Fox News has nothing on this asshole.

At tonight’s debate, Tim Russert engaged in one of the most vile and reprehensible lines of questioning I’ve ever seen in a debate. It started with a question to Obama about an endorsement he received from Louis Farrakhan, which Obama rejected and followed with a reminder that he has consistently denounced Farrakhan for his anti-semitic hate speech. Rather than drop the issue there, Russert had a followup “question” which was little more than an excuse to quote some of Farrakhan’s more infamous remarks and mention that the minister at Obama’s church is friends with Farrakhan. So despite the fact that Obama repeatedly denounced Farrakhan without even being prompted to do so, the goal of Russert’s little game of “Six Degrees of Barack Obama” seems to be to give voters the impression that Barack Obama hates Jews.

If using the word “pimped” is enough to get you suspended at MSNBC, Tim Russert’s shameful attempt to link Obama to anti-semitism should be grounds for dismissal.


posted by greg on February 26, 2008 @ 11:49 pm

5 comments »

  1. I agree he is the lefts “Fox news” but unfortunately he is so biased against Clinton that NBC is the new goverment for affirmative action

    Comment by don kirkwood — February 27, 2008 @ 5:10 am

  2. Russert is just getting warmed up for the general election in november.These debates show us that any media hack,like Russert can ignore,attack,or praise any candadate as he pleases.The questions Russert choose for Senator Obama were designed to keep the negative charges against him in the public mind,not for Senator Clintons benifit,but as a warm up to the general election.

    Comment by pogo — February 27, 2008 @ 8:38 am

  3. Russert is a legend…in his own mind.

    Comment by Doobie — February 27, 2008 @ 5:58 pm

  4. Yes Russert did make a, for lack of a better phrase, dick move, but he did shut down Hillary when she tried to but in and make Obama look bad.

    Comment by jim — March 6, 2008 @ 7:58 pm

  5. […] Farrakhan during the last debate. When Russert pulled the same stunt in February, I considered it “vile and reprehensible”. That Clinton would sink so low now is even […]

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