Tom Brokaw Sums Up The Hillary Fiasco Last Night

Seeing Hillary win last night was depressing, but at least Tom Brokaw put things in perspective when he bitchslapped Chris Matthews on MSNBC: [From Digby via Rumproast]

BROKAW: You know what I think we’re going to have to do?
MATTHEWS: Yes sir?
BROKAW: Wait for the voters to make their judgment.
MATTHEWS: Well what do we do then in the days before the ballot? We must stay home, I guess.
BROKAW: No, no we don’t stay home. There are reasons to analyze what they’re saying. We know from how the people voted today, what moved them to vote. You can take a look at that. There are a lot of issues that have not been fully explored during all this.
But we don’t have to get in the business of making judgments before the polls have closed. And trying to stampede in effect the process.
Look, I’m not just picking on us, it’s part of the culture in which we live these days. I think that the people out there are going to begin to make judgments about us if we don’t begin to temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters are deciding, in many cases, as we learned in New Hampshire when they went into the polling booth today or in the last three days. They were making decisions very late.

Brokaw is right. People are so tired of being told by polls and pundits who is going to win, yesterday’s vote became a defiance vote for Hillary. And Reddit is ablaze with Diebold conspiracies. While we’re on the subject of the primaries, don’t miss this eye-opening post on looneytune Ron Paul. As we’ve said all along, he’s nuts.

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