Father’s Day, Russert, Obama, a Soldier and the Philadelphia Eagles |
| Published: June 16, 2008, 8:37 am |
| Tags: 2008 presidential election, barack obama, bush arrogance, iraq, john mccain |
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We must start with Tim Russert, a celebration of a man who was a journalist’s journalist, if we are to believe all the hype this weekend. The praisers were lined up for the entirety of this week’s Meet the Press, and the transcript is well worth reading, if the show would have turned you into a diabetic it was so sweet and syrupy. I’m likely to go with Glenn Greenwald in the long run, that Tim Russert, perhaps not as overt as most of the other talking heads on the news, was for a large part of his career a bit of a mouthpeice for the administration in power, and with the failings and cowboy diplomacy of the Bush Administration, being a mouthpiece and performing stenography at times instead of journalism, is not serving us in the public. Here’s how Glenn puts it at Salon: Unlike Carlson, Tim Russert is the Big Guy of the American press corps. He’s the one they all look up to and admire, the one they invariably point to as proof that tough, adversarial [ Full article ] |
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