[MinuteGal]

Memories are short, or most folks here are just too young to remember. Both Huntley and Brinkley were liberals, Huntley a little less so.

During the Goldwater days the pair were targets of huge conservative letter campaigns just as we freepers initiate today on emails with Rather, Brokaw & Company. We conservatives just loathed the pair for their pro-liberal spin.

Just because Brinkley made a few anti-Clinton remarks in his dotage doesn't rehabilitate him one iota in my mind. In fact, his decades of wry, low-key anti-conservatism on TV most certainly contributed to an eventual Bill Clinton-type being elected.

Sorry, I just don't bite on revisionist history when liberals shuffle off this mortal coil.

However, I'm sorry for his demise and sympathize with his family and friends.

Leni

[RobbyS]

Brinkley was actually more conservative than Huntley. He was a liberal southern Democrat. You have to understand what that meant in an age of segregation. Goldwater had no real concept of what it was really like, so he could deal in abstractions like states' rights. Revolutions--and the civil rights movment was a revolution-- are sometimes -necessary. The aftermath is always messy. Blacks have never gotten over their disrespect for the law. In this they are like the Irish and Italian immigrants who flocked to the big cities of America and organized [political gangs and criminal gangs, because the law in their own country had been so oppressive. None has any real belief in ordered liberty. To them it is a game to be played and cheating is encouraged.

[ewing]

Brinkely was tough to figure his political positions on 'This Week' although you figured he was a Democrat, Sam Donaldson was actually the most partisan of the bunch playing the bufoon and Cokie would chime in with some liberal conventional wisdom now and then. (leaving the right to be defended by George Will)

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Memories are short, or most folks here are just too young to remember. Both Huntley and Brinkley were liberals, Huntley a little less so.

Probably the first political book I read (other than "Conscience of a Conservative") was "Advise and Consent" (Allen Drury) circa 1960. He had a talking head newsman character named "Frankly Unctuous" whom I always felt was modeled on Brinkley -- and the start of the pernicious liberal slant of the broadcast news. Glad to see Brinkley turn to the right, somewhat, in his latter years, especially that slam at Clinton in 1996. He was dead on target with that one.