MSNBC's Luke Russert Is Made ‘Sick’ By ‘Call of Duty 3′ Commercials: ‘Doesn’t Reflect Costs of War’
This is a good time to bring up something that’s been bothering me for a couple of years now. As someone who has made his way in the world all on my own and without the help of rich parents or family connections, do I resent the fact that Tim Russert’s son Luke has been shot by the cannon of nepotism into a job men twice his age and with ten times his experience only dream of? Actually, no.
This is how the world works. Relationships matter and that’s life. I do, however, resent the fact that he’s not up to the job and that every time he’s on MSNBC talking about his Congressional beat I get “Bugsy Malone” flashbacks.
And just to keep the movie metaphors flowing, there’s also that whole “Vertigo” vibe, where Luke is Kim Novak and MSNBC is the sad and twisted Jimmy Stewart trying to creepily recreate someone they lost by dressing some wannabe up to look just like them. Whatever’s going on between MSNBC and Luke Russert. it’s not healthy.
And what better proof of that than this series of sanctimonious tweets from Russert where he laments how “sick” a video game commercial makes him feel because it doesn’t “reflect the costs of war”:
Newsflash, Luke: Your dad was a giant and we all still miss him. But maybe it’s time for you to jump off his shoulders in order to spend a little time in the real world where those of us who have struggled for everything we have don’t need video games to teach us how the world turns and that everything isn’t hunky-dory. And not only do we not need a video game to remind us of the world’s ills, believe it or not, we don’t need you to tell us all about it either.
So if it’s okay with you, we bitter clingers could use a little escape now and again and kinda resent know-betters who actually don’t know anything trying to shove their ignorant political agenda into everything.
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Luke who?
Submitted by River City on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:13am.
Yeah, what he said!
"Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind." Ayn Rand
Earth to Luke
Submitted by 26CX on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:24am.
It's a video game. Get a grip.
Wow... someone's mom refused
Submitted by PeskyDane on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:32am.
Wow... someone's mom refused to buy him so much as a squirt gun, huh?
Tim Russert
Submitted by Bourbeau on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:54am.
It's painful to think how much better the political discourse would be with men like Tim Russert guiding the dialog. It would not surprise me that if Tim were aroundhe'd be the first person to pull his son aside and give him a couple of well placed 'words of advice' on how to earn his stripes - although that metaphor might be lost on him. In the same vein, it makes me cringe to think of what we lost with the early passing of Tim Russert and ended up getting with the likes of David Gregory, who to this day, hasn't found a way to fit his foot into one of Tim's shoes. Let the battle continue.
Russert
Submitted by hkopcf on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 7:56am.
couldn't have said it better - good comment
By current MSM standardads, Luke is MORE qualified than his dad
Submitted by gopcongress on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 3:38pm.
Unforunately, by current MSM standardads, Luke is MORE qualified than his dad. If they were both interviewing for the same job today, Tim wouldn't even interview, his resume would be shunted into File 13.
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER
I can just see the next Army recruitment videos...
Submitted by Dave81 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:12am.
Soldiers getting sniped, legs getting blown off, grown men crying for their mommies, then a caption that says "Maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones..." You're right, advertisements should try to detract you from buying the product.
And yet it's perfectly
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:36am.
And yet it's perfectly acceptable to ignore the development of the baby, the instances of infection and death, not to mention emotional trauma that sometimes lasts for years, in connection with abortion, right?
It's OK to sanitize THAT!
Why exactly is Tim Russert some sort of legend....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:42am.
Because he had a shred of integrity or honesty ? Because he did not allow himself to be used as a political tool by the Democrats.
Because you could actually trust his opinion a little....?
Is that all you have to do to be canonized in the media ?
I have to say that it is a sad state of affairs when the measure of greatness in the news business is that once in a generation a guy who worked for the MSM wasn't some sort of lying two faced propagandist .
Somehow that has become exceptional.
I think that shows how little the media is worthy of respect when all you have to do to become an icon is show the same sort of honesty that most of the rest of us have to display in our everyday lives.
Next they will build a statue to Brian Williams because he always flushes the toilet when he is done.
he doesn't flush
Submitted by dmacleo on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 10:02am.
his crap doesn't stink so he just sprays it out over the airwaves.
or something..
John, I have to say, I
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:42am.
John, I have to say, I absolutely agree with your assessment of what's going on with Russert the Younger at MSNBC.
