NY Post reports Tim Russert dead of heart attack

Fighting Hellfish
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edited June 2008 in A Moving Train
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06132008/news/nationalnews/tim_russert_dies_from_apparent_heart_att_115384.htm

Tim Russert, NBC journalist and political heavyweight host of "Meet the Press," has died after collapsing at NBC's Washington news bureau, a source said. He was 58 years old.

I flipped on MSNBC and they were not talking about it
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  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    No other sites are reporting it. That would be fucking terrible though.

    Edit: The Huffington Post is reporting it now.
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    NBC just broke in with it... so sad.... my thoughts and prayers are with his family.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    Whoa?! Apparently he had type 2 diabetes and died from an obesity related heart attack shortly after 8am this morning/

    Sonds like he probably ate a lot of the bad foods...but...he was obese?
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  • ledvedderman
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    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Whoa?! Apparently he had type 2 diabetes and died from an obesity related heart attack shortly after 8am this morning/

    Sonds like he probably ate a lot of the bad foods...but...he was obese?

    He was bigger, but I wouldn't say he was morbidly obese at all. This is so sad.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
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    RIP Tim
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    just watched brokaw....man that's sad....tim was a good guy, good journalist
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    damn... 58... Makes me want to be sure that I tell my father I love him on this father's day.
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  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    Very sad. I liked him. :(

    My mom is sitting here saying "wow...he was 10 years younger than I am."

    58 is way too young.
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    This sucks. The journalistic community needs people of his integrity.

    RIP Tim.
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  • Bird888
    Bird888 Posts: 99
    so sad

    I really respected him
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  • otis mcfluster
    otis mcfluster Posts: 536
    Russert was the best!

    RIP Tim.
  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    ledvedderman wrote:
    No other sites are reporting it. That would be fucking terrible though.

    Edit: The Huffington Post is reporting it now.

    I was holding out hope it wasn't true, since noone else was reporting it. Then i saw it on Huffington. Terrible. They'll never find another like him to host MTP. Someone who will chew up and spit out anybody from any party, using nothing more than their own words
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    I was holding out hope it wasn't true, since noone else was reporting it. Then i saw it on Huffington. Terrible. They'll never find another like him to host MTP. Someone who will chew up and spit out anybody from any party, using nothing more than their own words

    I'm wondering who will take over. I hope it isn't David Gregory.
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  • LONGRD
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    Urban Hiker wrote:
    This sucks. The journalistic community needs people of his integrity.

    RIP Tim.
    :( RIP Tim. One of the most fair/balance journalist around.
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  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    How sad. Sympathy goes out to his family

    We've lost a person who actually cared about seeking the truth in politics regardless of their title and status at a time when the media standards have fallen to an all time low.
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  • FrankBauer
    FrankBauer Posts: 453
    LongRd. wrote:
    :( RIP Tim. One of the most fair/balance journalist around.


    More like the only objective journalist around. Damn man, he was my favorite.
  • nukeboot
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    This leaves a big hole in his family and the industry.

    Prayers sent...
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  • Fighting Hellfish
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    You can count on Fox News to be douchebags, no matter the situation. Cavuto was discussing Tim, and he brings in Chris Wallace to the discussion:

    Let's bring in Chris Wallace, who worked with Tim at NBC, and now competes against him on Sunday mornings, successfully......

    something like that. What an asshole
  • josevolution
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    damm way to young and he was a great journalist to bad ? now who will kick the politicians asses for us ...RIP TIM he was great to watch every sunday morning ...
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  • ledvedderman
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    Tim Russert was the true meaning of "fair and balanced", unlike some shitty cable news network.
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