In another house-of-cards example of purported media infatuation with President Obama offered by Bernard Goldberg in his new book, Goldberg echoes Rush Limbaugh by printing badly doctored “snippets” of an interview between Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw. Goldberg’s doctored transcript of the interview falsely suggests, among other things, that Brokaw expressed the view that “there’s a lot about [Obama] we don’t know,” when, in fact, Brokaw attributed that assertion to “conservative commentators” and that comments Brokaw and Rose made about their lack of familiarity with the candidates applied only to Obama when, in fact, they were referring to Sen. John McCain as well.
As some of you have no doubt intuited, I have the right wing radio on in the background a lot of the time, and I heard those clips over and over again, followed by the usual rants about the purported biases of the media, and if Tom Brokaw doesn’t know anything about Obama, whhhhyyyyyyyy didn’t he say anything ssssoooooonnner, hmmmmmmm? Yada yada yada, rinse and repeat, endlessly.
I assumed at the time it was some sort of dishonest bullshit, but never really got around to tracking it down. And of course I was right, because when you assume that pretty much everything you hear on right wing talk radio is dishonest bullshit, you will rarely be proven wrong.