Breaking: Tim Russert Has Died of a Heart Attack at the age of 58

Hi Caroline.  I agree, it is heart-breaking.   Thanks for sharing your thoughts and link.

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I wrote this over at momocrats.com but have this need to shout my saddness from the rooftops a bit. Maybe its cheating to cut and paste this but its how I feel. Losing Russert is a massive loss and I guess I am needing to reach out to my fellow bloggers a bit!

This news is absolutely heart-breaking. Russert's true passion for politics and the election was so very contagious. He always got me fired up! He asked EXCELLENT questions and expected so much from those he interviewed. He summed up the big political picture smartly, sussinctly and straight from the hip. Watching his co-workers discuss his passing broke my heart. I am just not sure how this election will feel without him. Russert was always a "given" after a big election news event. Amoungst all of the pundits, the news anchors, the commentators - it was HE who I trusted. He who I wanted to hear from first. He spelled it out, set the tone and boiled it down. What a horrible loss. My heart goes out to his family and co-workers during this very sad and shocking time. If silly ol' me misses him this much already, I can't imagine what his family and the rest of the big news wigs are going through.

Caroline

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Tim Russert's physician was on MSNBC -- the cause of death...A sudden coronary thrombosis (a blood clot in the coronary artery) resulting in a heart attack. Here is the video clip...

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your link. 

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Thanks for sharing your link.  It is a very sad day for America.

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan at catherine-morgan.com ( http://catherine-morgan.com/ ), The Political Voices of Women ( http://politicsanew.com/ ), Care2 Election Blog ( http://www.care2.com/politics/features/ )

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Here is a link ( http://www.livinginthetension.com ) to my post regarding the tragic loss of Tim Russert.

Conan just did a nice tribute. Russert's son has been an intern there recently.

http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien/video/#mea=263061

 Laurie

You can always tell when someone was a really solid colleague and friend. I watched the Brian Williams/Brokaw exchange this afternoon and was touched by how they remembered him. A reporter on the local affiliate here in DC (they work in the same building) broke down in tears when the anchors were interviewing him on the 6 o'clock news.

A friend of mine from school is interning at NBC this semester and when I spoke to her today she said it was remarkable, that so many in the building were so genuinely touched by Tim Russert and the sense of grief was very real. Said she felt like the only person in the world who'd never met him. It was nice to get that personal touch.

In addition to the personal loss for his family, friends and colleagues, I keep thinking about how few actual "thought leaders" (for lack of a better term...sorry, I'm tired.) there are in our media, and how we've lost such a tremendous historian for this campaign. I wonder if he was the only person to interview each of the candidates from the beginning? Seems especially sad that he'll miss such an important election. Again, I know this pales in comparison to his life, but I've watched him since the 2000 race and could just tell how immersed he was in the whole gig.

Sad. It's so true that we only have the moment we're in.

Laurie

 why all the good ones? Ive been sick about this since hearing a few hours ago. as a writer, as a washingtonian, as someone who lost my dad too young for his young son, Luke, recent BC graduate, as a former upstate NYer, and mostly... as a person.

I'm blogging about it here  ( http://washwords.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/oh-i-fee... )

This is a loss I'll be grieving for a long, long time to come. 

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This is a tremendous loss!  Nothing more to say.  How tenuous life is.

...makes remember why he has always been my favorite evening news anchor. I cannot imagine how agonizing it was.

"Our beloved colleague, Tim Russert, collapsed... he will be missed as he was loved."

Great links Catherine - thank you.

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Megan at Megan's Minute has posted on this sad news...

http://www.megansminute.com/2008/06/tim-russert.ht... ( http://www.megansminute.com/2008/06/tim-russert.ht... )

I would like to encourage anyone who blogs about this very sad news to provide their links in the comments of this post.

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan at catherine-morgan.com ( http://catherine-morgan.com/ ), The Political Voices of Women ( http://politicsanew.com/ ), Care2 Election Blog ( http://www.care2.com/politics/features/ )