Tim Russert died of a heart attack :(

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VPhys said:
For someone like me, who has a Father in his 60s, this really makes you think.
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It's pretty scary that someone with little to no warning signs can just suddenly drop dead. It makes me grateful that I still have a father to celebrate Father's Day with.

RiskyChris said:
Chuck Todd doesn't have the communication skills or charisma that Russert had.
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I agree, but Todd does have the insight and understanding of the big picture - but he will not be the TV legend that Russert is.
 
in a selfish way im sad because he made the election season so damn entertaining, but its certainly a bigger loss for his family, especially his father and his son. Damn. On a side note, im honestly surprised at how much coverage this is getting on all the major news networks, not as a slight to his career, but I wouldn't have expected this kind of round the clock coverage for the death of a newsman. Must tell you how significant he was.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
in a selfish way im sad because he made the election season so damn entertaining, but its certainly a bigger loss for his family, especially his father and his son. Damn. On a side note, im honestly surprised at how much coverage this is getting on all the major news networks, not as a slight to his career, but I wouldn't have expected this kind of round the clock coverage for the death of a newsman. Must tell you how significant he was.
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Remember, the primary coverage turned on a dime as soon as Russert declared the primary over. He was basically one of the last of the old guard of political coverage.
 
Russert: The night you took the country to war, March 17th, you said this: "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

President Bush: Right.

Russert: That apparently is not the case.

President Bush: Correct.
 
I wonder if NBC feels they owe Matthews the post since Matthews has turned CBS down in the past for that job out of loyality to NBC.
 
Cheebs said:
I wonder if NBC feels they owe Matthews the post since Matthews has turned CBS down in the past for that job out of loyality to NBC.
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Its possible but they really need to let the people riot if they must and make the right decision. Replacing Russert on Meet the Press will not be very easy and they cant just put someone in over loyalty or they may find Meet the Press ratings plummet
 
And another light fades in the world.

Fleeting existence is all humanity knows. No matter how advanced we become, no matter how detached we try to seem. We all die.

RIP Tim, and let your family find comfort in the good you've done, in the lives you've touched, and never forget that it all could end right now. The ties we create are the only thing the world will remember about him, or any of us.

My heart and thoughts go out to his family.
 
BTW, I wouldn't want to be the guy to replace Russert, can you imagine the expectations? It'd be like replacing JoePa or Spurrier.
 
Cheebs said:
I wonder if NBC feels they owe Matthews the post since Matthews has turned CBS down in the past for that job out of loyality to NBC.
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Mathtews on Meet the Press would be a disgrace. While I think he has the personality for it, Russert was a true journalist's journalist who never let his ideology get in the way of conducting an objective interview. Meanwhile, Matthews is talking about the tingling he gets between his legs when he thinks of Obama.
 
Technically it's a thrill up his leg when he hears Obama speak, slightly different.

Although isn't Matthews still planning on a Senate run?
 
King_Slender said:
Mathtews on Meet the Press would be a disgrace. While I think he has the personality for it, Russert was a true journalist's journalist who never let his ideology get in the way of conducting an objective interview. Meanwhile, Matthews is talking about the tingling he gets between his legs when he thinks of Obama.
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Exactly.

And if NBC does hire Matthews, then their journalistic objectivity died with Russert.
 
Wow I can't believe he's gone.

I haven't been this choked up for a death in 10 years.

Edit: Watching the 2000 election coverage is really nostalgic.
 
King_Slender said:
Interesting, I think that would be a good choice - though you know all the Obama-ites would be up in arms.
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Why? Chris Wallace is one of the only actual journalists on the network.
 
Tamanon said:
Why? Chris Wallace is one of the only actual journalists on the network.
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Simple - he works for Fox News, and despite his track record of being objective, the left would go nuts over somebody from Fox News hosting that show.
 
King_Slender said:
Simple - he works for Fox News, and despite his track record of being objective, the left would go nuts over somebody from Fox News hosting that show.
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Shut up with your demonization already. At least keep it out of this thread.
 
King_Slender said:
Simple - he works for Fox News, and despite his track record of being objective, the left would go nuts over somebody from Fox News hosting that show.
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Obama's campaign has called Chris "tough but fair". When he finally agreed to an interview with Fox, it was with Chris (and it was a decent one).

Edit: and yeah, this isn't the place.
 
This just breaks my heart.

I dont nessarly think his best interviews were the with the Politictions but there was some great ones. No, it was with the Sports and Social issues i liked the most. The interview with Bill Cosby was just heart breaking to watch, even it was a little slow. His Interview with Iverson at a time when Costas was on his case, It was tough to watch, but it was intresting. His Sports Interviews were great I thought. How can you replace him? He did more to educate me and children in this nation (him and Peter Jennings) than any stupid godforsaken e/i act has ever done.

