DEMOCRAT LEFTIE TIM RUSSERT: UNETHICAL, IMMORAL AND PROBABLY A LIAR

Democrat MICKEY KAUS (at Slate, hat tip the invaluable BETSY'S PAGE) :

Worst Beltway Incest

Lukegate: ... Step 1) Tim Russert books the tired Carville-Matalin act more than 35 times on his Meet the Press talk show, boosting their bankability on the lucrative lecture circuit. Step 2) Carville--with Russert's eager prodding--also uses their most recent, conveniently-timed MTP appearance to plug his new XM Satellite radio sports show. ... That's smarmily venal enough, you say? Wrong! Step 3) Carville's co-host on the XM show is Russert's son, Luke, who is "currently a sophomore at Boston College." Russert and Carville joke about this on the air but don't quite have the balls to actually inform viewers of the key conflict..."

This is the very same TIM RUSSERT who - if we believe half of what his NBCNEWS comrade Andrea Mitchell has said about Plame - has probably LIED to the Plame Grand Jury, too. I am NOT surprised by this latest act of immorality by Russert: he is, after all, a longtime Democrat political operative. Heh.

COMPLETE ROUND UP AT MEMEORANDUM.