David Brinkley Dead

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[TomGuy]

"We all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection plus more goddamn nonsense."

ABC'S DAVID BRINKLEY, commenting on Clinton's postmidnight acceptance speech

[ClearCase_guy]

Where was Hillary at the time of death? She's big on payback, and she better have a good alibi.

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[Registered]

The secret of Walter's Longevity?

[Search4Truth]

R.I.P David Brinkley

[Pyro7480]

That's classic material. RIP David.

[Constitution Day]

Ah yes, you are right.

[Dave S]

Despite his political leanings he will be missed. =(

What are you talking about? Dont rememember if it was a political convention or election night but on one of Brinkley's last on air events he thought his mike was off and he did a late night tirade on Clinton being a liar that made it on air.

Maybe he wasnt a conservative ideologue but he was far from being liberal. He was very much centrist in his views. If you find that hard to believe, then perhaps its you that are a wee bit extreme.

[Mo1]

MSNBC is reporting on this now

[OpusatFR]

"Despite his political leanings he will be missed. =("

Yeah, when a journalist of his caliber argued, it was imbued with fact and attempted to elicit debate. The left journos out here now are just shills.

[sam_paine]

I found this, though:

Yesterday's (Election Night 1996) CyberAlert reported how at the end of ABC's election night broadcast David Brinkley noted the creativity of his ABC colleagues, and then charged that "Bill Clinton has none of it. He has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore he is a bore and will always be a bore." I also predicted that his remarks would become big news as the journalistic community cringed at the anti-Clinton remarks.

Well, Thursday's newspapers brought plenty of stories and a remark earlier election night that didn't air on ABC's Washington affiliate. Just after Clinton finished his speech, at about 12:30am ET, this exchange occurred, as printed in the November 7 Dallas Morning News. (Rush Limbaugh on Thursday also played a tape of Brinkley's comments.)
Brinkley: "I wish to say that we all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection. More goddamn nonsense."
Peter Jennings: "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley."
Brinkley: "Well, I'm not on the air."
Jennings: "David, we are on the air."
Brinkley: "Too bad. I told you I was leaving."

[mikeb704]

Brinkley's sister, Mary Driscoll, worked as a secretary for Sen. Joe McCarthy.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[dwilli]

From Wilmington, NC

[mhking]

David, you were right: "Four more years of goddamned nonsense..." Indeed.

It's been real. Say hello to Chet when you see him.

Good night, David.

[Constitution Day]

Thanks.

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Rush played that clip all day after Brinkley said it late election night, it was hilarious..David was finally saying what everyone was thinking on air!

[Petronski]

That's the quote, election night 96. LOL

[Nick Thimmesch]

Who finally figured out he was dead: the guy always looked sickly....

[Tribune7]

I'm still not sure what his leanings were. He was a heck of a journalist.

[al_c]

LOL!!!! That's priceless! Man, ABC went downhill when Brinkley left.