Is it weird that I hate Luke Russert more than his daddy? If anything, it should be the other way around. Tim Russert was a millionaire blowhard with a workingman’s shtick who tempered his Broderism with a sprinkling of meaningless gotchas and smirking insiderism, but somehow it seemed less repulsive because he came by it honestly. Seeing Luke ape his father’s shallowness just comes off as far more soulless and creepy, and I guess the knowledge that he came by his status as a pure, unqualified legacy plug’n’play replacement just makes everything he says seem all the more intolerable, and, to an extent, evil. I look into those empty eyes and see a child playing dress-up, an empty suit pretending wisdom, a mindless cog in a broken machine. But logically, I should hate the father who helped create the system, not the son trying to play the hand he’s dealt. It’s strange.
Is it weird that I hate Luke Russert more than his daddy?
Nope. Russert the elder (love or hate him) came by his career honestly. But the son? Why? Apparently, even “television journalist” is yet another hereditary profession in our corrupt culture.
To see Russert the Younger’s face on your teevee screen is to have this fact rubbed deep in your face, day after day.
But logically, I should hate the father who helped create the system, not the son trying to play the hand he’s dealt. It’s strange.
Same problem here. I like to think of it as my inner socialist battling it out with my inner fascist. Sadly, I think my inner fascist tends to win most of the time. I end up loathing the individual rather than loathing the system that the individual is attempting to navigate. It’s simplistic, primeval, and almost totally wrongheaded. And also really damned hard to resist.
14.
Yutsano
Thread done in one, we can all move on now.
15.
BGinCHI
And then he I said, “Thanks for letting me blowingme you, Luke John.”
There, fixed to fit present-day realities.
16.
geisha gurl
hmmm…Luke is a Bills fan? so he’s a self-masochistic little shit.
17.
SiubhanDuinne
From CNN, this made me laugh evilly:
The pro-Sarah Palin documentary, “The Undefeated,” suffered disappointing box office sales over the weekend, earning just over $5,000.
$5,000! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
18.
RalfW
@ 16:
The Undefeated in two+ weeks of release (per boxofficemojo): Domestic Total as of Jul. 31, 2011: $112,200
HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!
Oh, and,
Atlas Shrugged Pt 1 ~ full run grossed less than $5 mil despite being on up to abt 430 screens U.S. over nine weeks (who the hell were the five theaters who ran it week 9???)
People can be real dumb with their votes. They’re much more careful with their dollars.
19.
jl
But what kind of ‘ahhhhhh’
Was it the awe of blissfull satisfaction at… what… a legislative masterpiece, that first puff (can you smoke anywhere inside the Capitol?)?
Or was it ‘ahhhhh…. &%#’?
Or wast i ‘ahhhhh…. those effing nutcases are killing me’.
Or ‘ahhhhh….where am i’?
And, inquiring minds want to know, is there a tweet about what Luke was doing while Boehner said ‘ahhhhh’?
20.
pseudonymous in nc
Little Russ was a mediocre journalist who played a fake proletarian.
The Littlest Russ is a fake journalist.
That’s the difference.
21.
Lynn Dee
Luke Russert is like some charity project MSNBC has elected to take on. Luke prepares a couple of canned answers to pointless questions, the host of whatever show he’s appearing on asks the agreed upon questions, and Luke barks out his answers like a trained seal.
How can I get my kid a gig like that?
22.
Mnemosyne
I realize that Jay B and Citizen Alan and I have been kicking each other around today, but I think that the three of us can join hands in a spirit of friendship and agree that Luke Russert needs to have the shit kicked out of him, pronto.
everyone already said this but yeah–#1 wins the thread and the internets today.
30.
jl
@Mnemosyne: thanks, I forgot about that kind of ‘ahhhhh’.
Edit: there is also
‘Hi, I’m Luke Russert”
Boehner: ‘ahhhhh…’
31.
Arawis
Luke couldn’t pass up a chance to take care of a “Boehner” when he had a chance. Advantage of being real close to your sources. Sorry for the double post.
32.
Kiril
@August: Taibbi nepostism? You’ll need to explain that one.
