The End of The Story - RIP Paul Harvey

[BDBopper]

Sad news tonight from the world of radio as legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey has passed awa (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hC3c-Gc9pa8KOGG0vpm8SgBqYpJQD96KV28O0)y, at the age of 90.

Paul will be missed.

[cirquelover]

And now the rest of the story......Aww I remember him well.

[3894]

I guess I'm kinda thankful he's gone.

[scaeagles]

No. Never mind. Not worth the grief my comment to that last post would bring.

[Kevy Baby]

I will miss him as his son is not nearly as good at telling The Rest of the Story.

Since tRofS is all I know of Paul Harvey, was he also a political pundit? I've heard liberals curse at the mention of his name: why so?

[Alex]

I curse his name because he was one of the all time great salesmen of quack medical elixirs (not that he was doing anything all the other radio hosts don't do, he was just better at it than most of them).

Yes, in addition to tRotS he also did news summaries which tended to mix in a little commentary (both overt and in the obvious slant of the stories he chose).

I didn't really mind it (though I rolled my eyes at him a lot) but a lot of people did. Though if I didn't like him I still wouldn't prefer he be dead, it would be sufficient that he just not be on the radio.

ETA: Oh and much of the recent strong derision was the result of his strong support of the Iraq War and a commentary a few years ago where he pretty much suggested that we're being wimps if we don't use biological and nuclear weapons to end those wars just because of how others would look at us (he seemed to speak approvingly of the balls of biological warfare in the form of giving smallpox infected blankets to Indians). He also had a tendency to prefer good stories over true stories, this old article (http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1394) details some of that.

[3894]

Some 800 years ago, an obscure young broadcaster made a discovery that kept him in Bose home stereo systems and Select Comfort mattresses for life. He discovered that he could perform an amazing trick.

As long as the young broadcaster delivered folksy banalities about patriotism and hard work in a singsong, he could actually string folksy stories past the commercial.

His secret? There were two: keep it as corny as an Iowa August and reveal the subject's name at the very end.

And the name of that youngster was ... Paul Harvey!

[CoasterMatt]

I always think of Bart's People when I hear recordings of Paul Harvey.

[cirquelover]

I never knew anything about the man, I just remember hearing him on the radio when I was a teenager. Kasey Kasem was big then too, yeah I just dated myself there I'm sure!