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    The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor

    Tom Brokaw's Drugs

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    Image of Valerie Flame Valerie Flame
    11/12/09


    At noon on Wednesday, Tom Brokaw dining next to me with strange,
    unidentified companion at Grand Central Oyster Bar. Tom was dressed to the 9's and, I am pleased to report, speaks to fellow diners in the same
    voice we hear on NBC.

    #stalker #tombrokaw #gawkerazzi #nbc #centraloysterbar #nbc
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    11/26/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    There was a time when some people thought Ted Koppel had a shot at Secretary of State.


    At least that's what I read in the newspapers.

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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Can't wait til Wolf Blitzer crashes on Animal Planet, interviewing bunnies live. "And what's happening right now is these four bunny rabbits are too busy to comment because they all producing tiny pellet-like pieces of excrement. Happening RIGHT NOW in The Situation Room!"
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Hello? Cronkite! Still around! And he's a HuffPo blogger!
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    unclevanya was starred unclevanya was unstarred
    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    They're moving Ted over to TLC. His ambition is to do shows about midgets.
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    Kid Twist was starred Kid Twist was unstarred
    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    11/25/08

    @Kid_Twist: Ted Koppel voice: "Midgets! So like us!"
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Everyone respects Ted. Even in all the years he was compared to Alfred E. Newman. And that's saying much.
     Reply
    BxgrlJeri was starred BxgrlJeri was unstarred
    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Connie Chung gets mentioned, but not Baba Wawa, the first female network co-anchor? Look at her fabulous trajectory. Now she's got the View, guys, the effin View!
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    11/25/08

    @bytememehard: Barbara Walters, she wrote the book on how to starfuck your way into a mink-lined, Fifth Avenue semi-retirement. At least, she wrote A book about that.
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    Image of Multiphasic Multiphasic
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Anyone else surprised to learn that Robert MacNeil is not in any way dead?


    Or that Jim Lehrer actually is?

     Reply
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/25/08

    @Multiphasic: What?! Lehrer isn't dead.
     Reply
    mfnher was starred mfnher was unstarred
    Image of Multiphasic Multiphasic
    11/25/08

    @mfnher: See? He's got you fooled, too.
     Reply
    Multiphasic was starred Multiphasic was unstarred
    Image of overunderover overunderover
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    To this day, I've never understood how they got "Ted" out of "Edward."
     Reply
    overunderover was starred overunderover was unstarred
    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/25/08

    @overunderover: It's actually Tedward.
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    Kid Twist was starred Kid Twist was unstarred
    Image of overunderover overunderover
    11/25/08

    @Kid_Twist: That's it! Tedward Kennedy, and his brothers Zjhon and Srobert.
     Reply
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/25/08

    @overunderover: Also, Bud is short for Budward.
     Reply
    Kid Twist was starred Kid Twist was unstarred
    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/25/08

    @overunderover: And Chip out of Charles?
     Reply
    mfnher was starred mfnher was unstarred
    Image of dado dado
    11/25/08

    @mfnher: Or Jack from John, for that matter.
     Reply
    dado was starred dado was unstarred
    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/25/08

    @dado: I won't even mention Dick for Richard. Oops.
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    Image of DrGirlfriend DrGirlfriend
    11/25/08

    @Kid_Twist: Also short for Buddence, as Buddy from Charles in Charge attested to.


    Also, his sister Bunny was Bunnence.

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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Koppel and Rather are both so ridiculously arrogant that its kind of hard to feel bad for them at all. Brokaw I used to love, but he really is just not good at all on Meet the Press. Connie Chung wins.


    Also, Peter Jennings seemed to be a truly nice person.

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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/25/08

    @Iceland_Spar: Also, Peter Jennings seemed to be a truly nice person.


    And now he's dead.

     Reply
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Connie co-anchored CBS with Dan Rather until he cried like a bitch that Jennings and Brokaw didn't have to share the desk, let alone with a dame.


    To her credit, all outgoing anchors, though, should be required to reminisce their tenure in song whilst lying on a piano.

     Reply
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    Image of madam.margie madam.margie
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    One of these guys was doing big things on NPR for a bit. Wasn't it this one?
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    Image of htotheomo htotheomo
    11/25/08

    @madam.margie: Yes. This one.
     Reply
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    Eh, everybody can't be Hugh Downs.
     Reply
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    Image of dado dado
    11/25/08

    In reply to The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
    But what of Bree Walker, Jessica Savitch, and Jerry Pennacoli?
     Reply
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/25/08

    @dado: We all know what happened to Jerry Penacoli.
     Reply
    Kid Twist was starred Kid Twist was unstarred
    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    11/06/08

    In reply to Tom Brokaw's Drugs
    Add 10 mg of Valium and a pepperoni you're home
     Reply
    Weegee's bored was starred Weegee's bored was unstarred
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