And I once had so much respect for him.

[novapsyche]

Tom Brokaw has been fielding Meet the Press much as Russert would have--that is, as though he did not share an office with Keith Olbermann.

The questions he asked of the Obama campaign to Sen. Kerry (this is playing right now on NBC and will rerun on MSNBC later) are coming from the perspective of someone who is right-wing or conservative, not neutral. The bias is embedded in the question: "Didn't Obama mean, by saying he wasn't like others on the dollar bills, that 'they're picking on me because I'm black'?"

Also, Brokaw said that McCain's campaign "immediately" responded to Obama's phrasing, even though Obama first started saying something similar (and, as Keith pointed out twice this week, much stronger) six weeks ago.

I shut my TV off. I can't listen to that right now--cognitive dissonance too much.