Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after being stricken at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.
Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s “Meet the Press” broadcast when he collapsed. He was rushed to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, where resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful, said Russert’s physician, Michael Newman, who said the cause of death was not immediately known.
We now know it was a heart attack.
I cannot even begin to say what a huge loss this is for NBC and all of it viewers.
Mr. Russert was one of the good ones and I cannot imagine what it will be like to watch the coverage of this election cycle without seeing Tim's furrowed brow and enjoying his habit of speaking the truth when others hesitate to do so. (He was, after all, the one who finally told Hillary and her supporters that is was over.) Who will be the one to tell us which state is the final battleground to decide our next President?
I have one thing to say to Mr. Tim Russert "Good bye, good bye, good bye."
We will miss you greatly.
gone too soon...
ReplyDeletemay he interview the greats that he didn't get to now that he is up in Heaven...
Abe Lincoln...
Ike....
FDR....
and Nixon...
and I hope that he and Peter Jennings sit down and have a cuppa coffee...