Tim Russert: Patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel

[bushwakker]

I recall watching MTP late in the 1992 campaign. The Bushies were getting desperate and really going after Clinton's "patriotism". They were rummaging through his FBI files, questioning his opposition to Vietnam on "foreign soil" while he was in England, spreading the lie that he had burned a flag, etc...I really was pretty bad. One morning on MTP Russert commented to some GOP flack, Samuel Johnson's quote about patriotism being the last refuge of a scoundrel. You could tell that Russert was really pissed about the tactics that the Bushies were using and he put the GOP flack on the defensive - "oh no Tim we're not questioning his patriotism yadda yadda yadda..."

Where is that Tim Russert today?