"a shame the networks aren't covering tonight. . .

. . . because they just missed a bit of history." Thus spake New York Times columnist David Brooks four years ago during the PBS coverage and analysis of the Democratic National Convention.

    You can check out the YouTube clip here.

    Not so much a shame, Mr. Brooks, as what you'd expect from commercial television. They are, after all, more often than not in the business of distracting people from history for the sake of selling soap rather than covering it.

    This clip was recently Digged because of historian Richard Norton Smith's now potentially prophetic comment "people talk about him quite openly as the first black president of the United States."

    We'll see.