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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw Blasts Trump's "Dangerous Proposal" To Ban Muslims
http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/12/08/nbc-veteran-journalist-tom-brokaw-blasts-trumps/207358NBC Veteran Journalist Tom Brokaw Blasts Trump's "Dangerous Proposal" To Ban Muslims
Brokaw: "In My Lifetime Alone, We Have Been Witness To The Consequences Of Paranoia Overriding Reason": Japanese Interment, Nazi Germany, And McCarthy's Anti-Communist Witch Hunt
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December 8, 2015 8:25 PM EST MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
From the December 8 edition of NBC's NBC Nightly News:
LESTER HOLT (HOST): Finally tonight, we return to our lead story, the uproar over Donald Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims from entering this country. In the heat of the political moment,replete with examples of fear and intolerance take hold and an entire category of people is marginalized. Tom Brokaw offers reflections now on the hard lessons of the past.
TOM BROKAW: Donald Trump's promise to ban all Muslims from coming to America is more, much more than a shouted campaign provocation. Trump's statement, even in this season of extremes, is a dangerous proposal that overrides history, the law and the foundation of America itself. In my lifetime alone, we have been witness to the consequences of paranoia overriding reason. During WWII, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses, and social standing, while all Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe. At the same time in Germany, a regime that declared war on its own citizens if they were Jewish. And Germany paid the ultimate price. Defeat and history's condemnation. But after the war, America still had to learn about demagoguery the hard way. Senator Joe McCarthy's reckless anti-communist witch hunt, making ever more outrageous claims, damaging reputations, until one day--
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All of that while African-Americans whose ancestors came here as slaves were treated as second or even third class citizens in uniform and out. Yes, the jihadists are radical Muslims, but they are a minority in a world with a billion and a half Muslims. Even so, defeating ISIS will be long, hard, and expensive. Perhaps even more so now, because ISIS is likely to use Donald Trump's statements as a recruiting tool. Kareem Khan, a Muslim, responded to a different kind of recruiting, 9/11. An American citizen, he joined the American army to show that not all Muslims are fanatics. He was killed in Iraq in 2007 by an IED, just 20 years old. Mr. Trump cannot exclude him from America. He has a permanent home here, in section 60, at Arlington National Cemetery.
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On NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw Blasts Trump's "Dangerous Proposal" To Ban Muslims (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Dec 2015
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patsimp
(915 posts)1. on aother note: tom brokaw is republican stooge.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)2. Well gosh I guess that invalidates everything he just said here then.
patsimp
(915 posts)11. i don't care what brokow, the hypocrite, has to say
Is trying to find a way to say "Both sides do it "
Hekate
(90,681 posts)8. Not from what I saw. More like "Look in your mirror, America"
Look hard at what ignorance, hatred, panic, and a mob mentality can do to a country, any country. Gaze at that Abyss.
patsimp
(915 posts)10. browkaw feeds into that when he discusses liberals
his words are meaningless and hypocritical to me.
Hekate
(90,681 posts)12. Fine, don't listen to him. Denigrate his message. Discount his impact on the public.
I'm sure you can get a spot on the Nightly News and craft words that will have an impact on the sorry state of things. Go to it.
Gman
(24,780 posts)3. Lay off Trump. We so need Trump for the GOP nominee
Quite possibly the entire map of the country would be blue in November and we'd have a real shot at taking back the House.
So lay off Trump.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)5. here's the video ...
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)7. Thanks. Nt
Hekate
(90,681 posts)6. 5th Rec. I caught that and Brokaw was magnificent
He was saying all the things I've been thinking, and I was so heartened that public figures like him are finally speaking out.
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)9. This was needed last night
So glad NBC Nightly News had the guts to tell the truth.