Two thoughts about Tim Russert
Submitted by JimL on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 8:42pm.

(1.) Everyone seems to remember his sitting next to Tom Brokaw on Election Night, 2000, scrawling the words "Florida, Florida, Florida" on his blackboard. What I haven't seen mentioned is that he had said the same thing that morning on the TODAY show. He'd done some electorical college math on the blackboard, then circled the word Florida and said, "We're really going to be watching Florida tonight. The election could be decided there."

(2.) In the midst of the Iowa floods and more bad news on mortgages, NBC News devoted its entire 30 minute broadcast Friday night to Tim's death. Somehow, I'd like to think he would not have approved.

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