Comments on: Tim Russert wasn’t a very good journalist

By: Joe B

Joe B — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:46:07 +0000

RIP phony GE Corp VP. . . Will always remember
your sheer joy in putting the nail in Hillary’s
coffin. Karma can be a bitch.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:59:22 +0000

This is the only moving memorial to Tim Russert that I’ve seen. Thank you.

By: peter ramus

peter ramus — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:00:52 +0000

Tip of the hat to Mr. Swift.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:32:25 +0000

I am saddened by the fact that I’ll never get to ask him my O.J. Simpson gotcha question: so Tim, that Thurman Thomas was a great running back, hey, but he never woulda been another O.J. Simpson, hey am I right?, you betcher ass…by the way Timmy boy, O.J. guilty or innocent?
Whoah.. .hey … was your Buffalo wing too hot for ya?

By: Australian Values

Australian Values — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:47:17 +0000

[...] quotes above, provided by the Poorman Institute¹, are a “star-studded lineup, saying in perfect prepared-statement-speak how they [...]

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:36:20 +0000

i call bullshit on the dodd scandal.

i took out a $275K loan in 2003. i was offered a 4.5% rate, but bargained and got it down to 4.25%.

if dodd’s power and influence got him the same deal offered to an ordinary joe like me, where is the corruption?

i’ll tell you where: at the business end of the keyboards wielded by morally bankrupt, politically motivated, mudslinging journalists.

By: false left right paradeim

false left right paradeim — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:39:38 +0000

this webpage has so much critical thinking applied the truth is seeping out of every sentence
i would also point out that tim stood by as many of his own country men and women were rouded up for drug offences and jailed .
an endless war is against the very nature of our counry we need a military bill of common sense that states cleary that it is against the law to declare war upon ominous forces that cannot be clearly identified and destroyed.to prevent millions of men women and children suffering from an unamerican unjust war.

By: robert green

robert green — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:45:57 +0000

that link from todd above actually makes the point perfectly: dodd got special treatment. the first thing to think is he got it because he’s on the banking committee and countrywide needed legislative help. but that TOTALLY misses the point. dodd and others in DC are just generically part of the american elite. if you are a senator, or a member of the media elite like russert was people will do you lots of favors the rest of us can’t get. and that’s the problem–russert was an elitist who didn’t know that about himself, the worst of both worlds.

By: shane

shane — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:16:28 +0000

Russert was just another inside-the-Beltway ass-kissing enabler of neocons. The 24/7 circle-jerk of self-regarding eulogizing by his co-wankers on the networks this weekend was pathetic. He was no investigative journalist, he NEVER asked the “hard questions,” and he gave a free pass to the powerful and the monied, of which he was one.

By: curv3ball

curv3ball — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:53:56 +0000

This post captures my mindset exactly. Um, please let it go now. Thx.