Filed under: MSNBC, Tim Russert, Bass ackwards, Joe Scarborough, Luke Russert, Mika Brzezinski
So, we watched little Facebook scandal-plagued Luke Russert on Joe Scarborough’s MSNBC show this morning because we wanted to see for ourselves exactly what nepotism looks like.
We ended up learning that it runs even more deeply in the Russert family than we reported yesterday. Not only did Luke’s daddy Tim Russert, the big cheese in NBC’s political unit, get the raunchy Boston College student the gig on Joe’s show today, but Luke has also secured one of the few internships available this summer with Conan O’Brien’s late night show — which, not coincidentally, airs on NBC.
As if that weren’t bad enough, Luke started to complain on air this morning about being “bossed around” by celebrity entourages while doing his intern gig. He also made a couple of unrepeatable sex jokes about newswoman Mika Brzezinski, which led her to smack him with a newspaper on the set.
Wow. The big world certainly is tough, little Luke. Now, wanna go hot tubbing? Or will you be too busy hosting NBC Nightly News, or something like that, later today?
Earlier: Tim Russert Pulls Strings to Get Raunchy Son a Nat’l Morning Show

Apparently the N in MSNBC stands for Nepotism. First Brzezinski, and now the Mini-Russert. Quick - someone tell Dan Abrams. Oh wait…
Never mind.
I am surprised the cops didn’t hall Mika off to jail for running several red lights getting to her show this morning.
She talked the cop out of it, she said. And the cop should be fired!
Who wrote this garbage? Is this a case of childish jealousy per chance? A young college guy in a hot tub or pool with gals all dressed in swimsuits what exactly is wrong with that. I think at this time in particular with the loss of Tim Russert this is in extremely poor taste and judgment at the very least. Somehow raised in the Russert family I can’t imagine Luke having anything on his mind but a good time with some friends, he would never do anything that could be seen as a disservice to his parents or family. This sadly is simply TRASH!
hope you’re proud of this piece
This article is disgusting! How could anyone write these words with how NBC and the Russert Family lost someone so monumental
to journalism and to America and especially in the way it happened. If I had my way, I would shut this website down and haul you off to jail.
Shame on you for posting such a disrespectful opinion piece. So what if his father helped him get a job, most parents do!! And give the kid a break, his father just died.
wow i came here to fry the shit out you like everybody else did. eat that shit up, bitch.
Spot on. Nepotism runs wilder than ever.
Speaking with republican wife of Alan Greenspan, Adrea Mitchell, Luke just said on national TV that the Obama campaign, by having 2 volunteers asking 2 Muslim women to move away from TV cameras, has deeply hurt these 2 yound women– that they will never forget the slight, etc.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree- but tim russert was at the top of the hill, and his son has rolled very far away from the integrity and the intelligence that his dad di have.
Expect more pandering from MSNBC- they are more and more corporate republilcan since father russert’s death, and the son will do anything they say to do. Andrea Mitchell, goddess of silky trash journalism, fed him questions that gave no room for independent thought, much less answers. Her suck-up right wing journalism will be on the attack more and more, and looks like lil Luke will suck right up at the same right wing trough.
This kid is an obvious talentless twit who was born on third base, thanks to his now dead daddy, and thinks he hit a triple. Such shameless nepotism! Shame on MSNBC.
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