Peter Jennings' Unfortunate Legacy

FPM ^ | 11 AUGUST 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

[nopardons]

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[Jaysun]

Tisk tisk. This babe isn't afraid to tell it like it is. I personally prefer to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, at least until they're underground.

[Jaysun]

hell he would stink it up underground too
he was a godless anti American and worse
he chose to be all that

True. I just think it's distasteful and disrespectful to come out with both guns blazing before he's even in the box, that's all. It's really a matter of personal preference I guess.

[Waco]

He doesn't have the USA to kick around anymore, for damn sure.

[DB]

I tend to agree.

[elli1]

Sadly, the female... non-toupeed version of Jennings...

This is Schlussel's problem--she can't ever seem to make a point w/o resorting to irrelevant gutter-sniping. She has all the nuance of a James Carville and worse timing. Diminishes her voice & makes her less effective, IMO.

[wildcatf4f3]

I hated him and felt relief when he died. Just telling the truth. Now if about 500 others of his ilk would just follow his and Robin Cook's example, we just might win the WOT and set America back on course.

[brewcrew]

Tisk tisk. This babe isn't afraid to tell it like it is. I personally prefer to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, at least until they're underground.

I'm kinda with you on that one. Write it if you must, but wait until after the funeral to publish it. Just kind of basic human decency.

[BCrago66]

She didn't wait for the body to go cold before she wrote her screed. Cold, cold, woman. And David Horowitz, who I'm glad is on our side, made a mistake publishing this so quickly.

[Jaysun]

fair and understood...in Tx we say...."one man's opinion is another man's wife"

I'm from Texas. We also used to say that opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everybody thinks everyone else's stinks.

[Caipirabob]

I will remember Peter Jennings for the less than honorable person he was -- not the emperor with no clothing that is now being memorialized.

Great post. Still, I'll wait another week before I "honor" Peter Jennings, myself...

[Jaysun]

which was always a way to end debate..sp opinions are assholes ? So our founding fathers were assholes ? God and Christ certainly had opinions, were they ?

It's just a cliche.

[Jaysun]

words have meaning........el Rushbo ( a million times)

I know, I was simply sharing lingo with you. No big deal.

[omniscient]

What's with all this reverential tiptoeing around after the death of a known terrorist sympathizer and America-hater? I say good riddance.

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[hershey]

Well, we are at war so some would disagree, esp.(you'd think), Cindy Sheehan!.

[Eddie01]

"Let Us Roll"

[leprechaun9]

But also remember that assholes provide a very essential function = minimize the number of people with brown eyes!

[libs_kma]

"I personally prefer to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, at least until they're underground."

Why wait? She nailed her description of Jennings. :)

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It's sad when anyone dies of cancer.

Nonsense. It all depends on the person.

I used to have a redneck, son-of-a-bitch brother-in-law who would go to the local bowling alley and raise hell on a regular basis, picking fights which he would invariably lose. One of my wife's co-workers used to moonlight at the same bowling alley, and knew my brother-in-law quite well. One day my brother-in-law was bowling on the third lane, and had just rolled a nasty split. Just as he was going for his second ball, he turned a wonderful shade of blue, collapsed, and died right then and there. Later, my wife's friend told her, "I'm really sorry; I know he was your sister's husband, but I've never been so glad to see anyone die." Those were not his sentiments alone, I can assure you.

[SkyPilot]

I am trying to read this article, but something keeps distracting me.

[jjw]

ping

[libertylover]

The bit about the toupe was "under the belt", but I won't pretend he was good just because he's dead.

[Graybeard58]

I found "Baghdad Bob" to be more credible than Jennings.,p> "Baghdad Bob" provided comic relief in the same manner that Rev. Al does. They are the enemy that we can laugh at.

[HighWheeler]

Thanks for the dose of reality.

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[HighWheeler]

"I personally prefer to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, at least until they're underground."


Then you must have missed out on all the celebration when Uday and Qusay died.

[kittymyrib]

And no one brings up the fact that he lived for a time with that Hanna woman who is now a muckety-muck in the Palistian government. No, Jennings was never unbiased when it came to his support of the Palistians.

[Jaysun]

Then you must have missed out on all the celebration when Uday and Qusay died.

You must of missed the tiny print: Certain restrictions and conditions apply, void where prohibited.

[Pharmboy]

So it would be a good guess that you don't appreciate Ann Coulter.

[RightOnline]

Needed to be said. Dead-on.

[dennisw]

Peter Jennings was way too friendly towards Islam. He went native when he was a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. Another brain captured by it's romanticization of Arab culture. Happens to the English all the time.

[sweetliberty]

"Just kind of basic human decency."

