MRC’s Brent Baker reports that Kerry’s “read my lips” answer on taxes did not go over well with media types. Tim Russert rued to MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews: “I never thought I’d see

another ‘Read my lips, no new taxes,’ Chris. Never in my lifetime.” Brokaw chimed in: “Especially with the deficits with the size that they are today.” Brokaw suggested that Kerry may

have remembered how George H.W. Bush, 41, won the presidency on an anti-tax hike pledge but, Brokaw warned, “he paid the penalty later.” That penalty was not so much for making the pledge, but for unnecessarily breaking it.