MICKEY KAUS: “In Tuesday’s debate, Tim Russert definitely let Obama off the hook on the issue of Obama’s chosen pastor, Rev. Wright . . . . I don’t think Russert was consciously helping Obama escape. But there are any number of potential subconscious motives for Russert’s choke, including fear that his image wouldn’t benefit if he were the heavy who skewered the popular, charismatic black Dem frontrunner.”