Tim Russert is a shill for GOP!!!

[the_angry_one]

I've watched Tim Russert for years. I used to think this guy was fairer than others but now I'm totally convinced he's a shill for the GOP.

Does anybody have any links to any legitimate record of his bias???

Didn't David Brock mention in his recent book regarding about this?

Anybody has links to this??

[LittleApple81]

1. After wtching him today, I can only call him PotatoHead from now on.n/t

[Sparkly]

2. Watching him now with Pelosi

"What do you think of Al Gore's TONE?"
"Don't you think the president has done anything WELL?"
Blah blah blah

[Cassandra]

5. Did she manage to avoid saying that Bush...

had done anything well? She skipped over it at first but I didn't hear if she bothered to go back to that lame question.

[Sparkly]

14. She just said it's not personal, it's about policy

but said he's a "nice guy" and has religious convictions. That's all.

[LibDemAlways]

21. Anyone who knows the chimp and

who knows the record of his administration could not possibly look into a camera and honestly call him a "nice guy." I'd have way more respect for Pelosi if she'd simply said in response to Timmy the whore's taunt to say something good about the chimp, "I'm sure he loves his mother," and leave it at that.

[SayitAintSo]

10. Russert was prick today with Pelosi

I've been disgusted with his unbalanced demeanor between the dems and pukes. HIS tone is objectionable ... and one more thing . I'M SICK OF HEARING ABOUT BIG RUSS @#!*&%

If his daddy had really taught him anything about values, he obviously missed the boat on fairness

[Jade Fox]

31. The obsession with Gore's tone (or Dean's or whoever's)...

is such bull. Its a way of discrediting what someone say's based on
class, I believe. To be taken seriously you must always behave as
a bland, middle class person no matter how outrageous and
enraging the information you are discussing.

[Eric J in MN]

33. Gore is son of a Senator, but the point is to distract from the message.

Instead of talking about, should Rumsfeld resign, they're talking about Gore's tone.

[Jade Fox]

37. Yeah, I know Gore is upper-class...

What I meant to say was that discrediting anyone, regardless of their
actual class background, based on the tone they use forces everyone
to behave in ways middle-class people feel comfortable with if they
want to be taken seriously. The behavior "rules" are class-dictated.

[Cassandra]

3. Welcome and good morning!

You're just waking up to this? I'm sure someone has some links.

[Blue_Roses]

4. What an effing jerk!

Watching it now and I couldn't believe how he responded to Pelosi not seeing the speech of Gore, ..."you just saw, what do you think of his tone"? What a jerk. Did you see her lean back and smile? She handled it well. I was impressed with her/

[the_angry_one]

9. Russert is more critical about "the tone" of Gore's speech than ...

the 800 dead american soldiers and a lack of WMD.

I still can't believe how he fawns over Rush Limbaugh everytime the fathead is on his show.

[LibDemAlways]

19. I kept waiting for her to say

that she'd need to see the entire speech before she could comment on it. She missed an opportunity to point out the stupidity of running and rerunning a few seconds of a lengthy speech out of context.

[eaprez]

6. Asking Tough Questions

is his job and what we complain about all the time (they just choose not to ask the other side the same questions :) When the right complains about Pelosi's remarks - and they will - they can't say that Tim 'softballed' her. He was tough - she did a good job.

[indigobusiness]

7. He is a bit of a jerk at times... But he usually takes the opposing view

in any intvw.

He claims to take a 'devils advocate' role in his approach.

[doni_georgia]

13. Yeah, he pretty much plays the devil's advocate, which is okay

I don't mind the hard-hitting in interviews as long as he has a liberal on who goes toe-to-toe with him. I'm not watching MTP right now - my kids have comandered the TV.

[the_angry_one]

15. I really used think that but now I don't...

I'm pretty sure David Brock mentioned in his new book about Russert's consistent bias recently.

[mmonk]

8. All the "mainstream" broadcast journalists are

[Eric J in MN]

11. I'ts normal for speakers to raise their voices during part of a

I'ts normal for speakers to raise their voices during part of a long speech.

But when a Republican does it, the media doens't take those 10 seconds out-of-context, play that repeatedly, call him insane, and question his "tone."

