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Uh-huh.
Call me a cold-hearted bastard or a total asshole or whatever, but I do not feel any reason to wipe away salted tears after hearing this news.
Do you mean the Tim Russert who, along with nearly every one of his colleagus, cheered on the Iraq war and repeated every taking point fed to him by Bush/Cheney and the Republican Party?
Do you mean the Tim Russert who told Dick Cheney that he was wearing a Bush/Cheney campaign button secretly under his lapel?
Do you mean the Tim Russert whose Catholic bias influenced his reporting on the issues?
Do you mean the Tim Russert - paragon of journalistic mettle - who never said one word about the Pentagon's usage of ex-generals to shill the administration line about the war, even after it made news in the NYT?
Excuse me if I save my tears for the 4000+ American soldiers killed in the war partly made possible by the propaganda spewed by Mr. Russert and the rest of the Beltway journalism establishment.
My condolences to his family, but as far as I am concerned, Russert can go to hell.
NBC would be wise to seperate itself from the pack and mark Russert's passing with the institution of real journalism on deregulated teevee...
Seriously, though, if not a heart attack, what then?
Troops are just little people from fly-over land...Timmah had a house on Martha's Vineyard...Martha's freaking Vineyard! He's a bacon-flavored god in blue corporate polyester...way more important than kids butchered in an illegal and unnecessary war.
He was the inside man, the story boy, who would deny his integrity as he continued to rah, rah, rah this mess we are in because he was affraid? His biggent fear? Nuclear Iran/axisofevil's. Strange don't you think?
The Russert wave, more coverage than for any previous suddenly dead human, is particularly soapy.
Hell, even oblermann is giving him props. Sick.
Sad death, but now he's being painted as this great hero of the media who "knew how to ask the right questions"
Yeah right....
BTW:
A friend saw Brokaw speak to a health care group awhile ago. Friend said Brokaw's a total wingnut. "The free market can solve the problems of health care" and all that.
The more I think about it, the more I believe all these talking heads are just rich people trying to protect their tax breaks.
Karl Rove
I am saddened by his passing, and I feel it, but it bugs me more than a little that though natural when it is a celebrity, I think of all the Iraqi people, AND US soldiers that have died and never got all the eulogies and focus.
I grieve for my family or friends when they die of course, but when we get out of that sphere, I get sad and equally so for a top notch journalist that dies naturally, but even more for the people that die, from shrapnel or bombs or bullets and I keep wondering....where is the MOURNING FOR THEM??????
The sanctimonious blather on the news channels is breaching the levees of good taste.
They are going to overdo it bigtime. The excess will be grievous, you can bet on it. There will be weeks of regretful self-analysis about this overwhelming overreaction, with the explanation being that personal grief prompted the explosion of sentimentality, glossolalia and self interested eulogizing that is flooding MSNBC and CNN et. al. at this very moment.
Meanwhile, you know that the agents of Andrea Mitchell, David Gregory and Chris Matthews and even the anchors from the other networks are beating a path to the doors of the president of NBC offering kisses on the behind for the job at MTP. Andrea is going to be particularly murderous in her efforts. David Gregory must be giddy with disbelief at the opportunity for unbridled opportunism. There will be internecine wars among the media muy-inportantes in all of Washington and NYC for weeks until the announcement is made about who will be crowned as successor. I daresay that even in the ancient and well-hardened heart of poor old Barbara Walters, a small flame of hope was ignited at the instant she heard of Tim's passing. She will be most effusive of all in her praise of him as self-punishment for her cravenness.
THIS IS NOT TRAGEDY. IT IS ONLY AN EARLY DEATH. ALWAYS SAD, RARELY IMPORTANT.
OMG! Ethel Kennedy (sober? for once) on NBC. The attempts to analogize Russert with the Kennedys are appalling.
They are going to overdo it bigtime.
Into their 4th hour of "coverage" on MSNBC, the Peacock's DC News Division stands naked...and it ain't pretty.
In a welcome break during the wailing and teeth gnashing, David Gregory, obliviously unashamed, reflected on Tim's dictation of questions for the White House daily briefing while Mrs. Greenspan, with a scab's odd hail fellow cheer, remembered squashing against the WH beat glass ceiling twice (with an amusing on air correction of Brian Williams).
Overall, Max from "Sunset Blvd." would have fit right in to the somber parade:
He's immortal caught inside that
flickering light beam Is the youth which cannot fade. Tim's a living
legend; I've seen so many idols fall He is the greatest star of all.
Likewise sweetie, you can surf away...