We call on the Commission on Presidential Debates to remove moderator Tom Brokaw from the second McCain-Obama forum, and replace him with either Bill Moyers or Charlie Rose. We feel the Pro GOP, McCain/Palin, and Iraq War positions exhibited by the former NBC anchorman during his hosting of Meet The Press taints the political process of this Town Hall style program.
We call on the Commission on Presidential Debates to remove moderator Tom Brokaw from the second McCain-Obama forum, and replace him with either Bill Moyers or Charlie Rose. We feel the Pro GOP, McCain/Palin, and Iraq War positions exhibited by the former NBC anchorman during his hosting of Meet The Press taints the political process of this Town Hall style program.
We the undersigned urge the CPD move quickly to replace the moderator of the Town Hall style debate between John McCain and Barack Obama in Nashville on October 7th.
Since becoming the host of NBC's Sunday program, Meet the Press, former anchor Tom Brokaw has consistently demonstrated a pro-McCain and anti-Obama bias.
We are now concerned the prejudices of this once respected journalist will taint the the entire debate process - denying American voters a fair exchange of ideas and viewpoints when John McCain and Barack Obama meet in their second Presidential forum next week.
Therefore, we demand you prevent the pending travesty and remove Tom Brokaw from his selection as the moderator of that debate. We urge the Commission on Presidential Debates replace Brokaw with one of two journalists who have consistently demonstrated and proven their impartiality in the coverage of political issues.
Please move quickly to restore the integrity and credibility of the Presidential Debates by choosing either Bill Moyers or Charlie Rose to moderate this vitally important forum. If neither Moyers nor Rose is available, please consider filling this important position with Aaron Brown or Amy Goodman.
We signed the "Boot Brokaw as Debate Moderator" petition!
# 2,100:
3:01 am PDT, Oct 3,Name not displayed, California
# 2,099:
12:55 am PDT, Oct 3,Kay Olberdork, Virginia
Mr. Brokaw, if you can't give the messiah Lord Barack Hussein Obama the praise and glory he deserves then you are shaming the rest of your cohorts at NBC and should certainly recuse yourself. Anything short of a bashing of the other ticket is considered bias, and will not be tolerated.
# 2,098:
12:35 am PDT, Oct 3,Edward Tallman, West Virginia
Mr. Brokaw, the standards set by the late Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" have fallen. Your gratuitous reference to the commander-in-chief polling data in this past Sunday's segment with Steve Schmidt and David Axelrod demonstrated disturbing bias on your part, I believe. Why would you not also have cited polling data (and of more recent vintage than the poll you alluded to) showing the preference of a large majority of Americans for economic stewardship by an Obama administration?
# 2,097:
12:19 am PDT, Oct 3,Samantha Matson, Pennsylvania
Brokaw has repeatedly shilled for McCain and tonight, October 2nd, did again for Palin despite her horrendous 'debate' performance. Brokaw is a disaster waiting to happen. Moyers and Rose are both acceptable alternates.
# 2,096:
12:14 am PDT, Oct 3,Conrad Sawyer, Arkansas
No more presstitutes moderating debates.
# 2,095:
11:45 pm PDT, Oct 2,Melanie Scott, Indiana
Mr. Brokaw must not moderate a debate between Senator McCain and Senator Obama. He is a personal friend of Senator McCain and has been for many years. This election is far too important to take a chance on a biased moderator. I have a daughter going into college next year, parents about to retire and nephews in Iraq. I need real questions asked and real answers demanded. I do not trust Mr. Browkaw to do this. Please consider Mr Rose as a replacement. He seems honest.
# 2,094:
11:24 pm PDT, Oct 2,Michael S. House, Sr., Missouri
Moderators, especially presidential campain moderators, have an obligation to their veiwers and/or listeners to supply the facts partaining to any and all issues brought up during a debate. This can ONLY be accomplished by being totally (100%)impartial. Even IF this is NOT possible, the moderator owes it to his/her listeners to display, at the very least a small form of UNbiasness. YES< I SAID UNBIASNESS!!!!!! Don't like the words I write? Don't read my writing.
# 2,093:
11:05 pm PDT, Oct 2,Regina Simon, California
After the last "meet the press" lies he should never moderate anything.
# 2,092:
10:49 pm PDT, Oct 2,Name not displayed, New York
# 2,091:
10:38 pm PDT, Oct 2,Name not displayed, South Carolina
# 2,090:
10:14 pm PDT, Oct 2,Judy Fishman, Arizona
# 2,089:
10:12 pm PDT, Oct 2,Vanessa Hall, Arizona
Tom Brokaw is clearly not impartial as a moderator. He is biased and should not be permitted to moderate something as crucial as a presidential debate.
# 2,088:
9:54 pm PDT, Oct 2,Joyce Brady McClain, Pennsylvania
# 2,087:
9:44 pm PDT, Oct 2,Frances Grant, Minnesota
In this important election it is very important that the moderator is fair! Tom Brokaw has demonstrated that he is biased toward the Republicians - he should be replaced with someone more objective.
Frances Grant
# 2,086:
9:35 pm PDT, Oct 2,Kendra Simons, Missouri
Tom Brokow should be taken from the debate. He played a pivotal role and releasing Olbermann and Matthews from live political coverage. This was undoubtedly because of a "request" from the RNC. I heard somewhere that Brokow called Olbermann and Matthews unprofessional in their coverage. But, how professional is it to let a political party actually affect a network's programming and personnel decisions? It is this type of Media-Corporate-Political alliance that ends up screwing the viewer. I think that Brokow should not only remove himself from "moderating" the third debate; he should retire already. If the RNC can raise questions about Gwen Ifill's moderating of the VP debate simply because she is writing a generic book about African American politicians, then the DNC should raise hell about Brokow's much more disturbing tie to the McCain camp.
