Tim Russert Blew It on Iraq. So Why Are We Canonizing Him?

By Alexander Cockburn, The Nation
Posted on June 20, 2008, Printed on December 4, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/88783/

The delirium in the press at Tim Russert's passing has been strange. As a broadcaster he was not much better than average, which is saying very little. He could be a sharp questioner, but not when it really counted and when courage was required. He was tough with George Bush in a February 2004 interview. He taxed him with faking the reasons to attack Iraq. But in the years before the 2003 attack, I used to hear Russert being merciless to those questioning whether Saddam Hussein had the nukes and bioweapons alleged by the Bush Administration and its co-conspirators in the press, prominent among them Russert himself.

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