[MD] the Underground

[Heather Perella]

previously:
> > SA
> >
> > P.S.  I did like Tim Russert.  So young.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> I bet that Tim Russert was a very nice guy.  And it is sad
> that he died so 
> young.  But go look at his interviews with Dick Cheney. 
> The first interview 
> leading up to the war, he should have asked at least a few
> tough questions. 
> Well, he was a wimp in every sense of the word.  it was
> embarrassing to 
> watch it.  It was a propaganda-fest for Cheney and the
> Administration.  I 
> was angry.  I was disgusted.  If the Media had done even a
> half-assed job, 
> there wouldn't have been justification to bomb Iraq. 
> The second interview, 
> Cheney's numbers had hit bottom and there had been all
> that scuttle about 
> cherry-picking and outing Valarie Plame.  THEN Russert
> asked a few tough 
> questions.   Too little, too late.   Instead of spending
> sooo much time on 
> Tim Russert, why not pay attention on the dead and dying in
> Iraq.


SA:  I see your point.  I was leaning more towards his 'nice guy'.  I wasn't poking around in all his interviews.  He had an effort, but he wasn't very pressing as you point out.  I still cried at the end.  He did have this homely persona.  Especially when he talked about his father and son.  That's what hit me the most.  It touched me.  I felt something that is close to me.  I noticed an effort in him to fulfull dreams, not just his dreams but his families dreams.  I see the same happening to me in a way.  I hope to help do something so my son will not have to go through what I, my father, my father's father, and my father's father father, had to go through.  It's more ghostly.  It's not so much about changing society, but it is, in our little corner of society.  It's about gaining enough space to live ones dreams on a very near and dear intimate level.


this ones for the family,
cheers,
SA