On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 7:25 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, >
Years or decades? > 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. > -- 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.
