Does anyone listen to Paul Harvey, by chance?

[Doctor_J]

I guess the old gargoyle is still wasting oxygen, because I happened to hear hin Wednesday in the car. He was droning on about how great things are, then said, "And wait until Friday, when the June jobs report shows that the rapidly growing economy created 380,000 new jobs last month".

Well, it turns out that he was off by 250,000 jobs, or about 68%. Does anyone still listen to this crackpot? Does anyone call him on the phone and laugh at him after such a ridiculous claim? What happens to drooling old wingers who won't leave the airwaves?

[Erika]

1. Yeah, he's still out there at lunchtime

I hadn't heard him for decades and a local radio channel started carrying him. His "Good day" is now pretty weak.

He's just another right winger who thinks all would be fine if women didn't work, Americans never disagreed with their government, and we just hung in there waiting for better times.

He has no idea of reality.

[whistle]

2. Not unless I have the AM station on at 11:45am, then I quickly

...switch to another station. Paul Harvey is a relic, always sensationalizing the mundane and selecting the dullest events to ridicule like some school ground show-off drawing attention to his own superiority. Throw in some cloaked racism whenever the opportunity presents itself and that is the success formula for Paul Harvey news. Sorry, Paul Harvey has carried over into the wrong century. He should be marching backward into time.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Does he still segue into the commercials so that you can't really tell

he is selling air conditioners or "Adam the younger" (whatever that was) computers instead of doing a news story?
The guy was old & I mean really old in 1972.

[Doctor_J]

6. Dunno

I heard about 15 sec of nonsense then quickly changed the station.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. The long dead air pauses for dramatic emphasis were .... stupefying

Now that I think about it it was all unintentionally surreal, unlike Radio Free Oz that was intentionally surreal.

This from paulharvey.com splash page:

For information relating to the portable still for making your own gasoline, telephone or write to:

Dogwood Energy Company
301 N. Jackson Street
Tullahoma, TN 37388


Imagine recommending a god damn crackpot idea like that?

[Erika]

15. Now it's Bosse stereo systems and theragesia

Starting as Page 4 news.

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. At least the old fossil always qualified the whole thing as

"The Paul Harvey News", so there was no mistaking it as being "The News".

Back in the early 0's I would hear the guy after Michael Jackson's talk show on KABC in LA.

[eviltwin2525]

4. NO! (lol)

[shain from kane]

5. Did he ever recover from his mental illness? What's the rest of that

story?

From the internets:

Military service: US Army Air Corps (Dec-1943 to Mar-1944, Section 8 discharge, mental illness)

[Doctor_J]

7. Maybe conservatism used to be grounds for a Section 8

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Jeeze, he must be 147 years old at least

He is still around?

[shain from kane]

9. He's so old that he pisses dust. n/t

[CK_John]

10. You're hearing his son. Sounds just like his father. (n/t).

[Erika]

13. No , It is Paul Harvey

You're thinking about Ted Garner Armstrong and his son.

[LiberalHeart]

18. Harvey's son sometimes fills in for him...

He also took over writing The Rest of the Story books, or at least wrote one of them. I guess I'm the only one here who actually likes Paul Harvey. I like his delivery and I always enjoy The Rest of the Story.

[TheFarseer]

35. Paul Harvey is still around

and his son, who sounds very much like him, fills in for him sometimes, if I'm not mistaken. We used to listen to him every day during the summer at lunch, but now I'm not home nearly as often so I can no longer claim to be an expert. I think he'd say anything you wanted for a nickel. And hey, he might be so senile by now, he'd say anything that was written on the script and have no idea what he just said was a huge load of BS.

[silverojo]

12. Thank God

I thought for a moment that the old fucker was still alive, spewing his crapola.

Too bad his wife didn't have an abortion. :evilgrin:

[Erika]

14. It's the same old Paul Harvey

W had him to the WH and gave him a medal this year.

[BeyondThePale]

16. Is he still alive?

Or is that the rest of the story...

[BigYawn]

19. Paul Harvey is 100 times richer than me, and 99% of DU'ers

so one thing he is NOT.....STUPID.

[murielm99]

23. Not only that, he is powerful.

He owns quite a few small radio stations. He knows how to get contracts that allow him to spew his crap on the radio several times a day. People owe him. They don't cross him.

