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Luke Russert is an insufferable twit.
So this morning Im watching MSNBC and Luke Russert is sitting in for Andrea Mitchell. Now I have long considered Andrea one of the more overrated talking heads but at least she is cogent most of the time. However, Little Luke is simply beyond the pale.
He had Randi Weingarten on his show to discuss guns in schools. To get the discussion going, Russert lets us know that he has gone to lots of college football games and noticed that they usually have armed guards at the stadium. He then segues into the logical extension that if we have armed guards at college football games we should have armed guards in the classroom. It does not seem to occur to Luke that there may be a difference between a crowd of 75,000 beer-swilling rabid partisans and a first-grade classroom. I supposed by Lukes logic, we should also have cheerleaders in the classroom and a marching band on the playground at recess time.
But then he outdoes himself by bringing up the mental health issue. Russert notes that because of the cuts in education funding, many schools have had to eliminate counselors, school psychologists and other mental health professionals. He then brings up the need for better mental health efforts as an imperative to reduce violence, a reasonable proposition. However, he goes off the deep end by suggesting to Weingarten (and I swear I am not making this up) that the teachers unions give up their pensions to fund mental health professional salaries!
So there you have it sports fans, Luke Russert thinks we need armed guards in the schools because, well, he has seen them at college football games. And increasing mental health services is a swell idea that should be paid for by gutting teachers pensions.
Just when I though Wayne LaPierre was the craziest person on the face of the earth, along comes the seed of Timmy to prove me wrong. Tim was just a twit, but son of Tim is an insufferable twit.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/27/1174223/-Luke-Russert-is-an-Insufferable-Twit
Autumn
(45,107 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)and doesn't deserve the job he has. How he became a prominent on-air personality on a major cable news network without having to do any kind of grunt work first shows that nepotism is alive and well. Yet he had the audacity to attack Pelosi for her age.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Well said
Spazito
(50,365 posts)wouldn't get near any network except, possibly, Fox.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)And as Annie Savoy said: The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)...to kiss daddy goodnight.
What higher qualifications for a Washington journalist are there?
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SugarShack
(1,635 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)geez ..... OPERATIONMIND CRIME would do better
LOL
Skittles
(153,169 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)little fucker.
a11ig8r
(40 posts)That is depressing.
spanone
(135,844 posts)this is the same media that kept the romney 'horserace' alive for months when is was dead as a door nail.
can a democracy truly exist when the media is as extreme as the population?
where is sanity?
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)from the tree. Luke is an IDIOT.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Sheesh, Luke is a turd, but for god's sake is there anyone in the media that DU doesn't have to piss on just because they don't do their research here?
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Lex
(34,108 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)He was OBSESSED. I remember. He was disgusting.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)I wasn't aware Russert cornered the market.
Lex
(34,108 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)It was all over the news. Sounds like he WAS a republican.
senseandsensibility
(17,066 posts)I can not believe he would suggest either thing.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Everybody deserves a job if they want to work but shit like this really makes me question how we are handing out the work assignments around here.
Lex
(34,108 posts)to himself and to "journalism" (whatever that is now days)
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)A liberal dies a cruel death.
Seriously, we should all send stuff to MSNBC and NBC as well, that every time LR is on any show, we will turn to another channel. Send him back to Buffalo to earn his chops. Or better yet, send him off to play with the Loony Tunes over at Fox...