He doesn't want “Mother Earth” to become a “dead planet.”

We know, it doesn't make sense to us either. Because only Dems live on planet earth?

But on the eve of Tuesday's debate, conservative press critics assembled recent public utterances by Brokaw and insisted they prove he boasts a “long record of favoring Dems.”

Trust us, the highlighted quotes are utterly innocuous.

Oddly, GOP critics made no mention of Brokaw's unofficial role this summer as NBC's liason to the McCain campaign....