Tim Russert dead at 58 :(

[slngsht]

I really liked him :blueangel:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/13/tim.russert/index.html

[xflow7]

Hardly believable, is it? While I occasionally thought he badgered guests a tad more than necessary, he was clearly very insightful, very bright, and willing to ask real questions and expect real answers. A real loss, I think.

[Mondo]

yeah, I liked him too.... 58 is not that old

[Arya Ebrahimi]

Didn't say exactly how he died.

 

58 is not that old

 

You're not kidding, my mom just turned 60 3 days ago and I just graduated college, talk about making you think!

[JohnK]

Hardly believable, is it? While I occasionally thought he badgered guests a tad more than necessary, he was clearly very insightful, very bright, and willing to ask real questions and expect real answers. A real loss, I think.

 

Being a night-owl and listening to the BBC a lot, I've been impressed with how effective those newspeople/interviewers are at getting the politicians et. ala. to account for themselves. I mean, these guys (and the occasional gal) claim to be the movers and shapers of the world we live in, and are telling us that they know what's important and what needs to be done - and if the interviewers, if they're up to snuff, should be able to get them to account for themselves adequately and honestly- and if movers and shapers can't come up with good answers, they should be exposed as, well you can fill in the term of your choice *. Hopefully, people like Russert get people to realize that the FACTS are what we should be paying attention to if we expect things to work well.

 

* The poet e. e. cummings wrote:

"a politician is an arse upon which

everyone has sat except a man"

 

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(One Times One)

 

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