Wow. My dad watched that show religiously and got me hooked on it for a while.
brian
· 1 year ago
A very sad day for politics and news organizations in the US. My sympathies.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
I don't know why anyone other than Republicans could be sad when faced with this news. I'm not happy he died, but to see Russert as anything other than the GOP water carrier he was just because he died makes no sense to me. It's like being sad if O'Reilly went to jail for sexual harrassment.
duchessofbilgewater
· 1 year ago
What a bizarre attempt at comparison. No need to be mean-spirited -- let's leave that to the right wing.
Jeremy_in_Denver
· 1 year ago
And this post is exactly what the likes of Bill O'Reilly will hold up as an example of how the Left reacts to the untimely death of someone on the Right. This is a very Right way of reacting to someone passing. We don't have to agree with the man, but we sure don't need to give the Right any ammo off this tragedy.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
Okay anyone even Hitler deserves respect, but to extol virtues on this man because he died is ridiculous............we all complain about the MSM distorting the truth and ignoring crime in high places, and this man was an enabler of the detoriation of truth in reporting. It serves no purpose to try to rewrite his history, to claim he was an icon of virtue just serves to distort reality that much more.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Farewell, Tim.
firebrand
· 1 year ago
Boy .......is that terrible !!!!!
What sad news. And on fathers day weekend at that. All the best to his family and friends......I wish them all sincere condolences.
Strangely, I was thinking about him recently.....that he had a big broad smile on his face when he was talking about Obama winning the primary.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
I was going to mention the Obama win in my comment. You are right, he was just so excited and his eyes were literally almost teared up, he was so happy for this upcoming election.
I still can just only say wow...I'm stunned.
Serendipitymyst
· 1 year ago
Nevermind. I got a New Alert right after I checked the homepage, so I'll blame my crappy internet connection.
Oh, and to compare Russert to O'Reilly is ridiculous.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
As ridiculous as suddenly sainting this GOP operative.
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· 1 year ago
Is it Friday the 13th or something?
houstonray
· 1 year ago
This is so sad and doubly sad in such an amazing political year...Wow. I'm just really sitting here in shock. I will never forget the 2000 election with him and his dry erase board and counting electoral votes Gore vs Bush.
My thoughts and sympathies to his family, his friends, and the world of journalism....
devis1
· 1 year ago
Very sad.
jimpharo
· 1 year ago
Timmeh was a putz, a numskull, a charlatan -- and his loss is unbelievably tragic, both for his family, his friends and his colleagues, but also for the society which will be deprived from here on out of his voice.
I wish our political foes no ill-will, and when someone leaves this life so young, it's an especially hard-blow.
Before anyone starts to cheer, let's remember, we're the good guys.
Heather
· 1 year ago
Shocking news. My heart goes out to his friends and family. What will this election season be like without Tim? :-(
buckguy
· 1 year ago
Someone's gotta say it....it's karma. Williams, Andrea (husband of Greenspan) Mitchell, and Russert, media whores all. I'd feel more sympathy for street walking whores. At least they work for a living.
duchessofbilgewater
· 1 year ago
No, actually, no one had to say that.
buckguy
· 1 year ago
Oh, yes they did. he was a gasbag extrodinaire. When John Lennon died, the tension in the room was broken when a collegaue said what we all felt "why couldn't it have been Yoko". It's the same kind of thing. He was awful and a big part of what made the last 8 years so intolerable. Sad for his family, yes. But all that self-serving crap has had its payback.
truebluecoondog
· 1 year ago
That makes no sense whatsoever. We ALL will die. Does that mean that we are ALL bad people and it's karma? I'm not usually this direct but you, buckguy, are an idiot and insensitive to boot.
tacoeatingzebra
· 1 year ago
incredibly tacky post...
dcredhead
· 1 year ago
Isn't there a wing nut blog you should be posting venom?
