[mylife]

David Gregory and Keith Olberman have been placed on suicide watch.

[Utah Binger]

[aliquando]

That gives me a tingly feeling up my leg. Whoopdee frickin’ doo!

[yldstrk]

Do it, do it NBC. Pick a complete loser to take his place and sink your station!

[Hildy]

Isn’t it a prerequisite for a interviewer to actually listen to the interviewee? Worst choice ever if they do. He’s not a likable fellow.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH:...Then they had Matthews come on. Matthews is on vacation. Listen to this. You talk about making it about them! In fact, I predicted to some friends, "Before long, before long..." On Friday afternoon, I predicted to Levin and a couple others, I said, "This Russert death is going to be blamed on Bush for creating all kinds of stress among journalists over the Iraq war."

MATTHEWS: When we went to war with Iraq, he and I had a little discussion about that. And this is where he is everyman. This is where Tim is Mr. or Miss America, Mrs. America. He is us, as a country. I said, "How can you believe this war is justified?" and he said, "The nuclear thing. If they have a bomb that they can use, we gotta deal with it. We can't walk away from that," and that, to me, was the essence of what was wrong with the whole case of the war, that they knew the argument that would sell with Mr. America, with the regular guy, with the true American patriot. They used the argument that would sell, that would get us into that war. Tim was right on the nail. He was us, the American people. And that, to me, is just something that's been coming in my head the last couple hours, when Tim and I had that conversation, that that was the thing that sold America. And the guys who wanted the war used that one thing that would sell the patriot in Tim Russert.

RUSH: Do you hear what has just been said? Russert has been dead less than six hours, and Matthews is on TV blaming Bush for fooling Russert, the great patriot. Lying to the great patriot, Russert, and that's what got us into the war. So he blamed Russert! He blamed Russert essentially for the Iraq war when there... (interruption) What? Well, Bush and Russert, Russert for being fooled by it, and Bush for lying to him about it.

In Russert Coverage, Elite Media Mourn Passing of Their Own

[oldbill]

Dan Rather is available.

[TruthWillWin]

No way will it be Mathews. But then again, now way would they replace Ra^ther with Katie.

They could do it. Just don't get it, never will

[jimfree]

Chris would have to change his personality. This would be a very bad choice. The host of Meet the Press never has tingles, at least on camera.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Jon Stewart, Randi Rhodes or Janeane Garofolo would be better than Chrissy "Peace Corps" Matthews.*

* which ain't sayin' much...

[no dems]

I’ll never watch “Meet The Press” again if Chrissy “The Sissy” Matthews becomes the host. The only person more despicable than Chris Matthews is Keith “Four-eyes” Olbermann.

[REDWOOD99]

Tom Brokaw.

[Reagan Man]

Chris Matthews -— knew that was coming.

[kingattax]

chrissy needs to be on “the view” with the other girls

[eyedigress]

Was Russert on the air anywhere before he took the job?

[The Wizard]

can you spell disaster and dead ratings....

[Biblebelter]

Chwissy is a student of history. He wants to be Senator like Cassius or Casca, he likes to stab people, preferably in the back.

[LiberConservative]

This might not be a bad thing. It would almost certainly get more Americans going back to church on Sunday morning.

[Current Occupant]

I would nominate Hugh Hewitt. He’s an excellent interviewer.

[Kirkwood]

Ann Curry