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Reactions like this from Tom Brokaw are exactly why Herman Cain’s smoking ad was so brilliant. If poor widdle Tommy Boy is upset by people smoking, it makes me more inclined to support smokers. It’s just disgusting for all the nimrod nannies out there to tell the rest of us what we can and cannot do.
I write this as somebody who has never, not even once, smoked anything — not a cigar, not a pipe, not a cigarette, and certainly nothing illegal. I can’t stand being couped up with tobacco smoke. But I’ll be [bleeped] if I’ll sit back and let somebody talk as if smoking is some sort of moral defect — or if smoking, for effect, in a video is somehow a public sin.
I say more power to Cain’s guy Mark Block for doing the ad. If Tom Brokaw doesn’t like it, he can go sit in the non-smoking section.
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JimBob7| 10.31.11 @ 2:28PM
Tom Brokaw is officially stunned by anything that doesn't fit into his narrow-minded left wing template, and always has been. And he has always been a 'has-been.'
SpiralArchitect| 10.31.11 @ 2:35PM
+1
Fred| 10.31.11 @ 2:35PM
"Thank you" Tom Brokaw! You've managed to give the Herman Cain ad even more free exposure.
Butch| 10.31.11 @ 2:37PM
Interesting times in which we live, when showing someone openly and unashamedly smoking a cigarette perfectly communicates rebellion against the ruling class. Loved that sly grin on ole Herm at the end.
David W| 10.31.11 @ 2:43PM
Yet Obama smokes. I'm confused. Oh, right, smoking tobacco is bad, smoking pot is good..... Not that I am implying that Obama smokes pot in the White House.
Fast Johnny| 10.31.11 @ 4:42PM
Well, some of his ideas sure make it seem like he does.
Interested Conservative| 10.31.11 @ 2:46PM
I believe it's "cooped", not "couped". As in chicken coop.
Unless, of course, couped is the Acadian spelling.
9thID| 10.31.11 @ 3:18PM
All news relating to the Left now rightly makes reference to various forms of "coup", as in coup d'état...
Interested Conservative| 10.31.11 @ 4:29PM
Does that mean the POTUS ignores the silent P? Like corpseman?
Fast Johnny| 10.31.11 @ 4:41PM
So by Brokaw's reasoning:no one that is obese should ever be allowed in the public eye or maybe anyone who rides a bike on a busy street, pretty soon it will be anyone who has a speeding ticket...because you know they are all endangering themselves.
Al Adab| 10.31.11 @ 4:42PM
The ad must have run fifty times on various "news' programs. A little bit of non PC and bingo, the press falls for it. So easy to pull their chain.
Oldefarte| 10.31.11 @ 4:48PM
Just like with others' PERSONAL problems with sexual gratifications via prostitution, it really is nobody's business but the person[s] STUPIDLY performing such activities. I smoked [as did many others of my generation] for ten years and quit upon learning initially of my futuristic fatherhood status. Once again, criticism of same only demonstrates the partisaned political biasness of the MSM, since they refused to likewise lament the 24-7 puffings of the current OVAL OFFICE OFFICEHOLDER-IN-CHIEF. Guess that's what is meant by HOPE & CHANGE or maybe BS]!!!!!!!!
Teflon93| 11.1.11 @ 9:07AM
Tom Brokaw and the rest of the neutered ladyboys who comprise the Left would have been taken out behind the bar and stuffed in a dumpster in Mencken's day.
Pathetic.