[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Tim Russert just said on the panel discussion to Robert Novak, Bill Safire and David Broder that Jesse Jackson had given him a statement calling Lott a 'Confederate' for his remarks supporting Strom Thurmond and requesting his resignation from the Senate as Incoming Majority Leader

Just why does Tim Russert feel the need to deliver a statement for Jackson? Can't Jackson deliver his own statements? Do the liberal, national networks have to deliver statements because Jackson has no outlet of his own creation?

[ewing]

Remember Russert cut his teeth on Capitol Hill as a Democratic Congressional aide.

So his sources are mainly Dims