Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack
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that comment really pissed me off. You can be damn sure I will be pissing on IO's grave. What a fvcktard comment about someone who made a contribution to this world that we all have enjoyed and is being morned by those who loved him.
Wish I was going. So you can blow me.
but I'm not too far if your hard on is that strong internet tough guy
My picture is all over this place, if you need a reference.
I just said I hope you are not going to be there. I am glad that you won't. How am I an internet tough guy? I will just be happily pissing on your grave you miserable idiotic fvck nut. I did not threaten you at all. You are just a tard. The world is full of them.
I do sympathize with your plight though. I can't imagine having to make it through life with your IQ.
I am going to take an outside shot here...but I am guessing you work with your hands? Opposable thumbs is about all you have. I understand.
That's what I thought.
Me and me thumbs are heading out for the night. BOL with your really scarey anger.
Me and me thumbs are heading out for the night. BOL with your really scarey anger.
Not angry at all. Out for a bbq with some good friends. Hope you have a good night.
I watched the special last night about him, what a stand up guy devoted dad and son, so sorry for his family RIP
Tim Russert, what do we know ? He was a guy, a friend , a Dad , a Son,a Brother, a Colleague. It's not about him. It's about you and me; how we life our lives. My Dad died in 2004 when Big Russ & Me came out. I read the book ... Some how it gave comfort to me knowing that he spoke for so many of the fortunate men in this world that have and had the opportunity to experience a fathers love. Ironic that He dies close to Fathers Day. Life is amazing, the best can turn into the worst in a moment. If you feel the pain, you are blessed... I 'd wouldn't have missed it for the world.... (not mine but I had to use it). Happy Fathers Day ! Be good to your sons and daughters. The world is counting on you.
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bryanz - I nominate you for a speechwriter for Obama.
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Very well done Bryanz.
My mother used to say. The Good Die Young.
He was a GOOD one.
Happy Fathers Day To All.
My mother used to say. The Good Die Young.
He was a GOOD one.
Happy Fathers Day To All.
And pricks live forever.
Dj was meet the press on today? I usually catch the repeat 2 in the morning. I just hope they hire someone with a set of nuts like Russet had. I remember the time he had Edwards on and drilled him with the same question ten different ways. it was getting a little annoying cause Tim was over doing it. Edwards finally said "Tim how many different ways are you gonna asked that question?" Cheney was the following week and ihad heard that him and Russet lived on the same street so i figured here comes the softballs. Well Russet drilled him with everything i wanted to hear Cheney try to explain. Guy had a set of nuts and i hope somebody will be in the same mold. If not this show is history.
Sponge:
This might be the longest running show on television. They used to have a panel of reporters question a guest. They will find a replacement I'm sure but it will be hard to find a person as good as Russert was. Big shoes to fill.
Eddie
This might be the longest running show on television. They used to have a panel of reporters question a guest. They will find a replacement I'm sure but it will be hard to find a person as good as Russert was. Big shoes to fill.
Eddie
one person's opinion....
Lessons of the Tim Russert coverage
posted by halboedeker on Jun 16, 2008 9:26:03 AM
Here's one thing you can say about journalists: Surely no one loves us as much as we love ourselves.
That's one lesson of the Tim Russert coverage.
A friend told me Sunday: "I now know more about Tim Russert than I do many members of my family."
After Russert's shocking death Friday at age 58, television kept serving up witnesses to his expertise, intelligence, diligence, kindness, faith, love of family, Buffalo and the Buffalo Bills. The self-indulgence was breathtaking.
On Monday's "Today," Matt Lauer interviewed Russert's son, Luke. The show basically gave over the first half-hour to the Russert story. Presidential candidates aren't questioned at such length on morning programs.
And the children of America's fallen heroes don't receive such a platform, either.
Here are a few points to consider:
Does the coverage move the story along? "ABC World News" examined heart disease, which killed Russert. Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren took up the same issue. But so much of the coverage was of the "I remember Tim" variety. Sad to say, a lot of it was repetitive.
