Ricardo J Gonzalez for a Better America

This week: Kucinish, ED Hill, Rezko, and Russert


Rep. Dennis Kucinich brought up 35 articles of Impeachment against President Bush this week. The pretty much universal reaction, including from the DNC leadership was "What's the point". Kucinich aparently gets extremely cranky when the media stops portraying him as a lunatic and has to find new and more ridiculous ways to get his 15 minutes of fame.

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E.D. Hill, who referred to a "fist pump" between Obama and His wife as a "terrorist fist jab" has lost her show because of it. Ms. Hill will continue to work for Fox News. When I first heard about the "terrorist fist jab" it made me laugh in shock about the ridiculousness of some pundits. However, after learning a bit more, I tend to believe Ms. Hill that she was just trying to set up the debate.

"A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently," said Hill in her show.

I guess it really depends on her intent. If she meant to imply that they were terrorists, then she got what she deserved. Based on the context, I think that she was trying to point out how ridiculous the over analysis and spin was. If this is the case, she could've used a different example.

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Tony Rezko, who is now in prison on charges of "wire fraud, bribery, money laundering, and attempted extortion", is claiming that federal prosecutors were pressuring him to implicate Obama:

They are pressuring me to tell them the ‘wrong’ things that I supposedly know about Gov. Blagojevich and Sen. Obama,” Rezko wrote in an undated letter released by the court this week. “I have never been party to any wrongdoing that involved the governor or the senator. I will never fabricate lies about anyone else for selfish purposes. I will take what comes my way, but I will never hurt innocent people.”

I think everyone was expecting Obama's name to be drug through the mud during this trail and to many people's surprise and disappointment (or glee) it wasn't.

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Finally, this morning Tim Russert died of a heart attack at age 58. Russert was the host of the show Meet the Press. He was known as one of the last people in the media willing to ask the tough questions. For more information than you ever needed to know about him, you can check out NBC's webpage, which has turned into a virtual shrine for the day.
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