Shame on Left Wing Website CounterPunch!

Shame on the left wing website CounterPunch! Shame on CounterPunch for its Nazi tactics and false accusations against NBC being racist. Shame on Scott Pellegrino for his cheap smear campaign against veteran news anchor Tom Brokaw! Read this from Newsmax.com:

Tom Brokaw Angrily Denies NBC Racism Charge

NBC’s “Meet the Press” interim moderator Tom Brokaw has responded sharply to a charge that the network is racist for hiring only white males to host the show.

The charge came from Scott Pellegrino in an article carried by CounterPunch, a mostly left-wing newsletter and Web site.

Pellegrino, a veteran talk-radio producer, pointed out that there have been nine permanent hosts of “Meet the Press” since 1953 — “all of them white and all of them male, as though the civil rights and women’s movements never happened.”

He then initiated an e-mail exchange with Brokaw, asking in his first e-mail to Brokaw’s assistant if the veteran newsman thought it would be “appropriate” for NBC to hire a person of color as the next “Meet the Press” host.

Brokaw responded in an e-mail disclosed by Pellegrino that he is “not in charge” of selecting the next permanent host following the death of Tim Russert. But he stated that there are many men and women “of all colors and backgrounds who are on the long list of possibilities.”

Pellegrino, president and CEO of PopDebate and CollegiateDebates — which tout themselves as “the Web’s premier portal for stimulating intellectual exchange among the globe's sharpest minds” — replied the same day. He said that while Brokaw is not in charge of picking the next host, he more than anyone else at NBC has the “gravitas” to influence the choice.

When Brokaw did not respond for six days, Pellegrino ratcheted up the vitriol in an e-mail with the subject line “Mr. Brokaw, very disappointed in your cowardly silence,” asking: “Where is your conscience? Is your life nothing more than an exclusive white-male country club?”

Brokaw angrily responded: “What kind of self-aggrandizing stunt is this?” He went out to document his long career reporting on issues of race and “advocating racial fairness and justice,” citing among other works a “prize-winning documentary called ‘Separate and Unequal’ about the economic and social consequences of the continuing racism in America.”

He called Pellegrino a “cheap shot columnist looking for an easy headline.”

In a later e-mail Brokaw wrote: “If I say publicly that NBC must choose an African-American as the new host and then NBC management decides on an African-American man or woman based entirely on merit, what do you think the reaction will be? Oh, he/she got the job simply because they’re black.”

In his next e-mail Pellegrino called NBC a “racist” media company, along with several other media entities he named.

At that point Steve Capus, president of NBC News, sent an e-mail to Pellegrino stating that “Tom has finishing communicating with you,” adding that Pellegrino is “more intent on pathetic cheap shots and deranged rants.”

I just got this email minutes before deciding on what to write about for a new post. And even though this attack is against NBC, I decided to post this on the MyFox sites. Why? Because this can happen to Fox as well as any other television network. I've had to deal with such a mess years ago when a former colleague of mine became the target of a smear campaign. It's terrible when these extremist sites go after decent people for doing a good job. Shame on you Scott Pellegrino! Shame on you guys CounterPunch!