Is there a sense of proportion? Peter Jennings didn't receive such heavy coverage when he died -- ABC doesn't own a cable channel. And he was in our homes, night after night, for 20 years. MSNBC kept Russert front and center through the weekend. How will NBC cover the passing of Tom Brokaw? Hasn't he been the most influential figure at NBC for the past two decades?
Do the hours of coverage inflate the story? Tim Russert was excellent at his job, make no mistake. He worked hard, he treated his guests fairly, and he asked tough questions. But by weekend's end, some commentators had elevated him to preeminent journalist of his time. And one reader wrote: "His was the most noteworthy and untimely 'public' death in the past 20 years."
Really? Beware hyperbole.
Is the coverage professional? A lot of the comments about Russert should have been saved for the office. NBC should have approached covering Russert as the network would have any other public figure who had died. Hard to do, yes, but that should have been the goal. Instead, Russert's colleagues used the airwaves to work through their grief. Some people will excuse that style out of sympathy, but that approach just wasn't right.
Does the coverage of one story obscure everything else in the world? Russert dominated the MSNBC news menu over the weekend. The reader I quoted earlier defended that approach: "No one I talked [to] mentioned floods in the midwest or Iraq. They talked about Tim Russert. You need a reality check."
Maybe, but not on this point. The news needs to be a mix of stories. People needed to be reminded about the Iowa floods -- people are suffering on a grand scale there. But, of course, those people live far from the Washington Beltway, and so they won't gain the vast air time accorded to journalists and politicians.
Will journalists ask the tough questions of themselves that they ask of others? Not during grief, evidently. Brokaw hinted that Russert had his critics. Could we have heard from them? Well, no. The coverage seemed designed to put Russert on the fast track to sainthood.
The affection that Russert stirred in millions was testament to his skill. But the coverage of his death was often overblown, self-congratulatory and self-indulgent. It was no way to treat a news icon.
uno mas, from a "neoconservative" perspective.....
Tim Russert was a newsman. He was not the Pope. This is not the JFK assassination, or Reagan?s death, or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. A newsman died. We know you miss him, but please shut up and get back to work.
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/tim-russert-1950-2008.html
Lessons of the Tim Russert coverage
posted by halboedeker on Jun 16, 2008 9:26:03 AM
Here's one thing you can say about journalists: Surely no one loves us as much as we love ourselves.
That's one lesson of the Tim Russert coverage.
A friend told me Sunday: "I now know more about Tim Russert than I do many members of my family."
After Russert's shocking death Friday at age 58, television kept serving up witnesses to his expertise, intelligence, diligence, kindness, faith, love of family, Buffalo and the Buffalo Bills. The self-indulgence was breathtaking.
On Monday's "Today," Matt Lauer interviewed Russert's son, Luke. The show basically gave over the first half-hour to the Russert story. Presidential candidates aren't questioned at such length on morning programs.
And the children of America's fallen heroes don't receive such a platform, either.
Here are a few points to consider:
Does the coverage move the story along? "ABC World News" examined heart disease, which killed Russert. Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren took up the same issue. But so much of the coverage was of the "I remember Tim" variety. Sad to say, a lot of it was repetitive.
Is there a sense of proportion? Peter Jennings didn't receive such heavy coverage when he died -- ABC doesn't own a cable channel. And he was in our homes, night after night, for 20 years. MSNBC kept Russert front and center through the weekend. How will NBC cover the passing of Tom Brokaw? Hasn't he been the most influential figure at NBC for the past two decades?
Do the hours of coverage inflate the story? Tim Russert was excellent at his job, make no mistake. He worked hard, he treated his guests fairly, and he asked tough questions. But by weekend's end, some commentators had elevated him to preeminent journalist of his time. And one reader wrote: "His was the most noteworthy and untimely 'public' death in the past 20 years."
Really? Beware hyperbole.
