Tim Russert Needs To Go On Dancing With The Stars

That way he'd truly understand what a laughingstock he has become.

I would say it was borderline to bring up the issue of Farrakhan at all. But perhaps since it’s getting some media play you bring it up just for the record, for Obama to address.

That’s not what Russert did. He launches into it, gets into a parsing issue over word choices, then tries to find reasons to read into the record some of Farrakhan’s vilest quotes after Obama has just said he denounces all of them. Then he launches into a bizarre series of logical fallacies that had Obama needing to assure Jews that he didn’t believe that Farrakhan “epitomizes greatness”.

As a Jew and perhaps more importantly simply as a sentient being I found it disgusting. It was a nationwide, televised, MSM version of one of those noxious Obama smear emails.

I touched on this last night, but really, 10 minutes on national television on Louis Farrakhan? In 2008? And he's only one of the African-Americans who will be dragged out for Barack Obama to have to reject or renounce or whatever.

I don't know what to do about Tim Russert: he's actually respected in his field, which reflects badly on the whole field, of course. But it needs to happen. A good public humiliation will do the trick.