Bob McCarty Writes

The New York Post is reporting Tim Russert, host/moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” died today after suffering from an apparent heart attack at the network’s Washington news bureau. He was 58.
Russert, who also served as managing editor of the NBC program, was only the ninth person ever to be a permanent host of [...]

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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 buffoon of the night was MSNBC’s Tim Russert. Based on the tone and [...]

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“Shoot!” probably isn’t the word Mitt Romney’s using to berate himself over a claim he made on NBC’s Meet The Press program, but it seems appropriate nevertheless. the Republican presidential candidate was, after all, the victim of a self-inflicted “dumbshot” wound Sunday morning — and it’s still “bleeding” today.
Under pressure from host Tim Russert [...]

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I watched the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate broadcast live from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., and was left thinking Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson came away clear winners.
That’s right! Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, and Thompson, the Law and Order star and former U.S. senator from Tennessee, can [...]

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