If one searches for “Russert” on youtube today, the autocomplete box will give you the following suggestions:

“russert fart”
“russert mcclellan”
“russert farts”
“russert obama”
“russert ickes”
“russert clinton”
“russert bush”
“russert mccain”
“russert meet the press”
“russert farting”

Most baffling: if you do search for videos of the late Tim Russert farting, NONE EXIST! I thought perhaps he was the new Robert Tilton, who has a rich history of farts being dubbed into his videos. Further youtube searches reveal that people love to add fart noises to videos of famous people. Here’s a seven minute compilation of McCain farting. But no Russert! Not a single suggestion for “McCain” comes up at fart*!

Were the producers of these videos looking to appreciate the life of Lil Russ in the only way they knew how? I don’t know. Either way, R.I.P. Tim. Yours was the first video podcast I ever downloaded.

Man, this is going to get me the worst Google hits.