we move to canada (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On a cold March night in southwestern Virginia in 2003, one week prior to the United States invasion of Iraq, I filed into a packed auditorium of 2,000 students, including the entire corps of Virginia Tech military cadets dressed in white pants, white gloves, and navy blue hats. Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press, a weekly news magazine that airs on U.S. network television, was to speak on...
Mobtown Shank (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... a few bombshell non-fiction questions like whether Bill O'Reilly contributed to the death of Tim Russert, how John McCain buried the New York Times story about his alleged affair, and how CNN's conflict-of-interest with a pundit may have led to Barack Obama's nomination. And here's the NYTimes story that made him famous. The Eisenstadt Group .
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... Withdrawn Promise Two weeks after 9/11, Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking to Tim Russert on Meet the Press, said that he expected “in the near future . . . to put out . . . a document that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have linking [bin Laden] to this attack.”3 Powell reversed himself, however, at a press conference with President Bush in the White...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... One man finally decided to do something about it and killed 168 people. When gently questioned by Tim Russert as to whether the white-hot vitriol he rode to power might have contributed to a political climate which made Oklahoma City possible, Gingrich of course reacted with the wounded pride of the professional mountebank - "How dare you?", such comparisons are "grotesque", and on and on....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... picks to have a seat at the table. As for " Meet The Press " the less said the better. The late Tim Russert lost all credibility when we discovered that he knew who leaked Valerie Plame's name and did nothing. His successor David Gregory is best known as Karl Rove's dance partner. Nothing to see here. Just a bunch of old quotes dredged up to play "Gotcha." One other note. Enough with the...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... thereby giving that leak a legal defense, however dubious. Cheney even went so far to imply to Tim Russert that he hypothetically could have declassified Valerie Wilson’s identity. Q There was a story in the National Journal that Cheney authorized Libby to leak confidential information. Can you confirm or deny that? THE VICE PRESIDENT: I have the authority as Vice President under an executive...
