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Millionaire TV Star Tom Brokaw longs
for simpler life: no more 'McMansions'
Newsbusters, by Scott Whitlock
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Posted By:Fiesta del sol, 10/16/2012 7:16:31 PM
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| Tom Brokaw had his Jimmy Carter moment on Tuesday. The veteran journalist appeared on MSNBC's The Cycle to call for Americans to accept a permanent lowering of their standard of living. Speaking of the next generation, Brokaw blithely insisted that "they probably won't have as much disposable income." He added, "They won't live in homes that are McMansions. We gotta get real." The former Nightly News anchor, estimated to be worth about $70 million, didn't seem to find this a bad thing: "It doesn't mean we can't have everything that we need." Brokaw lobbied for Americans to "get proportion."
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Comments:
And if you google "Tom Brokaw Montana ranch" you find that he has at least 2000 acre ranch in Montana.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MissBlue, 10/16/2012 7:20:45 PM (No. 8938244)
What you mean WE, White Eyes?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
grampagasman, 10/16/2012 7:21:35 PM (No. 8938245)
I have two words for Mr. Brokaw and it ain't Merry Christmas.
Whe the heck does he think he is to dictate what people need or want?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tennisbum, 10/16/2012 7:24:12 PM (No. 8938250)
Tom, go practice saying your "L's". That'll give you something meaningful to do. What a doofus.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Tucker, 10/16/2012 7:24:25 PM (No. 8938252)
A typical liberal.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 10/16/2012 7:26:41 PM (No. 8938262)
Lefties love the idea of poverty and lower standards of living, as long as these standards are for everyone else, not them.
This has been going on for a long time. I remember back when I started working decades ago how Jane Fonda was blabbering about the "joy" of living on a hundred bucks a week. She waxed poetic from her own comfy quarters in pricey Santa Monica, where she lived with her hubby and kids. I can't imagine any of them wanted for anything material. I can't imagine a c-note would have gone very far in their family budget either, even in the late 1970s.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
FenwayFrank, 10/16/2012 7:27:38 PM (No. 8938264)
Brokaw is a disgrace to the greatest generation, and a disgraceful American. Drop dead, Tom!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
droopydog, 10/16/2012 7:28:57 PM (No. 8938271)
In addition to the ranch, I'm sure he has a modest little townhome in the village a beach cottage in the Hamptons.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/16/2012 7:36:28 PM (No. 8938291)
This poseur owns a huge ranch in Montana if I am not mistaken.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Keekng, 10/16/2012 7:42:36 PM (No. 8938307)
He is only worth $70 billion? He better really watch his budget!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ghost of hallelujah, 10/16/2012 7:43:20 PM (No. 8938310)
Another elitist puke. Throw him on the pile with all the others.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 10/16/2012 7:44:07 PM (No. 8938313)
don't know anything about Pound Ridge, NY but according to google earth Mr Brokaw has a nice looking (from the air) home there. It does appear to be quite large, bigger than any ''mcmansions'' I've seen...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 10/16/2012 7:46:58 PM (No. 8938320)
"I got mine; too bad you can't get yours."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 10/16/2012 7:49:22 PM (No. 8938325)
He is like Barbra Streisand. She badgered us to line dry our clothes to save energy while her house consumes more energy in a month than I would use in years.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque, 10/16/2012 7:51:16 PM (No. 8938331)
Spoken like a true Leftist Boomer: "I grew up in the good days without having to worry about my future, I spent my youth tearing up the culture so I could get all that I want when I'm old, and I tore it up in such a way that when I am gone, no one can have what I did. Don't like it, following generations? Screw you. I got mine. Sucks to be you."
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
janylou, 10/16/2012 8:07:33 PM (No. 8938365)
I doubt he pays his fair share. And he looks for every tax loophole he can find. Doesn't he also own a llama ranch in NM?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
formerNYer, 10/16/2012 8:08:46 PM (No. 8938367)
Cronkite was like a crazy old Uncle late in life, I guess Brokaw is following in his footsteps.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Smaj, 10/16/2012 8:24:16 PM (No. 8938400)
Spoken like a true socialist elitist: wealth & propserity for me, but not for thee.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NuGoddess, 10/16/2012 8:24:27 PM (No. 8938402)
All those McMansions spoiling the view from your vacation home, Tom?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
veritas, 10/16/2012 8:30:54 PM (No. 8938424)
Tom, I want to introduce you to someone. Say "hello, sir," to General McAuliffe.
General McAuliffe, you have the floor, sir.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Douglas DC, 10/16/2012 8:35:41 PM (No. 8938434)
#19- I add "Nuts"...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 10/16/2012 8:40:57 PM (No. 8938449)
Brokaw is an elitist hypocrite. He's an open border guy which fits in predictably with his hypocrisy, as there is no doubt that any hunter or fisherman who stumbled into Brokaw's Montana property without permission would learn the meaning of borders probably at the point of a gun barrel. Speaking of guns, I'm sure Brokaw favors gun control for the little people.but not for him, of course.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 10/16/2012 8:42:47 PM (No. 8938459)
American on average live on under $50K a year Mr. Brokaw.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Fueled By Randomness, 10/16/2012 8:45:54 PM (No. 8938466)
That sounds like raaaacism... his pal Barack and Helicopter Ben want people to SPEND SPEND SPEND and create the economic recovery that hasn't been happening the last four years. I guess Brokejaw hasn't been reading his Talking Points Memos from Party HQ lately.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 10/16/2012 8:48:45 PM (No. 8938471)
Yeah... I saw the floorplan for the 300 sf apts. being tested in NY & L.A.... for use by singles & couples... those that used to be middle income suburbanites. Take your Simpler Life & shove it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 10/16/2012 9:01:19 PM (No. 8938500)
Now that he's old.
What a hypocrite!
What a loud, public hypocrite!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 10/16/2012 9:51:54 PM (No. 8938643)
So, like Obama, Tom Brokjaw thinks I've earned enough money? The only think keeping me from quitting and letting the govt take care of me is my dignity and the righteous parents who raised me right.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Hamrman, 10/16/2012 10:04:41 PM (No. 8938701)
He should join Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie on their now defunct TV series the Simple Life, he would fit right in...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
dirtydave, 10/16/2012 10:17:01 PM (No. 8938767)
Just another twit who has his money and doesn't want you to have your money. He knows better than you what is good for you.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 10/16/2012 10:26:23 PM (No. 8938834)
#11, Pound Ridge is a very exclusive, woodsy community in Westchester County, NY.
#22, median family income in Pound Ridge is about $200,000/year.
It's safe to say that Mr. Brokaw spends his life in moneyed enclaves well separated from the great unwashed, whom he thinks need to live a simpler life.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/17/2012 2:55:56 AM (No. 8939038)
Mr. Brokaw, as VP Cheney once said to Senator Leahy...
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