# What, No Tim Russert Love?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-tim-russert-love/452858>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 13, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-tim-russert-love/452858 "2008-06-13T21:08:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-tim-russert-love/452858/1 "2008-06-13T21:08:41Z")

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I’m in shock! [Tim Russert’s dead!](http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/13/tim.russert/index.html)

Tim was a strange, generally good, though sometimes misguided guy. His biases tended to be very obvious, and I disagreed with him A LOT. But I’d say he was a net plus for Meet the Press.

RIP Tim.

> [@CNN](#):
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> – Tim Russert, who became one of America’s leading political journalists as the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” died Friday, according to the network. He was 58. --more–

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**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-tim-russert-love/452858/2 "2008-06-13T21:12:30Z")

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Psst. Cafe Society.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-tim-russert-love/452858/3 "2008-06-13T21:14:42Z")

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[Over here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=471734) & [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9902375#post9902375)

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-tim-russert-love/452858/4 "2008-06-13T21:15:02Z")

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> **[Tim Russert: 1950-2008](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=471734)**
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> They’re announcing on MSNBC right NOW that Tim Russert just collapsed and died at work today. That’s just … waaaaaaaaaaHH 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-tim-russert-love/452858/5 "2008-06-13T21:17:39Z")

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Since there are other threads on this topic, I’ll go ahead and lock this one.