Tim Russert's Casket will be on View in St. Albans School Dining Hall from 2 -9:00 p.m. today.

[KoKo]

MSNBC will cover...and they don't know if the crowd will be 2,000 or 5,000. Luke Russert attended St. Albans and his pictures are still displayed in the school and Tim Russert gave a lot of money to the school.

There will be a bill passed by Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer to rename a stretch of road in Buffalo, NY, near the Foot Ball Stadium in Russert's name.



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St. Albans Prepares For Tim Russert's Wake
Washington Bureau Chief Suffers Heart Attack
POSTED: 3:05 pm EDT June 13, 2008
UPDATED: 6:50 am EDT June 17, 2008
WASHINGTON -- A closed-casket public wake for the late "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert will be held Tuesday at St. Albans School.Russert died from a heart attack Friday.St. Albans officials said the wake will be from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. The school is located at Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues in northwest Washington. Thousands of mourners are expected to attend, so extensive preparations are under way at the school.Russert's son, Luke, graduated from St. Albans in 2004, the same year his dad delivered the commencement speech. On the "Today" show Monday morning, Luke Russert talked about how he and his mother are coping with his father's death."It's definitely taking its toll on her," he said. "She grieves like a wife, and I grieve like a son, so it's different kinds of grieving, but we're definitely in the same boat. We miss my father immensely."Since Russert's death, a steady stream of viewers have been leaving cards, flowers and personal mementos outside NBC4's studios in northwest Washington.Luke Russert said he believes his father struck a chord with people from all kinds of backgrounds."I believe he saw himself as the questionnaire for the American people," he said. "He obviously did his job for himself, for his network, for his family. But, at his core, I believe he had a higher calling, a responsibility to educate the American people about the candidates that seek the highest office in the land."A private funeral and memorial service for Tim Russert will be held on Wednesday. Russert's family has requested that the public respect their wishes by attending the public service on Tuesday and not the private service on Wednesday.

.http://www.nbc4.com/print/16601210/detail.html

[Sanity Claws]

1. Huh?

Isn't this a bit much?

[truebrit71]

2. I'm with you...he was just a "journalist" right?

:crazy:

[Imagevision]

23. Wrong! Tim Russert wasn't 'just' a journalist...

[truebrit71]

28. ...then I'm at a loss..was he also a Saint?...I just think this is WAY over the top...

...Seriously...a PUBLIC viewing?

He wasn't the fucking pope....

You REALLY want to see some pissing on the grave? ask me what I think about his fawning interviews with ANYONE in this administration...

[trotsky]

8. Careful, you might be accused of grave-pissing.

:eyes:

[tularetom]

17. It's only a matter of time

[KoKo]

3. I guess the Capitol Rotunda wasn't available for the viewing...so

St. Albans' dining hall was the next best spot available.

[gratuitous]

4. Looks like I'm eating lunch at Alf's today

Nothing on the menu I care for.

[Botany]

5. snacks will be served

look it is fine and a good thing he is at the school but there is no reason to broadcast it

[havocmom]

6. Dining Hall? And what is tuition there?

Hope they get all the throngs of mourners out before lunch.

This is ridiculous.

[Mike Daniels]

22. I think school is out for the summer.

Still an odd location for a viewing though.

[chelsea0011]

7. They can call it a dining hall, we all know it as the cafeteria.

[symbolman]

9. Hey!

We EAT in There!

Jesus, Mary & Joseph...

[JVS]

10. Closed casket or buffet style?

:hide:

[tularetom]

11. Wait a f*^kin minute

Are you telling me that from 2 to 9 pm today, MSNBC will be showing its cable viewers pictures of a box in a school cafeteria with a dead guy inside? While they ignore everything else that's going on in the world?

I guess you are telling me that. A week ago I would not have believed even a cable "news" station would act so idiotically. But that was before the maudlin russert blubberfest began.

Wonder how long they'll leave it on once it becomes apparent that very few people actually give a shit enough to stroll by and pay their respect?

I'd be surprised if more than a few hundred people actually show. Unless that is all the corporate media offices in the DC area order their staffs to attend to make it look better.

[JVS]

13. WTF are you talking about? This funerals going to be bigger than Tito's, maybe even bigger than...

Stalin's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZD5UHxx_84

[Algorem]

12. some kind of road show or what?

