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    The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC

    The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo

    The Case of NBC's Jane Stone, Conservative Policy Groups, and the "JewBoy" Email

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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    I imagine Shelly Ross will be extremely furious with Christine Anderson for talking such smack behind her back. I never understood why people who work for government agencies that get FOIA'ed all the time still use their government e-mail accounts to say things they wouldn't want made public. #today
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC

    No current or future story on Spitzer can ever hope to trump that NY mag cover that so sucintly and perfectly summarized his persona & M.O. back in March 2008. An image = one thousand words, and all that. #today
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    I hope Silda gave the doorman a good holiday tip for having to deal with all these asses. #today
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    Image of Hockeymom Hockeymom
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    The most interesting thing about this is that working for Shelly Ross is still worse than working for a Governor who has a hooker habit. #today
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Spitzer Files: Today Offers to Help Spitzer's Flack Land a Job at NBC
    Lt. Gov Paterson's strong and storied leadership

    Um... okay. Did he have a backstory?
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/05/09

    @Magister: That was my favorite line, too. #today
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    Image of goetz goetz
    10/08/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    Det. Russert's cousin from Homicide is dead!?
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    I'm just glad they have that smirking chimp David Gregory in his chair, so I know the Republic is safe.

    Bwahaha. Fuck Gregory. Shame about the ratings. Has there been time enough past to say Tim Russert was a hack and a courtesan of the powerful, without a single original thought as he introduced endless guests telling us how we needed to brutalize the people of Iraq without mercy or human decency? Because of fake imaginary weapons?

    Yes, it's time enough. Fuck Tim Russert, salesman for the Iraq war. Too bad there's a line of people waiting to replace him. Talking the hawkish tawk on behalf of the military-industrial complex. Genial spokesperson for blasting the fuck out of some other foreign country.

    Oh, but apparently he was a jolly fellow when he wasn't inviting people on camera to advocate a disastrous war. Ho-ho, Tim was one them, that tiny Beltway crowd with their entitlement and heads firmly up their own asses.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    10/09/09

    @Baroness: I must admit I've not once watched Gregory on MTP (my Sunday mornings are otherwise occupied) but I feel that these recaps distill his essence quite nicely.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    The exhibit would be perfect if Carville and Matalin were sitting in the mock-office, as if they were waiting for Big Tim to show up. To pass the time, they could bicker in their campy way over some nonsense.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/07/09

    @MrInBetween: lovely, yes. with pat buchanan denying the holocaust, bill o'reilly denying the loofah and rush limbaugh denying the drug addiction and the sex trips.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    tv news: crap squared
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/07/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: also: how to be a corporate ass kissing toadying shill 101
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    Sorry, but I just don't get the ALL-CAPS hostility towards Russert, just like I didn't get it when it was directed towards Rather. I mean, its a fucking display at the Newseum. He's not getting his own wing at the Smithsonian. Calm down.
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    Image of anonymousryan anonymousryan
    10/07/09

    @Atilla the Bun: It's not directed so much at Russert as it is the failed state of today's news media. The idea that Russert is the best we have to offer against the news giants of the past generation is more than slightly disappointing. It's nothing personal against Russert, but he just wasn't that good of a newsman.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    10/07/09

    @anonymousryan: It seems pretty directed at Russert to me--that he "wasn't that good of a newsman." Which is fine, but the tone still seemed rather over the top and harsh. It's kind of like beating up on Santa Claus.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/07/09

    @Atilla the Bun: For some of us the problem last year had nothing to do with Russert and everything to do with the reaction at NBC and MSNBC, where his surprise passing was treated as the end of the world as we know it. Big time journalists were unable to separate the personal and the professional and viewers across both platforms were treated to nearly all-Russert, all the time beatification. Now? I don't really care what the Newseum does so long as it keeps those Front Pages available onlline.
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    Image of paxcincinnatus paxcincinnatus
    10/07/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: "and everything to do with the reaction at NBC and MSNBC, where his surprise passing was treated as the end of the world as we know it."

