The Gratingest Generation:
Is there a bigger bangtailed yap on this breathing earth than Tom Brokaw?
He was on "Imus in the Morning" today spreading his mellifluous middlebrowed tedium as far as radio syndication can carry it.
Utterly vacuous, he is also got that smug sense of self satisfaction that only comes from a heartfelt belief that being a National Nightly News Anchorman is somehow a job fit for heroes.
The skills that animates a successful news anchorman are none too tough to master. The notion that these are unique men and women of unusual, wisdom, charisma or honesty is sheer nonsense. The Olsen twins or Frankie Muniz could easily be trained to anchor NBC's nightly news broadcast sans any harm to the show's ratings or journalistic integrity.
Hell in a few short years, robots, holograms, or trained seals could seamlessly take over the anchorman's chores, who are these people kidding?
Not our Tom he'd have us believe his years of brown-nosing John Chancellor were somehow a lonely heroic struggle to perfect his craft as-a-newsman. Hell we all know he beat out Garrick Utley for the top job only because Tom has a full head of hair.
Nowadays Tom is talking about retiring in early 2005 and handing NBC Nightly News over to Brian Williams a news personality with no more substance than a billow of steam from out a manhole cover.
But he has a full head of hair and so it goes....
No doubt Tom will keep churning out more stuff like that toadying volume "The Greatest Generation" when he isn't cavorting in Valhalla or snorkling in the Carribean.
Which is just what he was doing when the Space Shuttle broke up on re-entry...
SNORKLING!
I rest my case....
What does that tell you!!!?