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I was surprised that he died, then incredulous that there was so much coverage over this weekend, then I found myself getting angry at the extent and fulsomeness of the coverage of him.

I'm sure that he was great guy - but what, exactly did he do for his country that would call for three or four days of extensive media mourning?

I mean, Mother Theresa of Calcutta got less coverage when she died!

Tim Russert was probably an OK guy, but about 6,000 other OK guys and gals went on to their respective rewards the same day, for gosh sakes.

Things are seriously out of balance when one of our young men dies in Afghanistan and nobody hears a thing but a guy whose whole job is a TV program is given the virtual "presidential state funeral" all weekend.