The End of The Story - RIP Paul Harvey

[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 details some of that.