1.0 link 107425 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reese-schonfeld/two-cheers-for-tim-russer_b_107425.html The only time I ever shook hands with Tim Russert was, back in 1984, Larry Grossman, then president of NBC News, a former PR man himself, introduced me to Tim as a new NBC hire. I was honestly shocked. In those days, network news departments did not hire political operatives. Russert's whole career had been spent advising and spinning for politicians -- remarkably good politicians in my mind -- Daniel Patrick Moyinhan and Mario Cuomo, but still spinning, bobbing and...

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