Luke "Young Chub" Russert said he made a "dumb" misstatement on the Today show this morning when he suggested that smart people supported Barack Obama for president. Uh, not seeing anything dumb or mistated about this.Almost immediately, Russert took a hazing in the Web world, which stings like mad! Like the lashing from douchenozzle Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center, on the (I'm sure hardly ever heard of before today) NewsBusters blog: "Out of the mouths of young, untrained reporters come the unspoken beliefs of the liberal media." Oh yeah, amen, you!
Russert has picked up the microphone from late "Meet the Press" host and father Tim Russert by covering youth issues for NBC News. the statement was made after a filed report for about campaign activity at the University of Virginia. Talking about it live afterward with Matt Lauer, Russert (23) said about the university: "The smartest kids in the state go there so it is leaning a little bit toward Obama."
The gaffe being he's either implied that students at other colleges in Virginia aren't as smart as those at the University of Virginia or that you have to be dumb not to support Obama. Or both. Well, I don't know from Virgina colleges, I'll come out and say it unapologetically - you're fucking stupid if you don't vote for Obama.
Russert asserted he misspoke and "made what is without a doubt, quite simply a dumb comment." Furthermore, he added, "I meant to say that many of the kids who go to UVA are from affluent, highly educated households who are leaning (toward) Obama and hence their kids lean Obama," he said. "Plenty of smart college kids will vote for John McCain from UVA and plenty of smart kids go to Virginia Tech or George Mason and they, too, could end up being big Obama voters. Today was one of my first lessons in the perils of live television - lesson learned." At least until you get enough a name for yourself where you don't have to apologize for having an opinion, especially when you're right.
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