[governsleastgovernsbest]

Frankly, while their choice of clothes sends an unmistakable image, neither Katie nor Matt seem particularly distraught.

And while the show opened with a defiant John Edwards, pledging to fight on, Lauer did acknowledge that W had a "commanding" lead in OH, and a reporter stated that Kerry would need to win an "overwhelming" portion of the provisional ballots.

But how's this for bias: Russert claimed that social conservatives "put their moral values ahead of their economic interests." Consider the clear implication - Russert effectively saying that Kerry's brand of higher taxes and regulation and less economic freedom is somehow "in the economic interest" of average Americans.

[hosepipe]

[ Russert effectively saying that Kerry's brand of higher taxes and regulation and less economic freedom is somehow "in the economic interest" of average Americans. ]

Russert; "Nice boy, but he's about as sharp as a bowling ball"-Foghorn Leghorn

[Soul Seeker]

Really? How then would Russert explain the dive the markets took yesterday when they thought G.W. would lose?

[Pearls Before Swine]

But how's this for bias: Russert claimed that social conservatives "put their moral values ahead of their economic interests." Consider the clear implication - Russert effectively saying that Kerry's brand of higher taxes and regulation and less economic freedom is somehow "in the economic interest" of average Americans.

That's pretty awful. Even granting his ridiculous assumptions, its like saying that paying the price for moral values is wrong because it is stupid. Dems know best.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Russert is wrong. Clearly Republican Americans and the religious right were having a temper tantrum, to reprise Peter "the Canadian" Jenning's previous intellectual musings.

[DugwayDuke]

"But how's this for bias: Russert claimed that social conservatives "put their moral values ahead of their economic interests." Consider the clear implication - Russert effectively saying that Kerry's brand of higher taxes and regulation and less economic freedom is somehow "in the economic interest" of average Americans."

Sounds like the old Howard Dean refrain of how southerners need to stop voting on "Guns, God, and Gays" and start voting their economic interests.

[opocno]

Even assuming that voting for Kerry was the "economic" thing to do (which I do not believe for a minute), Tim Russert, G-d forbid that someone actually puts the Almighty above Mammon. You wouldn't understand, you former 'Rat party hack.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

But how's this for bias: Russert claimed that social conservatives "put their moral values ahead of their economic interests."

So killing unborn babies would be in our economic interest as millions of potential workers are sucked into a sink, thus reducing the Social Security tax base??? So opposing promiscuity would not be in our economic interest as it drives AIDS rates (and, thus, medical insurance rates) down???