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Tim Russert is a mess
Josh Marshall at TPM is doing a good job live blogging and he has focused some scorn which had occurred to me on Tim Russert's performance.
How important is Louis Farrakhan in a world of recession, war, and government corruption? Beyond the silly gotcha angle, he is taking a frankly adversarial tone not appropriate for a debate. This is not Meet The Press where his gotchas are part of his schtick. Moreover, he is not nearly as hard nosed in his approach on that show as he gets credit for. Remember this is Dick Cheney's favorite forum to broadcast his propaganda as in the outing of Valerie Plame.
Tom Russert has now joined the pantheon of worthless journalists along with Judith Miller and Jeff Gannon (Guckert?)