luke russert doing puff piece on john boehner

[spanone]

m$nbc

such humble begninngs

as a child spent hours mopping bar

football coach says 'he played in pain'

got his charm from his father

and luke says it may lead to him leading the house this fall

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Beaverhausen]

1. I saw that this morning and had the same reaction

:puke:

His father is turning over in his grave, no doubt.

[LisaM]

2. Huh? Like father, like son, IMO

Tim Russert was awful about Gore and was very rah-rah about Bush.

[Beaverhausen]

14. Well, I don't remember Tim doing puff pieces like this one

maybe in retrospect he just seems a bit more objective than his son is.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. His father was only slightly less of a twit.

And I can still only figure that Luke has lots of pictures and videos of his dad's NBC colleagues that will stay off of Facebook if everyone just plays ball...

[gratuitous]

3. Don't you wish your job had such low standards?

Russert, like his old man, has a lifetime sinecure no matter how stupid/wrong/stinky his work is. The son of a "journalist" whose default setting was "off the record," Luke will never have to work a day in his life.

[Mz Pip]

4. well, isn't that special

However, the sweet hard working kid grew up to be a mean spirited pig ignorant asshole. How charm fits into that I have no idea.

[kentuck]

5. Wasn't it only 2 or 3 weeks ago?

they had asked him how many of his brothers were unemployed and he did not know? Something like 4 or 5 of them do not have a job...

[spanone]

7. GOP watch: Boehner's tight circle

On Sunday, the New York Times front-paged this tough piece on John Boehner: “He maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R. J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS. They have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaigns, provided him with rides on their corporate jets, socialized with him at luxury golf resorts and waterfront bashes and are now leading fund-raising efforts for his Boehner for Speaker campaign, which is soliciting checks of up to $37,800 each, the maximum allowed.”

"Memo to House Speaker-in-Waiting John Boehner: Be prepared for greater scrutiny on everything, including your nicotine addiction," the New York Daily News' DeFrank reports." CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer asked Boehner about his notorious smoking habit, and Boehner was "unable to mask a touch of irritation."

In a piece for MSNBC, NBC’s Luke Russert profiled Boehner’s very large family, and his roots growing up in Reading, OH.

Here's Newt Gingrich in all his rhetorical glory accusing the President of the United States of having played a "wonderful con" and calling him "authentically dishonest." In a National Review Online interview (via the New York Daily News, he said: "This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president. I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating -- none of which was true," Gingrich said. "He was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve...He was authentically dishonest."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/13/5100361-gop-watch-boehners-tight-circle

[Swamp Rat]

8. A chip off the old potato-head

Bringing cable 'news' to a new low boil.

[spanone]

9. bwahahahahaaaaa

perfect

[CatWoman]

10. LOL!!!!!

:rofl:

[Cleita]

11. You should be listening to Randi Rhodes instead.

She was talking about how he doesn't give a crap about doing what needs to be done to get the country back on track and she called him the drunken orange man.

:rofl:

[louis-t]

12. "Drunken orange man." Ha! Funny.

Orange Julius.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. luke russert puffing on a boehner....

there's an image I'd like to forget.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

15. luke should have asked the coach

why he let a high school kid "play in pain"?

I'd like to know how this piece of "journalism" came about.

[Blue Owl]

16. Did he mop daddy's floor with excessive amounts of OrangeGlo?

n/t

[spanone]

17. Amidst Media Battering of Boehner, MSNBC Actually Portrays His Upbringing Positively

little luke seems to think little johnny boehner couldn't possibly be tied to rich lobbyists cause he had 'humble beginnings, starting out in a big catholic family...'' what fucking drivel

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Amidst a war of words with the White House, character attacks from the Left, and a New York Times hit piece on his connections with lobbyists, House Minority Leader John Boehner has received positive media coverage – from
MSNBC of all places. The network ran a portrait of Boehner's childhood on its 11 a.m. news hour, and again on "Andrea Mitchell Reports" at 1 p.m.

"The public hears a lot of the arguments against from the Left," remarked NBC correspondent Luke Russert on the 11 a.m. MSNBC news hour Monday. "They hear that he's a country club Republican, if you will, with extensive ties to lobbyists. But it's quite interesting. He's a man who comes from very humble beginnings, starting out in a big Catholic family in Reading, Ohio."

Russert narrated a piece on Boehner's upbringing in Ohio, as one of 12 children. He interviewed one each of Boehner's brothers and his sisters, as well as his high school football coach.

Words used to describe Boehner included "bossy," "independent," "leadership," "charm," and "heart." Other highlights included his hard work for his family's bar and for the high school football team, as well as his taking seven years to earn his undergraduate degree because he worked during the day and took classes at night.

Overall, it provided quite a humane and sympathetic look into the upbringing of a prominent Republican politician – one that usually might not be expected of MSNBC.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2010/09/13/amidst-media-battering-boehner-msnbc-actually-portrays-his-upbringing-po#ixzz0zRp08z3f