Tim Russert's Selective Memory

NBC, the new and strongest anti-Bush force in the MSM, shows its stripes with Tim Russert's selective facts, yet no one will call him on it. In his interview with Condoleeza Rice this morning on Meet the Press, I noticed a few interesting points of his focus:

1) He referred to the mountains of documents found in Iraq and grilled Rice on Russian involvement with Iraq during the runup to the war. However, he never once mentioned the more significant documents that show Saddam's involvement with Al Qaeda.

2) He then referred to the fact that Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri was apparently an informant of the CIA and told them that the U.S. was given prewar details on WMDs. However, as Powerline pointed out last week, NBC's summary of the story was "grotesquely misleading" because Sabri actually told the agency Iraq did indeed have WMDs.

3) Finally, Russert ended with his standard anti-war rhetoric about how the Bush administration was wrong on everything, thousands of people have died, etc. He never seems to have time to get the real facts out, but he always has time for his old anti-Bush rhetoric.

I guess Chris Wallace-type thorough questioning is a bit too "fair and balanced" for NBC.