Paul Harvey dies

Paul Harvey died today. Its sad to hear, I will miss hearing the rest of the story.

I have a tear in my beer ----for real.

A Radio Legend is gone. The last time I heard him on KHAZ a couple of months ago he sounded like he was really sick, but he did the entire 15 minute Noon-Hour program.

just saw that on fox. sad news.

He used to have a 5 minute TV show. B&W. He'll be missed.

Ah I will miss him!!!!

Hello, Americans.
This is Paul Harvey.

You know the news, in a moment,
you're going to hear The Rest of The Story!!

"If you want bad speakers, buy from Bose.
I learned my lesson from the pros.
You'll get no highs, you'll get no lows.
Bose is endorsed by stupid ho's."

And now, The Rest of The Story!

Little Rusty grew up in a small town in Missouri.
He had a terrible childhood.
You see, his mother was a vicious lie, and his father was a racial slur.
Little Rusty tried to please his Dad, but his father was a sick, evil man.

Rusty's troubles started early in life.
His domineering father insisted on personally teaching Little Rusty his toilet training.
He told Rusty a clean ass was very important.
His Dad was very domineering.
Rusty hated his Dad.
At age 5, Rusty began to wet the bed.
His Dad's cure was .....

Well, this is AM radio.
I choose not to go into detail.
I choose not to go into detail.

The specifics aren't important, but the result is.
As Little Rusty grew older, things didn't get any better.
When he was eleven, he was arrested for poking a
neighborhood dog in the genitals with a fork.
To punish him, his dad made him wear a pink dress.

He didn't get along with the other kids, either.
All the girls thought he was "icky."
Rusty never had a date.

The boys kicked his ass regularly.
They even took turns.
He was voted "Most Likely To Fuck Up" in high school.
Rusty vowed revenge on all of them.
"I vow, if I ever get the chance, I'll get even with those.....those.....elites."

After high school, Rusty tried to get a job, but nobody would hire him.
The only job he ever got was at his Dad's radio station.
His Dad verbally abused him every day.
His father's torments ate at Rusty's gut.
His father's torments ate at Rusty's gut

Pretty soon, Rusty lost interest in personal hygeine.
He blamed his Dad.
One day, he noticed his pants were getting tighter.
Now, Rusty was a big guy, but how could his pants get so tight so fast?
Something wasn't right.
Rusty ignored nature's warning.
He continued his job at his Dad's radio station
until May of 1971, when he got a letter from Uncle Sam.

Uncle Sam was busy kicking Charlie out of South Vietnam
and needed some help from young, unmarried patriots.
Rusty wanted to help - honest he did!
So Rusty reported to the draft board.

The military doctors discovered Rusty's problem.
He had a 40-pound cyst on his ass.
They called it a pilonidal cyst.
"Pilon" is Latin for "hair."

Rusty asked the doctor how he got the cyst and learned
it was the result of poor personal hygeine.
Dirty Rusty wasn't wiping himself very well.
He wasn't washing "back there."
In the Army, they call it "jeep rot," because soldiers
at war don't have access to toilet paper and they often
walk or ride for weeks without proper hygeine.

This is all true.

However, this 40-pound cyst kept Dirty Rusty
from joining the armed services.

I wonder who went in his place?

Rusty went back to his job at his Dad's station.
Eventually, his Dad fired him, too.
Rusty moved on to two failed marriages and a series
of radio jobs where, he admits, he was fired 9 times.
Rusty's teenage medical problems were forgotten until he became famous.
He became so famous in show business, his enemies decided to look into his past.

Rusty was a gung-ho hawk on America's fighting forces.
Eventually, people wondered what Rusty did in the war.

What were his heroic adventures like?
How many times did he prove his courage under fire?
Did he get the Silver Cross?
How many Purple Hearts did Rusty have?
Did he save an entire division?
With half his brain tied behind his back, just to make it fair?

You may know Rusty by another name.
His radio show is carried by 600 stations.

Dirty Rusty is actually.... Rush Limbaugh.

My sources tell me nobody has ever avoided the draft
by being "too dirty" before.

..and now you know ...The Rest of The Story.

Definition


A pilonidal cyst is an abnormal pocket in the skin that usually
contains hair, skin debris and other abnormal tissue. A pilonidal cyst
is almost always located near the tailbone at the top of the cleft of
the buttocks. The term "pilonidal" comes from the Latin words for hair
("pilus") and nest ("nidus").

Pilonidal cysts occur more often in men than in women, and they are most common in people between the ages of 15 and 24.

A pilonidal cyst may remain harmless. If it becomes infected,
however, it will cause pain, inflammation and usually drainage of
fluids.


Sounds like a genetic issue, not a personal health issue.
Using a eulogistic thread as a bully pulpit against political foe is pretty low. Even for a liberal. Are you related to the Phelps'? It is this same tactic that has endeared them to the American populace.