TampaZeke
· 1 year ago
Wow, that blows me away. Talk about here today and gone tomorrow. He had become like a person who was over at my house every night every night discussing politics. I guess it literally became too much for him. This is particularly odd in light of the Mcauliff mispeak about his father watching from heaven and Tim informing that his father was watching him from his barcalounger at home because he was alive and well.
The general election coverage won't be the same without his voice.
Rest in Peace Tim; you will be missed.
Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.
eliot99
· 1 year ago
That is really terrible news. With all that is wrong with MSM, he was one of the things that was right.
dcredhead
· 1 year ago
To call Tim Russert a "GOP operative...." You people sure do have short memories.
I don't celebrate the death of people I disagree with.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
r.i.p.
Deacon_Blues
· 1 year ago
I almost lost my dad to a stroke recently. While I admit there are some people whose passing I wouldn't mourn a whit, Tim Russert is not one of them, whatever his political inclinations. My heart goes out to his family.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Just shocked.............
FunMe
· 1 year ago
He was slowly getting to be a regular journalist.
I believe he was against the war.
They just stated he love Bruce Springteen. Maybe he was a closet Democrat but just had to go along since the big media companies have killed real journalism from appearing on TV.
I don't know enough about him, but I just felt he was trying to come to the other side (not death) but the other side of politics where 2 sides are truly shown.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
You know, you bring up a good point. They said that he was extremely close to the Kennedy family and has been for years. Perhaps, as you say, trying to look balanced to the corporate controlled media so maybe took it to the Republican side a little more aggressively than he might have wanted to.
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
Shocking, a great loss to the world of politics, whether you agreed with him or not. Politics aside this has to be very hard for his family especially his son. This happened so fast.
RIP Tim
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· 1 year ago
A dear friend told me earlier this afternoon that her brother has early onset Alzheimers. And he has a 32 year old wife and she's pregnant. They're leaving right now for Dallas for some early trials.
CitizenTwenty
· 1 year ago
I've always believed that with the exception of the Pol Pots of the world... When someone's alive they're fair game but in the immediate moments following their passing, if it's not possible to recall something positive about the person it's best to remain silent. Call me sentimental but I feel human decency calls for such a margin of civility I''ll take this moment to recall him on one Sunday morning, some years past, quite diligently cornering Dick Cheney regarding his variety of lies and distortions in realtion to the war in Iraq.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
I'll personally include dick cheney in that 'pol pots' group... when that man finally kicks it, I'm popping open a bottle of Dom.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
Just getting Devil Dick out of office is enough reason to open a bottle of Dom...........
Indigo
· 1 year ago
"Only the good die young." I didn't think of him as all that "good" but he was definitely young. I won't miss his i-am-a-catholic editorials but, hey! R.I.P.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Shock, that is the only thing I can think to say. I may not have agreed with his questioning at times, but Tim Russert WAS the Sunday guy. He was always there. There will always be an empty spot now, no one can take his place.
lauren1959
· 1 year ago
Unbelievable news- Tim Russert was a good guy; you don't have to agree with people to like them. His job was to try to be even handed, and he was fair and respectful to all-
And buckguy, before you start talking karma think about how ridiculous that whole concept is before you open your mouth... Life is random
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· 1 year ago
:::Positive vibes to those who loved him:::
Bluestocking
· 1 year ago
Regardless of whatever our opinions of him professionally might be, this is truly an untimely death -- in this day and age, comparatively speaking, fifty-eight is far from being what most people would call a ripe old age.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
"Russert Watch" on Huff Po reveals that he carried the Bush Regime's water on a pretty consistent basis.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
yeah, but reading through the bilge water here and at C&L you would think the man was mother Theresa.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
We must be mindful to skip t.v. news for the next few days least we be tainted/sickened with the sainthood of Tim...
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· 1 year ago
I can tell you, my friend Betty is far more worthy of some prayers right now than anything else.
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· 1 year ago
OK, send the vibes for my friend Betty. I can focus that onto her and her brother to get better and his unborn child. That's where good will be done. Just let go of shock and send out you best to all the families involved...
