What can you say? And its Friday the 13th too?
I met him after the Iowa caucus walking in the sky walk at 6:45 am
the Friday after caucus. He looked exactly like he does on tv.
I was walking the sky walks for exercise in the cold winter months,
with a friend. This short chubby guy was walking towards us and broke into a big smile. As he passed I realized who he was and said to my friend ?do you know who that was??, he said no, and I said you just passed someone very famous. Tim Russert.
He wasn?t the news junkie that I am, so he had to think who Tim Russert was.
Being the Friday morning after the caucus, I figured Tim had just done his NBC Today show thing, and was checking out of the Marriott hotel on his way to the next primary state.
If I had not been so shocked to run into him, I might have tried to have a few words.
There was no one else in the sky walks that early, Tim was alone clutching two travel bags. When he broke out in a big smile as he approached us, I now think he must have thought we would recognize him. But I was too stunned that we ran into him that way.