Brokaw, Get a life

Tom Brokaw is worried about the expansion of the blogosphere;

…I think about my grandchildren, just from a domestic point of view. They’ll still have very good lives, they’ll be able to go places. But it will not be as easy for them. People will be looking in on their lives. We talk about any time that they send an email message, it’ll be there forever in some ways. And what troubles me a lot more with every passing day is the expansion of the blogosphere and the outrageous commentary now hidden behind pseudonyms of one kind or another. It’s been bad for some time. But now it’s become so vitriolic and scabrous and profane — and a lot of misogyny directed at women who are in public office. You read the worst kinds of things about them.

"directed at women who are in public office?" Does he mean Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin? Of course not. Palin has left office and Bachmann soon will. Certainly Sarah Palin has been slandered more than anyone, male or female since the invention of moveable type but Brokaw has never worked up the courage to call out the slimy perpetrators who include Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Maher, and David Letterman who have done so on live television without pseudonyms. Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin have endured more than their share of misogyny both in the blogosphere and the mainstream media but they don't hold political office. Attacks on unnamed women by by people hiding behind pseudonyms is, I suppose, something we should all be concerned about after we have reined in NSA and the IRS, balanced the budget, and secured the border but in the meantime somehow I think we and even Brokaw's grandchildren can survive this assault on civility. Who the hell is he talking about? Where can we read the worse kinds of things about her? Who is she? Get a life!