Make Tim Cry

Those tuning in to C-SPAN's Washington Journal tomorrow a.m. might want to put these quotes up on the screen (like this) for Pumpkinhead Russert:

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Reliable sources have informed MWO that Jack Welch and Tim Russert attended last autumn's Al Smith Dinner in New York together - and that Russert, on the back of his lapel, was cleverly wearing a Bush for President button.

Russert has reportedly tried to shrug off the incident in private, but has failed to discuss it publicly.

MWO has also been told that either during or after the campaign, Republican Welch chewed out his employee, NBC News correspondent Claire Shipman, for being too favorable to Gore in her reporting on the Vice President's campaign. And Shipman's bureau chief - Tim Russert - reportedly did not lift a finger to protect her or to protest Welch's outrageous partisan interference.

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Imus himself has referred to one African-American journalist as "a cleaning lady," another as a "quota hire," and tennis player Amelie Mauresmo as "a big old lesbo." Imus taunted another reporter as a "beanie-wearing little Jewboy," called a disabled colleague "the cripple," and has said that he picked one of his producers to do "nigger jokes." (60 Minutes, 7/19/98)

National politicians and beltway journalists have brought the "Imus in the Morning" show to nationwide prominence--the show is now carried by cable network MSNBC--by making "Imus" a regular stop on their media rounds.

One such reporter is NBC's Tim Russert--the same Tim Russert who, on his own NBC show, was unsparing in questioning George W. Bush about the candidate's appearance at Bob Jones University in South Carolina (Meet the Press, 2/13/00).

Russert wondered if Bush's appearance at a school with a history of anti-Catholic bigotry and racial discrimination was "giving affirmation to that institution." ....

ACTION: Ask Tim Russert whether his appearances on the "Imus in the Morning" show give "affirmation" to the kind of obvious racism that is featured on the program. Ask him whether the line of questioning he had for Bush applies to his own appearances on the "Imus in the Morning" show.

And, of course, "Who leaked Valerie Plame's name to Novak (and others), and why are you refusing to cooperate in the investigation of a felony which jeopardized the life of a U.S. agent engaged in the War Against Terror?"

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Two journalists, one from NBC News [Tim Russert], have received federal subpoenas to face questioning about the alleged leak of an undercover CIA weapons expert's identity, but both news
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NBC News had said Friday night that it would oppose the subpoena issued to Russert, the first journalist known to have been subpoenaed in the investigation.

Disclosing the identity of an undercover U.S. agent is a felony.