How did I miss this?
Posted: June 30th, 2008 | Filed under: Bruce, Media | 17 Comments »
Well, I probably missed it because there were roughly 10 million Tim Russert tributes in the days after he died, and honestly after a while they all started to run together — he was a Bills fan, great guy, a Bills fan, a modest person who couldn’t believe all the success he had, a Washington Nationals season ticket holder, a question asker, a good friend, a Bills fan, a decent man, a hopeful guy who believed in family and faith, a Bills fan and so on and so on and so on.
And after a while, sure, maybe I turned off to it all. I liked and admired Tim Russert a lot, I will miss seeing him on Meet The Press and around the election, but there’s only so much you can hear about anyone.
Then weeks later, I finally saw this. I’m sure all of you have already seen it — I’m never up on my You Tube or anything else. But I have seen it now. And it makes me think that nothing else needs to be said.
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Russert actually gave Bruce one of his first big breaks, booking him at John Carroll University when he was an unknown.
There’s also a statement on bs.net, which echoed what he said onstage that night in Wales, which is echoed here as well.
Nice guy sure, journalist?…uhh try entertainer, dinners with Cheney and 5 million salary make his objectivity questionable…heres a proper journalists POV
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080623_the_hedonists_of_power/
I’m a big Russert fan and have been for years but even I have to admit that Russert willingly stopped throwing his fastball after 9/11 and never really got it back, even as subsequent events cried out for tough questioning. When Huffington took to calling him “the high priest of conventional wisdom” it made me wince because there was too much truth in it.
That said, the essay posted by Msnthrop is too harsh. For a solid decade Russert was a hell of an interviewer. He dismantled David Duke when Duke still had a real chance to become a governor. That he later became too cozy with the power elite shouldn’t diminish his stellar earlier record.
It amuses me how exaggerated the tributes are by the media for those part of the media. They probably go all out with each other because that’s what they want when they themselves kick the bucket.
Granted, it was during the summer with little original programming. I wonder if they would have had as much during a ratings month.
No ill will, of course, to the life lived by Tim Russert.
Russert was an asset to the media and more importantly to the general public. His reporting and his research and his persistence have made me want to follow suit and be the best journalist I can be.
… Bruce isn’t saying Buffalo is a town for losers.
Bruce Springsteen: 100% musician, 0% bullshit.
Not to take anything away from Bruce, but Uncle Tony stole the show with this version of Born to Run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvwHNLe6dk
I think Russert was a journalist that was liked and feared by all sides. You can’t say that about too many members of the press.
Who’s Tim Russert?
He was the Royals SS in 1983. Well parts of 1983 anyway.
Sprint Center August 24! hard to beat the estreet live.
Given that at his oldest, Tim Russert was a student at John Carroll University in Cleveland when the Senators last played, he probably was not a Washington Senators season ticket holder. He was in fact a Washington NATIONALS season ticket holder.
Bruce should sing “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” sometime — and I don’t mean the Bruce Springstone version — during the 7th inning stretch. Of course there would be about a 10-minute delay for Bruce to tell a lead-in story about his first game with his father, but it would be worth it.
This is my absolute favorite Springsteen song. I had goosebumps the whole time I watched this.
thanks for the video, joe. didn’t know that springsteen and russert knew each other. love bruce’s work; a big, big fan. neat to see him reach out to the russert family like that, sharing good memories in really hard times.