re: Wash. Jour. Lincoln Mus. show -- Russert is in the mix

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http://www.bartcop.com/

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Subject: Russert on Lincoln

Bart - In the next few days we here in Springfield, IL will be in the national news.

And from the mediareports of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum (the general public
has not been allowed in - select groups of insiders, media, and school children have been used
for "shakedown" tours), there is a MAJOR embarrassment that reflects badly on Springfield.

One of the exhibits is how TV would have covered election night 1860 - and it is anchored by
America's premier media whore, Tim Russert.

From the accounts, he reads the historical script. But if Russert had covered the 1860 election
like he covered "Monica" the questions would have been something like these:
"Mr. Lincoln, is it true you really loved Ann Rutledge and only married Mary Todd because her
brother-in-law's father, Ninian Edwards, is a former Illinois Territorial and State Governor?"
"Mr. Lincoln, your law partner, Billy Herndon, is an atheist - doesn't your association with him
prove your unfitness to hold the Presidency?"

"Mr. Lincoln, you are sympathetic to drunks, tolerate the Irish, and have a barber who is descended
from slaves - doesn't this show you are outside the mainstream of God fearing Americans and nothing
but a liberal elitist?"

"Mr. Lincoln, your mother died after a cow ate some poison weed and contaminated the milk - isn't it
true you were responsible for keeping the cow out of those weeds, and caused mother's death?"

For all who may come to this museum - and please do - be aware we did not pick Russert - he was
picked by Richard Norton Smith, who has worked at Republican Presidential libraries.

John K.
Springfield, IL
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(ah ha! now we know why Brian and Smith were on WJ this a.m.)