Whoa, dude, lay off the ball park nitrate-wiener-bombs or you’re gonna be seeing Big Russ blowing goats in “heaven” waaaay earlier than you thought.

Yes, Republicans hate Warren so the Democrats should avoid mentioning her name and pretend they don’t know her. Makes all kinds of sense … if you’re an idiot.

Luke fiddles while Rmoney burns.

Only iron discipline and his professional training keep Luke from walking around with his mouth open all the time.

I hate all of these pibbels. Really. I’m old and I can still say this. I hate them.

Make them go away?

Ha,ha!Super funny.Luke Russert,geez-the guy doesn’t know his a**.

Exactly!

And it’s not a dragonfly. It looks more like a damselfly to me.

Benefit? Well, hell, Lukie darling, maybe because she’s a popular Democrat who has become popular because of her beliefs, philosophy and the fact that she says what she thinks in a very articulate, understandable way? I mean, when Republican present the appearance of doing that, they’re instantly anointed as party leaders and deep thinkers.

Nah. Couldn’t be.

And the way you were able to capture home plate in the background over the dugout?

Amazing!

We’re here at the site of America’s game, a melding of sport and character — nay, poetry — in which the soul of a natio… oooooohhh, BUG.

Dang entomologists and their fancy talk!

“Just give me a cool buzz and some tasty waves and I’m fine.”

Little Luke is the worst part of MSNBC. I have to mute the TV every time he comes on, sucking up to his betters and pretending he might have a thought in his silly, vacant head.

Psych. He really just wanted a picture of that baseball player’s ass.

They should invite Robert Bills to speak as well, just to see Luke’s head explode.

Yes, Warren eloquently invokes very old ideas about the social contract central to our nation’s founding, so she’s a lightning rod, while Chris Christie’s love of being a bully and yelling at people brings us all together. What an idiot.

This guy is NBC’s biggest hiring mistake since, well, ever. I know, at first it seemed like a cute idea to hire the kid, and it brought a tear to the eye of everyone in the newsroom who loved Daddy Tim. But it’s become clear that Tim made virtually no impact on anything since the world has largely forgotten him, and now NBC is stuck with a halfwit who literally twitters about some shiny object that caught his eye. Oooh! Shiny! And worse yet, this guy will, if he has an average lifespan, have a sinecure at NBC for the next 40 years.

Talk about some folks who would benefit from turning their keen powers of observation and deduction towards a little introspection….

I think he has his keen eyesight on Chuck Todd’s job.

Here’s Little Luke’s story:

Grew up in wealth and privilege.

GIVEN a high-paying, high-profile job because his fucking rich and famous daddy died. GIVEN a fucking job at a level of exposure and compensation that many journalists study and work their asses off for decades to achieve.

Oblivious to the fact that the world knows that he is a twit.

Believes he deserves to be where he is because of his hard work and intellegence.

Honored that Mitt Romney has chosen him as his running mate…

Well, I guess the latter tweet could be viewed as an explanation/apology for the stupidity of the former. And if we really wish to be generous, I guess we could say that the dragonfly tweet is something along the lines of Tennyson saying, “…flower in the crannied wall, you really blew my mind.” Viewed in that way, we don’t have to upset ourselves about nepotism and life’s other apparent injustices.

Otherwise, I guess Bill Clinton has never been a lightning rod.

Unfortunately — as much as I’d like to see pretty much anyone replace Chuck Todd — Luke-Boy doesn’t seem to have the requisite “huge chip on shoulder” that defines Todd’s (and I use this term very loosely) “career”.

I recall watching Morning Squint a years or so ago, with Little Lukie yacking it up with the rest of that cast of clowns.

You know how they sit around every morning, BEING JUST REGULAR GUYS, talking about the fucking Red Sox and Yankees, taking a break from Scarborough’s continual, “RonaldReagan, RonaldReagan, RonaldReagan, RonaldReagan, RonaldReagan, RonaldReagan…”

Little Lukie chimes in: “As you all know, I’m a long-suffering [Washington] Nationals fan.”

Fucking Nationals have been in D.C. since 2005. He’s 26. I’ve got socks older than this “long-suffering” twat.

I always wonder what Walter Cronkite would have tweeted about.

Another empty-headed legacy dunce douchebag shithead demonstrates how wingnut welfare works.

I was not overly fond of the largely over-rated Russert, père, but confess that Tim was an intellectual & moral genius in comparison to his dreadful spawn, Russert, fils.

Always remember that Luke is the son of one of Jack Welch’s most prized Pod Persons:

In general, [GE and NBC owner Jack Welch] saw corporate news organizations as untapped political resources that should be freed from the burden of objectivity.

