| Tim Russert 1950-2008
Posted: 6/15/2008 6:08:21 PM | | A very smart, unbiased and honorable man who was lucky enough to do what he loved for a living and we were lucky enough to be along for the ride. | |
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| Tim Russert 1950-2008
Posted: 6/15/2008 6:19:45 PM | Tim Russert was the heart and soul of the American Workingclass.
He was a Real All-American Hero.
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| Tim Russert 1950-2008
Posted: 6/16/2008 5:11:12 PM | I can't believe I am reading so much "me-too" kudos about Tim Russert. While his untimely death is a tragedy in its own rite, he is not nor ever has truly been a journalist. His liaisons with****Cheney and the powerful Jack Welsh lead me to believe he was a mouthpiece for corporations. His "gotcha" style became very, very old and revealed how poor he was as a journalist, an honest broker of informacion to keep the American public aware of what was going on.
His gotcha game was more important than following up on comments any politician on his show may have expressed. He became emblammatic of a news media that used tricks on the sleepy, lazy, uninquisitiv American public. | |
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| Tim Russert 1950-2008
Posted: 6/18/2008 7:02:12 PM | ^^^ Tim Russert was an extraordinary human being, personally and professionally.
I can't help but think you have him mixed up with someone else.
We would all do well to follow the example he set. | |
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| Tim Russert 1950-2008
Posted: 6/18/2008 10:20:13 PM | Several alarming, "Not meant to happen" cardiac items in this untimely death.
1) A few weeks prior, he had a complete nuclear medicine scan and stress test, showing no significant cardiac abnormalities.
2) By todays standards, 58 is not a fragile elderly person.
3. On medication for Cholesterol, which is also meant to stabilize any existing plaque in the coronary vessels.
4. Had a fairly regular excercise program.
5. Resonably healthy diet, had a life long weight problem, but not a critical issue.
6. No direct genetic link to an early cardiac death.
Gives new importance to William Congreve's statement: "Defer not to tomorrow to be wise, to thee, tomorrow's sun may never rise." | |
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| Tim Russert 1950-2008
Posted: 6/19/2008 11:35:02 AM | ^^^ Tim Russert was an extraordinary human being, personally and professionally. I can't help but think you have him mixed up with someone else.
We would all do well to follow the example he set.
At best he was an ordinary man in a time of human events when to be ordinary is enough to earn such beatific acclaim, but to put him on a saintly pedestal is to diminish everyone else who truly deserve being there. I doubt I would like to follow his example during the Scooter Libby trial. His embarrassing gaffes and his visible hatred of Ariana Huffington is alarming. I really don't want to say any more about this plainly ordinary, excessively overrated man. | |
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| Tim Russert 1950-2008
Posted: 6/19/2008 11:51:03 AM | ^^Are you sure you're not confusing Tim Russert with Bill O'Reilly???
I think you may be very confused.
O'Reilly: "I don't see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis," KKK
Tim Russert would never say such a thing.
The O'Reilly / Huffington fued is common knowledge.
Except perhaps in your case. | |
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