I agree with you fundamentally, but I figured out before I was out of elementary school that reporters/journalists on the whole are one of the world's lowest life forms, almost completely void of human decency. It's just that every now and then, the message that's tastelessly delivered over a warm carcass is so pointedly accurate that it cannot help but evoke hearty assent.

[new cruelty]

opinions are assholes ? So our founding fathers were assholes ? God and Christ certainly had opinions, were they ?

Good grief. No doubt satan and George III had less than glowing opinions of God, Christ, and our founding fathers. And besides Jaysun didn't say everyone in the world is an asshole. He said "opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everybody thinks everyone else's stinks". It's a figure of speech. And if you need to ask- it can be said with great certainty that the founding fathers and our Lord and Savior all had one. As for God, well, we all find out in the end (pun intended). Lighten up.

[Joe Boucher]

Crapola, jennings was an anti American socilaist.
I don't give a damn if he moved to the U.S. it was for purely financial dealings.
He died of his own doings, he smoked and a lot.
I usually was inscensed when I ever had the misfortune to tune in to his "news program", that was usually little more then propaganda for the islamists or any other group fighting the U.S.
Watch any interview of a liberal like the murderer Kennedy and watch his demeanor then watch his scowl when forced to interview any conservative.
He died. I feel bed for those he left behind and their grief but the put him of some pedestal and say great things about him is just lunacy.

[kabar]

The MSM is exemplified by people like Jennings. The glorification and lionization of Jennings epitomizes the MSM's overblown image of itself. The reporters are bigger than the stories they cover. Jennings received over $8 a year to report his biased screed.

I was in Iran in 1978 when Jimmy Carter and his huge entourage of 900 reporters visited Tehran on New Year's eve. Barbara Walters was on the trip. She was accorded rock star status including being one of a few reporters to be invited to the Shah's relatively intimate dinner honoring Carter. She was invited because she was a celebrity, not a reporter.

The idea that a "news reader" like Jennings could leave any real legacy is nonsense. Like the rest of the news media, he was a legend in his own mind.

[norraad]

Just the fact that his friend was Alan Alda was enough to know he was a commie lib~rat scuzzball.

[SerpentDove]

I remember Peter Jennings slandering President Reagan (I don't recall the particulars, but I do remember it was an inference that Reagan was a"racist") while the video feed showed Reagan's casket being carried either in or out of the church.

Peter Jennings is known for his class, although he had none.

[George W. Bush]

Jaysun: I personally prefer to refrain from speaking ill of the dead, at least until they're underground.

What's the difference exactly? You need to wait until Pol Pot and his cronies are buried before you denounce them? If Sean Penn died, you couldn't remind people that he was a Saddam apologist? If Belafonte died, you couldn't say how much he loved the murderous Castro? If Jane Fonda died, you couldn't remind people of her aid to North Vietnam?

This notion of not speaking ill of the dead is wrong-headed. What about all the dead victims of these murderous regimes and terrorist groups? To keep silent about Jennings and his ilk certainly disrespects the victims of these mass murderers. You need to speak out and present the truth before they canonize him as some saint of journalism. Undoubtedly, that is their intent.

Jaysun: I just think it's distasteful and disrespectful to come out with both guns blazing before he's even in the box...

You presume he has any right to be respected. That is, in fact, the entire point of the article. You seem to know the truth here. You just shy away from the consequences. Jennings hated and tried to harm this country as a foreign journalist. But because he was popular, personable and a daily part of the lives of millions of (idiot) viewers, somehow he gets immunity. This is like arguing that we can't criticize Stalin on the same grounds.

brewcrew: Write it if you must, but wait until after the funeral to publish it. Just kind of basic human decency.

Tell me, did Jennings wait to defend the Pali terrorists who killed the Israeli athletes in Munich? Did he wait for their funerals? No, he did his best to shield these terrorists. It was, in fact, because of Jennings and other journalists in the West who carried water for them which encouraged terrorists to escalate their attacks on the West. Jennings' old girlfriend, Ashrawi, was a key player in the rise of terrorism in Israel under the original Intefada. It's a simple fact. Why is it so bad to simply tell the truth about it?

BCrago66: She didn't wait for the body to go cold before she wrote her screed. Cold, cold, woman. And David Horowitz, who I'm glad is on our side, made a mistake publishing this so quickly.

Personally, I admire them both. The truth needs to come out so these journalists understand we'll never back down when they sympathize and provide priceless aid to totalitarian dictators (Castro, Sandinistas) or to terrorists (Palis, etc.).

Jennings was a terrorist-sympathizer and a propagandist for totalitarian regimes. I sometimes think that some of you must be very young not to know the favors Jennings did for the declared enemies of America for many decades.