Sunday will never be the same

[xiinfaniin]

Castro, do you really think I need to watch two hour video clip to learn how the media propaganda works in this country?

 

It’s a nice sentiment of yours that you thought of me as a victim of Western propaganda

 

Waryaa Geelle Russert waxbaan isku ahayn, maad nala barooratid adeer?

 

Caawa xabbad sowdaysanahay....

[Castro]

^^^^ lol. All the links in this topic were for the gallery, awoowe. I know that you know what time it is. I also (now) know you have a soft heart.

 

Xabad sowda should be treated as a controlled substance.

 

G'nite awoowe.

[xiinfaniin]

^^lol@soft heart.

 

Iska seexo anigu caawa muraad baan leeyahay'e. Berri uun baad arki doontaa waxaan political sections ka dhigo...haddese howlaan kalaa haystaa ee adigu ii naso adeer.

[Kashafa]

As'ad Abu Khalil on Tim Russert.

Tim Russert. I met him when I was a graduate student and was doing free-lance work for NBC-News in Lebanon. He was the rising star in the network then. I did not know him at all but he represents something not necessarily good or impressive about U.S. media. He was talented and was a good interrogator and was very well-prepared: but these are basic qualities that all journalists should possess; and journalists in Europe, for example, possess those qualities. But he also represented this tendency that you have be chummy with politicians, and that it is all a big joke--the political differences and the disagreements. Russert has a horrible record on the Bush administration: he was least critical and least skeptical. How can you take his coverage seriously, when he would interview the president one day, and then take his son to take his picture in the Oval Office the next day? He really did that: or when he marvels about how "a kid from Buffalo" is sitting in the Oval Office. What is the big deal, I don't get it. He represents that annoying tendency in the U.S. to indulge in self-praise and self-congratulations. He is one of those who have to say "only in America" several times a day. He also represented patriotic journalism --according to which you should not question an administration in a time of war. He also has this nostalgic view of parents and grandparents: the glorification of the past, with little regard for the plight of women, minorities, homosexuals in this past. The "greatest generation" that Brokaw wrote so much about was a generation that practiced segregation, that confined women to their homes, that watched lynching of blacks, that blatantly beat homosexuals, that spoke about "the others" only in vulgar and pejorative terms. Yesterday, Chris Mathews outed him on MSNBC: he said that Russert was a supporter of the American invasion of Iraq. No kidding. It was quite obvious. Russert started his career by working for one of the worst (and most politically racialist) Senators: Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It is also that common revolving door policy: to have journalists moving from the corridors of power to the newsrooms. Russert worked for Mynihan and for Mario Cuomo before coming to NBC-News. On Israel, Russert was horrible: he would always challenge politicians if they have the slightest skepticism toward Israel and its crimes. The standards of political courage are so different in the U.S. from what they are in Europe, for example. Here, if they ask one mild question (the standard for questioning being Larry King), it is considered courageous. Look back at Russert's interviews with Rumsfeld and Bush after Sep. 11: they did not show hints of skepticism. He was a war promoter.

Glen Greenwald on establishment journalists:

There are numerous reasons why the function fulfilled most vigorously by our establishment media is to serve the political establishment, but the petty cravings of today's "journalists" to be close to those in political power is without question one of the most significant. It's hard to imagine a more vivid illustration of the disease which Janyes describes than this little vignette.

 

That was where, as Megan McCain put it, "the guys from the Politico brought my mom flowers." It's

Tim Russert, George Stephanopoulos, Gloria Borger, Tom Brokow

and friends following McCain around Manhattan, singing "Happy Birthday" to him. It's all the inter-marriages and other social and professional intertwining between our journalist class and the ruling political elite.

No need to deify the dead. The sudden death, right after his son's graduation is tragedy enough. RIP, Tim.

[N.O.R.F]

Originally posted by rudy-Diiriye:

rip! dunno the homie..not a tv watcher.

 

You guys actually watch political shows? On Sundays??

[Pujah]

Lawmakers want to name highway for the late Tim Russert

6/15/2008, 1:42 p.m. EDT

The Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal lawmakers from New York say they want to rename a portion of U.S. Route 20 near Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park after the late Tim Russert.

 

Sens. Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton and Rep. Brian Higgins say they'll introduce a resolution regarding the highway's name on Monday.

 

Under their proposal, a section of the highway that runs in front of the stadium — home to Russert's beloved Buffalo Bills — would bear the late newsman's name. They didn't specify exactly what the new name would be or how long a stretch of the highway would be renamed.

 

Russert, who hailed from Buffalo and was a legendary fan of his hometown team, suffered a heart attack and died Friday afternoon at the NBC News Washington Bureau.