My two favorite Daniel Schorr moments:

[PCIntern]

1. He spoke to my University in Upstate NY while he was on his Nixon's Enemy List Tour. Remarkable and brilliant...but...

2. During the impeachment hearings of President Clinton, he and Nina Totenberg were reporting live, the entrance of the House Managers (Wasn't that a total nightmare?) to the Senate. Totenberg described their mission, since they were expected to lose the trial, as "Quixote-esque", to which Schorr replied, "Yes, Nina, tilting at windbags." She audibly gasped and said, "Dan, I can't believe you just said that."

[cilla4progress]

1. "But..."?

[PCIntern]

2. "But" the best was..

2.

[Catshrink]

3. Windbags...

perfect! Thanks for sharing that.

[66 dmhlt]

6. Daniel Schorr before the Senate Judiciary during ...

the Watergate hearings:



Cool, calm and collected. (I had forgotten, but that long ago I guess smoking was permitted.)

[GoCubsGo]

4. I just heard my favorite moment this morning on NPR

He appeared at a Frank Zappa concert to encourage voter registration and voting, after which he sang a song with the band. I never would have guessed that he and Frank were friends. I'm sure he and Frank are back together and having a jolly old time in the Afterlife.

[GoCubsGo]

5. Here's the audio

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128738162

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7. I will always remember Schorr reporting very early in the Bush Admin, how the veil of secrecy

was being drawn over Reagan-Bush era records by the already-shifty looking Bush Putsch. The use of Executive Order (pre 9-11) to hide from public knowledge what the law had declared they had a right to know did not bode well for the future of the new Bush Jr. Administration, nor for the future of the country, Schorr said. How right he turned out to be. I had long given up on NPR as a regular listener, but from time to time, while changing stations, I'd hear Daniel Schorr's voice on the local NPR affiliate, and I'd always stop to listen. I'm deeply sorry Mr. Schorr did not survive to see the reversal of Reagan-Bush abuses - the police state secrecy that he warned of in the report I mentioned, the collapsing illusion of Constitutionally protected civil liberties, the habitual resort to illegal warfare, the use of torture, overt and covert. As a target of Nixon's official Enemies List, Schorr knew the rise of tyrannical state power such as we saw under Bush was a longterm project motivated by entrenched interests, and so halting it would be too. He didn't live to see the day. But he lived a long and productive life in the fight against the Nixons and Bushes and Haldemans and Meeses and Gonzaleses and Fleischers. A reporter isn't supposed to "fight" the elected authorities, you say? Just being an honest reporter, or a private person with integrity, is a desperate fight when the power demands the repetition of so many lies for maintenance of their power and the advancement of their agenda. And Schorr fought on and on. Maybe he had to go on so long because no one showed up to replace him. They don't make them like Dan Schorr anymore, or if they do corporate media culture screens them out long before they can get near a microphone. I will miss him, and I'm afraid he will never be replaced. Knowing he was still there was a comfort, even if I didn't tune into the station that let him report.

[Scurrilous]

8. Thanks.

K & R :thumbsup: