If Rush Limbaugh and Barack Obama both sincerely admired you, you probably live one helluva life.
We always thought you should've attacked Republicans harder, embarrassed Democratic whimps like Joe Lieberman and Nancy Pelosi more on Iraq, but now that you're gone, how many broadcasters are left that will even have the guts to attack any of them, in any manner? It'll be all kid gloves from here, since the only person like you on TV is Keith Olbermann... and John McCain and Harry Reid are too crafty to agree to that suicide of an interview.
It'll be up to independent media outlets and the blogosphere to call out the bullshit artists in politics and expose the truth that Fox News, NBC, and the rest of the phony press bury. You sought the truth and settled for nothing short of total honesty. You did your goddamndest for a guy who had a simple Sunday morning show that should have bored us back to sleep yet never did. You were 58 but seemed younger. Why not somebody with way less good karma? Why you and not someone more dispensible, harsh as that is to say?
We'll never know but, like you, Mr. Russert, we'll keep looking for the answers and make sure to ask the tough questions to get them. Thanks for all your hard work.
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