“For my part, whenever I see Russert on the teevee, I always feel like I’m watching archival footage from the 70s,” writes DC blogger Ezra Klein. “The guy just looks anachronistic. And his questions are terrible.”

Interestingly, young Klein has agreed to appear on Chris Matthews’s Hardball program several times over, and many consider Matthews to be an even worse interviewer than Russert. Wonder what Klein makes of that paradox?

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