Tag Archives: 'russert'

• First Read Bleeds

  MSNBC’s oft-cited First Read, yesterday… Will Obama be able to articulate specific policy proposals on health care that he’s for, or will we hear more of the same chatter on his principles? Repetition is always important to pushing a message, but one of the things that may be slowing down the process in Congress is [...]

• Silence

  Holy shit. UPDATE — I have created a tag for all my posts referring to the Buffalo native, one of the best men in politics, and a hometown hero to many Buffalonians (including me). You did good, Tim.

• Prediction Naught Eight

  I should take advantage of the miserable predictions I make. This email comes from a reader… I’m hoping that “one” of your political predictions will be correct and Hillary drops out next Wednesday. Yes, if only “one” of my predictions come true. However, I think I am now prepared to make my boldest prediction yet, [...]

• Pee-wee Herman, Meet Stephen Colbert

  Stephen Colbert — the actor, not the character portrayed by Stephen Colbert, the actor — is on the verge of Pee-wee Herman status. As in the case of Pee-wee Herman, a talented actor (in Pee-wee’s case, Paul Reubens) is stuck with the perpetual role of one character, playing that role on his own television show, [...]

• Morning Politoon

  Being a fan of Tim Russert (and of his Buffalo roots), this Luckovich cartoon admittedly stings a bit, but it may be true… Image: Washington Post

• Hometown Hero

  You know you’ve done well in life when you are the star witness in the biggest political trial in decades. Tim Russert, Buffalo son, you have made us proud. Let’s go Sabres.

• Russert Is Dreaming

  Tim Russert is in dreamland, formerly known as Rumsfeldtown. From this weekend’s Meet the Press with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley… Russert: [I]n terms of trying to bring the country together, to bring Democrats — who now control Congress — to the table, could the president step forward and say, ‘I acknowledge we were wrong [...]

• Adventures of a War President (War Means Jobs, Baby!)

  When Bush insisted to Tim Russert, “I’m a war president,” in a February 2004 interview on Meet the Press, who knew that Bush was not only discussing his war in Iraq (and the pulling of troops in Afghanistan in order to prosecute the unnecessary war in Iraq) and his administration’s desire to follow Iraq with [...]

• Bush’s Poll Free Fall Hits Thirties

  The president has ventured into (his own) record territory as he has hit the thirties (yes, sub-forty) in job approval polls. On NBC today, Tim Russert commented on the fact that in this poll, only two percent (2%) of African-Americans approve of Bush’s job performance. Ouch. Russert: “Only 2 percent — 2 percent! — of [...]

• Russert On Imus (Audio)

  The Buffalo native does good. Tim Russert appearing on Imus in the Morning on Tuesday tore into Bush, including going after Bush for stating that no one anticipated the breach of levees: “… being so misinformed. Who told him that? Why would he say that?“ Source: onegoodmove Download audio (.mp3) file.

• Falwell Follies

  This weekend’s Meet the Press, moderated by Buffalo’s own Tim Russert, hosted a barnfight between two nutjobs and two semi-nutjobs. On one side was Jerry Falwell and Richard Land, and on the other, Al Sharpton and Jim Wallis (all are ministers/religious leaders). Russert brought up Falwell’s comments a couple days after the events of nine-eleven. [...]

• Confindence 101

  Russert: Are you prepared to lose? President Bush: No, I’m not going to lose. Source: NBC’s Meet the Press

• Bush v. Russert

  Tim Russert will certainly show many clips/statements of Bush contradicting himself, and even after Bush responds to the question with an undoubtedly ridiculous lie/cover-up (remember: Bush is not too smart), Russert will pull back and resist calling Bush on it. Russert poses the questions, catches the lies, and then let’s the viewers discern for themselves [...]