NBC News' Tim Russert died today. He was 58.
He looked younger than that. He died too soon.
We'll all, I suspect, always think of him as the guy who grilled politicians for years on Sunday mornings. He was certainly no conservative; he got his start in politics by working as an aide for a Democratic politician, among other things.
But I always thought he tried very hard, in his position as a journalist and on "Meet the Press", to play it straight, to question those of both parties very hard.
The Clinton campaign was often furious with him during the '08 campaign. That tells you a lot.
He'll be missed.
