TDS: Brokaw just reframed the 1%.

[aquart]

Suddenly the 1% are the patriots who have been fighting America's wars while the 99% stayed home like gutless slackers.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. Brokaw has long been a corporate tool

He's Mr. GE.

[truedelphi]

2. And I suspect him of being total CIA.

Though he will go on and on about how "kuhl" he was back in the sixties, when he hung out with the hipsters in the park on weekends.

Whenever I see him, I recoil with that "narc" radar blasting away at my neurons.

He was the guy who showed up at the parties that made you not wanna smoke when someone started passing the bong.

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[peace frog]

7. +1

Brokaw is where entitled arrogrance meets creepy. UGH.

[blm]

14. exactly...Remember his book about Vietnam war and the 60s? He interviewed hundreds of people,

especially politicians, and managed to NOT INTERVIEW John Kerry.

[KT2000]

3. Loved his solution

where he has corporations fund with taxes, training for young people doing public service. Yes - Monsanto can teach us about - what?

[AngryOldDem]

4. OMG.

:rofl:

Corporations = public service?

:rofl:

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. Wait, Brokaw said soldiers are the 1%?

[liberal N proud]

6. He just spit in the face of all those Americans who served this country

The 1% are the ones who in times of the draft had deferments or sat on some cushy national guard desk (bu$h) while the rest had to server on the front lines. Now the 1% just don't even have to sign up.

:wtf: His true colors show from time to time, yet people still think they like the tool.

[mrs_p]

8. I've long lost respect for Brokaw as any kind of

journalist with integrity. He is more of a propagandist.

[indepat]

21. Bingo. You've hit the jackpot. Brokaw: a snarky RW apologist of

the most nauseating kind. :patriot:

[GoCubsGo]

9. I hope Jon Stewart didn't let that one lie.... n/t

[Viking12]

10. To be fair to Brokaw

His use of "1%" to describe the military contributions and sacrifices was written pre-Occupy movement. He couldn't have known the ways that the terms "99%/1%' would evolve within political discourse.

That being said, it is perfectly fair to critique his take that the military is responsible for all that is good in America. Personally, I think his thesis is BS.

[themadstork]

11. 1% craps their pants at the idea of actually fighting in one of their wars

Money is supposed to mean that they don't have to die

[grasswire]

12. he sure turned into a toady

sadly

[county worker]

13. What the hell? The 1% got deferments! The majority of those in wars are the

middle and lower classes that cannot get out of a draft or who volunteer because of a need for a job.

[truedelphi]

15. Cannot recommend enough. This was a most dismal week for TV viewing -

Jon Stewart had Pig Brokaw on one night, and Condie Rice another, with Letterman also featuring Condie Rice.

:puke: All this brought to us by the higher powers of Hurl TV!

[Rockholm]

16. OMG. I had to read that TWICE.

My brain read that as the 99% are the patriots and the 1% satyed home like gutless slackers. I started reading the comments and thought "what did I just read?"
Upon rereading what Mr. GENBC Corporate Media Whore had to say, I had to simply say, WTF!

[chowder66]

17. Brokaw wrote this before OWS. The 1% he is referring to is

the 1% that are our volunteer military (you can look at it as 1% of the 99%). He was not trying to redefine the 1% in regard to OWS. It's another 1% reference to an entirely different group.
His other idea about public service acadamies partnering with the "private sector" is another matter that has a creep factor.

[aquart]

18. He damn well was redefining.

To use those hot button phrases in that way at this time ON THE DAILY SHOW?????

But I'm sure he is too insular and naive to understand what he did.

Yeah. That's the ticket.

[chowder66]

20. Um you have your way of hearing it and I have mine.

I will restate it...
Stewart was quick to mention that the book was written before the OWS movement. I was clarifying what they clarified when discussing the 1% they were referring to. That is not an opinion.

[aquart]

22. Uh huh. But the interview was last night.

Maybe I missed him saying "There's another one percent that isn't getting any of the privileges and perks of the Occupy Wall Street one percent. This is the one percent that fights the wars of the other one percent."

Did I miss that diaalog?

[Bozita]

19. On Charlie Rose, Brokaw said the AARP 50,000,000 ad is too extreme

look:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2227449