I used to be a big russert fan .I would watch "meet the press" at least once a month.He was one of my most respected reporter.but now that he die.I will always know him as the guy that lost all his professional ethic and went in the tank for obama  and became his lapdog.
     Russert is somebody that both dems and republican respect ,but he lost the respect of 18 million hillary voters when he used his position to campaign for his choice for president .He was not the only one that did it .People from fox and msnbc did the same thing ,but those guys never have any ethic anyway.But russert is someone that people from left and right went to for fair and honest news.But he disappointed us.

be so absolutely fucking dumb?

Do you guys ever watch this guy?  He's awesome.  He drives an ice cream truck right through Wolf Blitzer's stupid hairdo.

Warning:  This is a rant.  There will probably be some bad words involved.  
As usual with my inconsequential diaries, I've posted a list of bottom-of-Recent-List diaries which may scroll off while you read this, if you choose to do so.

Dear 28%:

Yeah, you.  The folks out there who tell the pollsters you still approve of the job Junior is doing.  Who say we're spreading freedom in Iraq.  Who say some mythical historians are going to liken your boy to Truman or Churchill or Lincoln.

Give it up.  You're not fooling anyone.  Even Scotty's come out of the closet.  You can, too.

Playing now in a theater near you, Rush Limbaugh and other repub surrogates are touting this talking point today.

My Kwanjanim used to say "Empty can rattle."  He would point to his head as he said this.  Everyone in class knew the converse of this was that a full can was quiet.  Or a full head.

Yesterday I was driving to work and Bush came on the radio.  I actually broke the volume knob of my car stereo switching him off.  That's how much I can't stand hearing his voice.  So I missed hearing the emptiest can that's ever occupied the White House emit what I sincerely hope is one of his last major rattles.  He's been lambasted on the Daily Show and in all manner of lefty blogs regarding his remarks about Obama and appeasement.  Right wing nutjobs have come screaming out of the woodwork to pounce on this latest pinheaded talking point.  Some of them even got served by another mostly empty can, Chris Matthews.

Over the weekend, I spent a lot of time in a car, which had its Sirius satellite radio tuned to CNN for much of the trip. One thing I "learned" during this time, by mere dint of its being hammered repeatedly into my skull, was that Hillary Clinton's and John McCain's "gas tax holiday" proposals were undeniably (1) pandering, insubstantive political maneuvers that will have little long-term or even short-term effect on gas prices, yet (2) politically effective.

Oh no. I'm so concerned! This gas tax "holiday" issue is going to make Barry O. look even more elitist! On one side we have Obama, Every Single Economist, Rich Liberals, Environmentalists, People Who Live in Cities, Civil Engineers, Major Newspapers and Pundits. On the other side we have Clinton, McCain, and Real Hardworking Americans(TM).

How dare these elitists say that Real Hardworking Americans don't want half a tank of free gas!

There is a lot of concern that the so-called "low-information voters" (and insulting euphemism for "stupid prols" if there ever was one) just won't get it. But come on people! The only "elitism" going around is the elitism that say that people are too dumb to understand why this is a bad idea.

I think people and will understand, but I think that if all of the experts and the politically obsessed start saying things like "most people won't understand this" or "the average American can't see..." or, god help me, "low-information voters...."  it will work like s self fulfilling prophecy. Because when you break the issue down in that way you're just insulting people--

I just knew it was going to happen.  Hillary Clinton and the Republicans have worked together to finally derail the campaign of the man who would be the first black President.  Its finally happened.  All of the hard work that young people and African Americans have done to elect this man has been thrown right into the trash.  A candidate that looked so promising and looked likely to start a new era in American has been taken down by Hillary Clinton and the right wing. I could really just cry.  

Barack Obama will be on Fox News Sunday.

Read the putrescent excuses for journalists cackling:

Barack Obama has abandoned his more than two-year silent treatment toward "FOX News Sunday," accepting an invitation to appear this week on the national morning talk show.

....

FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace said the decision to launch a "count-up" clock may have helped encourage Obama’s decision to be a guest.

"We started the clock a month ago at 730 days. This Sunday it will be up to 772 days and the conversation about Obama coming on got a lot more serious after we started the count down, or the count up," Wallace said.

This is a mistake.

Obama gains nothing from this.  He gives credibility to Fox News, and he appears weak by backing down.  The clock, it makes it look like Fox bitch slapped him into capitulation, exactly the meme he does not want to reinforce.

It does his campaign no good, it does the public discourse no good, it does media coverage no good.

Unfortunately, I can't see any way of stopping it now.

So do you, Bill.

And Terry McAuliffe, you look ridiculous too...and stupid! You look and sound real stupid.

Terry, you look and sound almost as stupid as Joe Scarborough looks and sounds.

Of course, Joe Scarborough isn't stupid, he just plays a stupid on TV.

