In retrospect, Baby Russert's assertion is a metaphor for all that's wrong with the MSM

if not the USA...

As many of you know, Timmy's boy, Luke (as in Skywalker) made the pronouncement the other day that Congressman Weiner did not possess the "skill set" for work outside in the real world of America.

Now this "hanging curve ball over the plate" can soar farther than Mickey Mantle's legendary 565 foot home run all those years ago, but just for fun think about the implications...

"Baby Russert" appeared on the air shortly after his father's unexpected demise and at first, it was rather painful to watch this inappropriately-promoted, under-educated (but did you know that chuck Todd never finished college?), politically-illiterate child 'reporting' the news from the halls of Congress, and I for one assumed that this small tribute to all the money that his father 'raised' for NBC and thus GE, was temporary.

But no: the puppet-masters decided that he was a valuable tool for the network and so we are 'graced' with his presence daily, clearly being fed stories to pump up his resume, and lauded by his own people, as though they were objectively critiquing him. So not only is he a direct descendant of tim's father, known throughout the civilized world as one of the greatest of his generation :sarcasm:, but also the seed of Timmeh himself, whose credentials included being a Buffalo sports fan, and lying down for Dick Cheney at every opportunity. So of course, the apple didn't fall far from the tree - an expression which Lucky-sperm-club-member Luke uses routinely, along with many other verbal cliches, and he proffered an OPINION the other day as to the wherewithal of Representative Weiner who had the temerity (my word, not his) to actually lie to HIM PERSONALLY! --Gasp-- Of all the lies Weiner told, the ones told to Russert the Lesser were the worst because no one dares to lie to a Russert. Joe Scarborough mentioned that Weiner lied to Junior at least twice the morning after the Weiner mea culpa, shaking his head in disbelief. (Mika assented of course.)

So of course, insulted beyond belief, Tiny Russert decided that Weiner is forever unemployable. My questions to Junior are:

1. If your name were not "Russert", do you think you would have been promoted to the assistant manager's job at Staples yet?

2. How many years do you think it should take for a correspondent to earn his or her credentials in order to cover the inner aspects of the Beltway? You can pick any number, but we want to know if you mean days, weeks, months, or years.

3. What is your "skill set" should the owners of MSNBC, the Comcast Corporation, decide to change the format of the network and make it, say, an oldies channel for old NBC programming? Do you think that CNN or FOX would be interested in you and why?

Please answer in words of one or two syllables in keeping with your reportage and your typical elocution's "skill set".

Still stuck behind a cash register, little hope of advancement. Better luck at McDonald's, Baby Russert.

and are deemed by the RW "lucky" to have those jobs, since according to THEM, the Dems ruined the economy. they are presently attempting to convince people not to go to college so that they can have an under-educated populus. College is the 'breeding-ground' for intellectual thought and thought processes...not good for the RW. Wouldn't you agree?

out of it.

I'm torn between Tiny Russert and Russert the Lesser. :thumbsup:

And I did know that Chuckie Toad is a college drop out. I'm glad you brought it up, though, because that fact needs more exposure.

Rec'd.

which is not the case.

Just refer to him by his title: Earl of Nepotism.

Oh, I LOVE that ...
:toast:

Democrat party, Democrat agenda, Democrat weiner picture.:rofl:

Rec

from you, a great honor.

:hi:

I love dentists - my maternal grandpa was a lefty dentist. They always have such great stories and those I know love books. :fistbump:

and not just politically...

whe I was teaching all those years ago, we had the old-fashioned Ritter units in the school's clinic, and had to move them about 18" to accomodate a lefty. We couldn't move the chair even though three of us were trying to rock it and break the wax seal on the floor and of course it weighed a ton. We had as a student a pro football player, played with the Bills and the 49ers, who stopped what he was doing, came over, said "What are you guys trying to do?" When we told him, he just bent down, picked up the chair like it weighed 15 pounds and moved it. Put it down, washed his hands, and went back to his patient.

Frightening...and amazing.

LOL :D

Could NBC be thinking 'hey, we can build our own newsman from raw clay here. We've got a dopey kid with a pedigree who'll say whatever we tell him to, unlike his old man and some of these other guys who worked their ways up and suffer occasional, inconvenient bouts of journalistic ethics."

we know that it happens ALL TOO OFTEN - just look at the sweetheart deals the Bush daughter, McCain's daughter, et. al. get. Look at the nepotism in politics....

This is blatant....

Why is the press so pissed off about lieing all of a sudden....How many lies did they overlook when we got into Iraq?

has the nerve to comment on others' "skill sets?"

He is one reason I cannot STAND to watch tv news - this little twit commenting like he should be there - uh, no. How many far more qualified people were passed over so that little Russert could make big bucks? what an entitled little fucker.

what was George W.'s skill set - he bankrupted a business and was bailed out by Bahrain before he bankrupted the U.S.? He was the son of a daddy under whose watch the U.S. experienced the S&L crisis - and whose other son, Neil, was never held accountable for his actions in that mess? The crisis in which McCain defended Keating - the crisis in which taxpayers were left holding the bill for the moneyed?

good soldiers are seething that russert just got to jump ahead in line like that just out of college. someone like that better watch out. they are likely to make a lot of enemies.

hoping to work their way up to the level he got, I believe, out of sympathy after his father died.

when he first began appearing as a reporter,commentator or whatever they call him..

It's not nice he's dead, but it happens to everybody.

not have reminded us of that. And this made me laugh:



I wonder how many lies Scarborough told about how the body of a woman came to be in his office? Even a dead body hasn't kept him off the air.

I don't know what he has been saying about Weiner, but I hope he is keeping his opinions to himself. That's the problem for all these Republican hypocrites, AFTER they get caught, they have to be very careful about attacking others, even if they still believe that their escapades are okay because they are Republicans. They know we will remind them that they are not.

His dad honored the conventional wisdom, never failed to frame an issue around conservative talking points and relentlessly marginalized everything else.

As long as Luke sticks with the formula he's golden baby.

Position noted...thank you for your concern.

Inquiring minds need to know.

lol.

Thanks!
Love your threads lately - you're on a roll!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1270457&mesg_id=1270457


thanks for the compliment...

bummer. I totally believe whoever posted it, just wish I could find the words right from the ass's mouth..

No doubt responsible for much of what is screwed up about the U.S. and elsewhere.

What to do...?

I'd love to know what the boy's "skill set" is and if he has credentials to back that up other than his heritage. And, while we're at it, what are F--ky Todd's qualifications for sitting in the anchor's chair at M$NBC?

Baby Russerts are picked before their prime, high in starch but low in protein.
Good source of vitamins

Really? Guy essentially was absent to his family via two jobs and a, normal for the time social life, and totally ignored his wife. Throughout his book, Big Russ and Me, his Mom is mentioned, like once, when he relates in passing that they were divorced.

read this which I posted in 2008:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1282567

no longer loved his last name. fries/russet

When I first saw Luke standing in front of the Capital with a microphone, I couldn't believe it. It was nice to give Tim's son a job, but it seems like most "kids" start as gophers to people who know what they're doing.

One time I heard Luke say "that being said" three times in ONE sentence. What a disaster!