Al Gore: The Administration works closely with a network of "rapid response" digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for "undermining support for our troops."
Tom Brokaw: What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad.
There are a lot of psycho nutcases on the Internet. You can see just about any wild claim and accusation here.
But you'd think that a former Vice President and former nominee for President of the United States, and the evening news anchor of one of The Big Three networks could refrain from these kinds of wildly irresponsible comparisons to the scum of the earth (for the terminally stupid, I'm talking about Adolf Hitler and Islamofascist terrorists). And we should respect these men — why?
These two "gentlemen" in particular have proved that their power and influence are mere artifice. With these two simple statements, they've proved that they don't deserve my respect, and certainly not the power and prestige that they enjoy.
