Later comments posted on his Twitter feed (if genuine) suggest what I have been suspecting since this broke: Brokaw is having some cognitive problems. He has had some slurred speech for last cohoe years, which may suggest a history of strokes...
https://twitter.com/tombrokaw/status/1089704221988081664?s=21 On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:25 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > A lot of the “backlash “ was exactly along these lines. Brokaw had been on > some kind of listening tour in Trump country, so ostenibly he was sharing > insights from this reporting. I guess MTP and Brokaw thought the story was > how Trump voters feel, rather than what is the actual experience of Latinx > people in the US. Like the seemingly unending NYT pieces about ignored > working class white voters, this illustrates the really offensive thing > about the MTP segment this morning: the media consistently views the > experiences of non-white people in the country as marginal and peripheral, > and those of whites people as always central and focal. > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 9:47 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have to ask, why is Brokaw commenting on things he is not an expert on? >> He’s not an expert on Mexico, immigration law, border security... there is >> no reason he ever should have been put on TV to speak about it; it was >> unavoidable for him to say something stupid. Now is the time for experts. >> Now is the time for smart people who aren’t experts in something to turn >> down TV gigs where they get asked to comment on things they know nothing >> about. Now is the time for charismatic people of average intelligence to >> not be on TV merely because they are charismatic. >> >> On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:40 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The sentiments are clearly incorrect and xenophobic. The ambiguity, not >>> clarified by TB’s cryptic multi-post tweet on the backlash to his MTP >>> comments, is whether he was simply trying to report what he heard from the >>> MAGA crowd, or If was giving his own conclusions and recommendations (“they >>> should try harder to assimilate “ sounded more like the latter). >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 5:06 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> NEW YORK (AP) - NBC's Tom Brokaw says he feels terrible that he >>>> offended some Hispanics with his comments on "Meet the Press" Sunday that >>>> Hispanics should work harder at assimilation. >>>> The former "NBC Nightly News" anchor tweeted in response to a social >>>> media backlash to the comments earlier in the day. >>>> Brokaw said during a discussion about the proposed border wall that a >>>> lot of Republicans fear that Hispanics will all be Democrats. He also said >>>> that he hears people say, when he pushes them harder, that "I don't know >>>> whether I want brown grandbabies." >>>> Journalist Julio Ricardo Varela, founder of the Latino Rebels web site, >>>> said on Twitter that Brokaw's comments were factually incorrect and >>>> xenophobic. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
