When cops die they get the bagpipes, for soldiers it’s the playing of Taps, but when it comes to media types like Tim Russert—who once got both Bush and Kerry to admit their secret society shadiness—it’s the whole gambit. Although the official wake isn’t till tomorrow, the Meet the Press host and venerated-like-Jesus media man has already received a hero’s tribute that included flags ordered to half mast in Buffalo, plans to rename strips of road after him, and marathon MSNBC coverage this past weekend, as well as numerous memorials across other networks. And then there was the newspapers. Hundreds of them ran Tim Russert tributes, but only a few dozen were honorable enough to place the news juggernaut on the cover, above the fold, or fused with the masthead altogether. ANIMAL assembled a collection of the best tree killers that paid tribute to what some decry as a staunch leftist in disguise.

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