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Monday, January 30, 2006

Let's all pile on Tim Russert

Seems like it's pile on Tim Russert season. (And get off Oprah.)

Strange anyone should think Tim should be anything but what he is, a talking-head ... as in bobble-head. I've tuned into Meet the Press on NBC Sunday mornings for years ... to see what the latest propaganda coming from the political powerful would be. I'm just a farm boy from up around Duluth, Minnesota, and I knew that Tim treated his guests with soft gloves in order to get them on the show. It's taken others this long to figure THAT out?!

And now everyone is applauding Oprah for beating up on Frey! Well, she waited for the public's smell meter to jump over into the red zone and set off the alarm before she did it. She sure didn't take Frey to task when it was up to her to make the decision all by herself, out there and exposed. No sirree, bob!

From my point of view ... I've shoveled a lot of cow manure in my time ... Tim is being Tim and Oprah's being Oprah. Nothing to get excited about ... unless you actually thought they were thinking heads. In that case we're back to fooling most of the people most of the time. And there is nothing new there either.

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