More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On NBC’s Today on Monday, co-host Savannah Guthrie teed up former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw to compare the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to Chicago’s violent Democratic convention in 1968: “It would not be a convention without NBC special correspondent Tom Brokaw. He has covered every election, every convention since 1968....I mentioned 1968. There's something about this time and how unsettled we are as a nation that reminds us.”
Brokaw noted differences between the two events but ultimately agreed with the comparison: “Yeah, you know, there was a different dimension to '68, we were in a big war....in Chicago, it was a running riot for every day of the convention....In the hall, there was a deep, deep divide about what the party should be. So there are some echos of that here....this will be a real struggle for the soul of the party.”