Amid Apologias for Russert, Some Voices of Sanity

First, for all of you folks attacking me about laying into Tim Russert, let us not forget that this porcine dickhead had MSNBC cancel appearances scheduled on that channel by Arianna Huffington because the Greek former Newt groupie called him "a conventional wisdom monkey." Russert, not wanting to face up to his culpability in the Republican predations on America, chose instead to forbid the public from seeing discussions of this issue. That isn't someone who loves either journalism, the truth or America. The great patriots at Crooks and Liars brought you the play by play on the controversy and the Huffington Post's Jason Linkins elaborated.

Just as his book about his father is actually a subliminal tribute to himself, Russert takes care of number one and to hell with anybody else. Fuck him.

Tim Russert is an Idiot

Requiem for Pope Russert

Then Linkins took this satirical shot at Russert during Timmeh's final Meet the Press show before he croaked: "Tim Russert is amazed by how well the Obama campaign has used technology like cell phones and the internet. "They held up cell phones at rallies, and sent 'text messages' to each other. These are messages or PURE TEXT. Very TEXTUAL. Extremely MESSAGEFUL. Later, I saw the campaign using this remarkable 'fire' concoction to keep warm, whereas I had to slice open the guts of frostbitten NBC News interns and crawl inside to keep warm."

Rolling back a little further to a debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton moderated by Russert and Warren Beatty wannabe Brian Williams is Worst. Moderators. Ever?

And there was this.

Even further back was this screed on the Buffalo Bamboozler.

Look, the best you can say about Russert was that he was the political journalism equivalent of former FEMA head Mike Brown. He just didn't have the innate tenacity to help defend this country from the collection of time wasters and thieves that are currently running it and was all too content to bring us sheer pablum as reportage because it was the safe thing to do when his bosses are a bunch of fascist wingnuts.

But there is a worse explanation, which I have already laid out and I believe it to be closer to the truth. Too bad if you don't like it.