Brokaw’s Bad Memory or Historical Revisionism? Claims GOP Was Thrown Out of House After ’95 Shutdown
NBC's Tom Brokaw was invited on Thursday's Today show to discuss a wide range of topics ranging from the Supreme Court ruling on the Westboro church to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal polling results and in discussing the poll Brokaw warned Republicans risked political peril if there was another government shutdown. The former Nightly News anchor actually claimed that after the 1995 shutdown the GOP was “turned out” of the House “not too long after that.” However that historic budget fight wasn't as politically lethal as Brokaw made it
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