Tim Russert dead, Big Russ still still watching from Barcalounger.
h/t Pablo
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a parent is to outlive your children. Just guessing, since I have no kids, but it would have to suck mightily.
He was a man who withstood adversity and always kept his faith, he was a life-long Bills fan after all.
It’s really, really sad.
RIP, Tim. Say hi to Pat Moynihan for us.
Is his new show “Meet the Maker?”
Another class act gone… RIP.
And yes, RIP, Tim.
Hope Dana Carvey had this one in the can already.
The Left Lib Idoe Idiots will probalby kill his legacy by filling in someone like Larry King.
capitano, morbidly hilarious!
RIP, Tim.
I am praying they give Meet the Press to Olberman. I am that depraved.
Is it true? Did Russert really die?
I always liked Russert, but if this is true, at least now NBC has a chance to put Keith Uberdick in the “Meet the Press” moderator’s seat.
Olbermann is crying. He’s a mess on air.
It’s true. The cable news outlets have lots of coverage, no commercials.
They should probably retire the show, or at least its name, rather than giving Olbermann that job.
58 is young. So sad, right at Father’s Day.
Russert was one of the few I respected. Completely in the bag, but asked some tough questions from time to time. We will be worse off without him. Rest in peace, fine sir.
What JD said.
One of the few talk show hosts I really feel I could sit around and enjoy a beer with.
RIP.
Gone too soon.. Rest in Peace , Russert.
I vote that NBC hire back Katie Couric to do “Meet the Press”!
Roboc-heh.
I can’t believe MSNBC has Olbermann covering this today. I note that he can’t interview Katie about Russert because he’s made himself the story now.
I actually liked Keith Olbermann when he was with ESPN. As I remember it he got kicked off for letting Craig Kilborne(once an ESPN collegue), who was doing the “Daily Show” at the time, tell a joke on air. It went like this:
Kilborne: Who hit the most home runs in 1961?
Olbermann: Roger Maris.
Kilborne: Who was hit in the head with the most balls in 1961?
Olbermann: I don’t know.
Kilborne: Liberace!
Olberman crying on air just shows that he’s d-league. I’m sure Russert’s up there looking down saying, “Geez, and I had to work with that simpleton. It’s your deal Libby – how many times did you take a ball to the head anyway?”
He was so young. That’s very sad for his family.
Adieu. A good man gone.
Russert was one of the good guys. I heard him on Hannity’s radio show some months back talking about his books and it was just captivating radio, something I normally would never accuse Hannity of being.
One time when Russert was on the Imus show, he mentioned he’d met William F. Buckley at a gathering of some sort. Imus said something typically dismissive and salacious, and Russert’s response was that he’d found Buckley openminded and genuinely curious about political viewpoints different from his own. That impressed me.
They’ll give the show to Gregory…mark my words
I’ll bet Mike Savage is available!
RIP Tim Russert. Prayers go out to his family. He was one of the only, if not THE only, of the mainstream press that played it fairly down the middle. He’ll be missed. And please, don’t even joke about Olberdouche taking over for him. That’s sick.
RIP
I liked Russert – but when the news came across the wire, like with Steve Irwin, you kind of knew that he wasn’t hit by a bus. I took Russert for one who subsisted on the “Superfans” diet.
They’ll give the show to Gregory…mark my words
They may, but to my utter shock David Gregory has shown himself to be quite fair on his own MSNBC show.
I’m satisfied because at the end of the Brokaw/Olbermann segment, Olbermann obsequiously thanked Brokaw for coming on. Brokaw said something like, “Tim raised the bar for reporting high, and we have to keep it lifted”. I saw that as a jab at Olbermann. And I felt glad.
Obama proclaims, “This isn’t the Tim Russert I knew…he was still alive!”
Olberdouche just claimed to have neutrality as a goal in his work. I listened to Mathews and this asshat for the last 20 minutes and they are so full of themselves, and are making their profession out to be god-like in their quest for the truth.
Gregory. Uberdick.
Not a lot of difference there. They both have egos (and agendas) the size of Texas.
