He said this economic event is a once in a century event and points to a significant rise in unemployment and layoffs.
How uplifting.
At least the market was up today.
Following a week of debates over Bill Clinton’s lackluster support for Barack Obama, the Obama campaign has offered former President Bill Clinton a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention, NBC News reported Thursday.
Appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Andrea stated that Obama, “didn’t have reporters with him. He didn’t have a press pool. He didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground either on Afghanistan or Iraq.
What you’re seeing is not reporters brought in, you’re seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questioned by the military and what some would call fake interviews because they’re not interviews with a journalist so there’s a real press issue here.”
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Only days after the sudden death of Tim Russert, NBC News now must find the person to replace him on Meet the Press, according to the New York Times.
“Nobody should even think about replacing Tim Russert,” Jeff Zucker tells the NY Times. “What someone will need to do is find the next way to do ‘Meet the Press’ and provide political analysis. Anybody who thinks they can replace Tim Russert is kidding themselves.”
The potential candidates for Meet the Press include Brian Williams, David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann.
NBC could smooth the transition by offering the post on a temporary basis to Tom Brokaw, who stepped down as the network’s anchor in 2004. Katie Couric’s name has also been thrown in the mix.
Thoughts?
The New York Post offers a fitting full-page tribute to Tim Russert.
The tributes for Tim Russert continue, including Bob Schieffer, Walter Cronkite, Nancy Reagan, Ethel Kennedy, George Stephanopoulos, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, President Bush, Andrea Mitchell, Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw.
Tim Russert was “the pre-eminent journalist of our time” and said he was her mentor.
She called Russert “the historian of all things political.” She said Russert learned from his Jesuit education how to ask the right questions. “He would always ask what people wanted to know” from their political leaders.