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· 1 year ago
I love you so much, Betty.
Zorba
· 1 year ago
Despite my disagreeing with the way Russert carried out many of his interviews, I feel sorrow and sympathy for his family and friends. In a strange kind of way, I almost feel as though I knew him a bit. One of my dearest friends was a graduate teaching assistant at Russert's alma mater, John Carroll University, and he was a student in one of the classes she taught. She talked about him as a student every once in awhile. (Two degrees of separation?)
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
His own dad out lived him.
Sad for all.
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· 1 year ago
Y'all kept calling him 'pumpkin head' or some such everywhere, over and over and over, again. So he croaked on Friday the 13th. What did you expect.? You willed it onto him. It's interesting that this moring thinking that Scalia is 72.
DAB
· 1 year ago
Unlike other talking heads on television, I was always impressed that Russert never seemed cranky, at least not that I can remember. I suspect he was actually that happy as a person, and that it wasn't an act. I didn't agree with his line of questioning at times, but I do think he was head and shoulders above just about most others in that role. The comments here that he carried water for the GOP seems pretty short-memoried to me.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
True but he did seem like he had his head up his ass in a happy sort or way.............
devlzadvocate
· 1 year ago
I may have disagreed with his personal stance on issues (e.g. gay rights), interview style, etc. but his ability to scope out the political landscape was spot on. He knew how to hone in on where things would be a problem and what would be a solution (e.g Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004).
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
TR on The Rush Limbaugh Show, June 10, 2004: "I--if I got hit by a truck tomorrow--I who-who would take--who would take over [on Meet the Press]? That's a good question. What do you think, Rush?"
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· 1 year ago
OK, I can feel it coming in. and it's going out to them. Give them some positive prayer/vibes...
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
The nadir: Feb 26, 2008: TR to Obama in one of the 21 Democratic debates: "Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan?"
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· 1 year ago
I basically blame all of you for this awful tragedy because of the negative vibes sent this poor man's way for all these years. Mass Consciousness is nothing to toy with.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
glasses guy... if 'mass consciousness' actually worked?
bush wouldn't have gotten a second term... and many of his cohorts would already be dead.
dorothy59
· 1 year ago
I will be hoping for peace for his family. I will be hoping they don't put some right wing nut job in his place at Meet the Press. Chris Matthews comes to mind.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Curiously, Tweety's missing from the MSNBC hand-wringing...
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· 1 year ago
Just don't focus any attention on David Greggory,
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
As much as I disagreed with his lines of questioning sometimes, I regret his passing. Terrible for his family, 58 is still fairly young, but you really don't know when your death will come. He probably suffered from high cholesterol and high blood pressure and seemed overweight, but no one but family and close friends would have probably known what his health really was like.
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· 1 year ago
May he RIP. I hope it was worth it, though.
firebrand
· 1 year ago
People:
Tim Russert was father and a partner. For the love of God, his politics don't matter anymore.
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· 1 year ago
Yes, of course.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Maybe but he was one of the key people enabling the mess currently besetting our country and profited greatly for his efforts. Be a realist and not a concern troll...
firebrand
· 1 year ago
Prez----I think you missed my point but skip it BTW, what the heck is a concern troll
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
I meant no personal slam...Concern troll is a person who tries to shut down discussion with offended emotionalism...Tim's no innocent and there one hell of a behind the scenes story happening as the onair bull flows, all humanity aside.
Shannon
· 1 year ago
Couldn't agree more.....he will not be missed. We need less "tools" and more truth in the news.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
Exactly, Firebrand.
I had my differences and disagreements with Russert before, but that doesn't matter anymore. He's gone. My condolences to his family and colleagues.
