Yikes
Tim Russert of Meet the Press just keeled over dead.
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Comments (7)
Horrible. He was a great one.
Posted by butch | June 13, 2008 1:09 PM
My brother just informed me my commentary on Russert was "too soon", so I shall refrain.
I'm with Sullivan though, if you're the praying sort, send one up for Big Russ. It SUCKS to outlive your kids.
Posted by Chris Snethen | June 13, 2008 2:34 PM
Sundays won't be the same. In my humble opinion, as an interviewer he was peerless.
Posted by genop | June 13, 2008 3:54 PM
Tim Russert: I knew him well.
Then he died. How sad.
Posted by RickN | June 13, 2008 5:14 PM
I am still in total shock over this. Talk about a news icon. And his wife, Maureen Orth, is an outstanding person. I feel like my television just went dark.
Posted by Sarah Bott | June 13, 2008 6:13 PM
If the media people who honor and exalt him would put that same effort into copying him we'd probably have a better culture.
How sad says it all.
Posted by David E Gilmore | June 16, 2008 6:53 AM
Tim Russert, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While in law school [1974-76], an official from his alma mater, John Carroll University, called Russert to ask if he could book some concerts for the school as he had done while a student. He agreed .... One concert that Russert booked was headlined by a then-unknown singer, Bruce Springsteen, who charged $2,500 for the concert appearance. Russert told this story to Jay Leno when he was a guest on the The Tonight Show on NBC on June 6, 2006.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | June 16, 2008 10:01 PM