[Northern Alliance]

Russert has a lot of credibility with the MSM. I think he'll have to sign it. I mean, they'll take it personally if he tries to weasel out of it.

[Kaslin]

Russert has probably already forgotten he asked the question. And Kerry signing form 180? No way

[G.Mason]

"Russert has a lot of credibility with the MSM. I think he'll have to sign it. I mean, they'll take it personally if he tries to weasel out of it."

It's doubtless that you see the best in people.

The fact is Tim Russert is a skilled Leftist talking head.

Russert had all of 2004 to make this point. He didn't.

At this juncture Russert realizes that Kerry is toast, that the chances of another Kerry run are so miniscule as to leave no blip on that radar screen.

Many Freepers here are 100% correct.

Kerry will never release all his records, and all concerned know it.

[TomGuy]

Russert has a lot of credibility with the MSM. I think he'll have to sign it. I mean, they'll take it personally if he tries to weasel out of it.

Kerry said on Russert's program in his late spring/early summer (2004) full-hour interview that he would release all the documents. Russert pushed the question, and Kerry said 'all the docs he had received were on his website'.

[Note that he used similar phraseology in this most recent interview. Nuancing. Kerry makes it sound as if he has released all documents-----but he has to add the qualifier 'that he had received'. Kerry does not say he requested ALL the documents; only that all the documents he received have been released.

Kerry is playing word games, just like he was in that late spring MTP interview. No MSM held his feet to the fire to sign 180 before the '04 election, so why would any MSM do so after the '04 election? They won't, unless Hillary issues the order to sink Kerry in '08. Of course, as long as the MSM are semi-chasing Kerry, they won't be scrutinizing Hillary---so she may not give the order until late spring, 2008.