All-White Tonight Show to Feature 5th Consecutive White Male Host

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Soon Conan O'Brien will replace Jay Leno as host of the Tonight Show. Let's face it: Conan O'Brien's foremost "qualification" to host the Tonight Show is that he is a white man. If he were not a white man, he would not even be...

David Gregory Succeeds Tim Russert on 'Meet the Press'

Meet the Press is the longest running television program on TV (61 years on the air) and following the death of former moderator Tim Russert earlier this year, NBC has appointed chief White House correspondent David Gregory to fill the role full-time.  Barack Obama was...

Godspeed, Tim Russert

As someone who has worked in the media and consumes tons of news media, I realize that there are many levels of professionalism amongst the news outlets who tell our stories. I was saddened when I heard of Tim Russert's passing this week. I studied journalism in...

Memorial Held for Tim Russert

A funeral was held on Wednesday for NBC journalist Tim Russert, who died last week at the age of 58. In attendance were many of Russert's family, friends, and leading American journalists and politicians."Tom...

Tim Russert Remembered: The Buffalo Truth Talker

The Man from Buffalo loved his politics and his sports. He also inspired legions of journalists to continue to speak truth to power. Tim Russert regarded and revered by MLN Sports senior editor Brian Ross.

Russert is gone; hypocrisy lingers on

This is the first Sunday when Tim Russert will not be presiding over "Meet the Press". Whilst many mourn the passage of Tim Russert, others are making political hay over it one way or the other. Many of the...

NBC New Bureau Chief Tim Russert Dies at 58

NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert died today after collapsing at the NBC bureau this morning. He was 58 years old.

Florida GOP Debate Highlights Offered

Five Republican candidates participated in the GOP Candidates Debate in Florida tonight. Rather than rehash everything covered during the 90-minute event held on the campus of Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton, I’ll offer a handful of highlights:"The biggest...

Let's Take It Easy on Hillary

"CNN's Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday's Dem debate on Hillary. 'This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,' top Clinton insider explains. 'Blitzer should not go...

Free Scooter Libby

The case gets weirder by the day. June 18, 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Slate If Scooter Libby goes to jail, it will be because he made a telephone call to Tim Russert and because Tim Russert has a different...

Ted Koppel Does Understand the Threat to America

The western world has had to deal with violent jihad by Muslims for more than a thousand years. After the defeats of Muslim armies in Spain centuries earlier, and of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, the west largely relaxed regarding that particular threat. The...

Lincoln Obama

"Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press today was asked by host Tim Russert if Barak Obama had the experience to be President, having only two terms in the house. . Newt repled; "Lincoln only served two terms in the house." Bam."

MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday ... (MSNBC)

"Transcript for June 25  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: a heated debate over the Iraq war in the U.S. Senate.  —  (Videotape):  —  SEN. BILL FRIST (R-TN): If we break our promise and cut and run, as some would have...

Franken Turns Tables on Russert

During an interview with Al Franken, Tim Russert objected to Franken's assertion that "Bush and Cheney did explicitly link Iraq to 9-11 on several occasions, especially when speaking to the naïve Russert."...

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