"It was the room."

At the wonderful religion-and-media blog, Get Religion, there is an interesting discussion of Tim Russert's Catholic faith and how it shaped his journalism, including a recent talk on that topic by NBC anchor Brian Williams and an excerpt of Russert's repeated pushing of Al Gore to answer the question, "When do you believe life begins?"  My favorite quote is from Williams, who said that Russert's faith "was not the elephant in the room.  It was the room."