After a while, you just get sick of the rank elitism and their damn selectivity. Which is why I'm pounding the keyboard I guess!!!!
Interesting side point: I guess Russert won't be testifying to Congress at all in the Plame case. Take care, Scotty McClellan (who said he'd talk next Friday).
Strange "coincidence," huh?
"Tim Russert, tenacious journalist, dead at 58" by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff | June 14, 2008
Tim Russert, a powerhouse of broadcast journalism who made interviewing both an art form and a contact sport on NBC's "Meet the Press," died yesterday of a heart attack at age 58 after collapsing at the network's Washington bureau....
According to NBC, Russert was recording voice-overs for tomorrow's broadcast of "Meet the Press" when he collapsed. NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said last night via e-mail that the cause of death was a "sudden heart attack." Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw announced the news on the air shortly after 3:30 p.m....
In 2002, Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shannon O'Brien suffered political damage when Russert, moderating a debate between O'Brien and Republican Mitt Romney, asked about her support for lowering the age of consent for abortion from 18 to 16. Russert pointed out that a 16-year-old could not legally get a tattoo in Massachusetts, to which O'Brien quipped: "Would you like to see my tattoo?"
Afterward, one of O'Brien's crestfallen supporters said that a candidate should not "lose a debate to the moderator." Yet candidates and spinmeisters alike often did seem to lose to Russert - a fact that irked some politicians and their supporters, who accused him of being too aggressive. During the current presidential campaign, that accusation was leveled at Russert by supporters of Hillary Clinton, especially after a debate between Clinton and Obama in Cleveland in February."
