Yglesias about Russert: Sillyball

Nice article by the increasingly solid Yglesias about just how bad Tim Russert - and by extension the rest of the mainstream media - is: The Unbearable Inanity of Tim Russert (read the whole thing, but here's a great set o'quotes):

"If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press, where newsmakers go to be grilled by one of television news's most respected figures. If moments like the above exchange between Russert and Richardson seem unhelpful—even ridiculous—to you, rest assured that Washington thinks otherwise. ... Actually, the balls Russert favors may be hard, but the pitches he throws aren't curveballs, which go someplace useful. They're sillyballs, which go somewhere pointless. Russert has created a strike zone of his own where toughness meets irrelevance."

Pic from here. Backpost finished 2009-12-23.