Rose and Brokaw: "There's a lot we don't know about him."

Edited comments from Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw about Obama and how very little they really know about him.

Omigosh. Have they just awakened from a trance? Where the heck have they been the past 2 years? It is just occurring to them now that they don't know anything about Barack Obama?!?



Good grief. Too bad they don't know any journalists who could do some research on this.

These two make a great comedy team.

Transcript:

I don't know what Barack Obama's world view is.
No, I don't either.
I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know, and do we know anything about the people who are advising him?
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very [aspirational?] speeches.
And I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.

Update: link to complete video broadcast, 10/30/08
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/10/30/1/a-conversation-with-tom-brokaw

Inspired by Joe

What is it about Joe Biden (and plumbers?) that inspires great writing? Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg deserve Pulitzers for the following:

Joe the Plumber vs. Joe the Hair-Plugger by Mark Steyn

And this old post (Sept. 2005) from Jonah Goldberg is pure genius:

The man loves his voice so much, you'd expect him to be following it around in a grey Buick, in defiance of restraining order, as it walks home from school. He seems to think his teeth are some kind of hypnotic punctuation marks which can momentarily disorient the listener and absolve him from any of Western civilization's usual imperatives to stop talking. Listening to him speechify is like playing an intellectual game of whack-a-mole where every now and then the fuzzy head of a good point pops up from the tundra but before you can pin it down, he starts talking about how he went to the store and saw a squirrel on the way and it was brown which brings to mind Brown V. Board of Ed which most people don't understand because [TEETH FLASH] he taught Brown in his law school course and [TEETH FLASH] Mr. Chairman I'm going to get right to it and besides these aren't the droids you're looking for....