I agree. I'm really in shock. Tim always held his guests feet to the fire by their own words. I loved it when he'd play someone's own words and then ask them to explain what they said, and why we should believe something different than what's on tape. No media spin, no I heard you said, etc. He will REALLY be missed in this election cycle. America is a poorer place with his passing.

Personally, I'm grateful that even those who have railed about Russert's shortcomings (I've been there, too) on this occasion are also able to give him the credit he deserves.

On top of that, 58. I promise you I'm not the only one here who sees THAT relatively low number and is rocked a bit.

Just a damned shame.

I'm totally shocked.
RIP Tim Russert, thanks for the good times and the bad times.
I liked you, you were the real deal.

A true journalism till the end. He will be greatly missed. Sunday will never, ever be the same.

Good for him to do that, dispell obvious lies to someones face, doesn't get better.

Well, Russert, at the top of MSNBC as Washington Bureau Chief, was definitely not cooperating with the r-wing Cheney/Busch smear machine.

I just posted some audio of an interview he did this morning on the same topic he discussed on his posting.
http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index...?showtopic=2650

rocked aint the word for it

wanna know if he had coronary calcification done or not...this is getting ridiculous...

OMG I hope they won't let McCain get away with this. CNN just reported that the old fart canceled all campaign events and returned to DC to grief Tim Russert's dead

Looks like this may have been his last entry, just posted before noon, on Russert on Politics.

same here.

this kind of stuff really got me going:

During this week's Democratic presidential debate, Russert didn't ask a single question about global warming, continuing his longstanding habit of all but ignoring the topic. He didn't ask a single question about the mortgage crisis. (As one Cleveland resident noted, "We've got the mortgage industry's toxic waste scattered all over this city, but Mr. Blue-Collar-Buffalo-and-Cleveland-Marshall-Guy Russert couldn't be bothered with a question about it.") He didn't ask a single question about executive power, the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, or other civil-liberties concerns. But that shouldn't come as a surprise; of all the questions he has asked while moderating presidential debates during this campaign, only one has dealt with any of those topics.

He has, however, asked Dennis Kucinich what he felt compelled to insist was a "serious question" -- whether Kucinich has seen a UFO. And he has asked about John Edwards' expensive haircut.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802290020

I think he realized during Plamegate that they were going to try to use him as a tool, and he wasn't buying it. In fact I think he was pissed at them for even thinking that.

R.I.P Tim. I often didn't see it the way you wanted but that's water under the bridge. God Bless your soul.

Catballou--Yep, I remember that, he did drop the ball now and then, but he did catch it a lot too. I guess we armchair QB's are just that, armchair QB's.

What did the Bush administration slip into Russert's water?

This makes me even sadder. He was so on the warpath - fighting the viral stuff on internet.

Russert:


Biden will once again cream (close that door, will ya?) Lindsey, IF they play that show as planned. I highly doubt it NOW.

I wonder what story he was working on when he collapsed? I hope that he will be on for Sunday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25145431/

May he rest in peace.

Why does everything in this board , any event have to be somehow linked to Barack Hussein Obama? Seriously

He was reporting on, among other things, this site of Obama on dealing with the right wing smears.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

I wonder if they will report this on Sunday? I hope so!

His middle name 's Hussein!!!!!!!!!


Shit now I can't vote for him

I got a little news flash for you. This board is comprised mostly of progressives who vote Democratic. What does this mean? Most of the people on here will vote for Barack Obama.

I can't call you a Republican because it's against the rules but it's mostly Republicans who refer to him by including his middle name

I suppose that the random ordered universe or the orderly random universe has struck again on another Friday 13th. Although, I bet some will say Russert should have been watching his diet or taken more time off the air to rest. It is a stressful time in America and throughout the world is it not ? We can't all be as blessed as POTUS to take as much leisure time as we like sightseeing around the world in a time of two limited incursions, a failing economy through gasolene prices and a continuing subprime meltdown leading to record foreclosures. It's good to be the King ain't it ?

It's ashame Russert ended his professional career in the days when "gotcha" moments are all the rage of political coverage. I will remember him through his moderation of a presidential debate only to be satirized (and maybe santitized) by SNL. Generally, since the neocons considered dissenters as traitors and fair game real journalism went downhill in my book. And all important ratings with a threat of law suits for being professional sort of took alot of quality out of Russert's craft to me. All the while the King's censors were finely in tune with the media picking out those who were not sticking to the story.

Lightning strikes are a funny thing. You or I don't think about it too much unless you happen to be a middle aged male golfer frequenting golf courses in Florida. The most likely place to be killed by a lightning strike is on a golf course so the highest incidence of death by lightning strike is among middle aged male golfers, imagine that. Otherwise, lightning strikes are pretty random but not in an orderly random universe or a randomly ordered universe. Globally scientists now track lightning strikes in realtime each day. I bet after one hundred years or so of data collected on an hourly basis of lightning strikes, science may be able to predict exact locations of a lightning strike. It don't matter to me cause I don't golf.

God Bless lil Timmy, I hope St. Peter don't have any gotcha moments in store for him at the Pearley Gates.

I would have posted Russert's Hillary comments except that they didn't happen.

http://www.fightthesmears.com

Maybe there's a chance you're just over-sensitive about Obama - and seeing as you used his middle name in a petty manner, I think that's probably the case. (And I'm sure you'll backpedal and insist you had no ulterior motive, no game-playing here, you're just concerned about the issues...)

Well, in this instance, anyway, it would appear because it was the last subject Russert was addressing in public before he died.

I will work on to become more and more unbiased. I don't want to take sides in politics in the future. My dream job will be to be the next Eugine Robinson: A Washington Post columnist and MSNBC political analyst.