What more can be said? We keep losing great men and women in this world...and the trash continues to be born being protected by some altrustic political pipe dreams. Im Black, Catholic, Consertive and every time a hero a man with gravitas and greatness somebody I want to become like but not copy from them dies, and I look out into the street near the ghettos of Philadelphia and i say...why...what is this world I live in? It just hits me, Big Russ reminds my of my Grandfather who I heard a lot from my father but I never met. And some people in the streets and others I talk to, say i act or support...white for my own good... well know what. I tell them, **** off, go about you business, have a nice life.

I think Tom Said it best tonight, the first time back in the chair since his retirement... "Save a Pint for Timmy...Go Bills." :(
 
Like I said, if NBC stays internal there is one guy they can pick. David Gregory. he is an actual journalist, the NBC white house correspondent (and probably will take over as DC bureau chief now).

Anyway, it will be a few weeks before they make a decision.
 
A man of great intellect and wisdom, respected at home, in his community, his job, and his profession just died. : (

He brought an enthusiasm to his job like no other, and was on of the better political analysts, commentators, and interviewers out there. I hear he was deeply religious; I hope he finds what he was expecting.

God Bless you, Mr. Russert, and thanks for the intro to politics. It'll never be the same again.

Edit: I've been thinking; it's so bizzare they couldn't save him. With all the advances in tech, you'd think he could have survived. It's so weird. I can't imagine someone dying from a heart attack, for some reason. They could have just given him a new heart or something, wtf. : (
 
FlightOfHeaven said:
he intro to politics. It'll never be the same again.

Edit: I've been thinking; it's so bizzare they couldn't save him. With all the advances in tech, you'd think he could have survived. It's so weird. I can't imagine someone dying from a heart attack, for some reason. They could have just given him a new heart or something, wtf. : (
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Usually it's the sudden lethal arrhythmias that get people during heart attacks. That's why you're told to call 911 and take an aspirin immediately. If you wait to see if it magically gets better (it won't), you could go into pulseless v-tach or v-fib and die before you have a chance to even call. A lot of the heart doesn't even have to be damaged for that to happen.

Also, if a person suddenly drops to the ground due to rhythm problems, if a defibrillator is used immediately, it's often possible to restore regular rhythm before brain damage. If no defibrillator is around and just CPR is used until paramedics arrive, the odds are not in that person's favor, but still better than nothing. Also, there are such things as heart attacks where a person may have no symptoms or very mild symptoms that one doesn't even think of as possibly being a heart attack.
 
FlightOfHeaven said:
Edit: I've been thinking; it's so bizzare they couldn't save him. With all the advances in tech, you'd think he could have survived. It's so weird. I can't imagine someone dying from a heart attack, for some reason. They could have just given him a new heart or something, wtf. : (
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I wonder if he could have been saved if he was already in a hospital. If so, I may have to hire a full-time doctor to follow me around in my late 40s and 50s -- there's heart disease in my genes.
 
OgnodoD said:
Usually it's the sudden lethal arrhythmias that get people during heart attacks. That's why you're told to call 911 and take an aspirin immediately. If you wait to see if it magically gets better (it won't), you could go into pulseless v-tach or v-fib and die before you have a chance to even call. A lot of the heart doesn't even have to be damaged for that to happen.

Also, if a person suddenly drops to the ground due to rhythm problems, if a defibrillator is used immediately, it's often possible to restore regular rhythm before brain damage. If no defibrillator is around and just CPR is used until paramedics arrive, the odds are not in that person's favor, but still better than nothing. Also, there are such things as heart attacks where a person may have no symptoms or very mild symptoms that one doesn't even think of as possibly being a heart attack.
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Here is the doctor's assessment: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/25151489#25151489
 
Aristotlekh said:
Ahem. Screencap?
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From a Canadian without MSNBC:

To get MSNBC up here requires a special subscription. We've just got CNN. Still, I've known about Tim Russert for a few years from clips on the internet, appearances on The Daily Show, and just random happenings on Meet the Press that were important enough to make it onto other television programs.

If I had been forced to think about it before today, and given some time, I still may have chosen him as my favourite TV news personality. I don't know who comes close. He was the absolute best from the little that I saw. Always so calm and fair. There's really no one else like him in a country (world) that needs people like him so badly.

I read through this entire thread and watched a bit of remembrance on CNN, and I'm glad to see that he was so appreciated. Unfortunately, society is too busy to do anything meaningful with his memory, and despite talk of his 'standard' or 'example' his memory won't stand as the inspiration that it should, but instead it will simply be an event of someone dying that cannot be replaced.

I might be inflating his importance, but just consider how rare a person like that is.
 
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whats the story behind this? i saw a short clip where he had florida printed on one several times, but i didn't understand exactly what he was doing or rather why it was significant
 
Socreges said:
whats the story behind this? i saw a short clip where he had florida printed on one several times, but i didn't understand exactly what he was doing or rather why it was significant
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maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but it's significant because Russert used white boards to draw up statistics and make points quite often.
 
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

know that you were loved and appreciated, tim, by hundreds, thousands, or perhaps even millions of people that you reached out to, ever day
 
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