Reply #112: I guess your understanding is being blocked by a false definition.

[JackRiddler]

It's not "hate." If anything's hated, it's the corporate media and their trivialization and distortion of everything. Then they suspend coverage for days to heroize Russert as though he were Gandhi plus Elvis, when he is more like Cheney's court jester/stenographer. And in the process, they reveal in compelling fashion that it's all about them, they don't give a shit about anything outside their narrow world. And many people here respond with tributes to their imaginary friend, like slaves in love with their masters. And laughable exaggerations of his significance. Then anyone who merely sums up Russert's career is accused of "grave dancing." A moral hysteria is built up around his death. So it spirals into a nasty back and forth.