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Impeachment has become the media’s plaything

By Eddie Scarry
Published May 31, 2019 4:15pm ET
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Impeachment has become the media’s plaything
President Donald Trump walks over to speak to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 24, 2019, before boarding Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Tokyo, Japan. | (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

I’m convinced that God saved Tom Brokaw from multiple health scares in recent years just so he could be alive and bring sense to the ridiculous impeachment debate that occurred Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

He did it so beautifully that to paraphrase his remarks would be a crime against humanity. So here is Brokaw’s full quote, in contrasting the looming impeachment of President Nixon in the 1970s vs. the freak show happening in Washington right now:

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