Tim Russert We Will Miss You

The U.S. Open Golf coverage was interrupted with a startling report that Tim Russert collapsed in his new office earlier today. Tim Russert was perhaps one of the most beloved and charismatic political news correspondents. I am sure many of our readers have spent more of their Sunday mornings riveted to his pointed no holes barred interviews on Meet the Press.

They always say the good die young… such is the case today as we all mourn the loss of an outstanding journalist and American.

NBC interrupted its regular programming to announce Russert’s death, and in the ensuing moments, familiar faces such as Tom Brokaw, Andrea Mitchell and Brian Williams took turns mourning his loss.

Williams called him “aggressively unfancy.”

President Bush said he was “deeply saddened” by Russert’s death.

“Tim was a tough and hardworking newsman. He was always well-informed and thorough in his interviews. And he was as gregarious off the set as he was prepared on it,” Mr. Bush said in a statement.

Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the nation’s most widely watched program of its type. His signature trait there was an unrelenting style of questioning that made some politicians reluctant to appear, yet confident that they could claim extra credibility if they survived his grilling intact.

He was also a senior vice president at NBC, and this year, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Russert had Buffalo’s blue collar roots, a Jesuit education, a law degree and a Democratic pedigree that came from his turn as an aide to the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. – AP News Wire

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