So, Russert, you whore, why didn't you follow your father's example?

Just heard you on CNN with Wolf extolling the principles of your dad: Hard work. Patriotism. Truth. Justice. Freedom. Democracy. Sacrifice.

How touching.

My question to you is the same one I've been asking all along: So why did you sell out on those principles? Because of the almighty buck, that's why. Because you promised Jack Welch you would toe the Repuke line for your job. Hell, you even admitted that would be your motivation a while back. An opportunity of a lifetime. The hell with integrity. Who the hell are you to lecture about integrity? I know more than a few laid off professionals who have more integrity in their little finger than you will ever have in your whole being.

Admit it. You have failed your father, you have failed your nation. It was because of so-called "journalists" like yourself that Bush was put in a position to steal it from Gore. And we have never heard a peep from you about that. Look where you and your ilk have brought this nation.

Sure, you, like many others, are now starting to criticize BushCo. You and your masters see the way the wing is blowing, away from Bush. So you are changing your tune. How about a mea culpa to expiate your sins? Is that coming next? If so, maybe then we will reconsider calling you a media whore.

But the damage is done. Live with it. You have a bank account. You may even have had a soul once, I'm sure. But you lost it when you took that job on MTP. How do you buy it back? You can't. Who cares if you were a Democrat growing up? What have you done for your nation lately?

Think of your heroes. Edward R. Murrow. Cronkite. They are remembered fondly. You and your cohorts on FOX and CNN and NBC will go to your graves knowing that you set this country back 30 years when you promoted the Bush/Rove flag-waving propaganda from the stolen election to 9/11 to Iraq to the Plame outing to TortureGate.

Hope your book is a success. I'm sure it will be purchased by the same idiots who listen to Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity and Coulter. If success is defined as making money, the book will be a success. If success is defined as living by the principles of your dad, you have been a miserable failure.

TIA

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Nice one, TIA :thumbsup:

Yesterday he told Larry KING he was going to buy his da any car, Lexus, Mercedes----and the old man chose a plain black Crown Victoria. G.E.RUSSERT, still "learning" from Da, said, "That's a cop car! Why not a Lexus?" And his Da said it was because we beat those dang enemies. G.E. went on, "Why not a Cadillac?" Something about the neighbors.

G.E. has run a top notch p.r. campaign for himself, casting himself as the ultimate blue collar dude, while all he has done for at least the past ten years has been to brownnose old, rich, powerful, White males. He would have honored Big Russ by fighting them instead. I guess Big Russ's pride in G.E.RUSSERT means Big Russ likes the money, too. Go-Bills.

i'm thrilled to see the bush misadministration humiliated again this week, but let's keep in mind that timmy russert is merely changing boats in midstream, now that it's clear the u.s.s. bushtanic is going down.

this was a taped interview. taped interviews are regularly edited of emberrassing, unplanned events, or merely for smoothness and continuity.

how many russert brain-farts (or actual farts) are edited out of his interviews on a regular basis?

the fact that russert made a point of leaving this little fracas in the broadcast is merely a sign that he is abandoning ship now that Iraq is a disaster, and he's decided to play "serious journalist" until, once again, it is no longer convenient or cuts into his popularity on the D.C. cocktail party circuit.

I was particularly amused by timmy's placement on his face of the "dubious, tough journalist" mask he wears when it suits his sense of drama. excuse me, where was that stupid mask when our army was rolling across Iraq and there was NO credible independent evidence to support bush's reasoning for the invasion?

the mask was on a hook in tim's dressing room, next to the tub of #5 foundation and tubes of whore's red rouge.

russert is what's wrong with u.s. journalism.

TIA

please tell me that you emailed that! here's my last email to tiny tim russert...

r. Russert,

I admire journalists first among all professions. In my first book, I chose a journalist as the protagonist. It is a noble, relentless, often dangerous, and overlooked art.

That is why it sometimes pains me to watch Meet The Press. Mr. Russert, propaganda is not only what we are told that is not true, it is also what we not told that is true.

The smears against Mr. Clarke are untrue. Yes, you are correct to cover them anyway, but the time you devote to covering them is part of your art. You spent far too long on that today. Still, that would have been acceptable, but what you did not devote time to is the larger issue.

The fact the War in Iraq does not equal the War on Terror and that it has undermined the War on Terror is fact. You devoted 3 minutes to that and, as I am sure you remember, you moved Mr. Clarke along at one point. The points Mr. Clarke made are terrifying, Mr. Russert, and although they are obvious to so many of us in the citizenry, these are the points you do not choose to cover. These were also the points Mr. Clarke expressly wished to cover today.

I hope, Mr. Russert, that you someday share the urgency regarding the truth about 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq that so many of your fellow citizens experience.

We knew the war was based on lies before it happened. You and the press largely covered that up. You let The Bush Administration trick Americans into linking Iraq and 9/11, you let people like Judith Miller make easily disproven myths about WMD into fact, and you helped turn the American press into an international laughingstock. You helped start this war. You will carry that failure for the rest of your life. It will, I am afraid, be a heavy weight for you, Mr. Russert.

We are now in enormous trouble as a country and a species. You simply must do much better, starting now. This may seem like a game in DC and I'm sure a lot of it is a game, but on some levels it is not a game. This is one of those levels, Mr. Russert.

Are you not afraid yet?

Once again, my deepest respect and thanks for the excellent work you do some of the time. I can't imagine the behind the scenes and classified nature of the work you do. Some of this may be beyond your control. But we need you to do better, now.

Sincerely,
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If you'd like to see what some of us know about The Bush Administration and the press, please spend a moment at either of these sites. Have you heard of PNAC, Mr. Russert? Perhaps you could devote a show to them someday soon...

www.buzzflash.com
www.newamericancentury.org