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Mitt Romney has been running ad this weekend featuring a 1997 clip of Tom Brokaw, then the NBC Nightly News anchorman, describing Newt Gingrich's ethics reprimand.
Pull the NBC content, the network asked Saturday, and Brokaw also objected.
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"I am extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political ad," he said. "I do not want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign."
No comment from the Romney campaign yet.
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