RIP Tim Russert

[ZetaNine]

LOL..  you do notice that the only people here who get all wet and gushy about how "fair and balanced" he is are the total slavishly liberal here.

zeta.. I don't know if he is a "good American" or not.. any more than you do.. your father serving in WWII does not make you one.   acting like the bad guy in an Ayn Rand novel does not make you one.   going to school does not make you one.   What about him made him a "good American" to you?

I think that you would call the contestants on american idol "good Americans" too based on your value system.

You can't talk about if a person is a good or bad American and then say his politics are off limits.    I fail to see any reason to like the guy.   No matter how many liberals cry over his death.. it doesn't make him more of a good American.   the reptile man carville wept openly over the death.   that should give you a hint.

lazs

noted omissions of several points of key criteria I mentioned, such as family and church nothwithstanding....your logic, assumptions & reasoning process are so flawed & biased here that I don't really know where to start........and frankly.......I don't care to.

to me.. all he is is his politics... what he says...lazs

your above quote tells me everything. I judge a person by their actions....and not their words...that seems to be at the root of our differences in this matter as I see it.

[Nwbie]

I find it interesting that all of the politicians who had been interviewed about Mr. Russert, to tell their experience being interviewed by him...not one of them mentioned being unfairly treated by the liberal bastage....


lol

All of the ones that were interviewed stated that if you weren't prepared to answer any question about any statement that you had made in your career - you were dead meat ... he was equal in his tenacity to all political parties ( laffed my arse off watching some of the replays of Ross Perot interview... Ross had such an ego ) he took it very seriously to be fair with all guests, but let them know well beforehand that he would ask all the questions that people wanted to know --regardless of political affiliation... sure he made some republican politicians squirm...and democrat politicians too... he wasn't biased .... granted he may have had a big city democratic mindset.. especially using his father and his father's buddies to bounce ideas and reactions off of ... but making republican candidates squirm because they got caught in a lie or misstatement doesn't make him a liberal.. it makes him a journalist interviewer....he was doing his job... and a heck of a lot more believeable that most of the other interviewers on TV these days ....

NwBie

 

[lazs2]

zeta..  my neighbor has a wife and kids and goes to church I think.   I don't really know the guy and would not be getting all weepy about what a "good American" he is.   How the hell would I know?   You didn't know russert at all.. He was a talking head with a liberal socialist viewpoint that he kept fairly well hidden.

How this makes him special or any more of a "good American" than you or me or the neighbor down the street that I really don't know..  well... this escapes me.

He was good at his job and hid his political agenda fairly well.   He was too young to die.   His arteries were clogged to the max I heard.

He recomended resteraunts too... I don't think I agreed with his eating style either. 

lazs

[rpm]

Lazs, it's just sad that you choose to push your personal bias in a memorial thread about a good man that has been universally praised by those he interviewed. Too bad you will never get it. You've lost just about any cred you've had.

[LePaul]

Geez Lazs, you ride the line here almost as a full time job.  Somehow the Skuzzmeister just ignores your posts or something.

Slamming a dead guy, wow, that's just brazen of you.  You must be a really tough guy in person.

[Bronk]

Not that laz needs any defending.  If thats his opinion of russert, thats his opinion. It's not  like he's calling the guy a baby killer or anything. He just said the guys a Lib and he most likely was. C'mon they guy worked for Mario Cuomo, don't think many conservatives worked for him.
I'll say this for Russert he showed the least bias than the rest on NBC,CBS or ABC.

[Shuckins]

There are democrats, and then there are Democrats.  Tim Russert once worked for Tip O'Neill, arguably the best and most respected Speaker of the House in the last three decades of the twentieth century.  There's no denying that Russert had liberal leanings, but if he had a particular axe to grind it seldom showed.  When it did, it cut both ways.

[lazs2]

and that is my point.. the guy had liberal leanings but he did a fairly good job of hiding it most of the time.

I am not slamming a dead guy.. I am saying that I am sorry he is dead.   I will be more sorry if they replace him with an even more clever liberal.

At the end of the day tho.. I won't miss his liberal slant on things.. no matter how well he hid it.

There are some really good conservative talking heads out there .. if one dies I don't expect the liberals here to say how much they will miss his barely hidden conservative agenda and talk about how "fair and balanced" he was.

I am the one here seperating the man from his politics..

Sorry to see such a young man die..  I am not sorry to not have to listen to his mostly well hidden liberal politics anymore.

I am being honest when I say that his form of pretense really bothers me.. I would far rather have a know and admitted liberal and a known and admitted libertarian or individualist both be on a panel and do cross interviews than his particular form of dishonesty.   

To say that he was not quite as bad as some of the other phonies is not really getting it for me.

I never knew the man.. he was probly a good guy.

lazs

[ZetaNine]

I never knew the man.. he was probly a good guy.

lazs

I did...and he was.

[lazs2]

If you really did "know" him then... my condolences..  I have lots and lots of people that I interact with... I don't really know very many of em.

lazs