Reply #16: Enabled?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

I think you'd best find out what the word means before you try to apply it to what Russert did for a living. If you think it's the duty of TV news personalities to divine somehow the truth behind whatever the guest is telling you, when the guest has already put into play a brilliantly subversive and evasive game plane, then you should go get a job as a special commentator, if you happen to possess that psychic gift.

It's telling, I think, that you somehow inferred "inappropriateness" from my post, and saw fit to quote something that wasn't there, and wasn't intended to be there. Your agenda got in your way and you tripped over it.

To imply that Russert and his colleagues were there to find out what the Bush cabal was really up to is to misunderstand in a profound way the job of the news media. I do believe that a much better job could have been done, but that original post, and its attendant and hateful outrage, coupled with your confused, but, I'm sure, well-intentioned response, just leaves me wondering if some people in this country really understand the respective roles of the executive, judicial, and congressional branches, as well as the role of the Fourth Estate.

You would do well to figure out what exactly it is you want from network news people and then figure out if that expectation comports with their job descriptions. Sometimes it will match up, if you have any kind of basic understanding about how these institutions work, but, if you're as adrift in terms of hard information and background as you appear to be, then you would do well to get familiar with the old Rolling Stones refrain: You can't always get what you want.