58 is not very old.

A very sad a somber day.

He was grossly overweight. Plus a high stress job. Not unexpected.

What's most unfortunate is that if we had Universal Medical Care like Cheney has, would Russert's heart condition been discovered and his heart attack at 58 prevented? The California Nurses Union advertised the following "Vice President Cheney would "probably be dead by now" from his multiple heart attacks if he didn't have federally funded health care that most American's can't get".
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/nurses-union-ch.html

I felt today with the death of Tim Russert the same way I felt on the death of Martin Luther King..A feeling of great loss and sadness..

It is hard to understand the loss of Mr Russert and the continuation of people like Limbaugh and O'Rieley..

Yo! Doc H.!
Please show some respect for the dead! He was NOT grossly overweight. Your statement is discompassionate and judgemental. Though he may have been stressed to say his death was a result of his weight displays a callousness symptomatic of today's internet lack of decorum. "Check yourself!" as the homies would say on the basketball court. Or judge not lest ye be judged as it's has been said in an ancient text. Tim Russert asked the hard questions and was an avid, respectfful listener who spoke truth and carried on the literary tradition of storytelling to get points across. Something that smart politicians and writers the world over use to get their narrative across to the rest of us. May he rest in peace.

I heard this Heart Attack thing is all a cover-up. I heard he went into a post nomination interveiw with Hillary Clinton yesterday. Two went in, only one came out. They found Russert slumped over his desk with a Emery file jammed between his ribs. That's a "Heart Attack", Belt-Way Style. He tried to shiv her, she pushed back hard! You dont lean on the Clinton homies, they street, Yo Ha Ha

"Meet the Press" should have been called "For the Record". At least the remarks of a Dick Cheney are preserved for posterity as proof that a Vice President's own words can later bite him in the ass. Thanks Tim!

RIP, Tim - Sunday mornings will never be the same :-(

I hope a thorough autopsy is done of his body, as he was just too young to die. And, he wasn't that overweight.

I agree with doober, it would have been better to have been Limbaugh or O'Riley; apparently evil people live on and on because they are evil, but evil has no hope in the hereafter.

I'll miss him. Wouldn't it have been great if he'd followed up on some of Cheney's answers - had him explain the basis for his disagreements with the experts? Well, guess that wouldn't have allowed Cheney to shape the message as much. It is a sad day for journalism when the greatest point that can be made was not that he uncovered the hidden story or held their feet to the fire, but that he didn't seem to kiss up to the administration as much as most journalists did.

The patient was diabetic, and enlarged heart(heart worked too hard due to being grossly overweight), in addition to the high stress job. You all out there in Internet land, take heed, least you be next. Put that hamburger down. Pick up a tomato and lettuce(from California).

Sad indeed. I really enjoyed his work on Sunday mornings.

On a side note, sometimes I really hate the internet. Giving stupid people a voice, and I question the value in that. First off Russert was not "grossly overweight" and your a moron for thinking it. Second, if the death of one person encourages you to wish for the death of others, you are in a sense evil. I really shouldn't expect much else from someone who thinks her points are stronger illustrated by simply CAPITALIZING the cliched talking points of her given ideology. Stupid and shameful.

RIP Tim. You were one of the good ones.

Doc Holiday:

It seems awfully strange to me that everyone in the media knew just what it was that happened to cause Tim Russert to drop dead, immediately after his death, without an autopsy. Is that supposition or clairvoyance?

MarthaA, you are overweight. Now how do I know that? I live in Arizona, and I see a lot of overweight people die. That is a leading cause of death. You are only in denial if you don't see the overweight problem in yourself and others.
Tim Russert:
SMOKER? Check.
DIABETIC? Check
OVERWEIGHT? Check
WORKAHOLIC? Check
TRAVELED A LOT? Check.
OVER 50 YEARS OLD? Check.
PRONE TO OUTBURSTS? Check.
ADDICTED TO POLITICS? Check.
FRUSTRATED OVER THE STATE OF THE WORLD? Check.

Why is everyone shocked that a 58-year old man died with these symptoms? A lot of people I've spoken with ask me, "How can a man just drop dead?"

Doc Holiday:

I have seen a lot of people die, but usually in such cases it is from stroke, not dropping dead from their heart stopping.

Wikipedia says that an autopsy was performed Friday evening, right after Russert died, which seems rather fast. Forgive me, but I have never seen people move that fast. Hopefully, his blood and flesh were checked for sedatives of whatever; because, whatever you say, his death could easily have been from other than natural causes.

I only have doubts, because in my humble opinion the cause of death was cut and dried entirely too fast. It is amazing that an autopsy was performed the same evening that he died and the cause arrived at immediately without having any analysis research waiting time at all.

Since, apparently an autopsy has already been accomplished with the heart attack conclusion, there isn't any more to discuss relative to Tim Russert's death, so I have to say que sera sera.

It appears you think only overweight people have heart attacks, but I have seen just as many slim people die of heart attacks as I have overweight people. Sudden heart attack is not strictly overweight people. I have heard sudden heart attack is caused by taking too much iron when one is young, that the iron breaks down the walls of the heart.

MarthaA, the cure for too much iron in the blood, is a puncture womb. I lived in Tombstone, I speak from experience. Ike got a blood letting, according to the inquest. He didn't need to worry about "high iron" in the blood, it went right through him.

And pigs fly.

Lord help us not to be going back to Medieval times with LEECHES --- and Anthrax must be a "miasma in the field" to be removed by holy water or smoke. This type of philosophy could not be a LEFT WING Democrat, maybe a DLC RIGHT WING Democrat or a REPUBLICAN EXTREMIST getting us back to our roots. We started with leeches --- we end up with leached -- good social conservatism, wouldn't you say?

I'm sorry, but I think people have missed the point.

Corn says, "...Russert was responsible only for the questions he asked, not the answers the politicians gave."

There is another responsibility, one that Russert and virtually all MSM personnel have neglected.

They are not "responsible ONLY for the questions they ask", but also equally responsible for the questions they do NOT ask.

As I read through the excerpt of Russert's interview with Cheney presented here, all I kept thinking was that this was merely a public forum for Cheney to deny criticisms, not an honest effort to hold him, or this administration, accountable. This has been the pattern in the media AND in congress during the entire reign of the Bush administration: throw them a question, let them avoid answering it, and pretend you grilled them.

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I have seen a lot of people die, but usually in such cases it is from stroke, not dropping dead from their heart stopping.

I have seen a lot of people die, but usually in such cases it is from stroke, not dropping dead from their heart stopping.

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