Tim Russert, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, and President Gore

As sad as it was for Russert's family to suffer his early demise, the fact remains, Tim Russert was a hack. He carried water for the Right during the Clinton years, and he played footsie with Dick Cheney under the table at Meet the Press, while the VP bullshitted America into war. Joan Walsh wraps up her review of the book, The Clinton Tapes, with some sad and disturbing insights. Parenthetically, does anyone else ever play the "What if..." game? How much of the horrific crap that's happened in the last 10 years would we have avoided if Gore had been President? What would that alternate universe look like?

"When Tim Russert mocked Bill Clinton -- in song" by Joan Walsh