Video: Russert nearly soils himself over the Baker report
posted at 9:43 am on December 7, 2006 by Allahpundit
He’s even giddier than Syria is, albeit not by much.
Spruiell has the clip. Don’t rely on the transcript; it doesn’t do him justice. SS thinks his enthusiasm is attributable to the media’s fetish for consensus, whereby each side sends its most geriatric wonks up on the mountaintop later to descend with a third-way, compromise Truth. True enough, although I think the spectacle of Bush’s policies being repudiated on a very public stage might have had something to do with it too. As Lileks said,
The Bush doctrine has been dead for some time, but this was the funeral oration. I don’t believe in “rope-a-dope,” and I don’t believe in the miraculous Israeli strike, and I don’t think the momentum can be reversed. It’s as if we invaded France and spent three years getting their government back on their feet before proceeding to Berlin.
The clip’s useful too as an illustration of how liberals convince themselves the media is right-wing. The nutroots hates the Baker report as much as we do because it doesn’t call for immediate surrender in the form of rapid withdrawal. Russert, however, can barely contain himself over its assessment of the “very difficult straits” we’re in and “how bleak the assessment is.” He’s satisfied with a report that calls for mere gradual surrender! Wingnut.
He also calls it a “wake-up call,” an alarm that’s at long last being sounded. I don’t know. From where I’m sitting, it looks like something else.
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Depends to the rescue!
urbancenturion on December 7, 2006 at 9:58 AM
How are you sure he didn’t?
natesnake on December 7, 2006 at 9:59 AM
If he didn’t, Matt Lauer sure did.
tnculp on December 7, 2006 at 10:02 AM
The Dems love the whole bipartisan thing because they know the moderate R’s can be steamrolled, by the arch-lefties they install.
urbancenturion on December 7, 2006 at 10:02 AM
What’s that smell?!??
urbancenturion on December 7, 2006 at 10:02 AM
How do you tell the difference between soil and Russert.
Maybe it was Soil who nearly russerted.
right2bright on December 7, 2006 at 10:03 AM
Matt Lauer and Al Gore’s crotch could not be reached for comment.
natesnake on December 7, 2006 at 10:03 AM
Seriously…is it just me, or did NBC decide to just toss aside any objectivity it had left after the election? “Today” is an absolute pain to watch.
Right Tracker on December 7, 2006 at 10:06 AM
ISG report came out…yada, yada, yada…Tim Russert’s annoying.
CP on December 7, 2006 at 10:16 AM
I just read Hugh Hewitt and he lists the “experts” that were consulted for this report…the first one he listed, so help me, was, “Mark Danner, New York Review of Books”…Now can some astute poster here explain to me WTF this idiot has to do with WAR ?
DoctorDentons on December 7, 2006 at 10:23 AM
YOu guys made it dound worth watching, I didn’t see any piss.. I did see a hot steaming pile of crap though..
retired on December 7, 2006 at 10:24 AM
Isn’t someone supposed to question the timing?
Darksean on December 7, 2006 at 10:36 AM
Soil? or Soil?
seejanemom on December 7, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Ole Timmy boy. Omce again proving his chops as a dim witted partisan. Big Red should’ve settled for oral sex.
there it is on December 7, 2006 at 10:46 AM
“Bipartisan” means retreating, surrendering and losing…everything the democrats stand for!
SouthernGent on December 7, 2006 at 10:48 AM
I saw this clip live and could barely believe it. I was afraid Russert was going to have an orgasm on camera.
First, to his credit, Russert seems less biased than Matthews and his ilk, not that that’s saying much. Whatever left-leaning bias he does have isn’t usually front and center. This video…not so much.
I actually have a different take on why this report caused Russert to go all giddy like a school girl. It confirmed what he and the rest of the media have been saying for 3 years.
The only thing missing was Russet putting his fingers in his ears and screeching “nya nya nya nya nya nya ha ha told you so told you so.”
Rosetta on December 7, 2006 at 10:50 AM
He done wet his britches.
Kid from Brooklyn on December 7, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Little Russ better be sitting on a toilet for this week’s edition of Meet the Press, considering all the bodily fluids that will be erupting during his interviews.
