I can't believe that Tim Russert has died. Unbelievable...

[Blue_Roses]

I've been gone all day and just got in to hear this news and I couldn't believe it.

For those of you who followed the primary returns faithfully after every state, do you remember in the last two primaries how Tim was saying maybe they should just stick to the issues and not so much of the "gotcha" moments this GE? I wish I could find that clip because when I heard him say that it was like something just washed over him. It was so refreshing to see him actually say this. I was looking forward to that from him and I was hoping he would set the bar for other journalists to "stick to the issues."

Wow...this is just stunning news.

EDITED TO ADD: I found a link to what I was asking. Here it is:

"Vigilance needed on campaign claims
Big issues, not smears, need to be the focus"

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Russert: That’s what we have to be conscious of and vigilant against, particularly at the end of the campaign as things are put out there. We’ve already had a few fake videos with different words dubbed in and people say, “This must be true because I saw it on the Internet.”


What we hope to do in this campaign is recognize there are big differences on big issues between John McCain and Barack Obama – the war in Iraq, Iran, Social Security, taxes. You don’t need to get into this other stuff. If it does surface, then I think the mainstream media has an obligation not to just instinctively put it out there without vetting it. Or, if it is something that is manufactured as a virus, report on that – who did it and why. But sometimes it’s very hard to trace it back to its original source.

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