TitanTiger 21,151 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25145431/ How horrible. He was 58. There aren't many details. He'd just returned from a family vacation in Italy yesterday and collapsed at his desk in Washington while recording something for his show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channonc 466 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 This is horrible news. He was a great journalist. RIP and prayers sent to his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunInRed 18,172 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Absolutely terrible. He was the best in the business. Thoughts and prayers**** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTim 3,524 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Tim R. was one of a very few Network news reporters that I actually respected. He tried to be honest on all subjects and present both sides. Prayers for his family. He will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger88 934 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Prayers sent to his family. I never saw him that much but did enjoy him when I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUTiger1 0 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Hate to hear it. Russert was a good one. Prayers sent for his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM4AU 337 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Very sad. I pray for his family and friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin5 20 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Sunday mornings won't be the same. RIP Tim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNewby 27 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Russert was fair and tough with his interviews, a hard combination to find. Condolences to his family, friends, and co-workers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autigeremt 7,158 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 I agree 100% with everyone on here.... Man.....58. That's tough. I'm getting closer to that everyday. Bless he and his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG-91 1,605 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 Link A damned shame...he always seemed to be well-prepared and fair in his critiques and interviews of both sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinCrimson 61 Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 Sunday mornings won't be the same. RIP Tim. My thoughts exactly. I've spent many Sunday mornings watching Russert. He will be sorely missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,137 Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Watching MEET THE PRESS this morning is something else. Through all the stories and recollections folks have of Tim, James Carville and Mary Matalin , sitting side by side, holding hands. Just something I noticed and thought how telling that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,882 Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Russert was the best. Fair and TOUGH. We need a thousand more like him instead of the schlockmeisters we have now. Condolences to his friends and family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 14,164 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 He came from humble roots. David Gregory, on NBC, tells a story about Mr. Russert, when he first went to work for Mr. Moynihan. Mr. Russert, an Irish-Catholic blue-collar kid from Buffalo, was a little worried because so many people around Mr. Moynihan were Ivy Leaguers.Mr. Moynihan told him not to worry. What they know, he said, you can learn; what you know, they can’t learn. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06...t-heart-attack/ He was a very committed father, and loved and respected his own father so much-- I know this is an unbelievably sad Fathers Day in the Russert family. Prayers go out to them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,882 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 DailyKos Diarist on Russert's death: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/15/19.../110/512/536458 I am not mourning this 5 million-dollar-a-year talking head, felled by his own obesity. How is it that in this world of suffering, we are expected to weep for a talentless and filthy rich tv prince? It is an example of false consciousness, like the frenzy over Princess Di's death.Actually, I kind of miss the big-nosed princess, a cute young woman with a wild streak who raised some money for charities and had a penchant for embarrassing the british monarchy. What was Russert? A lackey, a fraud, a dim-bulb lazy establishment gatekeeper, paid five million dollars a year to delude us into thinking that jibber-jabber over campaigns was real journalism, at a time when actual journalists are getting laid off left and right. His interviews were lazy. His method was to read critical editiorials from the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal at a politician (frequently stumbling over words) and then to ask the politician to respond. Because Russert was too dumb to formulate a logical follow-up question, he would simply restate the gist of that editorial and once again ask the politician to respond, again and again. . I haven't forgotten his four questions to Obama on the subject of Farrakhan, all during the course of a single debate. Obama was forthright in his condemnation of Farrakhan, but Russert wouldnt drop it. Russert was bound and determined to read (fequently stumbling over words) some choice Farrakhan quotes at Obama in order to create some phony controvery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 14,164 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Seriously, David, why politicize this thread? DailyKos Diarist on Russert's death: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/15/19.../110/512/536458 I am not mourning this 5 million-dollar-a-year talking head, felled by his own obesity. How is it that in this world of suffering, we are expected to weep for a talentless and filthy rich tv prince? It is an example of false consciousness, like the frenzy over Princess Di's death.Actually, I kind of miss the big-nosed princess, a cute young woman with a wild streak who raised some money for charities and had a penchant for embarrassing the british monarchy. What was Russert? A lackey, a fraud, a dim-bulb lazy establishment gatekeeper, paid five million dollars a year to delude us into thinking that jibber-jabber over campaigns was real journalism, at a time when actual journalists are getting laid off left and right. His interviews were lazy. His method was to read critical editiorials from the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal at a politician (frequently stumbling over words) and then to ask the politician to respond. Because Russert was too dumb to formulate a logical follow-up question, he would simply restate the gist of that editorial and once again ask the politician to respond, again and again. . I haven't forgotten his four questions to Obama on the subject of Farrakhan, all during the course of a single debate. Obama was forthright in his condemnation of Farrakhan, but Russert wouldnt drop it. Russert was bound and determined to read (fequently stumbling over words) some choice Farrakhan quotes at Obama in order to create some phony controvery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,882 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 It isnt politicizing anything to disagree with those who lack basic common decency. If you read the link, I know you never do, you would see that to the posters' credit they all slam this guy into the ground. The picture about being "an attention whore" is very cool IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTiger 14,164 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 It isnt politicizing anything to disagree with those who lack basic common decency. If you read the link, I know you never do, you would see that to the posters' credit they all slam this guy into the ground. The picture about being "an attention whore" is very cool IMHO. I read the link and did notice that. I just don't see the point of injecting that tone into this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,137 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Posting of the DailyKOS thread shows everyone just how far out of touch, how hateful and down right clueless those on the far Left really are. Kudos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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