Posted on 06/13/2008 12:30:14 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Tim Russert, NBC journalist and political heavyweight host of "Meet the Press," has died after collapsing at NBC's Washington news bureau, a source said. He was 58 years old.
Just was this on Drudge and I’m stunned. RIP.
Great video
Might want to read Moynihan’s report on the welfare state before making that comment. Liberals still call it racists and elitists to this day. The phrase “blaming the victim” came about in protest of his report.
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm
Autopsy finished already? That was very quick! With those findings, it appears there was nothing that could’ve been done for him on site. The recent stress test info is spooky.
Well here’s some speculation on my part.
Russert’s doctor, I think it was his doctor, was just on Hardball speaking to Andrea Mitchell.
It would seem that Tim had something called coronary artery disease. Further, Tim had a stress test on 4/29/08 and he allegedly passed it with flying colors.
Now here’s where I get confused.
There IS surgery for coronary artery disease...two forms. One is something called a STENT...Cheney has a bunch of them. Further, coronary artery disease is a fairly common thing so yon readers might know someone so correct my errors in speculation.
The other form of a surgical cure for this disease is a coronary bypass, whereby they remove veins from your legs and replace the clogged arteries in your heart with those same veins.
I myself took a stress test on the same day as Tim did, 4/29/08 and in fact I failed my stress test miserably. In fact, I went straight from the doctors office to the hospital, was admitted, and in less than a week I had a QUADRUPLE coronary bypass. I had only been doing the heart medical protocal bit for the month of April as I began having rageing heart episodes but beyond that believe that this sudden medical emergency surprised me and everyone in my surround. And for the record, the heart surgery was on 5/5/08 and know that I am recovering well but I still got huge wounds on my legs, thighs and chest.
So if Tim had coronary artery disease, I must wonder how the hell serious was it? Was he trying to control it with medication rather than perhaps going for a bypass?
This disease can too be controlled with medication but it’s rare, folks, it’s damn rare. In fact, somewhere between my failed stress test and the day of my operation I had to leave the hospital against medical advice rather than spend a weekend in the hospital before my surgery. My heart doctor simply would not sign me out as he said I was very close, very, very close to meeting my maker.
Well I’m just an ordinary American nobody whereas Russert surely had excellent medical care, right?
I wonder if Russert was refusing a bypass for the time needed to recover. Cause it does take a while. A Stent, on the other hand, something the medicos told me would be useless in my beat up heart, doesn’t take but a day or two so I’m thinking Russert didn’t qualify either cause surely he would have had THAT rather benign procedure.
Medical treatment uses Plavix and lots of other medicines that DO help with those clogged veins but what with Tim taking that stress test, not getting a stent put in, I really wonder if in this election year Tim Russert didn’t want to get a big bypass operation so he hoped medication would help until maybe after the election or some such. This would be a hell of a time for a political pundit to go down for a coronary bypass when you think about it. Because if his doctor pronounced, somberly, that he had coronary artery disease, than Tim Russert had SOMETHING going on in his heart. And I’m thinking it was something big.
Just my thoughts. Others with experience with same encouraged to offer thoughts because I really don’t think Russert threw a clot. I think he took a dangerous chance. He wasn’t taking that stress test for nothing.
My doctor wouldn’t let me out of the hospital cause he said I could throw a clot in an instant and be dead in a minute.
And in my very, very inexperienced medical opinion, Tim Russert LOOKS like a coronary bypass patient. In fact, I kinda look like him, only as a female, you should smile.
But again, just speculation.
By the way....I am 58 years old.
Thanks for the info. Very sad news.
May God Bless his family at this time.
Prayers to the family. Russ was a good guy.
“Tim was 58, overweight and diabetic. Rush is 57,overweight, a smoker and by his own admission hates exercise.”
This is a sad wake up call. To die in the late 50’s isn’t what I would call a long life span. Too many people have really bad life-style habits. If a person doesn’t do hard physical labor then they need to get in the habit of exercising regulary. I like what Dr. Laura says, to move more and eat less. Russert seemed within the normal range of being overweight. Obviously, even that can be deadly. I for one would like to live to the mid 90’s. It’s very hard on the family when people die before their time. I heard a recent report that the normal life span should be 100 years old. It’’s something for people to think about.
I hear Katie Couric is looking for work...
First, prayers for all his family and friends...
In the article linked from Drudge is the following;
“Russert had just returned from a family vacation in Italy last night.”
I’m wondering if it could’ve been a blod clot related to traveling...
Well, you know, it turns out, I read today, that “Paul”, the Hollywood actor whose name and face appear on some jars of junk food, may not have cancer after all. Can we take all the prayers back now? What about the sympathies to the family, that never got to the family in the first place, since, like the condolences above, they were nothing more than posturing for our benefit?
And what if, Heaven forbid of course, the Honorable Justice Kennedy conked out tonight, what if?
What is so racist about noting that the black nuclear family was diminishing.
Here is how history will remember Moynihan
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Yet when these policies came under serious challenge first from President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and then a Republican Congress led by Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, he hugged what was left of the New Deal consensus tightly and was an obstacle to reform. He was first elected to the Senate in 1976 by defeating movement conservative James Buckley, brother of William F., in the general election. And one of the final acts of his Senate career was his famous “torch-passing” press conference with Hillary Clinton that was probably more responsible than any other single factor for her being a senator from New York today.
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PS - the FBI considered him a communist or communist sympathizer based on his associations in the 50’s
Lol! Thanks for the ping!
“strange dynamic”
indeed
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You must also carry the tax stamp (or copies of it) with the weapon when you transport it, and if you take it out of state, you have to ask for permission from the NFA/ATF and tell them your route.
It’s very expensive, by the way...MP5’s are $12,000 and up, M-16’s are the same, while UZI’s and Mac-10’s can be had for less.
Ed
No kidding. So his family must be back from Italy? Surely they wouldn’t proceed with an autopsy without the family having a chance to see him first.
Thanks. I have a brother-in-law named Chuck. No relation I suppose.
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