So long to the last real American in broadcast journalism.
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February 28, 2009
Paul Harvey, RIP
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Comment by maggie katzen on 2/28 @ 9:17 pm #
I have mixed feelings about this. kinda sad he’s gone, but won’t really miss his dorky commentary. He annoyed me more than a few times in regards to Iraq. oh, and I found this on my blog. knew he’d prompted me to post at some point.
Comment by pdbuttons on 2/28 @ 9:31 pm #
ron paul pj harvey
and that’s the resssst of the story!
said it first!
you’re it
Comment by qwfwq on 2/28 @ 10:10 pm #
Yeah, Harvey was dorky. I haven’t heard him in years, so I don’t know what he was saying about Iraq; sounds like senile dementia to me. But I kind of liked some of his human interest stories–stories describing how some famous person overcame adversity to win in the end. Just shows how fascinating people can be, a quality that’s sadly missing in the news these days.
Comment by Sdferr on 2/28 @ 10:22 pm #
I used to hear him when visiting my Grandparents in Kansas in the sixties. I thought he was old old old then. I fell for the clockwork business of his commentary/reporting everyday, like a rhythm to the week it was. Harvey on the radio, must be noon! (Or whatever time it was, memory fades here.)
Comment by Techie on 2/28 @ 10:38 pm #
Lord, I loved Paul Harvey. I listened to him on the morning radio riding to school with my mom for ages.
Good day.
Comment by comatus on 2/28 @ 10:47 pm #
“Good morning America and good heavens! An attempted rape in broad daylight!” For millions who think of themselves as conservative, and very emphatically are not, he was the voice of (populist) reason for a generation. Because of that, he was also the goad for millions of others to adopt the America-must-be-wrong, in-your-face flippancy of the old New Left. I’ll bet he was a nice guy, and he could really sell a story or a dietary supplement, but I’ve never seen where he did the country any good at all.
Has Fred Thompson revealed his intentions yet? The show could be his.
Comment by serr8d on 2/28 @ 10:58 pm #
O noes!
Comment by serr8d on 2/28 @ 11:01 pm #
I heard him just the other night. He did sound a bit reedy.
He has a son he’s groomed for the job. Man, I’ll miss occasionally hearing his voice.
Comment by Joe on 2/28 @ 11:57 pm #
I was kept prisoner in my car on many an occasion, waiting for “the rest of the story…”
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/1 @ 12:54 am #
Noone else could make the words “Good day” sound like a question, phrase, or preposition. Motel 6 reservations will be lessened. I hope what I said doesn’t sound like a joke cause I remember listening to him when I was 6 and driving to school. A true radio icon he was.
Comment by Roland THTG on 3/1 @ 5:56 am #
I remember hearing him on the AM radio back when I was 7 years old or so.
He would blather on and then try to sell me HL Hunt Shoestring Potatoes.
Never did figure out what those were.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 3/1 @ 6:34 am #
No more Sniglets?
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 3/1 @ 6:43 am #
I guess Rich Hall finally gets his Vaughn Meader moment.
Comment by Cowboy on 3/1 @ 7:21 am #
Paul Harvey was a morning AM radio school bus voice for me.
Tony Orlando and Dawn, Neil Diamond, even Earl Finkle reporting the weather from the “World Famous Fire Escape” at WOWO radio in Fort Wayne, IN.
Comforting.
Comment by Mark Gracia on 3/1 @ 10:16 am #
Condolences to the Harvey Family…I’ve been listening to Paul since 1972…..I haven,t cried from loss in years, But tears welled from my eyes..Paul held my mind in his hands for many a year..thanks.Now I Pray god holds him in his for Eternity……RIP….Mark
Comment by Spiny Norman on 3/1 @ 12:21 pm #
I was in San Diego last evening and the local ABC affiliate KOGO did an hour-long tribute to Paul Harvey that was just wonderful. In all his long and productive life, he never wavered in his belief in America’s greatness.
RIP Mr. Harvey
Comment by cranky-d on 3/1 @ 1:00 pm #
I’m still amazed that Mr. Pink was already driving when he was six years old. Precocious.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 1:52 pm #
mr-pink- me and my tele-tubbie friends need a lift
we’d like to get our kicks
on route 66-but we’re kinda crabby right now
cuz of the gas tax mileage thing/ but that’s ur problem
too bad newspapers are going tank-cuz with a car- a paper route would be a scream
pedal on!
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/1 @ 2:20 pm #
I remember him from the AM radio in the car during summer. And that is how I remember him – AM radio, in the car, with dad, in summer (dad was a teacher, so if he wasn’t teaching drivers’ ed or summer school, he was around in the day in summer). That was back when cars had front bench seats and a kid could put his arms over the back of the front seat and lean in.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/1 @ 2:24 pm #
pd – ‘pedal on’ and ‘paper route’ don’t mean cars to me. Push on your bike, even if you have to walk it, through the snow and cold. Saddle bags, front bag, move that bike through your route, collect from customers.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 4:12 pm #
i remember fishing with the old man
when i was 8/9 yrs old in boston harbor
he’d catch a fish and i’d be like “we’re done-let’s end this nite mare”
he’d shake his head all ‘no’ like
casey kasem 4 2 hours
“joy to the world” three dog night
i forgets the number 2 song
i just remember the tears
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 4:26 pm #
i also remember me dad unit givin me a rifle/on the boat
as he ripped of lobster pots in his scuba gear
relax lobster peeps
we didn’t get anythang
i always said i shot a buck
a moby buck
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 4:30 pm #
the wreck of the edward koepecine fitzgerald
don’t make me say bobby oar
u people are so kind!
