Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama on Meet The Press
This marked one of the biggest moments for Barack Obama this campaign season.
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Will Hillary Clinton Be Barack Obama’s VP Running Mate? Not Likely!
Not a likely picture!
For those of you that missed Meet the Press this weekend, Tom Brokaw asked about his choice for VP.
He said he’s looking for somebody “with integrity..with independence..who is willing to tell me where he thinks OR SHE THINKS I’m wrong.”
TOM BROKAW TO HOST MEET THE PRESS
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Some good news for NBC.
They’ve got some time in terms of announcing a permanent host for Meet the Press.
Tom Brokaw, former anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” would fill the role as moderator for Meet the Press for the rest of this election year, reports the New York Times.
“I volunteered,” Tom Brokaw, told the NY Times.
“It was really not a hard call for me to make,” Brokaw said.
He had already planned to be heavily involved in NBC’s political coverage, he said, and was up to date on the program, having held regular conversations with Tim Russert.
“We would talk almost every Sunday after the show,” Brokaw said. “I’d say, that worked or that didn’t. We’d talk about guests. We had just been saying that using surrogates for the candidates really did work.”
MOST READ: TIM RUSSERT’S WIFE OPENS UP ABOUT HIS DEATH
This is kinda scary.
When Tim Russert’s wife Maureen Orth said goodbye to Tim on their trip to Italy she told him, “I said to him ‘I want to give you a hug: maybe I’ll never see you again…I don’t know why I said that to him. I just had a feeling.”
On why people were drawn to Tim Russert, Maureen tells People it was “because he was so comfortable in his own skin. I’d always say to him, ‘Why don’t you buy a really nice suit?’ and he’d say, ‘That’s not me.’
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SUNDAY’S MEET THE PRESS TRIBUTE DRAWS HUGE AUDIENCE
Early ratings results for Sunday’s “Meet the Press” indicate that viewers tuned in big time.
Based on preliminary stats, it appears the show Tim Russert had hosted since 1991, and which this week was hosted by Tom Brokaw and devoted to Russert, may have logged nearly 60 percent more viewers than its May average ratings - in the range of 6 million viewers.
The show has averaged about 3.9 million viewers to date.
Click here for video tributes to Tim Russert.
THANK YOU TIM RUSSERT
For keeping them honest.
You will be missed.
“I know what the conservatives think, what the liberals think, what the Democrats think, what the Republicans think. And I try to master both sides of an issue to a point where I’m totally confused as to what I think.”–Tim Russert, 2004.
TIM RUSSERT
Russert was also a senior vice president at NBC, and this year Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