Specifically, NBC News was an asset owned by the shareholders of General
Electric. It existed to make profits and to serve the interests of those who
owned GE stock. Period.

Anything else, Welch told associates, was “liberal bullshit”.

In 1988, NBC News president Lawrence Grossman insisted to Welch that news was
a public trust and should not be subjected to the same pressure to make profits
that was applied to other GE units. Welch fired him.

[...]

Welch was absolutely determined to make his employees at NBC News finally genuflect to the most sacred words in his vocabulary: GE bottom line.

He perceived that there was a widely believed American myth of well-intended journalists selflessly seeking the truth, and that there would be hell to pay if a business leader like him were to overtly force reporters to be good corporate soldiers. So, being a very bright guy, he largely left the journalists at NBC alone.

Publicly.

In private, Welch was proud to have personally cultivated Tim Russert from a “lefty” to a responsible representative of GE interests. Welch sincerely believed that all liberals were phonies. He took great pleasure in “buying their leftist souls”, watching in satisfaction as former Democrats like Russert and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews eagerly discarded the baggage of their former progressive beliefs in exchange for cold hard GE cash. Russert was now an especially obedient and model employee in whom the company could take pride.

”It’s a double-edged sword to be under Jack’s detailed look,” one GE executive told Fortune Magazine. ”If you do well, it’s great. If you don’t, it’s bad news.”

Thanks for that. I rarely ever watch MSNBC because it makes me even more ill than Fake Noise, which pretty much admits that it engages in made up bullshit. Any so-called “liberal” or Democratic voter who thinks that MSNBC is “liberal” or engages in factual truth-telling needs to re-read your quote.

MSNBC exists to make money for GE.

The so-called “liberal news casts” on MSNBC just pander to Democratic voters, in much the same way that Fixed Noise panders to conservatives.

Unfactual, cheer-leading, fluff nonsense for the most part.

Luke Russert was only too too happy to jump into Daddykins’ big shoes and suck up big-time to the 1% in order to get on the wingnut welfare gravy train. Works out GREAT for “our Luke,” don’t it? Russert, Jr, got HIS; EFF everyone else.

Nah, the little shit-fer-brains would bring a nice festive air to The Morning Dumbdown. He could balance out Chuck Toddler’s “serious” (*snort**chuckle*) gravitas.

Ah so “lightning rod for criticism” is the codephrase for “top of the Koch smear list”. Which means Luke is an idiot since that would happen anyway to whomever is chosen to speak at the DNC.

The Koch brothers need better PR flacks to generate their campaign code-phrases. Since most of the FOX audience firmly believes lightning can’t strike twice in the same place “lightning rod for criticism,” will just leave a vague negative impression on the plebians. Come to think of it, doesn’t “plebians” make the base sound all patriotic and military?

Hard to see the benefit of @lukerussert being given prime time slot at NBC considering he’s such a nepotism hire. #simplethings

Just think, if this guy breeds we will be stuck with another useless legacy hire doing the news

Sailing.

. . . at which time he’s bound to be succeeded by his own equally talented son, Russert Jong-un.

This fucking pig is sitting…in the front row? Speaking of ‘heaven’, I’d have to say that Little Luke has already been GIVEN his reward.

Looks like the front row to me, too. Entitled? Much?

Tim Russert was a Media Whore of the First Magnitude. He swore in open court that he and NBC reported LIES so the White House would give them access.

Fuck Tim Russert, now and forever, for selling out his country, for lying to his viewers, for pushing war and covering up torture and achieving ‘balance’–er, utterly destroying whatever journalistic standards Meet The Press was left to him.

Christie runs down motorcycle riders in cold blood and scrams before the cops can check his blood count. Too, also.

She isn’t even trying anymore.

~ Harry R. Sohl

Yep. No argument from me. IMO the spawn hasn’t dripped far from the, erm, tree… Ptoui.

This just proves that the apple doesn’t fall too far away from the journalistically laughable, ethics-blind, reliable conservative foil tree.

Yeah, she’s a lightning rod for criticism… from right-wing Republicans who pushed a manufactured controversy. Democrats aren’t really going after those people’s votes.

Does that photo looked staged to anyone else? Shouldn’t the ballplayers be in better focus? I think he just pinned a dead bug in front of a photo of a ballpark. I demand an investigation!

Nice.

Which, in truth, is more than could be said for Jenna Bush, so there is that going for Pun’kinhead Jr.

~ Harry R. Sohl

This fucking pig is sitting…in the front row?

Don’t you get it? The whole point of the tweet is to BRAG ABOUT WHERE HE’S SITTING.

“Ooooh, looky, this bug blew my mind”?

My ass.

You are correct.

A Powdered Dancer (Argia moesta), perhaps?
~