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'60 Minutes' Creator Don Hewitt Dies
CBS ^ | 08/19/09 | CBS

Posted on 08/19/2009 8:35:51 AM PDT by TomServo

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To: TomServo; Sig Sauer P220; DH; Spunky; WakeUpAndVote; Liberty Valance; rightwingintelligentsia; ...

I just heard a clip on the radio where hewitt said the founding fathers were irrelevant extinct dinosaurs?

Anyone have that?


21 posted on 08/19/2009 9:16:35 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: TomServo

The show itself has been among the WALKING DEAD for quite some time.


22 posted on 08/19/2009 9:19:54 AM PDT by RasterMaster (The only way to open a LIEberal mind is with a brick!)
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To: sam_paine

Then, he would be wrong.


23 posted on 08/19/2009 9:20:19 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: DH

When it first aired I wouldn’t miss it, now you couldn’t pay me to watch it, or anything else on any of the alphabet nets.


24 posted on 08/19/2009 9:22:19 AM PDT by 101voodoo (OBAMA- THE OPIATE FOR THE DUMB ASSES)
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To: sam_paine

Not surprising.


25 posted on 08/19/2009 9:25:08 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Awwwww, please do.


26 posted on 08/19/2009 9:27:02 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 210 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: DH

60 Minutes started out as a good program. Later it became totally corrupted by Political Correctness and and then a mouthpiece for the liberal cause.

I agree totally. I have boycotted 60 minutes for years.

I still wont watch but Don wont be missed by me one bit, good riddence


27 posted on 08/19/2009 9:36:29 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: sam_paine

Well I found this one...

“I plan to die at my desk.” - Don Hewitt


28 posted on 08/19/2009 10:15:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: a fool in paradise
“I plan to die at my desk.” - Don Hewitt


29 posted on 08/19/2009 10:20:30 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

Hunter S. Thompson died at his desk and he even picked the moment.


30 posted on 08/19/2009 10:23:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: TomServo

The really bad part is that for those of us around for the beginning we are gaining on him.


31 posted on 08/19/2009 10:24:55 AM PDT by q_an_a
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To: Revolting cat!
Does this mean no more Andy Looney?

I think Rooney was the inspiration for Jerry Seinfeld's brand of comedy.

32 posted on 08/19/2009 10:56:57 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: TomServo

Well...now he can say that death and taxes are real with asking any dumb questions.


33 posted on 08/19/2009 11:04:00 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: windcliff

ping


34 posted on 08/19/2009 11:05:13 AM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: DH

Hewitt allowed his show to be the mouthpiece for the Dems. Even St Peter at the pearly gates would be disgusted with this fool.


35 posted on 08/19/2009 11:25:05 AM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: TCats
"the occasional obvious pro-Left Agenda pieces."

That may qualify as the understatement of the year. I can't remember a 60 Minutes piece that wasn't produced from a leftist's perspective. The last 20 years, it's been nothing but an in-kind contribution to the DNC.

After reading some of the absolutely vial, spiteful and downright nasty things that many have said on liberal sites about the death of Novak, I have nothing pleasant to say about Don Hewitt - so, I'll keep my peace.

36 posted on 08/19/2009 11:51:46 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: leilani; Liberty Valance
I apologize in advance - I ask out of my own ignorance - like many in my generation I don't think I have watch 2 minutes of '60 Minutes' though from a historical standpoint I am somewhat familiar with the fact that it was a pioneer in this type of news show.

With my ignorance identified, can you tell me why the hostility about this show from a right wing perspective? How did it favor left over right?

Also, Walter Cronkite was retired before I think I was born but he is hated by the right yet when he died the History or Discovery channel (I can't recall) showed a documentary of his life from Cronkite's memories and in it Cronkite was called biased for Nixon against Kennedy during that election. In fact it was declared by Kennedy that Cronkite hated him and had it in him (per the show).

Was it that Cronkite turned against the Vietnam war? But that is confusing to a young person like me because Nixon promised to end the Vietnam war and Johnson was president at the time Cronkite declared the war was not winnable.

So if you or any reader can help me out on this I would be much obliged.

If you lived through such events I am envious of your first hand accounts and would love to hear them.

Much thanks.

37 posted on 08/19/2009 11:59:47 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: RasterMaster

The average age of a “60 Minutes” viewer is deceased.


38 posted on 08/19/2009 12:07:42 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Nikas777
I wish I could help, but alas, I'm the wrong one to ask for specifics. I have seen the show many many years ago as a kid, but actually, I've probably seen more spoofs of it on Saturday Night Live reruns than epis of the actual show in my life.

My assessment was based mostly on hostility expressed by my Dad and many freepers & other conservatives I've known through the years towards the journalists on the show.

The General Westmoreland defamation has been extensively covered here at FR, but there were other famous controversies about the integrity of their reporting as well,(See here at WIKI, scroll down to controversies.)

39 posted on 08/19/2009 12:10:46 PM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani
I thank you for your time in responding back. I am in the same boat you are on this it seems.

Even if this is a hatred for the 60 Minutes/CBS news that predates my birth - I still think knowing why Conservatives hated these shows will help me understand the times they lived through, nonetheless.

40 posted on 08/19/2009 12:23:09 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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