Showing posts with label Tim Russert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Russert. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2008

The Canonization of St. Tim


Alexander Cockburn, The Nation, reports:
"The delirium in the press at Tim Russert's passing has been strange. As a broadcaster he was not much better than average, which is saying very little. He could be a sharp questioner, but not when it really counted and when courage was required. He was tough with George Bush in a February 2004 interview. He taxed him with faking the reasons to attack Iraq. But in the years before the 2003 attack, I used to hear Russert being merciless to those questioning whether Saddam Hussein had the nukes and bioweapons alleged by the Bush Administration and its co-conspirators in the press, prominent among them Russert himself...."

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Photo credit: Tim Russert. www.centre.edu


Thursday, February 08, 2007

Libby Trial: Update

JustOneMinute: What Is Russert's Game (And Is Fitzgerald Helping Him Play It?)
"Tim Russert's testimony, as elicited by the defense, painted a picture of a pundit with a puzzling problem. Arianna HuffingtonArianna Huffington has a great collection of links and a quick summary of Russert's baffling testimony and Jane Hamsher offered some helpful hints as well [and let's include Swopa's liveblogging 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].

Let me point out a few dots that the defense has introduced and make some predictions about how they will attempt to connect them. In one sentence, the defense insinuation will be that Russert cooperated with the FBI investigation and committed a firing offense by keeping that from his NBC overlords; he also misled the FBI and the grand jury about his talk with Libby in order to minimize his own role in this case...."