# 2,085:
9:20 pm PDT, Oct 2,Walter Guilarte, Florida
Brokaw has demonstrated by his actions his special relationship with the McCain campaign. NBC and its viewers will see him inject himself as a partisan in the debate - in subtle, but unmistakable ways - to stack the deck against Obama. Don't let this happen!
# 2,084:
9:19 pm PDT, Oct 2,FANNIE E. OLIVER, Florida
# 2,083:
9:11 pm PDT, Oct 2,MORGAN WRIGHT, California
We call on the Commission on Presidential Debates to remove moderator Tom Brokaw from the second McCain-Obama forum, and replace him with either Bill Moyers or Charlie Rose. We feel the Pro GOP, McCain/Palin, and Iraq War positions exhibited by the former NBC anchorman during his hosting of Meet The Press taints the political process of this Town Hall style program.
# 2,082:
9:03 pm PDT, Oct 2,Michael Ladwig, Florida
# 2,081:
9:03 pm PDT, Oct 2,William Sharfman, New York
This is too important to allow someone like Brokaw, who has become a special pleading, non journalistic self serving whatever he is, to be a moderator. Get someone who is a real journalist, and no, I don't mean Bill O'Reilly. Bill Moyers would be good.
# 2,080:
8:54 pm PDT, Oct 2,Leonard (Korean war vet) Nazzario, Pennsylvania
Tom Brokaw is bias toward McCain. It's time for him to retire as he has forgotten
to keep his bias ways to himself.
Mr and Mrs L Nazzario
# 2,079:
8:51 pm PDT, Oct 2,Serita Edwards-Current, Texas
# 2,078:
8:50 pm PDT, Oct 2,Joseph Kondrot, Washington D.C.
Debate Moderators should have a history of being fair and unbiased. Mr. Brokaw is unqualified for this position.
# 2,077:
8:30 pm PDT, Oct 2,Maureen Ruggiero, Arizona
I have not been happy with the opinionated way Meet The Press has been run since the loss of Tim Russert.
# 2,076:
8:21 pm PDT, Oct 2,Frederick Lochbihler, Illinois
Brokaw's independence is, at best, questionable. He should not be permitted to moderate.
# 2,075:
8:21 pm PDT, Oct 2,Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 2,074:
8:00 pm PDT, Oct 2,Joshua Leek, Tennessee
# 2,073:
7:54 pm PDT, Oct 2,Jacqueline German, Tennessee
# 2,072:
7:25 pm PDT, Oct 2,Name not displayed, New York
# 2,071:
7:18 pm PDT, Oct 2,Jon Gleason, Ohio
Jon Gleason
# 2,070:
7:05 pm PDT, Oct 2,Jeanie Bauer, Florida
I am deeply disturbed at Brokaw's performance in recent weeks, he has blown any pretense of impartiality, and I do not think it's in the best interest of the nation to have him "moderate" a debate between presidential candidates.
# 2,069:
6:59 pm PDT, Oct 2,Kathleen Keenan-Takagi, New York
I believe that Tom Brokaw has shown himself to be a biased person in many ways.
Sincerely,
# 2,068:
5:57 pm PDT, Oct 2,Phil Griffin, New York
# 2,067:
5:53 pm PDT, Oct 2,Darieck Scott, California
# 2,066:
5:53 pm PDT, Oct 2,Shari Jones, Ohio
# 2,065:
5:47 pm PDT, Oct 2,Bill Burns, Oregon
# 2,064:
5:41 pm PDT, Oct 2,Antonio Villlamil, California
# 2,063:
5:40 pm PDT, Oct 2,Charmaine Gamble, Alabama
Tom Brokaw MUST be removed as modirator!
# 2,062:
5:36 pm PDT, Oct 2,Name not displayed, California
# 2,061:
5:33 pm PDT, Oct 2,Mel Alston, Pennsylvania
# 2,060:
5:27 pm PDT, Oct 2,Seth Chandler, California
Brokaw pushed out Olberman, has taken a high-profile stand as an ambassador to his old friend John McCain and, in a deceptive "last word" on a program with Schmidt and Axelrod, all but endorsed McCain. It is DISGUSTING that someone with such obvious bias can host a debate.
# 2,059:
5:20 pm PDT, Oct 2,Gwinnette Cooper, North Carolina
# 2,058:
5:18 pm PDT, Oct 2,Annie Petersen, New Mexico
Tom Brokaw or any obviously biased person should not moderate the Presidential Debates. Period.
# 2,057:
5:16 pm PDT, Oct 2,Laura Hammond, Indiana
# 2,056:
5:14 pm PDT, Oct 2,Jean Chatoff, California
# 2,055:
5:12 pm PDT, Oct 2,Donna Roepenack, Wisconsin
Tom Brokaw's ending comments on Meet the Press were terrible! I believe he should be removed, especially after you took Matthews and Olbermann off of the Election night anchoring.
# 2,054:
5:08 pm PDT, Oct 2,Name not displayed, Michigan
# 2,053:
5:06 pm PDT, Oct 2,Linda Laubenheimer, Pennsylvania
Since the McCain campaign has chosen to make the debate moderators a key issue, in the spirit of fairness I request that Tom Brokaw be replaced. The 'shuttle diplomacy' between Brokaw and the GOP presidential campaign appears to be a clear reason for Mr. Brokaw to recuse himself from the debate forum.
