The Unknown Messiah: We Really Don't Know Much About Obama, Says Tom Brokaw!

Last week I watched a clip from PBS's Charlie Rose interviewing Tom Brokaw.  It was an affectionate homecoming, a love fest where both host and hostee tip-toed through the tulips in and around the landmine field that is Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

To watch this bastion of global, journalistic inquisitiveness, say "I don't know, I don't know, we don't know," repeatedly is painful and embarrassing.  Brokaw is supposed to be the Walter Cronkite of the Baby Boom generation.  A hard-charging reporter who doesn't stop digging until he hits paydirt--except, that is, where the Messiah and His Millenial Reign are concerned.

Tom Brokaw, the smooth, baritone commentator and journalist extraordinaire. Tom Brokaw, the face of NBC Nightly News for so many years, the epitome of pull-no-punches, here-it-is-like-it-or-not news delivery.  The king and grand poobah of hard news for the thinking masses (that's a bit of an oxymoron, sorry), comes across as though he doesn't know and doesn't care about the controversial beliefs and dubious background of Sen. Barack Obama.  Same for Charlie Rose.  It's the blind misleading the blind.  (Watch out for that ditch, guys!)

Here are some brief excerpts--transcript compliments of Free Republc--from the vacuous exchange between Rose and Brokaw:

ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW: No, I don't, either.

ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

BROKAW: Yeah, it's an interesting question.

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.

BROKAW: Two of them! I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

Gentlemen, please.  Your credibility is already in freefall and it just dropped another 50%.  If this profoundly unbelievable, tacit admission of both ignorance and apathy is not a clear, shining example of the leftist media covering up for Obama so that the voting masses will cast their ballot for him anyway simply because the moguls of Main Street, the cultural pied pipers and the populist powers-that-be say they should--where else will you find a more telling example of willful lack of interest being indulged in for the sake of promoting a political agenda.

Yet another reason why I only watch PBS (and the other LNNs, liberal news networks) when I want to see what the empty suits in front of the camera are busy deconstructing, revising and being disingenuous about as they try to hide their ideological nakedness with a fig leaf they call "objectivity" in their distorted, blatantly biased news coverage.