If Tim Russert was Still Living

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[publius321]

Do you feel safe from tyrannical regimes of the middle-east who wish to take away your freedom now that we have tyrannical Ayatollah Obama to protect us from them.  Treachery against the citizens of the United States of America and the abrogation of our constitutional rights is so much more palatable when done by one so charming.  It makes all the difference.

As I wrote years ago, I was against the "Patriot Act" because the inevitable abuses being foreshadowed should have been OBVIOUS to anyone who understands the propensities of human beings and centralized government.  The very name itself, the fact that they had to call it "The Patriot Act" was a dead give away that the authors knew damned well they had to deceive in order to sell it.  It screams WARNING.

Oddly, when Bush was pushing this disaster on us, I recall all of the outraged Democrats crying “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” (Benjamin Franklin).  Suddenly, for the first (and last) time, they were quoting the founding fathers of this country with an agenda other than the complete distortion of American history.  They were so passionate then about right to privacy.  Where are they now?  This just proves once again that the only so-called "liberties" that matter to them, the only liberties that matter to Andrea Mitchell, Barbara Walters, David Gregory, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews and the rest of the Obama pawns at NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CBS are - killing babies and gay sex.  Give them those two activities and they will do whatever government demands of them.

The sad thing is that these people never wanted to be anything more than famous.  They want to be admired and will stoop to any low to achieve the hollow adulation of the politically aloof.  Indoctrinated their entire lives, they have no concept of what journalism is.  They are and they have no concept of the disgrace with which posterity will rightly esteem them because of their cowardice and selfishness.

I can think of only one possible exception to this contumely and he is dead.  The one left-wing journalist who probably wouldn't be prostituting himself like a cheap Obama hooker would be the late Tim Russert.  There is obviously no way to ascertain that but Russert seemed to be a rare liberal who wanted to get to truth despite having an askew interpretation of human nature.  Unlike the litany of imposters I previously enumerated, I do not believe that Russert would have been willing to outright lie and conceal evidence about the Obama regime's deliberate sabotage, subterfuge and probable treason.  I wish Russert was still hosting Meet the Press because there would be at least a chance of these assaults being reported in the general media.    

As I articulated a couple of weeks ago in the video below, my faith in America is unshaken; however, my faith in Americans is near terminal.  What is left to be done?  Have a listen.

(Video below column at TableOfWisdom.com)

[krunkygirl]

i can’t point to a particular MTP program,
but many x’s Mr. Russert displayed his left wing tendencies/hypocrisies.

it annoys me when i see him held up as
some example of excellent journalism...

[InvisibleChurch]

His name was ‘Tim’, not ‘Time’. Table of Wisdom? Indeed!

[Political Junkie Too]

Russert would have fallen in line just like the rest of them.

-PJ

[shadeaud]

Odd how history changes who a person really was. Now if the author had written that Russert was one of the shrewdest of liberal interviewers, I would agree.

[katykelly]

Me , too .

[InvisibleChurch]

Frankly, I think a major reason these guys all write the same garbage is because their wives/boyfriends want to attend the best cocktail parties. If you put them in a box and fed them the facts without knowledge of who the facts were about, they’d be (I hope) outraged and maybe write some truth.

[Average Al]

The only investigating the press does is with each other in bed.

[Verginius Rufus]

If only Tim was here to explain how it is all Scooter Libby’s fault!

[techcor]

Sigh, if only I could’ve saved Time in a bottle.

[newnhdad]

Russert was a leftist with a father that would shame him into trying to appear objective.

[Bigg Red]

Yes, he was a leftist jerk.

[wastoute]

I suspect you are correct in your assessment of Russert which may well be why he is where he is now and why jerks like Chrissy can’t get their lips off Bozo’s hemorrhoids.

[wastoute]

And for the fascists at NSA, you had best hope you didn’t miss anything when you get around to “rounding me up”. It could be a bad day fer some...

[Cold Heat]

Table of Wisdom???

I don’t have “Time” for this right now....

lol

[ansel12]

Same here, I missed whatever nuance was supposed to have differentiated him from the rest of his liberal pack.

[BobL]

I watched Russert. While he certainly was not Tea Party, he also would hit-up Dems with stuff from their past that they, even, likely had forgotten. HE NAILED THEM. Of course he’d do the same to our side, but we’re not nearly as two-faced as them, so it was not very effective.

[ThomasThomas]

If Tim Russert was Still Living...

He would be posting on the undead thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3028364/posts?page=113#113

[Homer1]

...he rolled over for Fitz, after all....

[Homer1]

Wells: On Oct. 27, the day before Mr. Libby indicted, the press was reporting that he would be indicted.

Tim Russert: I don't recall.

W: Let me see if this refreshes your recollection. (shows Russert the defense-team research)

T: I don't recall this.

W: Do you recall appearing on the Imus show the morning of the 28th?

T: (meekly) No.

W: Recall whether NY Times reported that Libby would be indicted? (reads actual text from NYT lead paragraph)

Fitz objects: "If we're going to read it, let's read it accurately."  Sidebar.

It's 1:46. 

W: Do you recall whether the Today show reported that Libby would be 

T: I don't.

W: Do you remember being on the Today show yourself and discussing possible charges against Libby?

T: I don't.

W: Do you deny it?

T: I don't deny it, I just don't deny it. 

W: You were covering CIA leak, right? Had reported on it before?  Were head of NBC news bureau?

T: (yes to all)

W: If Ann Curry had reported this on the Today show, would you know about it, based on pattern and practice?

T: This is credited to the NY Times, so not if we didn't have the story.

W: But this was a big story, right?   And Pete Williams discus

T: That morning, no.

W: This could have happened without you knowing?

T: If I'm away, or working on something else, or another big story… I don't know.

W: Remember the phrase "first time in a hundred years"?

T: No.

W: You don't remember talking about this on Today show?

T: I appear on Today show several times a week. 

W: How many times do you appear on the Today show to discuss possible indictment of chief of staff of VP, in a case where you were involved — first time in your life, right?

T: Yes.

W: So you don't recall

T: No. I do recall watching (Fitzgerald) news conference and discussing it with Brian Williams.  (is shown Today show transcript) I don't recall this, sorry.

W: You read NY Times every day, right?  Washington Post?  

T: Yes.

W: Fair to say if they had stories saying Libby was to be indicted, you would have read that? 

T: Yes. 

W: (shows news stories) Does this refresh your memory, is it fair to say you were aware of stories saying Libby would have been indicted?

T: I may well have been.

W: Given your personal involvement… you have no recollection of that day?

T: No, I said I remember news conf and going on air with Brian Williams

W: Don't recall Today show?

T: No.

W: Don't recall Imus show?

T: No.

Wells asks to approach the judge.  Sidebar.  It's 2:02. 

W: Do you remember saying to Katie Couric about the indictment, "It's huge… first time in 130 years"?

T: No, I don't question that I said it, but I just don't remember.

W: Do you have a bad memory?

T: No.