» News
Brokaw After Hospital Trip: “I Mistakenly Took Ambien”
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, 72, was taken to the hospital Thursday morning while in Charlotte, North Carolina covering theDemocratic National Convention.
A network spokesperson said Brokaw felt “light-headed” on the set of the program “Morning Joe.”
“Out of an abundance of caution, he was taken to a hospital. He is being evaluated and is in good spirits,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Brokaw updated his Twitter followers Thursday morning, posting: “All is well Early AM I mistakenly took a half dose of Ambien and made less sense than usual. Made a better comeback than Giants…”
h/t Chalupa
TN Tuxedo
September 7th, 2012
Oh. I throught it was because the whole DNC was just that flippin’ boring.
HooHooNayNay
September 7th, 2012
I’m thinking this was a strategic error, his excuse for not being a part of the debacle. Hillary flew across the globe, Tom took a pill.
CrustyB
September 7th, 2012
Why is there a picture of Harrison Ford here?
Unslung Hero
September 7th, 2012
Well duh!! I took a whole dose 10 mg of ambien an hour ago and I will be more LUCID than Tom Brokaw for the next week!!!! Good night…….
RWF
September 7th, 2012
Half dose Ambien????
mkultra
September 7th, 2012
My first question would be, what did he think he was taking?
AbigailAdams
September 7th, 2012
It’s Friday night and it seems a little quiet here, so I’m just going to say thanks to everyone here at IOTW for getting me through this past week and the dnc convention. And, just when you think what you do matters along comes another installment of from the Ulsterman. Long read, but riveting.
John F.
September 7th, 2012
Stay away from the brown Ambien, maaan!
mkultra
September 7th, 2012
My second question would be, did all obama supporters load up on dope before the convention? Or only NBC anchors?
Jimmy
September 7th, 2012
“less sense than usual”
Which is zero these days.
sig94
September 7th, 2012
It was probably in suppository form.
NoMoBo
September 7th, 2012
@AbigailAdams – agree, the UM post was riveting. I wonder who the woman was that shook her finger at Clinton backstage. Jarrett? Also would have loved to hear what he said to her. LOL
General Ripper
September 7th, 2012
My fondest memory of Tom Bwokaw is when the Space Shuttle Columbia was landing out in New Mexico after it’s maiden voyage into space. John White and Doug Crippen were the sole crew.
Fucking Brokaw must have been hitting the sauce real hard just prior to the broadcast because when the Columbia landed, he went all gooey, putting his arm around his co-anchors and crying. The other two newsreaders were looking at him as if to say, “Dude! WTF? get a grip. Gah!”
General Ripper
September 7th, 2012
OT/ I stop back by the humour blog “Hot Chicks With Douchebags” every so often for some laughs. But the owner of the site, HCWDB, is a far-left flaming LibTard. Every once in a while he goes Off Topic and stops blogging about hot chicks or douchebags and takes cheap shots at folks on the Right. So I posted this….
====================================
“7:51 pm September, 7 General Ripper said…
Hey HCWDB – I remember the day after Mr Obama got elected you went off on a rant against Republicans, Conservatives and Tea Party members. I also remember that you caught a lot of flak from people who wanted HCWDB to be politics-free and purely a mecca for bashing douchebags and lots of pics of hott chicks.
It’s clear you are bashing Chuck Norris not because he’s a douchebag but because he went viral against your boy Mr Obama.
Please leave the politics OUT and keep the douchebags & chicks IN.”
==================================
He’s quite the little Site Nazi so being the fascist LibTard that he is I doubt he’ll take kindly to the criticism, the fuckin’ DOUCHEBAG…..
