The very intelligent Maria Shriver, political pundit and wise leader of us all, said, and I’m NOT making this up:
“It’s interesting that Tim died so close to Father’s Day as he was like a father to all of us.”
I paraphrase but it’s out there.
Tom Brokaw, I think, said if Tim had went into the priesthood he would now be the pope.
Dear Lord, and we wonder why the MSM is so melo-dramatic. Look at how vapid they get when they lose one of their own.
I liked Tim Russert for the most part. Some called him too liberal but I felt like he kept both feet on the ground and managed to at least LOOK like he was trying to bridge the area between us common people and the political elites. Which was oncit upon a time the province of journalists but they all went and joined the other side so now we have NO main stream impartial journalists to tell us what the political elites are up to. Russert was one of the few who I felt at least gave some appearance of fairness and impartiality.
But hey, I’m part of the common people, us folks who carry this country on our backs whilst raising the citizens and soldiers of tomorrow. I don’t go calling those who passed, no matter how beloved...my father or the pope.
Common sense. Guess it’s not all that common.
In fairness, when Brokaw said this, the rest of the panel laughed. I don't believe this specific comment was one of a serious nature.
What I took from Maria Shriver’s comment was that Tim mentored alot of the younger people at NBC, in a fatherly way.