Award winning newsman Paul Harvey has passed on at age 90

[danceswithcats]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...6982226&page=1

It's been years since I heard one of his broadcasts, but his distinctive style was both informative and entertaining. Good night, Sir.

[Winston Smith]

This is the first I've heard on this. I always like Paul Harver. Interesting stories, entertaining delivery, always informative and he was an old-school guy that sort of evoked trust and confidence. On the bright side, Paul Jr. seems like a carbon copy of his

[Ken S.]

Politically, the guy was a fucking Nazi and most of his stories were fiction. He was the original merchant of right wing religious and political glurge. Fuck him.

[Stranger On A Train]

While I don't share the vitriol of Ken S., it is definitely true that many of his stories are a combination of selective biography, creative manipulation, and outright fabrication. He's been the source of so many unconfirmed or untrue urban legends that Snopes should have a category devoted strictly to him. (Curiously, he's also the target of many u.l.s about supposed comments or correspondence falsely attributed to him.) While he might have "evoke[d] trust and confidence," the man was a pernicious liar, and his interminable hawking of products--inserted directly into his commentary--was a source of irritation and satire. He also never hesitated to put a distinctly Christian Fundamentalist bend on his news commentary, especially in regard to politics, education, and science.

Stranger

[ShelliBean]

I wonder if his eulogy will be slyly segued into "page 2" in the middle?

[Julie]

In 2000, when I was a Republican, I was listening to Paul Harvey on the morning when he said he would endorse someone for president. I knew he would endorse Bush because, well, Harvey was One of Us.

He didn't. He said he thought both men were worthy of our votes.

I was furious and disappointed. Looking back, I'm am still, though for opposite reasons!