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Our previous commentary on stuff white people like has apparently inspired a double-whammy of news regarding even more stuff that white people like. Tim Russert, host of "Meet the Press," has died of a heart attack at age 58. White people certainly like their liberal newscasters, but Russert was particularly revered and influential. He will be missed by newsies of all types. The Times and CNN report more, and the Wikipedia page has already been updated.

While on Meet the Press, when Tim Russert wasn't waving flip-flops in his face, Mitt Romney got teary when recalling the time in 1978 when he learned the Mormon church would accept black people. Some news outlets focused on the crying, such as the Boston Herald and Boston Daily. (At least one black Mormon wasn't impressed with the show because Romney didn't apologize for the church's discrimination.)

--Former Massachusetts Speaker of the House and radio host Tom Finneran cries. Conveniently, a camera is there. [Boston Herald]

Just in case former Massachusetts governor and current presidential aspirant Mitt Romney didn't understand that he had a reputation as a flip-flopper, "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert decided to use props--actual flip-flops, in fact.

Dare we say things are starting to click at the right time? The Red Sox finished off Oakland with an 11-6 win. Now only a monumental collapse (look upward; no lightning) will keep the Red Sox from celebrating an AL East clinchin' party in the next day or two. The Sox smacked Oakland largely due to the bat of Mike Lowell, who collected five of his 116 RBIs (a Red Sox 3B record) on a...

The tables are turning on Tim Russert tonight at the JFK Library. He'll be chatting with NPR's Linda Wertheimer about his twenty years of broadcast journalism. Since taking over Meet the Press at the end of 1991, Russert has interviewed anyone that's anyone in today's political world, and we're hoping he'll share some dirty little secrets tonight. The Sunday morning interview show has been around 57 years, longer than any program in the history of television, but the all-knowing Irishman has turned it into a nail-biting experience for some guests. In 2003, Slate put together a Meet the Press user's guide for the presidential candidates. Then last May, a press aid found out what happens when you cross The Host. He may be tough on camera, but we hear he's a great dad to his BC-enrolled son.

Poor John Kerry. First he loses the presidential race and now he is calling polls "irrelevant." Kerry met with Tim Russert on "NBC News' Meet the Press" on Sunday morning to discuss a few things, like Iraq, President Bush, etc. According to Russert in a poll done by Boston's own Channel 7, Massachusetts isn't as enamored with Kerry as we used to be. When asked "Should Kerry run for president in 2008?", 33% of Massachusetts voters said yes; 59% said no. Sen. Kerry's response was that every poll in the USA had him out of the presidential race before Iowa, so he doesn't pay attention to them anymore. The bigger question: is Massachusetts ready for another local guy to step forward and take a crack at democracy...Affleck in 2008?