St. Albans School

Why does the D.C. prep school spawn so many politicians?

http://www.slate.com/id/87969/

By David Plotz
Posted Friday, Aug. 11, 2000, at 8:30 PM ET

...

St. Albans embarrasses Gore and his party. Gore never mentions that he went there. All the St. Albans pols skip the school in their official biographies. When he was being considered for running mate, Kerry went so far as calling a reporter (still another Albanian, Brit Hume) to emphasize that he had left St. Albans and graduated from a different high school.

The bashfulness is understandable. St. Albans is a snooty, elitist, inside-the-Beltway institution. The people's party fears association with an all-boys private school that costs nearly $20,000 per year, has a "refectory" instead of a "cafeteria," and prides itself on its noblesse oblige. (Gore is, however, inoculated from St. Albans attacks by the Bush campaign: George W. Bush's younger brothers Neil and Marvin are graduates.)

How did St. Albans, which is not even one of the nation's most celebrated private schools, assume such a central role in American politics? Prep schools, of course, occupy a hallowed, if horrible, place in the story of the American establishment. As Nicholas Lemann chronicles in The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, the boarding schools of New England molded the American Protestant aristocracy from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century. The schools enforced muscular Christianity: The football field was more important than the classroom, and character was—to quote a favorite St. Albans phrase—"choosing the hard right over the easy wrong." The schools were intended to "prevent very rich boys from turning into playboys or pantywaists," Lemann writes...

[DearAbby]

14. A boxed lunch will be served before and after

the viewing. Stiff drinks will be served this evening.

[trotsky]

18. ...

:spray:

[notesdev]

15. That's just wrong

corpses don't belong in places where people eat. Something is very disturbing about the choice of venue.

[devilgrrl]

16. In Buffalo, they'll rename "Beef on Weck" to "The Russert"

:popcorn:

[MikeNearMcChord]

19. I got an idea, why don't they get the Russians to construct

one of those Mausoleums, and preserve him like they do Lenin. Outside Ralph Wilson Stadium. Then let MSNBC create a cult of personality.

[KoKo]

20. Speaking of "cult of personality" Flowers and cards are being left outside NBC's studios

in tribute to Russert according to MSNBC/NBC reports. Princess Diana?

[Dreamer Tatum]

24. A tree falling in the forest only makes a sound if you're there to hear it

The hand-wringers over the publicity assigned to Russert's death sure do love to post and reply
to these threads, don't they?

Folks, this is what happens when a member of the media with lots of media friends dies. I don't see
any flags flying at half mast, I don't see any schools closed, and there is a full slate of major
league baseball being played tonight, tomorrow, and all week. If you're cheesed that cable news coverage
is still centered on Russert, then you might just have to change the channel.

This is coming from someone who didn't much care for Russert...I don't like people who write sappy, sanctimonious
books about their private relationships, and I don't like people who are obsessed with bad football teams (so
don't even get me started on Mitch Albom).

[symbolman]

21. So are the going to varnish up the body

and stick it in the "Newseum" where he picked the fancy Constitution words for the big door, lay his bod out like the Russians did in that crazy red building? That would be so cool.. He could be a monument to bad, fake journalism, a Shrine for everyone who got millions of bucks for asking leading questions of Political/Corporate pals..

You think Bush Co would do him better for fronting a fake War for them.. They get billions in Swiss accounts, and HE is The Lunchbox at a fucking Catholic school..

[malaise]

25. The're giving details on GEM$NBC

I swear they have all gone mad.

[K Gardner]

26. OMG @! They have cameras outside the school.. talking about limosines zipping up

to the front of the line, George Clooney sending flowers to the school, people calling the pundits and expressing their sorrow..

Get ready.. cameras rolling all day and into the night.

[malaise]

27. Meanwhile another levee has given way to

Ole man river.

[Javaman]

29. Dining Hall???? Tim Russert is soylet green!!! nt

[dbt]

30. Buffet line or conga line?

"I'm too full to dance," Tom said, gravely.

[KoKo]

31. MSNBC must be getting DISSED...there are only "peak views" of St. Albans and

they are showing "casket view" with many people "viewing"...sort of a miniscule St. Ronnie send off. I guess Russert's wife isn't ready to "fling herself on the casket" like Nancy was.

Maureen still has a "career" for "Vanity Fair" to keep up "appearances" for. :eyes: