OMH! I just found out he’s dead. I can’t believe it! He was so young. What a terrible time for him to die, he was probably enjoying the election and being a pretty big part of the action. He may have been in the tank for the left but he was an interesting interviewer who occasionally asked tough questions (usually of the Republicans):
Tim Russert, the Democratic operative turned NBC commentator who revolutionized Sunday morning television and infused journalism with his passion for politics, died this afternoon.
Russert, 58, collapsed while recording voiceovers for his Sunday morning interview program, NBC reported. He was initially reported to have suffered a heart attack while working in his office on Washington’s Nebraska Avenue, but the network said later only that he was “stricken at the bureau” and subsequently died. Further details were not immediately available.
I’m going to miss him.
Who can replace him on Meet the Press? Certainly not Matthews are Olberman, those guys are so far left that there is no way they would ever be able to give even the appearance of objectivity.
posted June 14, 2008 at 1:13 am
Russert was hardly the soul of objectivity himself the way he was drooling over Obama. Still, it is unfortunate that he is dead.
Personally, I find it very annoying when anyone my age dies. It does not bode well for the future.
posted June 14, 2008 at 12:27 pm
michele argument #2 (liberal media) always picked on republicans. boo hoo.
mr. russert, you will be missed.
posted June 14, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I wasn’t a fan, particularly, but, from Newsday:
“Even when he was interviewing presidents and heads of state, western New Yorkers knew that his blue-collar Buffalo sensibility guided him throughout.”
Yup!
It might be worth re-reading this article from RD from years back:
“Tim Russert gets lessons from his father” …
When he heard this, Dad roared with laughter. “You wrote a letter to the Pope? Let me know if you hear back from him.”
I told him that I had managed to get an appointment with Joseph Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia and was hoping to enlist his help. Cardinal Krol was of Polish descent and a friend of the Holy Father’s; when Pope John Paul II was a cardinal, he visited Cardinal Krol on a trip to the United States.
Dad said, “Maybe you should write that letter in Polish. I have some friends in Cheektowaga” — a blue-collar suburb of Buffalo — “who could help you.”
We were both laughing. Then he said, “I’m serious. When you talk to people, speak their language. It shows respect.”
When I hung up the phone, I thought: Actually, that’s a pretty good idea.
posted June 15, 2008 at 8:16 am
Demonstration #1 that the left is willfully blind: denying that the MSM is biased.
posted June 16, 2008 at 10:55 am
I don’t know, I seem to recall Russert grilling the living daylights out of Howard Dean back when he was running for President in 2004. It was painfully clear that Russert thought Dean was unqualified. (I agreed with him, BTW.)
I’m so used to Russert being a part of my daily life that I feel like I’ve lost a friend.