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  Tim Russert | NewsBusters.org
Russert guests are often pressed to respond to long text boxes of criticism or asked to defend their own controversial statements.
In the interview, Russert took issue with the fact that the Vice President once stated on his show that it was "pretty well confirmed" that Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague in April 2001.
Tim Russert used his Today show appearance this morning to paint a bleak tour d'horizon of Bush foreign policy, expressing the fond wish - in guise of a question - that the American people might come to their senses and throw the bums out at the mid-term elections.
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 Tim Russert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Before joining NBC News, Russert served as counselor in New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office in Albany in 1983 to 1984 and was chief of staff to Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1977 to 1982.
Russert's father, a World War II veteran held down two jobs after the war, conveyed to his young son, through the methods of the "carrot and the stick," the importance of maintaining strong family values, the reverence of faith, and of never taking a short cut to reach a goal.
Tim told this story to Jay Leno when he was a guest on the The Tonight Show on NBC on June 6, 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tim_Russert   (722 words)

  
 About Meet the Press - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Russert joined NBC News in 1984.  In April 1985, he supervised the live broadcasts of the Today program from Rome, negotiating and arranging an appearance by Pope John Paul II, a first for American television.  In 1986 and 1987 Russert led NBC News weeklong broadcasts from South America, Australia and China.
Russert was born in Buffalo, New York on May 7, 1950.  He is a graduate of Canisius High School, John Carroll University and with honors from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Before joining NBC News, Russert observed firsthand the inner workings of the executive and legislative branches of government as counselor in the New York Governor’s office in Albany in 1983 and 1984 and a special counsel in the United States Senate from 1977 to 1982.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4459759   (628 words)

  
 Open Letter To Tim Russert
Daou Report: "On Meet the Press, Tim Russert gingerly questions Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace about the situation in Iraq.
Media Matters: "On the March 5 broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert failed to challenge several misleading claims made by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in support of his assertion that the Iraq war is "going very, very well."
Russert was able to make this claim by omitting any reference to numerous calls by Democrats in both houses of Congress for increased port security and various pieces of port-security legislation proposed by Democrats that have been, in most instances, opposed by Republicans."
openlettertotimrussert.blogspot.com   (448 words)

  
 Tim Russert - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As a college student Ben Domenech lifted arts criticism; as a GOP henchman, he was accused of fabricating a Tim Russert quote.
Tim Russert lets RNC chair Ken Mehlman dodge the Downing Street memo, blame the deficit on 9/11, and "respectfully disagree" with criticism from his own party.
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dir.salon.com /topics/tim_russert   (340 words)

  
 Tim Russert | The Huffington Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Having failed to sell the notion that an election won by moderate and liberal Democrats was somehow a conservative victory, the smart folks out there are now telling us that it’s all about centrism.
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert, who loved to talk to Kean and Hamilton in the day, now ventures to chat it up with Baker and Hamilton.
I foresee Russert agreeing with them that Iraq is quagmire, quagmire, Vietnam, and that the ISG route is risky...
www.huffingtonpost.com /news/tim-russert   (532 words)

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