It's like the political fascination with the Kennedys and trying to create the "next" one.
I can't think of the name of the video game
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:45am.
right now, but it's the one where the player steals cars, shoots at coPs, and uses prostitutes. Think that one bothered Russert? I'm guessing no.
Grand Theft Auto
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:50am.
for those relaxing evenings at home
Every time I see that guy
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 10:15am.
I think, "What a ..." You know what? It's Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving Luke. Hopefully you won't get a MW3 video game for the holiday. And maybe you should just change the channel during those commercials. Good luck with your campaign.
Russert is an attention
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 10:21am.
Russert is an attention seeking idiot. I have no use for video games but they can't be anymore out of touch with reality than liberal news outlets.
LUKE
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 12:46pm.
It is my understanding that Lukie-baby is being mentored by James Carvile.
It Used to Irk Me
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 10:30am.
When my son got back from Iraq, there were no jobs, he was burnt out on school, so he stayed on line playing a game (probably this one). I was more than a little teed off that a grown man spent so much time playing a game (as I sit here, once again typing into a news blog (same thing)).
Then, one day, as he was laughing he told me this one young specialist (son is a SSgt.) was calling another player on the team names, without knowing he was their Lt. It hit me like a ton of bricks, these guys were practicing small unit tactics in a way not previously possible. I can only hope it is helping them now that they are all in Afghanistan.
Happy Thanksgiving.
PS: Agreed about Russert, MSM is the most inbred business I'm aware of.
a good guess!
Submitted by Injest on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 7:39pm.
If you were guessing it was a good guess!
U.S. Army Turns to Videogames for Training
This past week marked the release of the latest version of Medal of Honor, a videogame that has come under a great deal of fire since it was revealed that in its newest iteration players would be able to assume the role of Taliban fighters and fire on American troops. After fielding protests and complaints, Electronic Arts made a last-minute decision to rename the terrorists in the game, calling them “an opposing force” instead of “the Taliban.” …....................What is surprising is that playing a videogame where players can assume the role of terrorists is something that the U.S. Army not only understands, but actively develops and plays on a regular basis..............“When I joined the army in the early ’80s, most of stuff was canned and scripted and it took weeks or months or years to change training content,” said Covey. “Often it was based on a target that didn’t exist, a made up location like ‘Transnovia.’ Today, we make training based on actual locations, actual villages and actual events. The geographies are accurate and, more importantly, the activity is accurate.” ….........
“When the men and women in the field identify a new combat tactic the enemy is using, we take all data from that event and run it through a variety of toolsets — through constructive-based simulations if you need a physics-based result — and then pipe it through the game software,” says Covey. Because the Marines, NATO, the Army and all major allies have purchased VBS2, SIMS can produce a single product and distribute unclassified products to all its allied partners.
One such vehicle led to some programming challenges. “We were building the OH-58 Delta from scratch,” says Covey. “We couldn’t get that thing to fly worth a darn. Every single time it would take off and crash, take off and crash. So our lead programmer began adjusting where the mass was located on the vehicle. He ended up putting almost the entire mass of the OH-58 Delta in the rotor tips and it flew like a champ. We didn’t think it was physically accurate, but it worked.
“We sent it down to the aviation center at Fort Rucker with the caveat — it will fly, the optics work, the missile systems work, but we put all the mass in the rotor tips because we couldn’t get it to fly. They wrote back: “That’s where the mass is.” I’d like to say we were smart, but we got lucky on that one.”
Speak for yourself, John Nolte.
Submitted by gadropout on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 11:16am.
Speak for yourself, John Nolte. I don't miss Tim Russert at all. He was very smug, condescending and sanctimonious like all the "greats" in liberal "news" folklore. His saving grace was that he wasn't overtly mean to his guests, not like every other lib these days. He did repeat liberal talking points and treat them as facts when he knew they were lies or irrelevant to the story. Really, I didn't like him one bit.
I'm with you on this one
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 11:31am.
I never saw Russert until his last couple of years. I don't think he was as "down the middle" as he's given credit for. He had the ability to be nice on air and still slant hard left.
Luke Russert? I've never seen him on air and hope I can say the same from my deathbed.
Here's a novel idea, Luke.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 12:16pm.
Trot your candy ass down to your nearest Marine recruiting office and enlist in the military. Then you can speak with some authority on at least one real life subject in a couple of years!