And Happy Father's Day to you too! ;-)
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
It's getting deep on cable and here as well I see. Timmah typified what's wrong with Washington media. Joining NBC just after Reagan gutted the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time Provisions, Tim became an intellectual and political will o'the wisp serving the nascent and growing pre-90s echo chamber with regular lip service to the newly empowered corporate fascism that brought us endless war and the Bush failures. Curious Tim died on the day the NYT elevated corporate media unfairness with a front page story on sexism largely featuring NBC sins. Dying now, at least, Timmah won't go down in Plames with Scotty's approaching testimony...
steve303
· 1 year ago
So sad. . . I often criticized him for being too soft in interviews and too accepting of TPs, but you could see that he really loved American history and politics. For him to leave us in the midst of such a momentous election. . . very sad. My heart goes out to his family.
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· 1 year ago
Anyways, I will probably be buried in some unmarked grave somewhere in the future but I've done more for the human race than he ever put it back.
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· 1 year ago
What's sad to me are young children that die. He lived a long life. We celebrate long lives here in Louisiana. It's a celebration. Maybe it's a cultural thing. But let's celbrate!
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
You have to admit, though, that his line of work required him to be in the fast lane.
Sometimes the rat race is just not worth it, regardless of the fame and fortune. His was "A life lived large" according to Mitchell. Unfortunately, that sometimes does a person in far too early.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
And we don't quite know how large...Laura and Dubya were also in Rome yesterday. Russert has physically looked terrible these last few weeks even with thick applications of orange camera mantan. Was he getting regular cardiac care? I'd guess no... Was he eating properly? Again, I'd guess no. How long will Luke last on XM without a powerful daddy, I wonder?
JennieB
· 1 year ago
Snark aside, I didn't know Luke was on XM. What does he do, what channel?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
A sports show with Jim Carville...Tim famously discussed it onair with Carville and wife during a MTP...Huffington, among others, tore him apart for the self-serving nepotism...
dcredhead
· 1 year ago
How long will Luke last on XM without a powerful daddy, I wonder?
Prezz.... bitter, snarky. Clearly alone Party of One.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Hah!!! The "bitter" meme...thank you oh absorber of pop media for making my morning! Is it cosy in the sardine can?
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· 1 year ago
Oh when the saints, go maching in, on when the saints go maching in. Oh I'd like to be in the numbah, oh when the saints go maching in.
JennieB
· 1 year ago
I'm in shock. I've never met Russert, but I feel like a close friend has died. I occassionally disagreed with something Tim said, but mostly I thought he was one of the best political journalists around. No one else questioned and followed up like he did. I watch MTP every Sunday without fail. I'm extremely sad right now.
Keith Olbermann just read a message from the mayor of Buffalo. He has ordered the flags to fly at half staff. My tears are streaming for this huge loss.
My heart goes out to Tim's wife and son and to his "family" at NBC.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pave- ments, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us! Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years' animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!
--Allen Ginsberg, Howl
lauren1959
· 1 year ago
Some of you guys need to get off the computer and take a walk. 58 is not a good long life, particularly if you're enjoying it. Seems like there are bitter people everywhere these days...
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I'm sad for his family and friends. I truly am.
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
My condolences to his family and co-workers. What a shock! 58 is much, much too young.
timqz
· 1 year ago
Look, I'm sorry the man's dead and my condolences to his family, but I agree with the other comments asking that we don't turn the guy into Mother Teresa. He was another talking head in the Beltway Village,doing everything he could to keep the status quo going in that powerful little clique. I watched Meet The Press occasionally, depending on who the guests were. Sometimes the shows were interesting, but usually I changed the channel after a few minutes, disgusted with his stupid "gotcha" questions. His "pundit panels" were always skewed heavily to the right (think George Will and Cokie Roberts, ad nauseum). And, yes, his question to Obama about whether or not he agreed with Harry Belafonte, and similar questions along that line, were shameless. Not to mention, during the Clinton years, he worked the Monica Lewinsky thing like a dog worrying on a T-bone steak. He would not let it go and seemed to be savoring every minute of it. So no, I don't feel like "I've lost an old friend". Russert was more part of the problem than the solution.