[Darth_Kitten]

12. His smarmy grins have been getting on my nerves......

for years. Typical media whore.

[Wind Dancer]

17. Love your picture!!!!!!!!

It's one of the few things that has made me laugh recently.

[devinsgram]

27. Great picture

went back for a second look. Looks like the job one of my cats would pull.

[babzilla]

16. apologist for the timing of the Republican convention

During the round table segment when some were criticizing the timing of the Republican Convention as a ploy to capitalize on 9/11, Lil' Russ just had to chime in that the real reason for the historically late date was to avoid a conflict with the Summer Olympics.

Do you believe everything Rove tells you Lil' Russ.

[depakid]

23. One of the other guests had to remind him

that the convention was also sited in New York to capitalize on 9-11. :grr:

He really is a shill and I'm sorry every single time I turn his show on. He's unwatchable.

[Eric J in MN]

29. Do the Summer Olympics and party conventions always

Do the Summer Olympics and party conventions always occur in the same summer?

[Vickers]

32. Huh, whuh? Are the Olympics in NYC this time?

Man, I need to read the sports section more carefully!

:eyes:

[Neecy]

18. no link, but...

I remember reading of what I think was a BBC documentary about the 2000 election (somebody correct me if I'm wrong on the source) and it had a clip of Russert on the phone with the RNC asking them with some glee if they 'had anything else' on Gore.

Lazy journalism at its worst - calling the RNC for attack points, and then reporting them without context or basic fact-checking. We saw that all throughout the 2000 election from just about everyone.

[leesa]

20. Funny. This is news to you?? He's Cheney's neighbor and has been

a whore for the GOP forever. Why do you think they use him as their mouthpiece all the time. Whenever they get caught in one of their many lies, it's off to Russert's show for some soft-ball salvation.

[tilsammans]

34. Very true . . .

I saw Russert speak last year at a local university, just as the war was starting.

He was sooooo on board with it all, it made me wanna puke.

:puke:

[JHBowden]

22. Russert is hard on everybody.

That's part of his job.

[billbuckhead]

24. The real problem is General Electric

Didn't Claire Shipman and Leslie Banfield get the boot for not towing the company line? Didn't they run Phil Donohue off for the same reason. Timmy's just a streetwalker, GE is the crime boss.

[JHBowden]

26. Alan Keyes and Wiener got the boot too.

For all we know Russert may be a Kerry supporter.

[Eric J in MN]

28. Alan Keyes crticized Bush for his "enemy combatants" assetion

Alan Keyes criticized Bush for saying he can label any one of us an "enemy combatant" and imprison us without charges.

Maybe if he were pro-Bush all the time, he'd still be on MSNBC.

Michael Savage was only on an hour a week, so when a controversial remark upset gay-rights groups, the easiest course was for MSNBC to just drop him.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

35. "Russert may be a Kerry supporter"??? LOL!! Yeah, right.

[Pepperbelly]

30. no, he is not. not anymore. nt

[scrotim]

36. where do you get that? he is NOT. Russ asked few, if any tough

questions leading up to the war.

Nor did he press the republicans aggressively when they stole the 2000 election.

Nor has he been aggressive in pursuing the many inconsistencies and bizarre failures associated with 9/11.

and had he applied appropriate pressure in his interview with the Shrub, W would have collapsed. Russy thinks he is helping to save the nation by shilling for the bush administration post 9/11.

Perhaps russy is a whore for Tim only, and does/says whatever he feels at the moment is best for his illlustrious MTP legacy...don't forget he counts himself a peer of Edward R. Murrow and other greats.

and yes, russy's whorefest tv appearances to promote his book about his daddy are nauseating. who cares? The taped pieces with him and his dad look like something off of Saturday Night Live.

I think many D.C. journalists are nerds' nerds, completely out of touch with their journalistic training (if any) and foundation; completely caught up in their Beltway lives. Gag.

[goclark]

25. Sick of Tim,his dad,his slime and his book

This man is AVERAGE at best. He will never, IMO, go down in history as a journalist of note.

He is a plant for the Thugs. Yes he will ask tough questions of all his guest. Yes, he did a good job with Colin and the tree incident.

But he is no Walter Cronkite!

[Beaker]

38. well...D'UH!

you just noticed that today?