Comment by serr8d on 3/1 @ 4:47 pm #
Free association: I had a bicycle paper route at what, 11, 12 and I tried to do it with snow and ice on the roads just before daybreak. I slid on an icy road, and my bike went under a truck. I didn’t though. But that was my first near-frostbite experience. When it’s cold, I get tingly fingers from that, to this day.
Thanks, pdb.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 4:54 pm #
i’m an old man
i ride a bike with no tires
while reading protein wisdom
my… how times have changed
that thump at the door better not be a paper
unless a homeless dude is wearing for a hat
cuz i got a peanut butter prize for him/her
pull my finger!
[ha- ha!]
Comment by Sdferr on 3/1 @ 5:06 pm #
Washington post, about a hundred-twenty customers in a neighborhood of one-sixty. Didn’t use a bike (too f’in heavy), used an old mortuary trolley, big wheels (26″) back, little wheels (6″) forward, stack ‘em up and toss ‘em down.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 5:13 pm #
washington post?
name names!
Comment by ruddiger on 3/1 @ 5:14 pm #
“Has Fred Thompson revealed his intentions yet? The show could be his.”
He’s got a new radio gig with Westwood One. Starts tomorrow, iirc
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 5:21 pm #
I’m not kidding. I didn’t even click on this one until now cause I clicked on the one at Patterico’s and it was stupid maudlin and I didn’t comment cause I always feel like I’m on thin ice over there anyway. But here at the PW one maggie says in the first comment exactly what I would have said except nicer. Lots lots nicer. I think I will give the Patterico people a break from me. They’re still doing that thing about how Baracky deep down is a really good person what is just kind of whoopsidentally destroying all that is right and good in our little country. It’s really sort of dispiriting, cause for real the Patterico ones aren’t stupid, just… naive I think. Let’s say naive.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 5:26 pm #
happyfeet rules!
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 5:31 pm #
oh snap-what happy feet u have!~
the better to i love lucy to stomp ur grapes
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 5:40 pm #
fun toes are not hoofs
sammy davis had one eye
happy feet haiku
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 5:44 pm #
snaps are not buttons
i fumble for an exit
a buttons haiku!
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 5:45 pm #
penguins?
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 5:49 pm #
bobby orr! Yay! I make you a haiku.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 5:49 pm #
these are favorites:
artificial strawberry
flavor and buttons
Comment by alppuccino on 3/1 @ 5:52 pm #
Anyone know at what precise time Juan Williams developed a taste for Obama balls?
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 5:57 pm #
jeez. What did Juan do now?
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 5:59 pm #
spies brigands and poo
let’s talk about the space race
can cows give more meat?
Comment by happyfeet on 3/1 @ 6:02 pm #
Juan got spanked recently by the dirty socialist NPR propaganda team what pay him cause he’s been derelict in his dirty socialist cheerleading duties. That might be why he’s fellating Baracky more better.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 6:05 pm #
’tis funny how the libs whackify about faux news
juan wrote a book recently [help] about inner cityblues
yet- no paper reviewed it or talked about it
fox at least has diff peeps
btw
i think they all suck
xcept maybe krauthammer
and the hot babes![meg kelly]
oh wher have u gone
my darling young one?[laura dhue]
oh wher have you gone
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/1 @ 6:09 pm #
w007! I understand that he’s an institution, so I tempered my remarks, but he’s really annoyed me the last few years. There’s something to knowing when to retire.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 6:10 pm #
i hate freckles some
you’re bone structure is creepy
red licorize sucks
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 6:16 pm #
katzen jammer kids
always temper their remarks
for publication
Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/1 @ 6:21 pm #
Gary Burbank (local radio celeb, nationally known through his “Earl Pitts” character) did such a dead-on-perfect Paul Harvey that it wasn’t until he started into topics like the joys of cannibalism that you realized it wasn’t the real guy.
I miss both of them.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 6:30 pm #
i member gary
was he the quip on rowan and martin
[old fogey alert]
he held one of his headphones close to his ear
and he read [pretended to read] from a paper?
kill me![softly w/a sex pistols song]
Comment by McGehee on 3/1 @ 8:27 pm #
No, PD that was Gary Owens.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/1 @ 8:29 pm #
Can’t name any buttons ’cause I got a suspicion they were all (or most) CIA and they’d hunt me down.
see helicopters, black
besides, I was always late. They were early risers, the bastards.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/1 @ 11:36 pm #
u rite/ i wrong[gary indiana]
if i could only take one horse off the battlefeild
it would be the one w’springs
cuz i’m a rocker!
wd-40 away