I'd venture to say that almost everyone in uniform realizes the dangers involved in what they do, but they don't sit around and dwell on them getting their panties twisted up so tight that they can't function. In their mind, they can kick ANYBODY's ass in a fight, as someone's tag line so eloquently puts it.
So quit being a liberal punk, and learn how to be a man, or a woman for that matter, who faces the dangers involved in life and overcomes them, or (in some cases, sadly) dies trying. They are heroes. You are a piece of carping crap.
Russert Was Just More Subtle
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 12:42pm.
. . . as the best propogadists are. I think he was the first one to switch colors on the electoral map, though I could be wrong. For years Blue had represented the GOP while Red had represented the Dems, I guess Russert realized it was a little too close for comfort (and reality) to have the socialist dems represented by the same color as communism.
Get a grip, y'all
Submitted by TheHistorian on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 1:15pm.
Tim Russert had a long career as a news man. Unfortunately, his last few years were those of a shill for NBC and the liberal establishment. It is time to quit lionizing him.
That being said, his spoiled little brat of a son needs a good spanking and a dose of reality. However, I agree with him about the comments on the game. No PTSD there either. War is not glamorous, it is hard work done to protect a country. Unfortunately, Luke is also above hard work, so he will never really know that generally war is really worth it when conducted for this country. Too bad he forgot to tell us about Libya.
Dennis Prager
Apparently this is the kind
Submitted by LinTaylor on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:55pm.
Apparently this is the kind of video game Luke is hoping for:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/17
Luke just says dumb things to
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 1:31pm.
Luke just says dumb things to make himself relavent in a liberal media world. If he truly wants to rant about this sick real world, he should start with the abortion mentality the left has. Human life is precious,unique and the twisted logic and callousness from the left is what's causing many of our moral problems in this country. This idiot's rant over a kid's video game is just nonsense.
Yeah, pretty much
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 4:48pm.
Because Little Luke vaulted into the top of the NBC corporate news gang by virtue of his father's reputation, he missed all the opportunities to build his creds.
So, now he's trying to catch up by offering altruistic but empty statements.
WHAT A WUSS!
Submitted by StewartIII on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 2:08pm.
OUR U.S. MILITARY PLAYS THESE GAMES, AND HAS ALSO CREATED A FEW OF THEIR OWN. LUKE'S APPARENTLY NOT AS SMART AS HIS DAD:
America's Army
http://www.americasarmy.com/
Hmmmm....so when two guys kiss...
Submitted by dydx on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 2:16pm.
...like Obama et al....shouldn't they also show the horrors of AIDS? The wasting away of the human body and spirit?
What an idiot.
This little brat needs a hard
Submitted by helomech on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 4:25pm.
This little brat needs a hard dose of reality; the armed services could be what he could cure him-then again maybe it wouldn't
Luke
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 8:39pm.
He's a Morning Joe fave - they were pushing him months back, and on MJ, Joe and company never miss an opportunity to lecture us on how a tiny minority serve their country, and how they shouldn't have to fight.
It makes me ill. Not ONE of them has a family member who serves/served, and they presume to lecture??? Then they gloat on how they talked down the war under pres. Bush for years, like they did the TP, and say "See, the POLLS agree with us"!!! Well DUH!!!
Too bad you can't succeed in framing the narrative with OWS though Luke, Joe, etal - just imagine what all those polls would say if you idiots told it straight!!!
Ronald Reagan
Luke Russert is off base about Call of Duty.
Submitted by Superman on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 9:46pm.
Hey Luke, the makers of Call of Duty know that soldiers fighting the war have it rough. They aren't trying to diminish that or exploit that. Video games like Call of Duty are just something for people to play and enjoy and help escape the daily headaches they have to go through.
If you have a problem with lack of VA benefits or not enough care for PTSD then go complain to Congress. You work over there and talk to Congressmen all the time so that shouldn't be a problem for you.
Also, I'm a disabled war veteran myself and I like video games.
So does he not play Madden
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 10:54pm.
So does he not play Madden NFL because it doesn't have players breaking their legs a la Joe Thiesmann or show you messed-up NFL retirees who are head cases years down the line thanks to one too many concussions?
What's on tomorrow's slate, Lukie?
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 8:46am.
A condemnation of Pac-man for not including the impact of overeating on child obesity? Get a life, you over-privileged little snot.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me