Russert in Winter...

I saw Tim "Don Rumsfeld is America's Stud" Russert briefly on the TV this weekend. He was flogging this Sunday's edition of Meet the Press on the NBC News weekend edition.
Can't recall who was the guest mostly cause' Tim looked so plain AWFUL!
Bloated, paunchy, wrinkled, a blotchy careworn countenance to be sure.
Mendacity and egotism truly take their toll.
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Okay...that was rough I know.
Nonetheless, Tim is paid untold millions to hassle democrats and treat liberals with reptilian disdain, if he can't stand the pace then maybe it is time to take down his celebrity journalist shingle and decamp for his fishing shack.
Which of course raises an interesting question....just how much would we have to pay Tim to start respecting our rights as free citizens?
Right now, all we are getting for a multi-million dollar contract is his famous "Rumsfeld mark" routine and a palpable sense of exhaustion with the complexities of the democratic process.
Since Tim is a money fed-machine, it follows we must give him more money in order to get him to act like a professional journalist again.
In the end, journalism is an industry, and one designed to make money, I suppose in the weary wicked end we may need to simply bribe our way to a free press.
Or so my tattered thinking goes on the last day before campaign 2004 erupts like a biblical case of boils.