Tim Russert passes
I’m shocked. My homeboy is gone. (WSJ link);
Tim Russert, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and its Washington bureau chief, collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58 years old.
Tim Russert signed off after an interview with John McCain during a taping of “Meet the Press” in January.
Mr. Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the most widely watched program of its type in the nation. His signature trait there was an unrelenting style of questioning.
Washingtonian magazine once dubbed Mr. Russert the best journalist in town, and described “Meet the Press” as “the most interesting and important hour on television.
My condolences to his family.
Apparently, he touched Thus Spake Ortner‘s life.
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“Tim Russert signed off after an interview with John McCain during a taping of “Meet the Press” in January.”
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Haven’t watched MTP for several years, since I swore off TV news stuff. Still Russert supported the the troops in several big ways. And it saddens me a bit when younger folks pass like this.
I’m going to be the party crasher here and remind everyone that Tim Russert was part of the liberal MSM conglomerate. I stopped watching him years ago. He was a DNC hack who used his media pulpit to manipulate the truth under the guise of journalism. If you’re partisan, you’re partisan. Just admit it instead of pretending to be ‘fair’ or ‘objective’. One example of Russert’s bias and subsequent ass chewing by Donald Rumsfeld: Sunday, Feb. 6, 2005 3:15 p.m. EST Rumsfeld Blasts Russert for Edited Report Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld blasted NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert on Sunday for selectively editing an exchange he had in December with a National Guardsman who complained that his unit’s vehicles weren’t armored. “That was unfair and it was selectively taking out two sentences from a long exchange,” the Pentagon chief complained. “And when you suggested that that’s how I answered that question, that is factually wrong.” Russert had just aired a clip of the now infamous exchange between his guest and National Guardsman Specialist Thomas Wilson, where Wilson asked during a town hall meeting in Kuwait why “we Soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?” In footage aired by Russert, Rumsfeld replied: “As you know, you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time. “And if you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored Humvee and it can be blown up.” After the clip had ended, the irked Defense Secretary said, “That is not how I answered that question. “But Mr. Secretary,” replied Russert somewhat sheepishly, “it clearly represents the exchange and … ” “It does not,” Rumsfeld shot back. Prepared with a full transcript, the Defense chief overode the NBC host and proceeded to read his full answer: “I talked to the general coming out here about the pace at… Read more »
Was this guy the Pope? Based upon the media coverage, repeated dirges, etc., you would have thought that somebody IMPORTANT had died! Yes, I regret that he passed away early, but no, he wasn’t important to American society. It’s rather sad that the American MSM is treating his death like a religious (not something that they believe in otherwise) event.
Jonn wrote: Finally, someone said it! I’m with you, Bob and Jane. His passing was certainly worth mentioning here, but the way every news channel is making a big deal out of it, you’d think he signed all of their paychecks. Personally, I quit watching him when he stroked John Kerry a few years ago in Kerry’s first return since the the 2004 election.