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• Wonk'd Dept.: They Walk Among Us

  Published: July 27, 2007, 6:47 pm

  Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Dave Chappelle, Doc Rivers, John Bolton, Matthew Lesko, Patrick Mchenry, Scooter Libby, Sightings, Tim Russert, Tom Feeney, Wonk D, Wonk D Dept

  This week, you numbskulls spotted Patrick McHenry, Scooter Libby, Tim Russert, Doc Rivers, Matthew Lesko, Tom Feeney, Dave Chappelle, John Bolton, and Condi Rice skulking around DC (and elsewhere)....

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• MTP: Harwood Likens Hillary's Cleavage To Barry Bond's Doping

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Hillary Clinton, Wsj, Meet The Press Tim Russert

  Download (69)   Play (100)  Download (45)   Play (52) (Thanks to David for the video) Ah, the quality of political discourse these days. Never mind that we’re involved in an unwinnable quagmire costing the country thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Never mind that we have an administration that is

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• Gates says that even though you can't trust anything we've ever said Here's Petraeus!

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:27 pm

  Tags: Robert Gates, Iraq, Meet The Press Tim Russert, War Coverage

  (0) (full transcript) MR. RUSSERT: You mentioned that we misunderestimated some of the divisions between the factions of the government, the Shiites and the Sunnis. Mr. Secretary, for Americans watching today, many are saying to themselves, The administration was wrong about weapons of mass destruction, wrong about the size of the force

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• NBC News Historian Sucks Up To Hillary

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:47 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Andrea Mitchell, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Hillary Clinton, Tim Russert, Nbc, Today

  from her appearance on Tim Russert's CNBC show, back on July 28th, Goodwin seems to have developed an image of Hillary as an innocent victim who has been forced to overcome the mistakes of others: When Russert asked Goodwin to rate the 08 candidates' ability to overcome adversity, Goodwin noted Hillary's great accomplishments of having

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• Colbert's cast to go up on eBay tonight

  Published: August 23, 2007, 6:22 am

  Tags: Autographed, Bill O Reilly, Brian Williams, Broken Wrist, Cast, Colbert Report, Colbertreport, Comedy Central, Ebay, Katie Couric, Michael Bloomberg, Nancy Pelosi, Stephen Colbert, Stephencolbert, Tim Russert, Tony Snow

  Couric, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Bill O'Reilly, and Michael Bloomberg. Read   Permalink   Email this     Comments

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• Meet the Press panelists did not mention reports rebutting Engel's claim that troops would be "furious" in event of troop draw down

  Published: August 26, 2007, 5:22 pm

  Tags: Tim Russert, Meet The Press, Nbc, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  and manipulated." Neither Russert nor the other members of the panel -- Washington Post military correspondent Thomas Ricks and New York Times chief military correspondent Michael Gordon -- mentioned recent reports indicating that some members of the military would not be opposed to drawing down the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. For

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• World's Shortest Honeymoon for Thompson at 'Today'

  Published: September 6, 2007, 7:42 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Fred Thompson, Hillary Clinton, Jay Leno, Meredith Vieira, Tim Russert, Nbc, Today Show, Tonight Show, Video

  "Today" wasted no time in going after Fred Thompson. Like a Las Vegas bride with a bad hangover, Meredith Vieira seemed particularly grumpy. At 7:05 a.m. EDT, the "Today" co-anchor interviewed Tim Russert. MEREDITH VIEIRA: The other candidates are out debating last night, and he's on Leno, he's yukking it up announcing that

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• Meet The Press: Senator Joe Biden Will Not Vote To Cut Funding For Iraq Occupation

  Published: September 9, 2007, 12:03 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Military, Nbc, Middle East, Iraq, Campaigns Elections, Meet The Press Tim Russert

  funding. When asked by host Tim Russert if he would vote to cut off funding for Iraq if President Bush refuses to accept a withdrawal date, Biden moves directly to the “cutting off funding means you don’t support the troops” mentality pulled straight from the pages of the RNC playbook. Instead of speaking the truth, that it

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• Russert, Harwood did not challenge Brody's claim about Dems and terrorism

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: John Harwood, Tim Russert, Meet The Press, Nbc, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism

  Meet The Press, host Tim Russert stated that in "[e]very debate ... the Republicans have, they make their point, 'We understand Islamic fascism; we understand the terrorist threat; the Democrats don't.' That is going to be their issue in 2008, just as it was in '04 and in 2000." In response, Christian

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• Two Nets Note Bush's Anger at MoveOn's Petraeus Ad

  Published: September 13, 2007, 8:03 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Brian Williams, General David Petraeus, George W Bush, Katie Couric, Tim Russert, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News

  on NBC, Brian Williams and Tim Russert specifically highlighted Bush's outrage. Russert related how Bush said those who are responsible could, in effect, stuff it. On ABC's World News, George Stephanopoulos, who attended the lunch, discussed some of Bush's comments during the gathering, but didn't mention his take on the full page

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• Nets Thrilled by Warner Call for 5,000 Fewer Troops, But Distressed When Bush Makes It Happen

  Published: September 14, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Bob Schieffer, Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, George Stephanopoulos, George W Bush, Katie Couric, Tim Russert, Abc, Cbs, Nbc

  dissatisfied, with NBC's Tim Russert grumbling that the President's idea was really U.S. military involvement in Iraq this year, next year, and well after I leave the presidency. As MRC's Brent Baker noted back on August 23, Warner's suggestion of a small withdrawal was met with giddy excitement: CBS's Katie Couric touted a major

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• Kerry-McCain Turns Vicious Over Iraq

  Published: September 17, 2007, 12:34 am

  Tags: Opinion, Politics, Iraq, John Kerry, John Mccain, Meet The Press, Nbc, Sunday Talk Shows, Tim Russert

  On the surface, it was just another edition of Meet the Press on Sunday, with one prominent Democrat and one prominent Republican caustically bickering over the Iraq war. If the Democrat gets his way and American troops are redeployed, warned the Republican, then you will see catastrophe and you will see a lot more loss of American blood

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• Talk about the demise of a Straight Shooter named McCain on MTP

  Published: September 17, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: John Mccain, Liars, Iraq, Meet The Press Tim Russert, War Coverage

  can be achieved: MCCAIN: Tim, I've known Jim Jones for 30 years. That's not what he's saying. Let’s go to the video tape. There’s a mash up of two MTP segments. You never see Russert cut off a quest to make a point, but he did to the straight shooter because he wasn’t shooting straight. (Sorry, I had to say it.)

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• Russert Lets Hillary Off Hook Concerning MoveOn's Betray Us' Ad (updated w/video)

  Published: September 23, 2007, 1:56 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Democrats, Iraq, Moveon Org, David Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, Tim Russert, Meet The Press, Nbc

  this have been a perfect time to question Hillary about Sen. Cornyn's (R-TX) amendment that ended up passing 72 - 25? Apparently not: MR. RUSSERT: And MoveOn.org should refrain from similar ads in the future?SEN. CLINTON: Everyone should, Tim. Everyone should.MR. RUSSERT: Yeah. Yes, everyone should, Tim. So, why didn't you bring up

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• Hillary's Big Sunday, Weprin's Big Monday

  Published: September 24, 2007, 11:29 am

  Tags: Politics, Chris Wallace, Hillary Clinton, Tim Russert

  getting a particularly tough time of it from Chris Wallace, whose career has profited greatly from Clinton-sassing). At around the 3:40 mark on this clip of Meet the Press is another confrontational moment, as Tim Russert reads a series of her statements about whether to withdraw troops from Iraq by a certain date, and concludes,

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