Thursday, September 25, 2008

Dumb and Dumber

It looks like the honeymoon is over for Luke Russert:

NBC's Russert says he made `dumb' statement

NBC News reporter Luke Russert said he made a "dumb" misstatement on the "Today" show Wednesday when he suggested that smart people supported Barack
Obama for president.

...Russert, son of the late "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, is covering youth issues for NBC News. He filed a report for "Today" about campaign activity at the University of Virginia, and talked 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."

Oops. Now 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.

Later on in his blog, he tried to backpeddle. His "explanation" is worse than the original statement:

..."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."

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

2 comments:

Shawn Anderson said...

It was only a matter of time... watching him stumble through the conventions actually made me feel sorry for him, like a pitcher getting called up too early to the bigs, left out on the mound to mop up against a playoff caliber team. Or, perhaps a better analogy would be watching Sarah Palin answering questions from a journalist. Someone thrust into a situation a bit too far above their skillset.

Matt Maul said...

OMG, Palin just blew in the Couric interview.

The final "list examples of McCain's efforts for more banking regulations" question was sorta stupid. BUT, there's plenty of examples of McCain going against the grain in the name of reform that she could have thrown out (McCain-Feingold for instance) instead of "I'll try to find some and I'll bring th em to ya"