I’m not a big Brokaw fan, and he’s said some really incredible things about media bias in the past. But his instant analysis of the Thursday night GOP convention speeches leading up to Sarah Palin’s appearance show that the man has some real — and objective — journalistic chops. Too bad the same can’t be said of the two guys he was sitting with, Keith Olbermann and Brian Williams. Here’s Brokaw on McCain:
And we all said, and so did his admirers within the party, that he was toast. But he fought his way back. I have been thinking about him today and I think probably the most apt metaphor for this old Navy aviator, is that he is a pilot of the old school.
He doesn‘t like flying in formation. He flies dogfights as they did in World War II, Pappy Boyington and Joe Foss. And John McCain likes to engage in that kind of combat. And that‘s what we see here, tonight. It‘s very improvisational and it could work, just like the selection of Sarah Palin appeared to be more improvisational than well thought out.
Olbermann was speechless at Brokaw’s tour de force, off-the-cuff, objective analysis, the kind we used to get from the network anchors. Read his full remarks here.
