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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMARTIN BASHIR IS SPANKING LUKE RUSSERT'S ASS LIKE A SANTANA CONGA SOLO
BASHIR: "Are John Boehner and Mitch McConnell fighting for the top 3 percent?" (Their assertion that not extending the Bush Tax Cuts would stifle "job creation" .
Russert wouldn;t answer and started giggling. He said "I'm not John Boehner or Mitch McConnell! Yoi have to have them on your show!"
Bashir said "We've asked, they won't come on."
The closest Russert would come to answering the question is to say that it's a "talking point."
At the end of the segment Russert called it a "tough interview."
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)Luke was really shitty at the end...he knew he just got worked!
spanone
(135,919 posts)Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)Must-see TV, once again. Martin Bashir ROCKS.
spanone
(135,919 posts)vaberella
(24,634 posts)He's a devotee and disciple.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Luke Russert is an empty sack.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)Why won't he just give the facts and stop trying to cover for the obstinate R's?
Spazito
(50,551 posts)Bashir refused to let the smarmy repub-loving shithead off the hook, kept asking him the same question which Russert danced around each time, looking more and more like the repub talking head he is.
That's what happens when one gets their job due to their father's legacy instead of getting it based on talent/merit.
Russert really is loathesome, imo.
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)When Martin Bashir explained that since Boehner won't come on his show, he had to take it instead. Russert shot back "Tougher interview than Michael Jackson!", a reference to Bashir's much-publicized one-on-one interviews with the King of Pop in 2003.
Oooh, snap! Got in a good one, huh Luke?? (Petty jackass)
Spazito
(50,551 posts)Talk about a lame response, pathetic really.
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)such as "Oh yeah??!!" or "Your mama!" but lame is lame.
malaise
(269,250 posts)Let me count the ways - the entitled lil prick was schooled.
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)I don't ol drunk boy brokaw is happy with hippies like Maddow, Schultz and Bashir being employed by his network. He was good buddies with lil russert's daddy.
Wish I'd seen that. Lil Russert is a pretty sad excuse for a reporter and I'm sure everyone knows why he's working there.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)But why would Luke Russert have such a difficult time answering such a simple question?
Or he could have said, "It appears so, Martin." But he tried to dodge the question as if he were protecting the Republicans.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)I thought I could spot one better than that. Or at least I thought a network'd know better than to put a drunk on prime time. Kind of an unpredictable sort, you know, and hard to understand. Plus they never understand anybody else either.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Isn't he just supposed to report, not carry water?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)he'd be the fill-in weekend sports guy on a 5000-watt radio station in East Jesus, North Dakota.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,509 posts)left us.
Skittles
(153,258 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)babylonsister
(171,104 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Just kidding.....
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Luke Russert is qualified to clean coffee mugs at a news station. That's about it.
veganlush
(2,049 posts)what he should have done, being that he is a reporter and not wishing, for that reason, to show any bias? I didn't see the piece, and I like much of what I've heard/seen of Bashir, but I'm not sure that russert really did anything he shouldn't have done here.
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)...because Bashir's question was based in cold, hard facts & figures. And as you acknowledge, you didn't see the piece. Bashir wasn;t asking Russert to "bash" Boehner and McConnell. The fact is that the segment of society they are "worried" about...the "job creators" who won;t get a Bush-sized tax cut...comes out to about 3% of the over-$250K crowd. It was completely reasonable for Bashir to ask the question, and Russert simply tucked his tail between his legs and acted like a giggling coward. Please don't give him credit he does not deserve for being a "reporter."
spanone
(135,919 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)What would Tim say?
Giggling like a little girl? Your ass is reprimanded!