Brokaw goes hardball on ‘Press the Meat’

In his first Sunday as short-term replacement for Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw reportedly baked Arnold Schwarzenegger on the coals:

“When you ran for governor in 2003, you ran as a fiscal conservative who would change the system, who would bring business-like techniques,” Brokaw said. “Now, you are facing a $15-billion deficit here in California. Unemployment is running at about 6.8 percent; you’ve got the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression. If you were the CEO of a public company, the board would probably say, ‘It is time to go.’”

And, no, that wasn’t a one-off crack; Brokaw kept up the grilling.

I haven’t watched any of the Sunday Morning Soaps™ (c’mon, folks, that’s what they are) for more than a decade. Maybe I’ll tune in on Brokaw.