Tim Russert: 1950-2008

"Meet The Press" is exceptional television journalism, though hard to watch, usually because it is often about politics and that's what politics are sometimes like watching sausage being made, you'd rather have the final product. Tim Russert made it easier to stay involved with issues, though I'm not sure being sometimes displaced by various sporting events made the producers very happy. As a student in Buffalo, NY, I appreciate his citizenship, which reflects also where he came from the "Queen City of the Lakes" and terminus for "Clinton's Ditch" the Erie Canal, after one of its governors. They can add another name to the exemplary citizens of that city. I still recall him asking Secretary of State Condileeza Rice, PhD, three times, "Are you running for President?" She said no, three times. George Myers, the Bronx, NY (Sent Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:08 PM) Tim Russert: 1950-2008 - allDAY - msnbc.com