After the speech, when it was obvious that the networks had been duped by the White House into not scheduling any kind of Democratic response (God forbid they should schedule a response from a Green, or a Red (!), or someone in the antiwar movement!), and they hastily scheduled not such a response but "analysis" (a word we use very loosely when it comes to the "analysis" we get on network TV), Russert added some more pimping for the President:

During that segment, Russert predicted that Democrats would no doubt accuse Bush of playing "politician in chief."

Rather than criticizing Bush for politicizing the speech, Russert instead implicitly criticizes the Democrats, and doesn't just criticize them, but criticizes them in advance for something they haven't even said!

Unbelievable.