Reply #30: Tim is insidious

[ladym55]

I was one of those folks who USED to think Tim Russert WAS objective--and I wasn't reading the DU postings regularly then. So I remember clearly when I figured out what a ring-wing corporate shill he was. He was interviewed about the big Cheney-created flap over the two-line piece in Newsweek about our soldiers desecrating the Koran. Tim said with a straight face that Newsweek should APOLOGIZE for the piece because it wasn't verified and had caused increased insurgency activity in Iraq. I went ballastic. I thought you lying sleazeball. First, I'm SURE the insurgents stay up nights reading Newsweek... Then I thought how can Tim NOT know about this?? When Newsweek published the story about the Koran, Truthout had been posting articles from European papers on the same topic for weeks. Like we didn't KNOW this in the US??? Sure. I am now a rabid opponent of Russert--I tell EVERYONE who will listen (and some who won't) what a slime he is.

I, too, am SO sick and tired of watching solid Democratic candidates sneared at and trashed by so-called "unbiased" media sources. Their lame images STICK and affect the average joe voter who really never bothers to educate himself about little things like issues.

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