Russert Watch(ed Too Closely?)

The Blog Arianna Huffington: NBC News PR Department Gets Down and Dirty... The Huffington Post: "READ MORE: NBC, Tim Russert, 2006, Scooter Libby, Patrick Fitzgerald, Valerie Plame

Somebody's feeling the heat...

How else to explain the widely-off-the-mark responses from NBC's PR department in Lloyd Grove's column to our reporting on Russert's multitude of journalistic ethical conflicts.

Instead of dealing with the charges head on, the media giant and its Washington bureau chief Tim Russert have astonishingly decided to get down and dirty, dredging up and faxing to at least one reporter a 12-year-old false claim that I hired a private detective to snoop on Russert's wife Maureen Orth while she was preparing a hit piece on me for Vanity Fair in 1994.
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Well, so what if she did? It's a free country. Anybody can hire anybody to follow anybody doing anything. Again, so what? Or, or, or does Tim have something to hide? Is there a big, deep, dark double-undercover secret hiding somewhere in his private life? If you have nothing to hide, why do you care if I, perhaps, wiretap you? Is ok for Bush to have you followed but not Huffington? Sounds like somebody might be a terrorist... (that's a Coulterism [joke]-- heh, heh)