    Well, you have you seen David Gregory host, right? If I was an NBC suit, I'd have been shitting bricks too.
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    Image of SinisterRouge SinisterRouge
    10/07/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Santa Claus brings gifts to children.

    Tim Russert was a disservice to the news industry. Jack Welch and his Irish-cabal at NBC are notoriously bad at actual news, Russert included.

    He was a terrible newsman who never actually did any good reporting and served to misinform the public under the guise of being a "nice guy." He may have been a nice man in person, but he was indeed a terrible "newsman." Hence, the tone of the post.

    Next thing you know, Olbermann will close his show with Morrow's signature line.
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    Image of ShawnP ShawnP
    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    THE LATE TIM RUSSERT: You've expressed unease with my posthumous deification.

    Yet you wrote this on October 7, 2009:

    "He was a ... a watchdog ... an institution ... a towering genius."

    Is there not an inconsistency here?

    PS. - GO BULLS!
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    Image of hfree hfree
    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    I used to work for the Newseum. Tim Russert was on their board before he passed. He was a highly respected board member and liked a lot there, so I'm not surprised that they received some of his things (now the merits of putting up his office as is. . .).
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    10/07/09

    @hfree: I should add that folks were really, really excited to get that dry-erase board. It was like it was the holy grail or something.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    09/26/09

    In reply to The Case of NBC's Jane Stone, Conservative Policy Groups, and the "JewBoy" Email
    This kind of crap enrages me. There is little or no responsible journalism left in this country.
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    Image of heavenisforlosers heavenisforlosers
    09/26/09

    In reply to The Case of NBC's Jane Stone, Conservative Policy Groups, and the "JewBoy" Email
    This is a really crappy narrative, Kamer. Not only do you put "Jew boy" in the headline, making me assume that a jew boy e-mail exists, but you don't even address that fact until over halfway into the column. This is one instance where we should all take a lesson from either Mediabistro, who does a nice job of placing the two competing explanations up front, or maybe the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew with something like "The Mystery of Jane Stone, ALG, and the Jewboy E-mail."
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    09/26/09

    @heavenisforlosers: Laurel? Thanks, but no thanks. The email does exist in its fake form, and I addressed this in the lede: "a conservative policy group play the press cycle over a 'Jewboy' 'email' from NBC."
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    09/26/09

    @heavenisforlosers: In what world does changing the word "Case" to "Mystery" in any way change the headline of this post, ie the very thing you are bitching about? It's like asking him to change "E-mail" to "Internet Message." BTW, Foster, please change this headline to say "'JewBoy Internet Message."
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    Image of heavenisforlosers heavenisforlosers
    09/26/09

    @Foster Kamer: Alright, maybe I shouldn't have been so harsh. I suppose I was just a little confused when I was reading the article, having not heard anything about this before.
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    09/26/09

    @allyzay: Well, I prefer the Mediabistro headline in any case, but since you ask, I think mystery definitely suggests more of an uncertainty than case does.

    For example:
    The Case of Jane Stone and the Jewboy E-mail

    The Mystery of Jane Stone and the Jewboy E-mail

    The first, at least, to me, suggests a direct connection between Jane Stone and the Jewboy e-mail whereas the second suggests a tenuous connection at least, and a direct connection at best.

    Then again, you're probably right, I'm just being a picky douche, and I've gotten greedy with Foster being one of my favorites on this site.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    09/26/09

    In reply to The Case of NBC's Jane Stone, Conservative Policy Groups, and the "JewBoy" Email
    I am a consevative, but this insanity by BOTH sides is not what I signed up for.I officially opt out of the
    craziness now engulfing the whole human race. I'm moving to a desert island taking off my clothes and walking on the beach till I die.

    The Obamas are more than welcome to join me.
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    Edited by miss_msry at 09/26/09 4:57 PM miss_msry was starred miss_msry was unstarred
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