Charlie Rose

political science professor  11/01/2008 12:50 PM Report

Why this is an OUTRAGE! These infidels should be impeached! Who do they think they're kidding?!... Seize them! Take them to the dungeon!

Richard Nixon  11/01/2008 12:35 PM Report

And then do it all over again until they fire you

Dan Rather  11/01/2008 12:20 PM Report

--------------Blame somebody else----------------

Dan Rather  11/01/2008 12:19 PM Report

-----------Pretend it didn't happen--------------

Dan Rather  11/01/2008 12:18 PM Report

--------------------Ignore it--------------------

Dan Rather  11/01/2008 12:16 PM Report

-------------Don't let it bother you-------------

Dan Rather  11/01/2008 12:13 PM Report

------------------Conscience---------------------

A Special Message for Rose and Brokaw  11/01/2008 11:28 AM Report

The Man In The Glass.-----------------------

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,

And the world makes you long for a day,

Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,

And see what THAT man has to say.

For if it is not your father or mother or wife

Whose judgment upon you must pass.

The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the one staring back in the glass.

Some people might think you are a

straight shootin' chum and

call you a wonderful guy,

But the man in the glass says you're only a bum,

If you can't look him straight in the eye.

He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,

For he's with you dear up to the end. And

you have passed your most dangerous, difficult test.

If the guy in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of

years, and get pats on the back as you pass.

But your final reward will be heartaches and tears.

If you have cheated the man in the glass.

Roy Fassel  11/01/2008 11:16 AM Report

This interview is a classic example of the current demise of the media. For Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw to say with a straight face that they know very little about Obama, but with no hesitation, are deeply in the tank for this empty suit is laughable. I am sure they both get a sensational thrill running up their leg talking about the Empty Suit. When McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, she had something like a 80% approval rating in Alaska. The press, in droves, went up to Alaska to look under every rock, in every trash can and troll the newspaper archives to find every negative comment ever recorded in Alaska about Palin. By Tuesday, the media of America will have documented every utterance of disapproval of the 20% who disapproved of her efforts in Alaska. Yet, some newspaper had not one, repeat, not one dateline out of "South Chicago" which looked into Obama’s history. For the record, every past association in Obama’s adult life is there to see and expose to the voters of America. The press did not go "to see." Yet the Charlie Roses and Tom Brokaws looked the other way. For those who want to know the real thinking of Obama and his adult associations, two quotes tell you all you need to know. Quote One---------"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." --------------Quote Two--------in 2001---------------- OBAMA: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it, I’d be OK.-----------------

But the Supreme Court """""never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth"""", and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.

It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.

(It) Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.” ---------------------------------Barack Obama has been associated with radical left winged people his whole life, including his adult life. An Obama presidency, with this current group in Congress, will move this country away from capitalism toward socialism (called by other names in earlier times!) so quickly, that there will be no turning back. Rose and Brokaw should be ashamed of themselves for not doing their homework. They should be ashamed of themselves for being this dishonest. They can’t be this stupid. Therefore, they are dishonest.------------------------ A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville------------------- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville-----------------Shame on Charlie Rose and Brokaw.

Roy Fassel  11/01/2008 11:16 AM Report

This interview is a classic example of the current demise of the media. For Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw to say with a straight face that they know very little about Obama, but with no hesitation, are deeply in the tank for this empty suit is laughable. I am sure they both get a sensational thrill running up their leg talking about the Empty Suit. When McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, she had something like a 80% approval rating in Alaska. The press, in droves, went up to Alaska to look under every rock, in every trash can and troll the newspaper archives to find every negative comment ever recorded in Alaska about Palin. By Tuesday, the media of America will have documented every utterance of disapproval of the 20% who disapproved of her efforts in Alaska. Yet, some newspaper had not one, repeat, not one dateline out of "South Chicago" which looked into Obama’s history. For the record, every past association in Obama’s adult life is there to see and expose to the voters of America. The press did not go "to see." Yet the Charlie Roses and Tom Brokaws looked the other way. For those who want to know the real thinking of Obama and his adult associations, two quotes tell you all you need to know. Quote One---------"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." --------------Quote Two--------in 2001---------------- OBAMA: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it, I’d be OK.-----------------

But the Supreme Court """""never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth"""", and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.

