Shorter Tim Russert: "Ethics? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Ethics!"

[Algorem]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060127/cm_huffpost/014553;_ylt=A86.I2guytpD9MYA1QH9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

Jane Hamsher
Fri Jan 27, 3:34 PM ET

...It's hard to imagine, but I don't think Father Tim thought twice about accepting a gig for which he normally charges $50,000 to $60,000 to give a speech on ethics in the media. We can assume his supporting cast has grown accustomed over the years to stifling their guffaws at his disproportional self-image and didn't tip him off to the absurdity factor. So he was no doubt surprised when Arianna pointed out the obvious: that the man who has done more than anyone to normalize wingnut eliminationist rhetoric in mainstream political discourse, who equipped himself with an inviolable set of principles when it meant covering for pedophilia fantasist Scooter Libby but whipped them off quicker than a pair of whore's panties when it came to Richard Clarke, and who still has not explained his extremely dubious role in the whole CIA leak case but feels free to limbo around this awkward fact as he covers the story from week to week, might be a bit challenged giving a lecture on the ethics of anything but most especially the media.

It probably never occurred to him that the little wink-wink, nudge-nudge action with fellow bloviator James Carville last week over Carville's new XM radio sports show was inappropriate due to the fact that Timmeh's son is Carville's co-host and Russert was using precious NBC moments more aptly devoted to, say, the NSA leak case to push his kid's show without bothering to clue the audience in...

This is a man whose limber set of "ethics" was openly and officially mocked by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Whoever booked this rodeo clown show must be a fan of the theater of the absurd.

Feel free to leave your paeans to the righteousness of Father Tim at the Tim Russert blog.He'll see it.

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/huffpost/cm_huffpost/storytext/014553/17853956/SIG=11dd4jk1f/*http://openlettertotimrussert.blogspot.com/. He'll see it.

[Submariner]

1. "Fred Barnes' chin will be dusted for George Bush's ball prints"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[tularetom]

2. Glad to see someone else is as sick

of the Matalin/Carville freak show as I am. Pumpkinhead russert is bad enough but the combination of him and those two misfits is enough to make you gag. I quit watching a couple years back but it didn't surprise me that the 2 ghouls have been on MTP 41 times since 1995.