior form Brokaw

[Chorophyll]

4. Yes. Glaringly obvious, wasn't he?

He spoke right over Obama a few times too.

Not that it helped McCain, mind you. Nothing could have helped him.

[mvd]

5. In the end, the more McSame talked, the more it helped us

:hi:

[anigbrowl]

6. He sucked. The format sucked. Overall, it sucked.

I actually thought the first debate was more exciting. This townhall format is a bunch of artifical BS, and Brokaw might as well have been selling detergent. Then he was complaining he couldn't read his teleprompter at the end...sadass.

[moonlightlady339]

13. Brokaw Was Such A Huge Disappointment

I can't understand why NBC and MSNBC didn't have the courage to simply walk out there, and yank Brokaw off the stage, in front of God and everybody. I believe, this pisspoor debate, with it's incredibly biased, arrogant, incompetent moderator, Tom Brokaw, will go down in history as the absolute WORST debate in the history of Presidential debates. Just horrible, all the way around.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Someone needs to take Brokaw out to the tool shed and give him a good whupping!!

[moonlightlady339]

14. ...toolshed, lol.....

It is so ironic that you used that phrase, with regards to the disaster debate created by Mr. Brokaw's incompetence last night. Ironic, because I put almost the exact words in emails to my close family and friends last night...I believe in my subject line I said, "Tom Brokaw should be taken out back and given a good what for"...lol. Again, I just don't understand why "someone" in charge at NBC, or MSNBC, or of the forum situation, didn't simply just walk out there, say, "excuse me, Mr. Brokaw, your ten minutes is up!!!" It was just shameful, disgraceful, biased behavior by Mr. Brokaw, and it was SO disrespectful to Senator Obama. Did you see at the end, when Obama stayed behind to talk to supporters, where Obama puts his hand out to Tom, and Tom turned his back on him? Just shameful, disgraceful behavior. I honestly was hoping that the guys in the white jackets would just show up and escort Mr. Brokaw to his intended destination.

[Raschel]

8. Maybe he thought "that one" was taking too long.... n/t

[CreekDog]

9. i wonder what happened to those CNN meters when he said that

:wtf: rude, rude. but very helpful, to us.

[Life Long Dem]

11. Obama looked great!

Brokaw also stole any crowd absorption of Obama's answer after Obama finishes speaking. Brokaw jumps on Obama without a pause and now the crowd and all viewers, are still listening to Brokaw and became lost in Brokaw's world.

[renie408]

12. WAIT!! There was a question he chose that I remember thinking was a 'gotcha'

for Obama! Was it something about Pakistan??

[President Decider]

15. Did Brokaw have a stroke? Why was he slurring his words?

I never remember Brokaw having a speech problem in the past.

[CreekDog]

18. I'm speechless

you don't remember? :wtf:

[Nevernose]

16. How come Obama always seemed to get first crack

Leaving McCain to always get the last word (and the last barbs)? Or is that just me and I'm being paranoid?

[David Zephyr]

17. I think Brokaw gave his "lectures" four times to Obama.

Thanks for bringing this up. It pissed us all off at my home.