And all the rest of you, with your stupid arguments. You know the ones I'm tallking about.

But none of you are stupid, you just make stupid arguments about this race.

And you look more and more stupid and ridiculous every day.

Please, if you won't do it for our sake, do it for your own and GO AWAY!

TO CLARIFY: I am not saying young people CANT VOTE. I am saying that they should be taught that voting is a RESPONSIBILITY. Simply voting for the sake of voting should be discouraged unless the young voter is taking it seriously / informing themselves.

Bill Maher once listed the many reasons he could not be President of the United States. For one he believed that religion was bad and drugs were good. But one of the reasons he suggested was something that I've always agreed with and is wildly unpopular: that young people should be DISCOURAGED from voting.

Now I know many Obama supporters (of which I am apart) are probably crying foul and explaining that young people actually tend to gravitate towards the better candidates like Obama on the left or Ron Paul on the right etc. which is true. But more often than not they simply parrot talking points and the opinions of their parents. Because of their limited experience and world view they tend to gravitate more strongly to notions of partisanship. A young person that identifies themselves as "Republican" often just figures "Ok, thats what I am" and carries that notion for decades in their mind.

"We continue to be concerned about Iranian taking al Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back,’’ Mr. McCain said at the news conference. Asked about that statement, Mr. McCain said: "Well, it’s common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran. That’s well known. And it’s unfortunate."

It was not until he got a whispered correction from Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who was traveling with Mr. McCain on the trip, which is a Congressional delegation, that Mr. McCain corrected himself.

"I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not Al Qaeda," he said. McCain Misspeaks on Iran, Al-Qaeda, The New York Times, March 18, 2008,  4:17 pm

If Barack doesn't get out ahead of this thing soon he might just be left behind. It doesn't take an economist to turn on the news and see that the "turmoil in the financial markets" has a lot of people worried. If the economy hits the skids, he will have to seem as knowledgable as Hillary. When things go bad people will be looking for solutions. This will play into Hillary's "solutions not speeches" narrative.

You know Ann Althouse the blogger who, doubtless after consuming a box of cheap wine, suggested that there were subliminal uses to the "n-word" in the stock footage in the "3AM" ad.
On the other side, we have Taylor Marsh, who (I just checked) has as her latest post something about Obama's old pastor (Oh, Please!), and I knew that something like that would be up there.
Then we have Orlando Patterson's NY Times OP/ED, which makes Ann Althouse look sane.  In fact, is rambling, bigoted ("Two other sleeping children, presumably in another bed, are not blond, but they are dimly lighted, leaving them ambiguous. Still it is obvious that they are not black — both, in fact, seem vaguely Latino.") makes Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, and Maureen Dowd Seem like thoughtful honest and competent thinkers.
We have the Clinton campaign flipping out over a slip of the tongue of Samantha Powers. Seriously, the woman apologized 2 seconds after she said it.
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Maybe some of you already know that very early this morning, a small bomb went off in front of a military recruiting station in Times Square, in New York City. All that's been announced so far was that it was left inside an ammo can right on the steps in front. It smashed a couple of windows, left a mark on the pavement, didn't do much else. I'd call that a "prank bomb" - when it goes off it's more vandalism than destruction of property. It's intended more as a gesture than as an actual attack.

And, you know, it seems to me that this was pretty stupid. Yep, pretty stupid. You know why? Because doing things this way just gets people angry to no effect.

I was just scanning the blogs, and once again, some lame assed reporter was asking a candidate whether they wore boxers or briefs (hint: it wasn't Hillary).

This has to be the stupidest fucking question out there...Ummm...It has to be the stupidest fucking question out there not asked by Tim Russert...Ummm...or Chris "Tweety" Matthews...Ummm...or anyone writing an editorial for the WaPo or WSJ...Ummm...OK....but it's a stupid fucking question.

I can forgive the college student for asking the first time, but can't this thing die?

BTW, my answer is, "Trust me, you DON'T want to do the investigation involved."

I had the unfortunate pleasure of turning on CNN this evening and finding Lou Dobbs reassuring every intellegent American that he is anything but (why am I even surprised?). Anyways, I'll give you the important part of his rant about the recent dustup involving Bill Cunningham and Senator McCain:

I'm really very concerned about -- you remember one of the most famous generals in World War II...Guy by the name of Bradley. A hero of D-Day. He was named after the Second Caliph of the Sunni Muslim faith and Islam. And the fact is, Omar Bradley was a pretty good fellow. We are getting into a political correct bunch of nonsense when a man can't even take his given name. Come on. Give everybody a little more credit...I hope we keep our sense of humor and don't get too overwhelmed by political correctness in this campaign. Just a thought.

So, because a general had the name Omar Bradley in the 1940s, invoking Obama's middle name is meaningless? Hmm...Where to begin? Well...