I know they’re jumping with glee right now with the anxiously awaited and self-fulfilling prophecy of defeat in Iraq, but I wonder how these NBC freaks will react when the terrorists bring the war to us (again).
fogw on December 7, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Of course the liberal media is excited at anything they believe makes Bush look bad….even a jihad victory. Russert and bell-boy have the same look on their face..probably for the same reason.
Did they tell bell-boy to strike the bell, or stroke the bell…
This reminds me of the silly Notre Dame joke…..they hired an arm-less man to ring the famous bell of the tower of Notre Dame. Before they hired him they asked how he planned on ringing the bell..he replied with my face. It worked for several days until he miscalculated the back swing of the bell and fell to his unfortunate death. People gathered around on the street gazing upon this fellow when one asked if anyone knew him..the man who hired him said “I don’t know his name but his face rings a bell”.. Sorry…..couldn’t help myself…
ritethinker on December 7, 2006 at 11:07 AM
This was disgusting. Anyone else ready to give up? We’ve ushered in a party that has rooted for failure the entire time, and because the terrorists watch the news too they’ve simply continued to try to appeal to the media and Dem politicians who have been promising to lose almost since the beginning. Again, it’s pretty sad to know that if we’d stayed united, especially if the Europe had been with us, the situation would be totally different. But the left and Europe had to put their priorities first – Bush hatred. Now look what we’ve got. Sadly, because he’s POTUS it will all fall at Bush’s doorstep, and it’s true, the buck stops there… but can anyone out there honestly say his power exceeds that of perception, and perception is created by the media?
All we have to do is look to things like Koran Toiletgate to see the power of the media. I’ve said for a long time that their power goes far beyond any elected American politician. How about Katrina… was it just such an enormous storm? Not at landfall. It was only a category 1 to 2 in New Orleans and a 3 at worst in the eye (which didn’t hit NOLA). The economy? We know it’s booming but polls have continued to show Americans giving it negative marks. Libs say this is because only the rich are benefiting, but when polls ask folks about their personal finances and overwhelming majority rank their situation positively. How can that be? How about all the Plamegate misinformation the public believes? How about the fact that the vast majority of people are unaware that all the top Dems spent the 13 years leading up to the war making the WMD case? I could go on and on. I hope folks understand that “buck stops at the President’s desk” or not, he’s essentially powerless.
Why did it take over 3 years for the attacks to start building to the levels they have? Because at various points the terrorists recognized they couldn’t win. But when the Dems continued to divide the country and promise to give up, they realized that if they can step up the chaos and just keep it going a few months longer, and a few months longer, the weak Americans would eventually give up because our resolve isn’t as strong as theirs.
The worst part is, we’ve passed the point of no return now. They’ve essentially “won”. That doesn’t mean leaving now would make the situation any better or the same, but the terrorists have figured out how to win, because they certainly can’t win actual fights.
I’m so pissed off right now. For further explanation (as I know I jumped around) read my other comment here at December 6, 2006 at 9:48 PM.
RightWinged on December 7, 2006 at 11:08 AM
*looks over both shoulders*
I QUESTION THE STAINS ON RUSSERT’S SLACKS!
natesnake on December 7, 2006 at 11:08 AM
My dingaling… My Dingaling…
“Son, we have to work on your technique a little bit…”
Mazztek on December 7, 2006 at 11:22 AM
russert and baker:
sounds like a liberal dessert offering at a paris restaurant after snails and whine, dug up by pigs.
Like truffles, but not at all tasty.
tormod on December 7, 2006 at 11:23 AM
RightWinged,
I wholeheartedly agree with your take on where we are, how we got here and who provided the transportation. I can only imagine what might have been if only the MSM had shown a gnat’s breath of patriotism for this great country of ours and supported our brave troops who risk all for it.
We will pay for this blunder and the MSM will have more than it’s share of accountability for stoking the fires of our enemies. They have repeated their successes of 40 years ago. Unfortunately for us, the Viet Cong and Al Qaeda have distinctly different post-war objectives.
fogw on December 7, 2006 at 11:38 AM
You know what bugs me the most?
We are responding to the MSM and the Democrats, who in my opinion, have caused this situation by providing the terrorists with all the propaganda they needed to keep the fight going.
