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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first episode of "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday" premiered last night on NBC, with a lengthy debate cold open kicking things off and two segments of Weekend Update. Tom Brokaw was played by SNL alum Chris Parnell (earlier this year he portrayed Jim Lehrer during another debate sketch ), who focused his attention on Brokaw's strict adherence to debate rules. Other parodies included...
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Jossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
As bad as that town hall presidential debate was on Tuesday (it was the worst), a lot of it could be blamed on the terrible format, the weird lights, and Tom Brokaw's incessant whining. So the third and final debate next Wednesday in New York is going to be better right? Not if Bob Schieffer has [...]
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Left I on the News (Free subscription) | yesterday
But never will from the likes of Tom Brokaw (or Keith Olbermann or Jon Stewart for that matter): Sens. McCain and Obama, you both have claimed that America is a "force for good in the world." Considering that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (the best scientific estimate is over one million) died as a result of the U.S. invasion, and an undisputed two million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homeland...
