Pundit Pap Strikes Russert, Again and Again

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And that was it -- "If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press" -- and the guarantee of a very bad aftertaste. The main reason is, of course, Mr. Russert. He should, as we've been saying for years, at the very least be terminated from his position as "immoderator" of Meet the Press. One need only read the transcripts of his years-long attacks on Bill, Hillary, and even Chelsea Clinton to see this.

And don't let the phony-baloney "ambush" tactics of Russert fool you: the man is intellectually and morally bankrupt and -- as Wilson's incisive and unrelenting comebacks proved in particular -- unprepared. Viewers with any critical acuity know this -- know that Russert may be not only the most overrated "newsman" but the biggest phony among the incestuous circle-jerk that calls itself the Washington press corps. Meet the Press -- once a great news program in public affairs -- has been reduced, on Russert's watch, to a circus, to a sexual witch hunt, to a platform to launch ad-hominem attacks on anyone who will not kowtow to the Republican party line, and a once-probing program of political punditry and serious inquiry that approaches and at times surpasses the shallowness of the FOX "News" Channel.

Russert, who has become nothing but a General Electric Corporation whore, not a journalist -- not even close -- should be ashamed.

I turned him off and ran to CBS, CNN, CBC, and ABC.

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