PAUL HARVEY - R.I.P. - BUT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE STORY

I can't remember agreeing with PH on anything, but long ago I listened anyways. What wonderful presentation he had.

Good day, Paul.

For me his passing is particularly poignant because I can't remember a time that he hasn't been part of radio. He was about as non partisan and apolitical as you will find in a well known radio personality who comments on the politics and social fabric of the contemporary scene. He always had at least one human interest story that made you think on his daily newscast and his 'the rest of the story' mini essays are legendary.

I will miss him.

Wow...he died when, today?

I agree with Fyre--he didn't take sides on his broadcasts--but was way too liberal for my liking in many of his news broadcasts, though he wrote many excellent columns published by the Conservative Chronicle.

His "Rest of the Story" episodes are phenomenal. I have marveled for years at what a skilled writer and orator he was. It is always fun to try to guess the person he's talking about.

Harvey was too conservative for me, but I liked to listen to him anyway.

His voice is comforting. It was one of those things that gives me and unexplained easiness. Kind of like listening to Garrison Keilor - it is soul soothing to me. He will be missed.

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

I heard the original Paul sometime last week , He had a regular 11:45 AM news spot . He sounded really bad. His voice was all shaky and rheumy sounding.

I enjoyed some of his feature stories . His political stories were pretty much right wing.

He was conservative yes. So if he is to be damned for that, so be it.

But his criticisms of government and those who govern were even handed and delivered without respect to party affiliation or idelology which is why I said he was as non partisan and apolitical as they come in radio news commentators. He didn't often take sides. He was a side all by himself. He criticized George H.W. Bush breaking his 'no new taxes' pledge. He criticized Bill Clinton's piccadillos. And he criticized what he perceived as George W. Bush's fiscal irresponsibility plus, as these last years passed, it became increasingly obvious that he perceived the Iraq war to be a mistake. But he was able to convey that without undercutting the boots on the ground over there.

His scholarship was not particularly careful, and now and then he fell for one of those e-mails that gets sends around with false information or he would insert a minor factual error into an otherwise okay historical rendition. But his general overview of America and the American scene was generally on target and, while I did not depend on him for information, I enjoyed hearing his take on things over lunch each day or listening to "The Rest of Story" on the drive home.

He was a uniquely American institution.

Yes, I will miss him.

Harvey was an entertainer, which is why non conservatives could overlook his bias.

exactly

And that's .....................
the rest of the story.

And thank you to the numbnuts who couldn't find the charity to take the opportunity to honor or note the passing of an icon of the American scene, but used the opportunity to insult another member. (God, I'm glad I'm not a liberal.)

Your candor is in question, you say that he was not partisan yet every word he said illustrated his extremely conservative world view. He was not overtly political but he certainly did promote an extreme conservative ideology.

Hawkeye, I think you are missing Foxfyre's brilliant (yet subtle) sense of humor. In her last posts she says "numbnuts" are "using the opportunity to insult other members" right before she thanks God she is not a liberal.

She is just joking... (right Foxy?)

I can't find any insults in this thread except for Foxfyre calling certain unidentified posters "numbnuts." Which must mean that Foxfyre is thanking herself for calling herself a "numbnut."

That's one of the most confusingly self-referential posts I've ever seen on A2K. Still, if you can't thank yourself for calling yourself "numbnut," who can you thank?