Just to follow up on the shitastic self-serving performance of uber-douche Tim Russert in the Democratic debate on MSNBC this week, Newsdesk really can’t improve on this paean delivered to the fine folks at Media Matters. Click through to read the whole thing, but we’ll leave you with the lede:
I suspect that truth may never get its boots on in reference to the job L’il Timmy Russert did last night. Since social climbers, courtiers, and people who think Don Imus is funny likely already have set the performance in marble, do let me just say in meek dissent that the man now stands revealed for the simmering tub of abject Fail he’s always been.
“What if giant metal monkey beasts land on the Mall and eat the Capitol Dome? What will you do then, huh? HUH?”
“Will you take a pledge right now to make sure that Ayman al-Zawahiri never comes to the Vineyard and steals my newspaper off my lawn? Will you? WILL YOU?”
“Your pastor has praised somebody who said something odious — Here, let me read you the most garish highlights — and now will you REJECT him? Not denounce him. REJECT HIM?”
“In my hometown of Buffalo.”
Oh, bite me, please.
This isn’t journalism. I don’t know what it is. Investigative collating, I guess. The next time MSNBC decides to treat us to 90 minutes of TV star dick-waving, it should advertise it as such, and then I could’ve watched Tennessee play Vanderbilt like I wanted to in the first place.
This article appears in February 22 • 2008.