McCain Using Same Robocall Firm That Helped Smear Him In 2000

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Note: This was a reply to the following ridiculous assertion:

"Tim Russert would have gone insane this election season with so many lies going around. I imagine him with anybody of the McCain campaign with the videos and the quotes to prove their contradictions in his very elegant and respectful way to cross examine. I believe that this election would have been a landslide by today if we would have somebody like him pressuring for interviews and confronting the politicians. I still miss him on sunday mornings!!!"

My reply:

Are you serious?

Russert would have kept every freaking GOP talking point roiling right up to election day. As Arianna said, he was a captive of conventional wisdom, a lazy thinker and largely AWOL in the runup to the Iraq War.

Please, he was weaker than a Shirley Temple.

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Note: Though shalt not criticize St. Timmeh.

Where Was Tim?

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What is up with this continuing lionization of Tim Russert, someone Arianna herself called "a conventional wisdom monkey"? Why does there seem to be this need by HuffPo writers to rehabilitate a man that was Dick Cheney's favorite echo conduit?

Come on you guys, this is absurd.

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