SociologistTina
· 1 year ago
Yes, my heart also goes out to Tim Russert's friends, family, colleagues, and audience. I'm very new to the world of TV pundits, and I must that I've always found it uncanny how much he reminded me of my official mentor in graduate school. I was always struck by Russet's intensity and his voice, both of which reminded me very strongly of my former mentor. The latter also died before his time, of pancreatic cancer. With sadness as well as mixed emotions, I pay homage to them both.
All Comments
I'm not happy he died, but to see Russert as anything other than the GOP water carrier he was just because he died makes no sense to me.
It's like being sad if O'Reilly went to jail for sexual harrassment.
What sad news. And on fathers day weekend at that. All the best to his family and friends......I wish them all sincere condolences.
Strangely, I was thinking about him recently.....that he had a big broad smile on his face when he was talking about Obama winning the primary.
I still can just only say wow...I'm stunned.
Oh, and to compare Russert to O'Reilly is ridiculous.
My thoughts and sympathies to his family, his friends, and the world of journalism....
I wish our political foes no ill-will, and when someone leaves this life so young, it's an especially hard-blow.
Before anyone starts to cheer, let's remember, we're the good guys.
The general election coverage won't be the same without his voice.
Rest in Peace Tim; you will be missed.
Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.
I don't celebrate the death of people I disagree with.
I believe he was against the war.
They just stated he love Bruce Springteen.
Maybe he was a closet Democrat but just had to go along since the big media companies have killed real journalism from appearing on TV.
I don't know enough about him, but I just felt he was trying to come to the other side (not death) but the other side of politics where 2 sides are truly shown.
RIP Tim
When someone's alive they're fair game but in the immediate moments following their passing, if it's not possible to recall something positive about the person it's best to remain silent. Call me sentimental but I feel human decency calls for such a margin of civility
I''ll take this moment to recall him on one Sunday morning, some years past, quite diligently cornering Dick Cheney regarding his variety of lies and distortions in realtion to the war in Iraq.
I didn't think of him as all that "good" but he was definitely young.
I won't miss his i-am-a-catholic editorials but, hey!
R.I.P.
And buckguy, before you start talking karma think about how ridiculous that whole concept is before you open your mouth... Life is random
Sad for all.
bush wouldn't have gotten a second term... and many of his cohorts would already be dead.
Tim Russert was father and a partner. For the love of God, his politics don't matter anymore.
Be a realist and not a concern troll...
I had my differences and disagreements with Russert before, but that doesn't matter anymore. He's gone. My condolences to his family and colleagues.
And Happy Father's Day to you too! ;-)
Timmah typified what's wrong with Washington media.
Joining NBC just after Reagan gutted the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time Provisions, Tim became an intellectual and political will o'the wisp serving the nascent and growing pre-90s echo chamber with regular lip service to the newly empowered corporate fascism that brought us endless war and the Bush failures.
Curious Tim died on the day the NYT elevated corporate media unfairness with a front page story on sexism largely featuring NBC sins.
Dying now, at least, Timmah won't go down in Plames with Scotty's approaching testimony...
Sometimes the rat race is just not worth it, regardless of the fame and fortune. His was "A life lived large" according to Mitchell. Unfortunately, that sometimes does a person in far too early.
Russert has physically looked terrible these last few weeks even with thick applications of orange camera mantan.
Was he getting regular cardiac care?
I'd guess no...
Was he eating properly?
Again, I'd guess no.
How long will Luke last on XM without a powerful daddy, I wonder?
Prezz.... bitter, snarky. Clearly alone Party of One.
The "bitter" meme...thank you oh absorber of pop media for making my morning!
Is it cosy in the sardine can?
Keith Olbermann just read a message from the mayor of Buffalo. He has ordered the flags to fly at half staff. My tears are streaming for this huge loss.
My heart goes out to Tim's wife and son and to his "family" at NBC.
ments, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to
Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies!
gone down the American river!
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole
boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions!
gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs!
Ten years' animal screams and suicides!
Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on
the rocks of Time!
--Allen Ginsberg, Howl