ALERT!--Russert to give Ethics lecture at Ripon College next week!

[Nomen Tuum]

Feb 2-4, Tim Russert to give keynote speech. Any DUers interested in attending and asking him about Plamegate OR the behavior of Chris Matthews?

http://www.ripon.edu/news/current/eliConference.html

[MADem]

1. Ethics lecture??? ETHICS LECTURE???? WTF!!

Is that part of a secret sentencing deal...community service????

Fatboy teaching ethics is like a chimpanzee teaching ballet...only the chimp would do a better job at it.

[blm]

2. Why did you protect Rove and the WH when you KNEW they were LYING

about their involvement with the outing of a CIA agent for TWO YEARS including an election year where they campaigned on their so-called integrity?

[MADem]

3. Note the typo in their creepy line up!!!

News and Press Releases
Ripon 'Ethics in Media' conference, Feb. 2-4; Speakers include Tim Russert, Peggy Noonan, Fed Barnes

"Fed" Barnes indeed--the bum belongs in the federal pen, along with Potato Head. Noonan is just a friken IDIOT who is well past her sell-by date. Her continuing schoolgirlish worship of dead Ronnie is starting to get a bit creepy in her dotage....simpering and eye-batting lose their charm after a certain age.

[newblewtoo]

5. Even more creepy is this

The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge. The first informal meeting of the party took place in Ripon, Wisconsin, a small town northwest of Milwaukee

[MADem]

7. Well, that Republican party became the Democratic Party

The Republicans now are cut from the cloth of the pro-slavery Democrats. Funny how shit flips...

Years ago, you would be hard put to find a Democratic African American. Now, trying to find an American of African ancestry with a GOP voter registration is like searching for a brain in the skull of Monkey boy.

[flordehinojos]

4. why not ask about his own double standard of packing his program with

right wingers and every now and then... putting on a truth telling patriot.

why also not ask him why he has to but in, with, "yes But..." interruptions every time a real patriot starts to speak truth to power.

why not also ask him how he would handle his talk show if it were to become severely apparent that bush is a dictator?

so many questions to ask him about his own comportment and choice of guests, and the silencing of truth telling patriots.

that is what i would ask if i could be there.

why also not ask him if bush pays him to spread the propaganda?

[UTUSN]

6. Creepier - He plugged his son's involvement in a CARVILLE enterprise

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http://www.obscurestore.com/

Lukegate: ... Step 1) Tim Russert books the tired Carville-Matalin act more than 35 times on his Meet the Press talk show, boosting their bankability on the lucrative lecture circuit. Step 2) Carville--with Russert's eager prodding--also uses their most recent, conveniently-timed MTP appearance to plug his new XM Satellite radio sports show. ... That's smarmily venal enough, you say? Wrong! Step 3) Carville's co-host on the XM show is Russert's son, Luke, who is "currently a sophomore at Boston College." Russert and Carville joke about this on the air but don't quite have the balls to actually inform viewers of the key conflict: ....

Har, har. ... Special Russert Prosecutor Arianna Huffington effectively exploits almost all the possible lines of attack here--including, but not limited to, the core charge that Russert has perverted the content of his own show for self-interested motives that might be excused as subconscious if they weren't so blatant: ....

P.S.: One angle Arianna misses is the bad parenting angle. It's one thing if a big star uses his connections to get a job for his unemployed son. Connections help. Stars' sons are often talented! But a sophomore in college? Isn't that rushing the connections thing a bit? Does Tim Russert think he's actually doing his son a favor? Does Luke Russert have no spark of honest Oedipal anger? ... The late Marjorie Williams could get a whole column out of this parenting point. I'm not Marjorie Williams, so I'll stop. But quite apart from parenting, the whole thing stinks. If George Stephanopoulos, or someone with a perilous network perch, tried this, they'd be in deep trouble. Maybe Russert is too. ... Russert certainly won't be giving a keynote address at a conference on "Ethics in Media" any time soon! ... Oh, wait. ...

P.P.S.: Does Howie ('Sure, I'm willing to attack my CNN paymasters') Kurtz have the huevos to write about the Russert/Luke/Carville incest in WaPo? I say no! ... 4:53 P.M. link

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[KoKo]

8. Have them ask him about his son Luke's co-anchor with Carville on

XP Sattelite and how he shilled for Carville/Begalla's Book while he didn't divulge to his readers the little "nepotism" involved.

Disgusting. The way those folks work. They take our issue and their evil and go out and throw it back in our faces.

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