Here is the transcript of Tim Russert selling out to his corporate bosses

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10042399/


(Videotape, November 16, 2005):

VICE PRES. DICK CHENEY: The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory or their backbone. But we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history.

(End videotape)

MR. RUSSERT: "Losing your memory or your backbone." What would you say to the vice president?

REP. MURTHA: Well, I tell you, Cheney's a friend of mine. We work very closely together. He was a good secretary of Defense, but he's wrong. They should have fired people. The president should be furious with this--the people that work for him giving him bad intelligence. We spend more on intelligence than any country in the world. We spend more on intelligence than the whole world spends together and our intelligence was wrong. There's no question we're going in the wrong direction and we're not winning. The incidents have increased and the economic indicators--oil, which was supposed to pay for all of this, is below prewar levels. There's nothing that's happening that shows any sign of success.

What would it have hurt Russert to have asked Murtha, "What would you say as a decorated combat veteran to the vice president who received five deferments to avoid going to war?"

Shouldn't that have been the way he phrased that question? Big Russ my ass.

Don

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1. It isn't about being a veteran every time

I think the media doesn't ask that last question because it isn't about murtha being a vet and cheney not, it is about the words cheney said and the response rep. murtha wanted to make.

To NOT bring up a person's personal military history does not equate with selling out. . .and russert doesn't ask that last question because it is inflammatory and disrespectful.

Murtha doesn't need to go on record responding to those types of questions. He needs to go on record responding to current sound bytes of Cheney.