Genl Ripper
/end transmission
hanging and swinging, chad
September 8th, 2012
don’t worry about tommy-boy, this is just a shark bump..it’ll happen a coupla more time before nov.6.
by then he’ll have his sorry socialist ass in the tank, well, seat, at one of the NBCs and be in excellent condition to, once again, SCREW OVER america with his declaration that algore, i mean obitchslap WON the entire state of Florida at about 12 minutes to close for the polls on the east coast.
once again, mr. speech impediment will have NO TROUBLE at all suggesting that the citizens of the panhandle that still have 72 minutes to get into their polling places will have NO reason to vote – summarally disenfranchising the 100′s of 1000′s that coukld do the right thing FOR America by voting for Romney/Ryan
the important lesson he learned in 2000; you don’t have to count all the votes, if you can shut the polls down early
Debbie
September 8th, 2012
I take Ambien every night, and it ain’t by mistake. But I’ll remember to use that as an excuse for when I _____.
AbigailAdams
September 8th, 2012
@NoMoBo — Jeeze, I don’t know, probably, huh? So we’ve been sitting here through dinner, laptop at hand, trying to puzzle out who the CA Senator was (had to be Boxer) and who her D challengers were (it seems to me it had to be a D challenger because Insider’s “friend” seems to have been too close the Ds to have considered working for a GOP candidate and that would have put a veil up between him and Kinde Durkee, the so-called “embezzler”, and he wouldn’t have had any access to info about the money laundering). Ooops! Gosh, I hope the goon squad doesn’t show up on my front door now!
Say, this is kinda fun and a good way to while away the next 50+ days. It’d be kinda fun to make this into a “who done it” here at IOTW and have everyone add their bits and pieces. Very weird how the U.S. Attorney’s office only talked about Durkee’s debts running, maybe, into the hundreds of thousands when she apparently stole nearly 5MM from Boxer, alone. Something doesn’t add up. Where’d all the money go?
Debbie
September 8th, 2012
Yo, Chad, I remember driving home from work and hearing on the radio that algore had won Floriduh and it was all over….BWAHAHAHAA!!!
Moe Tom
September 8th, 2012
I miskatenly wanked. Did I saw that right? Shoulda done to red when I said so.. Bed, shit.
The Doktor
September 8th, 2012
That explains the Left’s Lack of Lucidness.
Anonymous
September 8th, 2012
@ reaper
What the fu#k are you talking about, asshole?
Piker
September 8th, 2012
Took the brown acid…
sTevo
September 8th, 2012
He is a 1 percenter doper.
Cripes Suzette
September 8th, 2012
Seems like Ambien is Kryptonite for the left. No harmful effects on normal people but when one of them takes it, headlines.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
September 8th, 2012
@ Gen. Ripper -
So Brokaw went all Boehner on ‘em, eh?
dba_vagabond_trader
September 8th, 2012
Heh heh, wait til the Ds are pummeled in November. Get the Narcan supply ready.
Billy Fuster
September 8th, 2012
Mr. Brokaw, you are suffering from the disease called liberalism.
Mountain Dog
September 8th, 2012
“Brokaw felt “light-headed””
He is light headed.
bitterclinger
September 8th, 2012
So he goes to the time and trouble to cut a pill IN HALF and doesn’t realize what he’s taking? Who takes a sleeping pill in the morning? (Well, besides the Kennedys.)
This must account for Tom’s razor-sharp political acuity.
cfm990
September 8th, 2012
I have to take at least eight different meds just for my heart. So far I have never mistaken one pill for another. Not being an uber schmart liberal commentator, I guess I’m just lucky.
EinTX
September 8th, 2012
Is that what the Kennedys do? Accidentally take Ambien?!
How do you accidentally take a drug?
Oh, look, a random pill on the bathroom counter. I think I’ll take it and see what happens.
These Dhim people are so stupid.
scr_north
September 8th, 2012
Hmmm, I understood that he woke up in Andrew Sullivan’s playroom naked except for a leather harness. Maybe he got the sling he was in mixed up with a hospital bed, after all Sullivan was dressed in a vinyl nurses uniform.
Please note as there was no way to authenicate this so I thought I’d just use current news best practice and print it.
Holder2013
September 8th, 2012
He just wanted to appear as loyal as all the other 0bama worshipers, he thought he was taking Viagra.
Ronterf
September 8th, 2012
You can see why I call him Tom Brokenjaw.