Arianna Huffs About “E-ZPass Russert”

russertjune27.jpgArianna Huffington continues to suffer on Sunday mornings: “Yesterday’s Meet the Press with Donald Rumsfeld might as well have been called Meet the Press Conference because it’s unclear what more we got out of Rummy than we would have gotten if he had just given one of his preening, cutesy press conferences,” she blogs. “Every single one of Rumsfeld’s answers was, in fact, designed to confuse, obscure and obfuscate. That’s his shtick. And E-ZPass Russert‘s is to let him slide right on by.”

The best line comes after the jump: “Here is the real question: after watching today’s show, did you come away knowing one thing that someone who made the wiser choice of sleeping in would not know?” We should ask that after every hour of TV news…

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