Luke Russert, Joe Scarborough's young protege...

[PCIntern]

Howcum he's on doing this shit-fest on Obama...? Other than lucky sperm club, what are his qualifications?

Anyone else hear that shit?

[Dbdmjs1022]

1. I didn't have a problem with his report. He just quoted a poll. He was very unbiased IMHO.

[PCIntern]

6. Really? You think so?

Thanks for the input...

Even Brokaw was laughing at him. What a fuck-up. That's not quoting a poll, that was Dan Quayle at his worst...

[LibraLiz1973]

29. Tom Brokaw was in no way laughing at him. He was smiling at his nephews report.

It was a "moment" for him.



Luke in no way trashed Obama. It's sad that everytime anyone reports ANYTHING, people flip out.

[Joe the Revelator]

7. Bull, it was a nothing poll, with almost 50% undecided, and he tried to massage it into a...

"big problem" for Obama.

[K Gardner]

22. Please see Earl G's report on the ENTIRE poll. (heading: ARGH ARGH ARGH)

[kingpin8399]

32. Actually, Luke is for Obama, he donated to his campaign

i forgot which website allows you to search who all has donated to the presidential campaigns, but hes on there with a donation to obama.

[PCIntern]

34. so that gives him license to spew bullshit on

national TV. I'll donate 20 bucks to a household and tell one spouse what an asshole the other is being...makes sense to me.

[featherman]

2. Carrying on the best Russert tradition of McCain Love

[FrenchieCat]

3. No. Many of us are watching the actual convention on C-Span

and not the stupid ass pundits.

I love KO and Rachel, but I don't love them that much.

[book_worm]

4. Even though the poll he was touting has Obama leading by more than 20 points

among younger voters he says that Obama campaign must be worried.

[featherman]

10. "...this spells trouble for the Senator from Illinois" - give me a break!!!

Some crap poll with no real difference on the CIC question... well within the margin of error "spells trouble".

The boy's an idiot.

[EV_Ares]

11. Yeah that was laughable. First of all that who do you trust to lead as

commander in chief is rather weak anyway. You are not sure how they actually asked that question and it comes out because of McCain's age, years in congress, veteran. But when you put in all of the other factors, it isn't that much. They really put a lot of emphasis on it though.

[EV_Ares]

5. Yeah, trying to make something out of the who do you trust more as

commander in chief with McCain at 31% and Barack at 28%. with the large spread of who they favored. What bullshit that was and you could tell Keith could tell as well when he asked that only adds up to 59%.

[crimsonblue]

14. Not to mention that the margin was within the MOE.

By definition, the results are insignficant. There's a reason that most polls have a disclaimer stating that within MOEs mean a TIE.

[EV_Ares]

18. I know it. It really would be interesting to know who guided him on that report.

[sweettater]

8. yes!

Keith and Brokaw were smiling. I think they were thinking the same thing you mentioned.

[Cooley Hurd]

9. It was a poll taken of 18-24's...

...he's pretty green, I'll give you that, but he wasn't THAT bad.:shrug:

[PCIntern]

12. I repeat: What are his qualifications for this job?

[BlueIdaho]

13. Nepotism

Bless his heart he has about as much depth as a cake pan.

[Awsi Dooger]

15. Olbermann and Matthews shouldn't have asked follow up questions

A kid of that age is prepared with the script, in this case the basic numbers among young voters. I thought Luke handled that very well, the two sets of poll results, even if his doom and gloom warning was idiotic. I was focused on bare minimal competence in speaking a few prepared sentences.

But I cringed when Olbermann asked a follow up. I literally wanted to change the channel. Leave the kid alone and understand his current level. He truly is a kid at this stage, no chance he'd be in this position right now minus his father's sudden death. Naturally he wobbled through the follow up questions, more or less spitting out a slightly different version of his opening summation.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

16. Heard it. In the words of his bretheren, weaksauce.

[RollWithIt]

17. He was completely unbiased.... and on Olbermann's show he was great on young voters....

Back off the kid. He went to University to do that job.

[book_worm]

20. unbiased? instead of focusing on a 23-point lead for Obama he decides to focus on a 31-28

point lead among those voters for McCain among commander in chief with 41% undecided. He's learned from the best to rain on any democratic parade.

[EV_Ares]

23. LOL, yeah, was thinking the same thing.

[PCIntern]

31. then he's the only unbiased reporter in Denver...

gimme a break...

NO ONE HERE OR THERE IS UNBIASED

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

27. Sure, he went to University.

And now, he needs to do 15 years of dues paying, starting at a 5000 watt UHF station in the middle of some industrial park, just like Dad and a lot of others who have gone before him. Really learn the ropes.

Alas, he'll probably end up with his own show on MTV.

[EV_Ares]

19. Hey, didn't they usually give the party whose convention it was mostly postive coverage, I mean both

parties. I have never heard so much negative coverage at a convention by the media. I mean this is absolute bullshit, totally wrong. I am going to have a hard time getting through this crap.

[Hamlette]

21. I thought it was unfair

he quoted how young voters support Obama but a zillion points. No comment. Then he reported but they support McCain by 31 to 28 on national security matters "and that spells real trouble for Obama."

He should have said, so if the youth vote on national security (which we all know THEY DON"T) it could be a problem.

But that's not the way he spun it.

[EV_Ares]

24. I knew Scarborough gave that shovel to someone.

[skiddlybop]

25. Here's where Joe Scarborough is coming from...

WHY does this guy still have a job as a "reporter" when he CAMPAIGNED FOR BUSH in August 2004 in this photo, when the intern he was shtupping was just about cold in her grave?

[Youphemism]

26. Since Russert died, MSNBC has suffered the bias of trying to seem unbiased...

I think the major reaction to Russert's death has left them all saying, "I want to be seen like Tim was." That perception, to them (if not to many people on this board) is that Russert was a pit bull who would tear into anyone. So now we see lots of reporters there with multiple personality disorder. One day they'll hit McCain and the next Obama.

The trouble is, they don't see a lot of ammo to fire at Obama, particularly the ones who actually favor him. That leaves them flailing about, trying to come up with something negative to say in the interest of being "balanced."

I think this has led people you'd expect to see wailing on McCain saying dumb things about Obama -- like Matthews, who's definitely a democrat, but occasionally lets loose with the most nonsensical of anti-Obama comments.

He doesn't really understand the argument against Obama, but in the interest of being Russertesque, he tries to parrot some of the negative things he's heard. I've seen similarly schizophrenic behavior from Andrea Mitchell, Mourning Blow, and even Chuck Todd.

[11 Bravo]

28. Joe's going to bring him along slowly. First, he'll off a Brownie Scout, then a Candy-Striper ...

and finally, when Joe thinks little Luke is ready, he will graduate to a Congressional intern.

[Stagecoach]

30. Sign of inexperience

It was clear as day. Thinking he was going to make his mark as a political analyst from the get-go and couldn't think of anything, so he pulled something out of his ass and went with it.

[EV_Ares]

33. Dupe