Seriously, I think Harold Ford, Jr. would be a good choice. Unfortunately, NBC will probably shoot themselves in the foot, and give it to Rachel Maddow!
– Chris Wallace. Yhe only newscaster in the media today that exemplifies that same tough minded desire to cut through the political hype, and get to the heart of the story, but remain as nuetral as he can, while being tough minded and fair.
– No one can replace Tim Russert. He was a one of a kind man in the way he lived his life, and the way he treated his fellow journos. You just don’t find too many people that are genuinely respected by everyone. In a business that promotes antagonism by its very nature, he was liked by the even people that because of his honesty, had every reason to feel antipithy, but without exception, they all had good words to say about him, and not just now with his passing, but more to the point while he was still alive.
– Rest well Tim in the loving hands of your maker. You left this world better for your having lived, better than you found it. You will be sorely missed, but you will never be forgotten. May He look over your family, and comfort them in the loss of your goodness, while the thoughts and prayers of everyone and my family go with you and yours.
From all I’ve read and heard, a truly fine man and I always thought, scrupulously fair on MTP.
A class act, he will be sorely missed
My wife is in mourning. She was a fan. She sensed goodness in people that I just can’t. I do believe that Tim Russert was good people.
Why couldn’t it have been Olbershit instead?
I could kind of take him or leave him. Inasmuch as he was probably more respected than most, this hastens the decline of network news credibility I’d guess, and that’s just terrible.
Not happy to see anyone die, 58 is not old in this day and age.
That said, I despised the man. He had a reputation for “fairness”, by which MSM types mean occasionally he would ask a Democrat an uncomfortable question. He wouldn’t insist they answer it, and he never followed up, but he’d ask, so he had a thin patina of “fairness” all over his body, that left a shimmering sheen, much like a slug is covered with a thin patina of slime.
Now we’ll hear for a week what a great newsman and journalist and gentleman and human being he was, because the press loves nothing more than covering themselves and their profession with glory. If he drove a truck to work every day for 30 years we’d never heard of him, but because he spent his life shilling for the Dems we’ll have to be regaled with tales of his greatness.
Fuck the main stream media. There, I said it. Someone had to finally speak out and say, they just aren’t fair, they favor the Dems. Someone finally said it and I’m glad that someone was me.
After much coverage of this tragedy, I get the feeling that journalists typically hate their families.
Ahhhh, yeah! Time for some coffee.
Sorry for going off topic but I’ve been reading about the Afghan prison escape of possibly 450 Taliban members. For those of you who thought closing Gitmo and sending the detainees back to their country of origin was a good idea, fuck you! If we’re going to close Gitmo, we should drop the detainees off in the middle of the Atlantic and let them swim to their country of origin.
Thanks Docweasel. Remember, when it came time to step up in the Scooter Libby trial, he hemmed, he hawed, he…lied. When the time came to show this alleged character, the most important time of his life, he didn’t
Fuck the main stream media.
I would really rather not, no telling what you might catch. Luckily they seem to be doing a pretty fair job of fucking themselves.
He had a good O RLY? face. Didn’t use it enough.
NBC should do a So You Think You Can Pitch Softballs To Democrats For a Whole Hour show instead of replacing him right away I think. Lemons and lemonade and all that.
But doesn’t also this mean we’ll never know some stuff for real about how that Libby thing really went down? I wonder what Mr. Maguire thinks.
Here you go. He says unsolved mysteries. That’s sort of an oxymoron. But then so is positing an insightful news show on broadcast network television.
Here it is mid-morning and there’s still a dead white male on top of the Ward Connerly post, which I think says a lot about… something.
You know all those rumours about me?
I started them.
Oh, that never gets old. I’m going to go tell it to Russert.
TGOL, on the bright side, Russert still should be able to vote!
Salt Lick’s comment made me want to riff on the old SNL “Weekend Update” running gag about Gensmo. Francisco Franco.
I denounce myself … for not having the guts to go ahead and run with it.
Go ahead Mac. I don’t think Russert would mind.
“In other news, Tim Russert’s father is still not dead.”