It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.

(It) Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.” ---------------------------------Barack Obama has been associated with radical left winged people his whole life, including his adult life. An Obama presidency, with this current group in Congress, will move this country away from capitalism toward socialism (called by other names in earlier times!) so quickly, that there will be no turning back. Rose and Brokaw should be ashamed of themselves for not doing their homework. They should be ashamed of themselves for being this dishonest. They can’t be this stupid. Therefore, they are dishonest.------------------------ A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville------------------- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville-----------------Shame on Charlie Rose and Brokaw.

Pamela Mirre  11/01/2008 10:25 AM Report

I think some of you that question where the meat of this interview is use this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEUMjowLDE - it shows what these two "informed and learned" followers of Obama know about him, which sadly is about the sum of what most people know. This has been very well planned by Obama's handlers.

lisa  10/31/2008 10:32 PM Report

So boring. I was a big Tom Brokaw fan when he was an anchor, not so much since he's been hosting Meet the Press. (Loss of Tim Russert was and is a tragedy. I'm probably a bigger Russert fan and have really missed him this election!). . . but I digress. I only watched this video because I wanted to hear Mr. Brokaw's commentary on this election, including the recent appearance by McCain on Meet the Press (in all its senior moment glory). I personally think he is a McCain supporter, but I digress further. I couldn't bear to watch this entire interview. A book on 1968 forward I might be interested in. I think he's a little late coming out with this book.

Steve  10/31/2008 04:42 PM Report

How can these two Bozos purport to be "journalists" and claim they just don't know who Obama is less than a week before the election?

WHO IN THE HELL IS SUPPOSED TO FLESH OUT A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OTHER THAN THE MEDIA?

DINOSAUR MEDIA DEATH WATCH IS RIGHT!

Alden C. Sheremata  04/07/2008 02:34 PM Report

I'm an 'Old Rose'; So why change the Channel? Mr. Brokaw is about informed about "What's Happening" here at Home and what was "Going On" as our Brothers and Sisters on the Battlefield" in Vietnam. They have no need to acknowedge what so many of us laid our lives on the line for at the Universities and on the Streets of our cities and towns across the nation. A Point Not To Be Missed. This is most certainly not Negative Feedback; as if we don't pick up on it, what have we got? When we come to face it, we will have won the truth. Mr. Brokaw is welcome to contact an 'Old Rose', and I'll have him.

Alden C. Sheremata.

Nikos A. Leverenz  12/13/2007 02:43 PM Report

Perhaps Mr. Brokaw shortchanged Stonewall and the subsequent gay rights movement because it will not sell in middle America, and could thus have had a negative sales impact.

Similarly, our progressive LGBT policies here in California have yet to gain serious traction in non-blue states or Washinton, DC, even though the Speaker of the House is from San Francisco.

I am far less concerned with the omission of Mr. Brokaw than the inaction of Ms. Pelosi.

Scott aka "privymaster"  12/12/2007 06:59 PM Report

Is there anybody that loves the sound of his own voice more?????? Plus it was boring.

Bloomington  12/12/2007 12:12 AM Report

It SoundS like Brokaw over-pronounceS his "s." Maybe that was hiS Secret for SucceSS.

Nancy Jones  12/11/2007 07:44 PM Report

Mr. Brokaw is always interesting. But besides leaving out the Gay Rights movement from his book, he also omitted an even larger movement, the environmental movement. He and Mr. Rose didn't mention it at all, not one word! Think of the EPA. Think Rachael Carson. Think how much business had to change because of that growing movement. Think of how much our health has benefited from cleaner air and water. Think how much more aware of environmental issues we and our kids are today than in the '50s. Environmentalism should have been mentioned in the interview. Huge omission!

Luke  12/11/2007 06:39 AM Report

Tom Brokaw, I'm not buying your answer. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and subsequent national gay civil rights movement has had an enormous effect on our culture. Entire elections can be swung one way or the other because of hatred against gay people.

I trust that you will put the gay civil rights movement in the next printing of BOOM!. Gay Americans are Americans too.