Is the coverage professional? A lot of the comments about Russert should have been saved for the office. NBC should have approached covering Russert as the network would have any other public figure who had died. Hard to do, yes, but that should have been the goal. Instead, Russert's colleagues used the airwaves to work through their grief. Some people will excuse that style out of sympathy, but that approach just wasn't right.
Does the coverage of one story obscure everything else in the world? Russert dominated the MSNBC news menu over the weekend. The reader I quoted earlier defended that approach: "No one I talked [to] mentioned floods in the midwest or Iraq. They talked about Tim Russert. You need a reality check."
Maybe, but not on this point. The news needs to be a mix of stories. People needed to be reminded about the Iowa floods -- people are suffering on a grand scale there. But, of course, those people live far from the Washington Beltway, and so they won't gain the vast air time accorded to journalists and politicians.
Will journalists ask the tough questions of themselves that they ask of others? Not during grief, evidently. Brokaw hinted that Russert had his critics. Could we have heard from them? Well, no. The coverage seemed designed to put Russert on the fast track to sainthood.
The affection that Russert stirred in millions was testament to his skill. But the coverage of his death was often overblown, self-congratulatory and self-indulgent. It was no way to treat a news icon.
uno mas, from a "neoconservative" perspective.....
Tim Russert was a newsman. He was not the Pope. This is not the JFK assassination, or Reagan?s death, or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. A newsman died. We know you miss him, but please shut up and get back to work.
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/tim-russert-1950-2008.html
Here are two non-hagiographic views of Russert.
libertarian view:
Posted by Lew Rockwell at June 14, 2008
See Glenn Greenwald on the fascist leader-worship of the conservatives, and the power worship of the press.
On the latter, it is instructive to remember the late Tim Russert.
Indeed, how could we forget? Cable TV has been obsessed with their colleague since his death. Time Magazine, we are reminded again and again, named him one of the 100 most powerful people in America, that is, one of the people most powerfully serving and advancing the state and the power elite. Of course, cable figures also lionize him because it enhances, or so they think, their own bloated sense of self-importance.
We are also told that Russert asked tough questions of politicians. What a joke. He acted like their butler or valet--with one exception. When Russert interviewed Ron Paul, he was incredibly hostile, made lying insinuations, gave Ron almost no time to answer, and, in general, acted like a member of the Capitol Hill-neocon thugbund.
Perhaps Russert, in confronting a genuine man of peace, felt guilty for his Bushian propaganda for war on Iraq, and the blood on his hands. The perpetually embedded journalist's body language was crabbed, and he never looked Ron in the eye.
Of course, no man's death is a good thing, let alone at such a young age. Tim Russert undoubledly did much good in his private life. May his soul rest in peace.
socialist view:
a long, interesting profile
http://wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/russ-j16.shtml
libertarian view:
Posted by Lew Rockwell at June 14, 2008
See Glenn Greenwald on the fascist leader-worship of the conservatives, and the power worship of the press.
On the latter, it is instructive to remember the late Tim Russert.
Indeed, how could we forget? Cable TV has been obsessed with their colleague since his death. Time Magazine, we are reminded again and again, named him one of the 100 most powerful people in America, that is, one of the people most powerfully serving and advancing the state and the power elite. Of course, cable figures also lionize him because it enhances, or so they think, their own bloated sense of self-importance.
We are also told that Russert asked tough questions of politicians. What a joke. He acted like their butler or valet--with one exception. When Russert interviewed Ron Paul, he was incredibly hostile, made lying insinuations, gave Ron almost no time to answer, and, in general, acted like a member of the Capitol Hill-neocon thugbund.
Perhaps Russert, in confronting a genuine man of peace, felt guilty for his Bushian propaganda for war on Iraq, and the blood on his hands. The perpetually embedded journalist's body language was crabbed, and he never looked Ron in the eye.
Of course, no man's death is a good thing, let alone at such a young age. Tim Russert undoubledly did much good in his private life. May his soul rest in peace.
socialist view:
a long, interesting profile
http://wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/russ-j16.shtml