I thought it was funny...Dirty Rusty is a jerk

I may have agreed had it been posted in its' own thread.

A Paul Harvey spoof tribute is unwelcome in a Paul Harvey obituary tribute?

Mebbe it is just me, but it came across more as a liberal attack on a conservative persona than a spoof that Paul Harvey would have appreciated.

I omitted the facts that Mr Harvey occassionally lied to his audience and was by and large a "Tool" of the Right Wing Propaganda machine. The dramatic pauses sold a nation on a plethora of false heroes from the Republican party. Oh the adversity these trolls overcame, most born with but two silver spoons in their mouths and household names made synonymous with both power and corruption. Serial exaggerator and prevaricator owed little respect. glad the show won't be on anymore.

Your compassion for the recently deceased overwhelms me.

I assume Mr. Harvey did great harm to you and/or your family.

He did nothing to earn my respect with his life, and dying in a (home)hospital bed defecating in silk boxers earned from a lifetime of dishonesty did nothing either. Had he "Gone out" saving someone from a burning building I'd have surely mourned his passing. His silenced voice will no more be missed by me than Ronald Rayguns.

President Bush gave Harvey the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.

Boy that says it all right there... Ewwwww!

But wait, theres more:

On his News and Comment radio show this morning, ABC Radio Networks host Paul Harvey said “the media should put a stop” to labeling “women and children” killed in war as “civilians.” He said, “It was civilians, for goodness sake, who decapitated New York City.”

Dictionaries define a civilian as “one not on active duty in the armed services or not on a police or firefighting force.” Harvey disagrees. According to him, “Since the invention of the aerial bomb five wars ago, there have been no civilians.” In other words, innocent people who are killed in war are military combatants because they are victims of a military attack.

This isn’t the first time Harvey has callously wished for more viciousness in American war fighting. In 2005, he said the United States should use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq. After recalling the use of atomic bombs during World War II, Harvey lamented that “we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq and kept our best weapons in their silos.”

He then warned of the dangers of “civiliz[ing]” ourselves too much that we won’t use weapons of mass destruction:

We didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever.

And we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. So it goes with most great nation-states, which — feeling guilty about their savage pasts — eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy.

What a Handjob!


http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/02/harvey-911/

Paul Harvey was a story teller. An excellent one at that. This cannot be denied. Whatever his political leanings and opinions.

Storytelling is a lost art form.

mikecc wrote:

Paul Harvey was a propaganda "Tool". An excellent one at that. This cannot be denied. And he had "Whacked out" political leanings and opinions.

Manipulation of facts with intent to deceive will never be a lost art form.

Rog wrote:

mikecc wrote:

Paul Harvey was a propaganda "Tool". An excellent one at that. This cannot be denied. And he had "Whacked out" political leanings and opinions.

Manipulation of facts with intent to deceive will never be a lost art form.

Don't put words in my mouth.

I'm not the first person who has ever done that on this forum. and I shan't be the last...

You are a piece ********. Do not Quote me and change my words, scumbag.

Since you don't agree with his political leanings it justifies your acting like the Phelpsies?

Who? Me? Only Phelps I act like is Michael, lol

The phelps comment was aimed at Rog.

Didn't know you could swim, mike.

Justoo wrote:

Since you don't agree with his political leanings it justifies your acting like the Phelpsies?

Seems old Pauls behaviour was more in line with the Phelpsies. Advocating a nuclear holocaust on the Iraqis in retalliation for no involvement with 9-11, just based on some stupid idealogy about the sacred hegemony of empire for the white race. And as for Mikecc's big overblown greivance with the changing of quotes, I contextually changed nothing save the last remark how "spinmeistering" or "storytelling" will never die. (which is where the tearful smiley came into play). Respecting someone for being a good storyteller when the embellishments are lies is just foolish. It is so taboo in our modern world that we speak ill of the dead that so few among us fear our mortality and behave as such. Maybe if we were allowed to remember the dead in their totality we can live our lives in accordance with consequence.

Subject: Paul Harvey

Bart, I grew up listening to Paul Harvey on the radio everyday at noon.

I don't feel its wrong to talk bad about the dead who certainly used
their time on earth to talk bad about the dead.

I was listening to him the day after John Lennon died
and I never listened to him again.
Lin

http://www.bartcop.com/

mikecc wrote:

Paul Harvey was a story teller. An excellent one at that. This cannot be denied. Whatever his political leanings and opinions.

Storytelling is a lost art form.

I agree, Mike. I liked Paul Harvey. I didn't realized he passed until I saw this post, and I watch a lot of news. Isn't it in Downs where there is a yearly storytelling function? Got it.

http://www.kansasstorytelling.com/

Storytelling isn't a lost art form. It has enabled politicians to screw us on a daily basis.