TABS  12/11/2007 05:02 AM Report

Everybody is trying to make sense out of the the "Baby Boomers" coming of age party in the 1960s. The cause of this tumuletous decade of upheaval and change is no real mystery. The stage was inevitably set nearly 20 years before on August 6th 1945.The "Baby Boomers" are the first generation in the history of mankind to ONLY have known a world where man could cause a mass extinction of his own species. That existential aniexity caused the Baby Boomers to question and challenge the existing order of society that previous generations were content to accept. No longer did the old order apply in this new uncertain world where tommorow might never come. This new frenetic dynamic has been the hallmark of the "Baby Boomers" lives. Therfore to call this first generation of uncertainity the "Baby Boomers" is a misnomer, they should be called the DUCK AND COVER GENERATION.

Amy  12/11/2007 03:50 AM Report

Just a wild guess, but something tells me that Tom Brokaw never dropped acid. Drugs, weren't merely a self-indulgence, they formed the culture by opening doors of perception that are otherwise unaccessible, except perhaps through meditation. The whole flower power revolution will most likely seem a quaint absurdity to those who aren't "experienced."

keith.d  12/11/2007 03:43 AM Report

I was happy to hear Mr. Brokaw struggle over the obvious oversight in his leaving out the gay rights movement in his book, even though he attempted to diffuse the criticism by calling those who raised the question 'activists.'

keith.d  12/11/2007 03:41 AM Report

I was happy to hear Mr. Brokaw struggle over the obvious oversight in his leaving out the gay rights movement in his book, even though he attempted to diffuse the criticism by calling those who raised the question 'activists.'

AJ Stevens  12/11/2007 03:02 AM Report

Charlie's conversation with Tom Brokaw surely harked back to a pivotal historical time, a time when the hierarchy of values was to undergo severe turbulence in this country. 1968 was the year that I graduated from high school and it featured a mighty clash

of patriotism and idealism in severe cognitive dissonance .In my elite high school clique, athletic and scholastic virtue - aretology -

was the ideal, which we pursued quite lazily really, as there was no local competition. Mundane pursuits, such as competently

calling the play-by-play of the football game were not held in high esteem. Tom mentioned Bob Costas in the conversation,

and so I will mention that my sisters knew both him and his siblings and thought them unimpressive, and since he was an underclssmen involved in ancillary pursuits, he never appeared on my personal radar as a person of interest. He may very well have begun his career with statements such as "Stevens carries, picks up four yards". Something went awry in '68, and it enabled

Bob to become more important than the game, the ideals and the poetry of the time. The Bohemian coffee shop precursors of rap

have become "unpersons" in the "Ministry Of Truth" and have essentially been deleted from the new truncated reality. Bob

has flourished. Does anyone even read or remember the poetry (other than pornograghic) anymore? It was once commonplace to cop a role and try to say something, but all of a sudden the ocean we all swam in disappeared. The opportunity for justice and

positive change just seemed to slide away. Perhaps there really is a Law of Conservation of Good and Evil after all : nothing

changes, but is merely reshuffled. As someone once said: "I put up some posters to explain my position but the winter didn't care, blew them down , pushed patched quilts of tombstones knocked flat into private corners of public places where wetness swelled the mass, evinced wood pulp to hoov'ed feet, annoyed, squeezed the message out on cement and let it lay, stippling impressions of its own on the underside. I watched helplessly, tried to rescue vision from the the Tower Hall crowd , who looked at me like I was crazy or something, stuffing soggy paper in a pocket alter and smiling, matched Church music in Gun litany for an answer. And as ink stained white fiber I gasped and hesitated, sensed a nexus passing cast me adrift". We are still adrift in the wine-dark sea, somewhere

between Scylla and Charybdis..

al kesselman  12/11/2007 01:01 AM Report

I love Charlie Rose's interviews, largely because he is so well prepared and informed about the person and subject matter he is interviewing. I just finished listening to the 12/10 Tom Brokaw interview and felt it was outstanding, insightful, honest, and provided a lot of great food for thought, not only for people of my generation (I am 69) but for our children and grandchildren. I look forward to listening to the archived version as soon as it is available. Congratulations on a great job. This is an interview really worth listening !!! to. Thanks for the oppty

Al