Irreplaceable

Tim Russert was in a league of his own.

At NBC, Russert was literally doing the job of at least 12 people and it’s gonna take at least that many people to replace him.

Just after Russert’s memorial service on Wednesday, NBC News president Steve Capus said, “He ran the news bureau in Washington. He hosted ‘Meet the Press.’ He was our liaison with political campaigns and the administration and every government office in the city, let alone the Vatican and every mayor’s and governor’s office in the whole country. He hosted a show on MSNBC. He was a senior vice president of NBC News. He was a senior manager within G.E. He was able to brilliantly juggle at least a dozen roles. To think any one person can just step in there is foolish. Tim was truly irreplaceable. That being said, each of those roles needs to be filled.”

We’ll feel his loss at every turn of the crazy presidential election ahead of us.