Anyone else watch/listen to Luke Russert on Mourning Joke?
Please allow me to preface this by saying that I’m sorry his father died. At some point, nearly everyone’s father dies, and we deal with our upset and frustrations each in our own way, each in our own inimitable style. It is part of the maturational process, and for some, it is harder than others due to their age, relationship, and/or emotional investment, as well as a variety of other reasons.
And whereas I always felt that as a member of the lucky sperm club, he was thrust upon us unmercifully by the higher-ups at NBC as a completely and utterly incompetent 22-year-old, he is really not to blame for that ridiculous episode which longtime viewers of MSNBC recall with various levels of admiration or disdain, depending upon the individual.
His interview with Willie Geist today possessed just about the most insipid, platitudinous , ridiculous verbiage I have heard on television in a very long time. It was comparable to listening to a junior high school student in some form of bad therapy and It came across so pathetically I was nearly embarrassed sitting in my car getting gas. I was In near-disbelief that this child of privilege who dealt with his grief by traveling all over the world, undoubtedly staying in luxury, hotels and villas, in order to come to terms with a life event, sees himself as a competent giver of advice on how to deal with loss And how to find oneself again.
I certainly hope he’s in therapy with someone who knows what he or she is doing, because this is the most unformed person I have seen in a very long time and I never thought I would be more aggressively headshaking then I used to be listening to his commentary on politics years ago, but that was entirely eclipsed this morning by his discussion of how he has learned to be “vulnerable”.
Interestingly, I reminisced that the last broadcast I ever saw him do, before he left NBC and embarked upon his Kerouakian-journey, was a feature on the process of removing bubblegum from the sidewalks of Washington DC. I distinctly recall how fitting I thought that assignment was for him at the time.
Of course, MSNBC would see fit to help him promote his book. He does look real healthy and fit with a beard and mustache and wish him and his mental health very well, indeed.
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My advice to the OP - get with the program!!
they helped bring us this fucking orange nightmare 
... do I get a six year trip around the world?
