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interesting read..links in article.
SNIP:
On the eve of the 2008 election, veteran newsman Tom Brokaw famously declared that we dont know Barack Obama. The astonishing admission occurred during a discussion on the Charlie Rose Show, and fellow veteran newsman Charlie Rose agreed wholeheartedly with Brokaws admitted ignorance of the man they both wanted to see elected to the most powerful office on earth:
Shortly after the election, CNNs Jonathan Mann wrote that Americans are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know. This was true and, perhaps unintentionally, quite a powerful indictment of his employer.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMas1bVidw&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Brokaw and Rose Admit They Don't Know Much About Obama.[/ame]
Shortly after the election, CNNs Jonathan Mann wrote that Americans are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know. This was true and, perhaps unintentionally, quite a powerful indictment of his employer.
The idea of Tom Brokaw, former anchor of one of the Big Three nightly newscasts and one of Americas most prolific news anchors, a man steeped in American politics for decades on end, declaring that we dont understand the universe of Obamas thinking was incredible at the time. We had by then come to know of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his peculiar race-centric Chicago church. We had by then come to know of Obamas relationship with William Ayers, the unrepentant 1960s radical terrorist who had openly lamented that he and his ilk hadnt committed enough violence against America to end the Vietnam war. We had, by November 2008, already come to know of Obamas past work with ACORN, the corrupt community organizing group, and we already knew that he planned to continue and elevate ACORNs work as president. Those of us who paid close attention knew that in his books Obama himself had confessed to associating with the radicals and Marxists on campus during his college days. We already knew all of this, yet Brokaw, Rose, and Mann were to some extent right to say that we still didnt really know the universe of Obamas thinking.
Nearly 20 months into the Obama presidency, its finally becoming clear just how little about Obama we and the media that covered him really understood about him. Fifty-two percent of America elected a dream, but they didnt know whose dream they were putting in the White House or what sort of personality would drive that dream.
the rest and comments.
Pajamas Media Dreams from his Father: Obama as Petulant Anticolonialist
SNIP:
On the eve of the 2008 election, veteran newsman Tom Brokaw famously declared that we dont know Barack Obama. The astonishing admission occurred during a discussion on the Charlie Rose Show, and fellow veteran newsman Charlie Rose agreed wholeheartedly with Brokaws admitted ignorance of the man they both wanted to see elected to the most powerful office on earth:
Shortly after the election, CNNs Jonathan Mann wrote that Americans are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know. This was true and, perhaps unintentionally, quite a powerful indictment of his employer.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMas1bVidw&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Brokaw and Rose Admit They Don't Know Much About Obama.[/ame]
Shortly after the election, CNNs Jonathan Mann wrote that Americans are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know. This was true and, perhaps unintentionally, quite a powerful indictment of his employer.
The idea of Tom Brokaw, former anchor of one of the Big Three nightly newscasts and one of Americas most prolific news anchors, a man steeped in American politics for decades on end, declaring that we dont understand the universe of Obamas thinking was incredible at the time. We had by then come to know of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his peculiar race-centric Chicago church. We had by then come to know of Obamas relationship with William Ayers, the unrepentant 1960s radical terrorist who had openly lamented that he and his ilk hadnt committed enough violence against America to end the Vietnam war. We had, by November 2008, already come to know of Obamas past work with ACORN, the corrupt community organizing group, and we already knew that he planned to continue and elevate ACORNs work as president. Those of us who paid close attention knew that in his books Obama himself had confessed to associating with the radicals and Marxists on campus during his college days. We already knew all of this, yet Brokaw, Rose, and Mann were to some extent right to say that we still didnt really know the universe of Obamas thinking.
Nearly 20 months into the Obama presidency, its finally becoming clear just how little about Obama we and the media that covered him really understood about him. Fifty-two percent of America elected a dream, but they didnt know whose dream they were putting in the White House or what sort of personality would drive that dream.
the rest and comments.
Pajamas Media Dreams from his Father: Obama as Petulant Anticolonialist