Looks like he worked pretty hard, financing a low-paying journalism career as an expat in Russia by playing professional basketball in Moscow and Mongolia to pay the bills.
33.
lou
It’s funny. My husband was watching the debt ceiling news over the weekend (hey, he works for the feds so he was worried about his paycheck), while I was in the office trying to avoid the whole thing. Then I hear this young voice going on and on about how hard Boehner was working and basically how brilliant and misunderstood he was.
I asked the DH what Republican shill MSNBC brought on to promote Boehner. It was young Luke.
Taibbi’s dad is an NBC reporter. He didn’t finance his journalism with baseball. He started writing after he got sick, and wrote in Russia because he was “… out of the reach of American libel law, and we had a situation where we weren’t really accountable to our advertisers. We had total freedom.”
In other words, he couldn’t get published here. Now that he’s the darling of the far left, he can spout bullshit about anyone and anything he wants. Verification? Who needs it!
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pseudonymous in nc
In other words, he couldn’t get published here.
In other words, logic fail.
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Larkspur
Oof. I’ve been reading Matt Taibbi’s stuff for a while now, and I had no idea that his dad was an NBC personage of some sort. In other words, legacy and/or nepotism fail (at least for moi).
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Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
Are we really arguing that Taibbi got his job with Rolling Stone because his Dad was a reporter at NBC and not because of his long record of writing and publishing?
Of course, I forget where I am. This is Balloon Juice, where anyone to the left of Dick Nixon is the devil, or so say the real liberals.
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PeakVT
And then he said, “Thanks for blowing me, Luke.”
FSM-almighty.
Morbo
@PeakVT: Damn, I was a minute too late…
Chat Noir
@PeakVT: LOL.
Brian R.
Well, I think Peak has wrapped up the thread nicely.
cleek
livin it up when i’m goin dooowwwwwnnnn!
General Stuck
Ting tang, walla walla bing bang.
Kiril
Is it weird that I hate Luke Russert more than his daddy? If anything, it should be the other way around. Tim Russert was a millionaire blowhard with a workingman’s shtick who tempered his Broderism with a sprinkling of meaningless gotchas and smirking insiderism, but somehow it seemed less repulsive because he came by it honestly. Seeing Luke ape his father’s shallowness just comes off as far more soulless and creepy, and I guess the knowledge that he came by his status as a pure, unqualified legacy plug’n’play replacement just makes everything he says seem all the more intolerable, and, to an extent, evil. I look into those empty eyes and see a child playing dress-up, an empty suit pretending wisdom, a mindless cog in a broken machine. But logically, I should hate the father who helped create the system, not the son trying to play the hand he’s dealt. It’s strange.
Judas Escargot
@Kiril:
Nope. Russert the elder (love or hate him) came by his career honestly. But the son? Why? Apparently, even “television journalist” is yet another hereditary profession in our corrupt culture.
To see Russert the Younger’s face on your teevee screen is to have this fact rubbed deep in your face, day after day.
The Ancient Randonneur
And another Balloon Juice thread won in comment #1.
Emma
EEEEWWWW. I’m not going into little Russ’s brain. You can’t make me.
Jude
Just hope Luke remembers to get the suit dry-cleaned. Wouldn’t want to make the same mistake Lewinsky did.
artem1s
@PeakVT:
FTW
slag
@Kiril:
Same problem here. I like to think of it as my inner socialist battling it out with my inner fascist. Sadly, I think my inner fascist tends to win most of the time. I end up loathing the individual rather than loathing the system that the individual is attempting to navigate. It’s simplistic, primeval, and almost totally wrongheaded. And also really damned hard to resist.
Yutsano
Thread done in one, we can all move on now.
BGinCHI
And then
heI said, “Thanks for letting me blowingmeyou,LukeJohn.”There, fixed to fit present-day realities.
geisha gurl
hmmm…Luke is a Bills fan? so he’s a self-masochistic little shit.
SiubhanDuinne
From CNN, this made me laugh evilly:
$5,000! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
RalfW
@ 16:
The Undefeated in two+ weeks of release (per boxofficemojo): Domestic Total as of Jul. 31, 2011: $112,200
HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!
