Someone take the crack pipe away from Tim Russert!

[Amy6627]

I can't find the exact quote, but this is what I heard him say this morning on The Today Show:

The President's rating is at an all time low. Before "Katrina" most Americans thought Bush was a very good leader, but now that is changing.

OMG!!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. He has been a paid media whore for a long time. Guess he is not

going to change his stripes so fast.

[QC]

11. One does not surrender one's whoredom all at once.

Baby steps, baby steps....

[marmar]

2. No shit...

He must be puffing some of that Amsterdam skunk. His ratings were already in the toilet, Katrina just pulled the lever.

[maxsolomon]

14. i resent that insinuation

NO ONE who is "puffing Amsterdam skunk" thinks * is doing a good job.

it tends to have the OPPOSITE effect.

[marmar]

16. Good point

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em

[blm]

3. No Tim...you kept TELLING the public Bush was a great leader.

You and your fellow media whores complicit in the biggest coverups in journalistic history.

[wtmusic]

8. exactly

:thumbsup:

[skypilot]

4. Did the person he was talking to...

...bother to remind him of Bush's low pre-Katrina poll numbers or were they busy puffing on the pipe as well?

[Amy6627]

6. He was talking to Katie Curic-- 'nough said!

[sui generis]

5. I used to think

that the neocons were just blackmailing him with pictures of him fucking dead baby ducks or his hemorrhoids were acting up a lot, but then I realized some time ago it's purely voluntary.

He doesn't really believe that crap - he's just playing his part in the media and backspinning the days when his own lips weren't just on a crackpipe but on the president's rectum.

[jsamuel]

7. News Flash to Russert (and DU): Katrina didn't move Bush's polls a bit!

CNN/USA Today/Gallup 8/22 - 8/25 40% 56% -16%

Rasmussen 8/19 - 8/21 48% 51% -3%

ARG 8/18 - 8/21 36% 58% -22%

SurveyUSA 8/12 - 8/14 41% 55% -14%

Harris** 8/9 - 8/16 40% 58% -18%


It was Cindy, Iraq and Gas, Stupid!

[cwydro]

9. OMG!

is right. Geez, and I used to think he was a halfway decent talking head/journalist(?). Yikes! My bad.

[Lindsay]

10. Life is just one darned learning experience after another,

cwydro. ;)

Welcome to DU.

[cwydro]

12. hey thanks!

tried to thank others who welcomed me on other threads, but the thread was locked(?). What forum should I go to for hints on navigating this place?

[returnable]

13. Cut him some slack. I think Timbo just misspoke.

By "most Americans", I'm sure Potatohead meant to say "most of the media elite" :)

[stopbush]

15. The fact that the MSM is obsessing about *'s poll #s

and whether or not he can get them back "up" (to 50%? 50% is "up?") proves that all the MSM cares about is making sure *'s poll numbers are good. It's as clear as the fact that * is a disaster.

Did the MSM obsess about the poll #s for Reagan, Poppy or Bill? Not like this they didn't.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. I saw him this morning and it looked like he was on the verge of tears

over this. GE cracks the whip and he jumps.