When you are an uneducated, impoverished, unemployed muslim youth looking for someone to blame for your plight, and your leaders point to the United States and say, “….there, there is the devil that is causing your suffering” while they loot relief supplies, then you are told paradise is waiting for you, you only have to kill the infidels, and to motivate you, they edit our media and show this piece of fecal matter…..
They have no idea what damage they have done. I will tell you again, when their heads are being cut off, who are they going to ask for help?
PinkyBigglesworth on December 7, 2006 at 11:58 AM
…the media promised us another quagmire, another Vietnam. They’ve delivered.
As you say, it took 3 years to ramp everything up, but it takes time to measure which way the wind’s blowing, so as to adjust for windage. They had to find, dust off, lubricate and trot out all of the old ’60′s relative morality verbiage, and then prep their target with a constant rolling barrage of bullsh*t. After the electorate’s brains have been pummelled, and they want all the noise to just go away — here’s a technique for the boy-o’s watching the savages at Gitmo — they pounce.
Now, we have a treasonous document having been hailed as holy writ, a confirmed surrender-merchant confirmed as SecDef, more weak-kneed pols with hands on the valves in the
ReptillianRepublican Party, the Party of Treason at the tiller, Princess of Darkness as Speaker and the Dragon Lady awaiting annointing next year…that all takes time…but surrender is a dish one is supposed to savor. It’s best to take time in its preparation.Russert, one of the chefs, is welcome to squirt himself unconscious…he’s done his damage….
Puritan1648 on December 7, 2006 at 12:07 PM
Russert nearly soils himself over the Baker report
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There’s a lot of ‘that’ going around lately.
normsrevenge on December 7, 2006 at 12:37 PM
Face it – collectively, Americans do not appreciate the efforts or sacrifices of its’ warfighters from the Founding Fathers to the present.
It can be argued that the mass majority are mindless sheep who will not notice their missing liberty when it is totally taken away – as surely it is and has been for some time now been eroded.
It may be argued that the masses will not even care.
If you disagree – look around you, where ever you are.
Is this where we should be?
Emmett J. on December 7, 2006 at 12:47 PM
The Kennedy School of Government: Where dissipated brains go to die. It gets them every time.
thegreatbeast on December 7, 2006 at 12:58 PM
Yeah, Russert has always been a liberal but he is REALLY showing it during his spots on the NBC Frightly News recently. Is it just me or has anybody else noticed that since Brian Williams has taken over that program it has become more blatantly left wing? We all know that Brokaw is a liberal weeny but I think he was more subtle with it. Only we right wing crazies could read between the lines and see what Bro’ Brokaw was up to. Between Williams, Russert and Gregory (what a complete trio of Aholes) they can do away with all the commercials and just read the communist manifesto for the entire half hour.
OBX Pete on December 7, 2006 at 1:55 PM
In case you didn’t know, he wrote “Wisdom of our Fathers” – he’s the ultimate authority on everything, and don’t you forget it!
Looking back in history, this ISG report will be the big beginning of the end, of the world as we know it. Blunderous! More blunderous for Mr. Bush to embrace it.
There will be a huge soiling at the next head-chopping-off party.
Entelechy on December 7, 2006 at 3:21 PM
ISGBSG!!urbancenturion on December 7, 2006 at 4:21 PM
That is such an apt simile. I want to start reading Lileks again and see what else I’m missing.
Kralizec on December 7, 2006 at 4:24 PM
I think I’m being radicalized……
Does it start with an urge to punch random people in the face?
TBinSTL on December 7, 2006 at 4:45 PM
You know, I’m actually reluctant to bring this up, but since someone mentioned Brokaw…
His speech patterns seem to me to be quite similar to our good buddy Foley.
Someday, we’re going to have to come to grips with the “Gay Mafia”.
there it is on December 7, 2006 at 5:10 PM
“Little Red Tim,” todays Uncle Walter, has so many people snowed that you would not believe it! This is a guy that can not wait to smear the Administration at any time, place or for any reason, all the time hiding behind the American Flag.
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on December 7, 2006 at 5:28 PM
Russert nearly soils himself everytime a liberal walks into the room.
Griz on December 7, 2006 at 8:59 PM
haha i have to say that bell-ringing video is hilarious
crr6 on December 8, 2006 at 1:48 AM