Oh, and,
Atlas Shrugged Pt 1 ~ full run grossed less than $5 mil despite being on up to abt 430 screens U.S. over nine weeks (who the hell were the five theaters who ran it week 9???)
People can be real dumb with their votes. They’re much more careful with their dollars.
jl
But what kind of ‘ahhhhhh’
Was it the awe of blissfull satisfaction at… what… a legislative masterpiece, that first puff (can you smoke anywhere inside the Capitol?)?
Or was it ‘ahhhhh…. &%#’?
Or wast i ‘ahhhhh…. those effing nutcases are killing me’.
Or ‘ahhhhh….where am i’?
And, inquiring minds want to know, is there a tweet about what Luke was doing while Boehner said ‘ahhhhh’?
pseudonymous in nc
Little Russ was a mediocre journalist who played a fake proletarian.
The Littlest Russ is a fake journalist.
That’s the difference.
Lynn Dee
Luke Russert is like some charity project MSNBC has elected to take on. Luke prepares a couple of canned answers to pointless questions, the host of whatever show he’s appearing on asks the agreed upon questions, and Luke barks out his answers like a trained seal.
How can I get my kid a gig like that?
Mnemosyne
I realize that Jay B and Citizen Alan and I have been kicking each other around today, but I think that the three of us can join hands in a spirit of friendship and agree that Luke Russert needs to have the shit kicked out of him, pronto.
Mnemosyne
@jl:
Or was it, “Aaaah, I still have time to get to the bar before last call”?
LanceThruster
Does Luke use that affectation that his dad did where any report has a movie connection inserted?
“It’s just like that scene in the movie…..”
PeakVT
@BGinCHI: Yeah, that’s definitely more accurate.
Comrade Luke
@PeakVT:
“Don’t you spit that out!”
August
I’m fascinated that people find Luke’s nepotism awful, but no one ever mentions Taibbi’s another one.
For the record: I think they both suck as journalists.
Ronbo
Matthews, Mark, Luke and Moron. It’s kind of biblical. Isn’t it?
Valdivia
everyone already said this but yeah–#1 wins the thread and the internets today.
jl
@Mnemosyne: thanks, I forgot about that kind of ‘ahhhhh’.
Edit: there is also
‘Hi, I’m Luke Russert”
Boehner: ‘ahhhhh…’
Arawis
Luke couldn’t pass up a chance to take care of a “Boehner” when he had a chance. Advantage of being real close to your sources. Sorry for the double post.
Kiril
@August: Taibbi nepostism? You’ll need to explain that one.
Here’s his bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi#Career
Looks like he worked pretty hard, financing a low-paying journalism career as an expat in Russia by playing professional basketball in Moscow and Mongolia to pay the bills.
lou
It’s funny. My husband was watching the debt ceiling news over the weekend (hey, he works for the feds so he was worried about his paycheck), while I was in the office trying to avoid the whole thing. Then I hear this young voice going on and on about how hard Boehner was working and basically how brilliant and misunderstood he was.
I asked the DH what Republican shill MSNBC brought on to promote Boehner. It was young Luke.
Admiral_Komack
@PeakVT:
That’s all Luke Russett is good for.
SoINeedAName
No doubt because Lukey was on his knees giving Boner a …
txvoodoo
@Kiril
Taibbi’s dad is an NBC reporter. He didn’t finance his journalism with baseball. He started writing after he got sick, and wrote in Russia because he was “… out of the reach of American libel law, and we had a situation where we weren’t really accountable to our advertisers. We had total freedom.”
In other words, he couldn’t get published here. Now that he’s the darling of the far left, he can spout bullshit about anyone and anything he wants. Verification? Who needs it!
pseudonymous in nc
In other words, logic fail.
Larkspur
Oof. I’ve been reading Matt Taibbi’s stuff for a while now, and I had no idea that his dad was an NBC personage of some sort. In other words, legacy and/or nepotism fail (at least for moi).
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
Are we really arguing that Taibbi got his job with Rolling Stone because his Dad was a reporter at NBC and not because of his long record of writing and publishing?
Of course, I forget where I am. This is Balloon Juice, where anyone to the left of Dick Nixon is the devil, or so say the real liberals.