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geefloyd46

(1,939 posts) Thu May 24, 2012, 09:41 PM May 2012

Luke Russert, nepotist prince - The Hack List - Salon.com

"Tim Russert was not the unalloyed saint of tough journalism that his celebrators describe in posthumous tributes, but he was at least a classic American success story, of the sort that we still enjoy pretending is common: Blue-collar kid from Rust Belt town becomes enormously successful thanks largely to brains and hard work. The story of Luke Russert, alas, is a much more common one in American life: No-account kid of successful person has more success thrust upon him.

Pretty much immediately upon the death of his father, Luke Russert inexplicably had a full-time broadcasting job, supplanting his part-time broadcasting job co-hosting a satellite radio sports talk show with James Carville. (That was a real thing that actually existed. Can you imagine a human who would want to listen to that?)"

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Luke Russert, nepotist prince - The Hack List - Salon.com (Original Post) geefloyd46 May 2012 OP

Chelsea Clinton belongs here too roguevalley May 2012 #1

Ha! That's a laugh. Chelsea is one smart person, I'd say she leaves both her folks in Bluenorthwest May 2012 #3

so her smartness makes her able to take a job she isn't roguevalley May 2012 #7

i lost any respect for msnbc la la May 2012 #2

"children of 'famous' parents..." 4_TN_TITANS May 2012 #5

Oh please, on the long list of injustices in... edcantor May 2012 #4

I obviously disagree geefloyd46 May 2012 #6

Or maybe when Luke starts having babies geefloyd46 May 2012 #8

AND Tim Russert was a whore for George W. Bush BigDemVoter May 2012 #9

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)

1. Chelsea Clinton belongs here too

Reply to geefloyd46 (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2012, 11:57 PM

May 2012

shocking isn't it. I would be too embarrassed to do this myself

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

3. Ha! That's a laugh. Chelsea is one smart person, I'd say she leaves both her folks in

Reply to roguevalley (Reply #1)

Fri May 25, 2012, 08:42 AM

May 2012

the dust in terms of sheer brain power, her memory is fairly amazing, she's wonky as all hell, holds two Master's Degrees and is working on her doctoral from Oxford. Luke has a BA in communications from Boston College. The comparison is specious.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)

7. so her smartness makes her able to take a job she isn't

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #3)

Sat May 26, 2012, 12:10 AM

May 2012

qualified for over better qualified people? She is a broker type. She got the job because of her parents. That makes her the equal of Luke because he got his job because of his dad. Smart isn't the comparison. Getting jobs because of your name is. Specious? Nope.

la la

(1,855 posts)

2. i lost any respect for msnbc

Reply to geefloyd46 (Original post)

Fri May 25, 2012, 12:03 AM

May 2012

when luke russert was 'hired'....he belongs with mika Brzezinski in the wanna be journalist department of children of 'famous' parents...

4_TN_TITANS

(2,977 posts)

5. "children of 'famous' parents..."

Reply to la la (Reply #2)

Fri May 25, 2012, 01:44 PM

May 2012

Anderson Cooper, maybe?

edcantor

(325 posts)

4. Oh please, on the long list of injustices in...

Reply to geefloyd46 (Original post)

Fri May 25, 2012, 09:06 AM

May 2012

the world of media newscasting, Luke Russert's arrival at MSNBC isn't one of them for me, sorry.

This just doesn't bother me that much, not one bit.

It does bother me that someone thought this two paragraph article in Salon.com was a "good read"!

geefloyd46

(1,939 posts)

6. I obviously disagree

Reply to edcantor (Reply #4)

Fri May 25, 2012, 06:06 PM

May 2012

It's amazing that we can't get news when we have reporters that inherit their positions like they're in a monarchy. Pretty hard to ask the tough questions when they were all your dad's buddies. You got Tim Russert's boy, who father was right down in the middle of Scooter Libby swamp but why not just reward his son. He probably was the greatest student coming out of journalism school. It's just a way for the networks to say we don't take the news seriously and neither should you.

geefloyd46

(1,939 posts)

8. Or maybe when Luke starts having babies

Reply to edcantor (Reply #4)

Sat May 26, 2012, 08:45 AM

May 2012

Why don't they just give the baby a microphone and let him crawl around in front of politicians at the Democratic convention of 2016 or 2020. After all everyone loves cute baby pictures.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)

9. AND Tim Russert was a whore for George W. Bush

Reply to geefloyd46 (Original post)

Sat May 26, 2012, 01:12 PM

May 2012

MANY accounts of him wearing a Bush button during the 2000 (or was it 2004?) elections.

D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G

And son Luke is a worthless piece of shit with no journalistic ability or integrity--

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