You have a long way to go. I think your talents would be best used at FOX "News" Channel...oh, except that you're their enemy because you're allegedly gay.

I admit that I am biased but, having walked on the other side of the aisle for many years, that bias has become much more tempered.

Chuck Todd on Tim Russert

Watching that clip and hearing Chuck Todd talk about how sad this happened right before father's day made me choke up a little.

It's practically a dead give away.
Almost as telling as when an alleged Democrat refers to his party as the "Democrat Party" and wonders why no one believes them.

You know what...That guy's not gay, He's not a Liberal/Progressive, and he was never voting for anyone but McCain. Don't be fooled.

And who talk about the "Democrat" party...

lol

Spex....

That's his name. I didn't name him Hussein but blame me for that too.

You'll see me sitting right across from Rachel Maddow, between David Gregory and Pat Buchanan.

Tim Russert was an unusual journalist, one who could be seen as a frustratingly compliant stooge of the corporatists and corrupt Bush administration, then suprisingly have a moment of clear and cogent statement of problem with the same.

When he was the prime witness in the Libby-Plame leak cause he was sweating bullets.

Perhaps with Scott McClellan's book out the idea that some who know things might recover their conscience and become "inconvenient" may be why another "sudden heart attack" has taken someone close to things.

If you were a member of such a group, I would not think it too much a tinfoil hat thought to be concerned about being found dead in a hotel room - an apparent suiside, or crash in a small airplane, or die suddenly of "natural causes."

If you can't shut them up with a pardon or a plum job, take them out.

I hope we also get to see an EMT pulling Rachel's foot out of your ass.

I just went to Fark.com and he had described like this--

Tim Russert signs off for the last time

Man, I almost laughed, then I thought Tim would laugh, so I laughed.

I have to agree...LOL Sounds so funny LOL I can only imagine

I like this kind of thinking.

This is how reality works.

Russert is tied to Plamegate...and McClellan is talking.

I saw CHENEY'S MAFIA CRIME FAMILY whack people out...before they became possible future witnesses.


Poisen to induce a heart attack....can be done with carari...and other ways.


Brit Hume's son....was working on a story about capital corruption, and...as he met a witness somehow his car went out of control...and ran into a tree.


Carnaby got whacked in Houston...and the videot on youtube makes it look like a street execution by HoustonPD.


I think Snotty Scotty...is on the hit parade....but with House Jud Comm subpoenaing him, YOU CANNOT WHACK HIM OUT NOW...right?


Ghigliotti was a FLIR video specialist who said he had evidence that three FBI agents perjured themselves in the Waco Hearings. Ghigliotti ended up dying of a heart attack....seven days after his call to his friend. The wiretapping is done with computers now....showing illegal surveillance leading to the murderers.

That's something...fBI knows about...and keeps from the people who gave them their faith, money, and trust.


We have been stabbed in the back...........by the right wing GOP scum..........many of whom, have badges or uniforms.

Foul play has not been ruled out. They've backed off of the "heart attack" claims, and an autopsy will be performed.

Little shit Scooter Libby lied and tried to get Tim involved in the Valerie Plame outing. I will never forget Tim getting out of the car with a broken leg and walking into that fed court to expose his lies and coverups.

Just got home and heard the sad news. What a terrible loss for his family and friends, for NBC and for America - I had great respect for Tim Russert. Keith Olbermann's eyes look like he has been crying, I bet he has taken it pretty hard. Tim Russert was one of those people that even if you didn't know him personally, you liked and respected him immediately when seeing him on TV. Condolences.

Thanks for this link, GFink

Tim Russert....
What can be said ... Tim was a unique and highly respected journalist. He was NEVER afraid to ask and demand answers for tough questions (albeit tactfully and with grace). He would always call people on what they had said previously, especially politicians (on every side). Oh how he will be missed.

WHO WILL STEP INTO THAT POSITION? Nobody will ever replace him (in any aspect) but who will ask and demand answers for us in the future? Keith Olberman? David Gregory? What a void ...a void in all our lives.

This is a VERY SAD day for us all !!! An Irish Catholic, South Buffalo born and raised, accomplished journalist, WONDERFUL Husband, Father, Friend and Co-Worker. Canisius College educated. I too was born and raised in South Buffalo, NY. We are all soooooo very saddened by Tim's passing. We can only hope that he left us quickly and did not suffer in his last moments. Our thoughts and prayers are with Tim and his friends and family.

In Time of Sorrow...

May you see God's light on the path ahead
When the road you walk is dark.
May you always hear,
Even in your hour of sorrow,
The gentle singing of the lark.
When times are hard may hardness
Never turn your heart to stone,
May you always remember
when the shadows fall—
You do not walk alone.

BO BILLS !!!

Mr Russert's passing is the true meaning of the good often die young. Not just the political world but the world in general lost one of the few remaining good-hearted, honest, dignified, intelligent and compassionate men of our time.

In a word, shocking.

Dan Rather, newsman:
"Tim's passing is a loss not only to his family and many friends, it is a loss to good journalism and to our country.
Tim, first and foremost, was devout in his faith and deeply devoted to his family. He loved his country with a passion and became a classic example of the ideal American journalist.

Tim had become an important part of our political process. He will be especially missed in this historic presidential election year.

Tim Russert was a beacon of quality journalism

At a time when quality journalism is in increasingly short supply, Tim Russert was a leader for what is best in American journalism. He was tough but fair, pulled no punches, played no favorites.

As an interviewer, he had few, if any, peers."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25148584/

so true

May He Rest In Peace, but truthfully I didn't care for the guy, he seemed so one-sided to me!

Amen Mr. Rather

You really believe that washes?

Come now...fess up. How many times have you said John Sidney McCain?

Zero? Yeah, I know. I rest my case.