My father did some volunteer work at a Christian radio station about twenty years ago, before things got as bad as they are now. He got to know Harvey from that. At first, he liked him. Later, he found Harvey sinister and grasping, not unlike Pat Robertson.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

25. Rich does not equal smart

Not in this world.

[BigYawn]

26. I will trade my smarts for rich anyrime LOL

I have spent decades in the real world of working in
small and large outfits, and rarely I have seen a dumb
person get rich.

[Debs]

27. So what

President Gump is rich too. Money is not a sign of higher intelligence

[BigYawn]

28. I can't call Gump dummy since I don't have a law degree from Yale

I believe? Or is it one of the other Ivy league schools?
Besides he managed to beat both of our candidates in 2000
and 2004. Never underestimate the enemy. That is a fatal
mistake as any good general will tell you.

[tabasco]

30. You think Bush has a law degree?

Try again.

[BigYawn]

34. That was my understanding, correct me if I am wrong please.

My head is not exactly a living encyclopedia. I recall reading
that Kerry & Dubya were both in Yale law school. I could be
wrong.

[No Exit]

37. Bastard Bush has no law degree.

[BigYawn]

38. Google: Bush has Master of Business Admin degree from Harvard and

a undergradyate degree from Yale...here is the link:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/president/

[Kickin_Donkey]

32. Any degrees that Dumbya has from Ivy League schools ...

are a benefit of white man's affirmative action, i.e., his rich, influential family donated money to the school(s), which gave him a free pass at those schools.

I'm surprised you even bring that up, given that it's a right-wing talking point that * is smart because he has Ivy degrees. Actually, are you sure you're on the right discussion board?

[BigYawn]

33. Do you consider bringing up facts as RW talking points?

I call that shoving your head in the sand. If someone
in the opposition party has done something good, it
should not be looked down upon. That kind of behavior
increases the rancor and makes it difficult to get
anything accomplished in government. Things were a lot
more civil on both sides 20 years ago, and now they have
deteriorated to the point where nothing gets done in
Washington.

[Skittles]

20. that man is exceedingly creepy

he makes my skin crawl

[NMMNG]

21. 380,000 new jobs were created last month

And the boot quota was overfilled by 20,000 units

And better yet the chocolate ration has been raised to 30 grams!


Do people actually buy his BS?

[KharmaTrain]

22. Here's A Good Reason Why He Sounds The Way He Does

Enjoy...

http://www.thehotfm.net/harvyBONG.rm

:rofl:

[TheFarseer]

36. that's great!

sounds just like one of his commercials. I bet they barely had to even do any editing.

[NiteOwll]

24. I listen sometimes but not by choice.

I get really sick of his unabashed love for W*A*L*M*A*R*T. :loveya: :puke:

If he loves it so much, and it's such a fantastic place to work, why doesn't he go get a job as a greeter and see what it's really like? :eyes:

[AX10]

29. Old GOP gasbag, doesn't serve any purpose.....

[barb162]

31. He sounds like most of the economists

who for the last 6 years constantly underestimate the real pathetic jobs numbers month after month

[KKKarl is an idiot]

39. Heard him recently

He plays on the local Fox News radio station. No as bad as Hannity & Rush. But just as annoying.

[Bandit]

40. Has anyone ever called the Republicans on their ridiculous claims

Remember when every single Republican stood up and said Clinton's first budget would bankrupt America. That is was impossible to raise taxes on the wealthy without destroying the American economy. America went on to experience the greatest economic expansion in history and I have never heard anyone bring up how absolutely incorrect and incompetent Republicans were then and are today.

[Retrograde]

41. guaranteed to get me out of bed in the morning

I'll sometimes stay in bed listening to the news but as soon as Paul Harvey comes on I leap out and dash to the other side of the room to turn off the radio. I think he's the otherwise moderate-to-leftish station's concession to fair and balanced.

Isn't he like 149 years old now? He sounded old and cranky when I first heard him in 1970.

[pretzel4gore]

42. the old rape-ublican

harvey's one of those pinkcheek monsters (oldbush is another) who gets their blood replenished every few months....they get young people's blood to replace their own.....heard this on foxnews (they were bragging about how their beloved oldboush and wf buckley and melon-scaife and murdoch/hunt brothers/jack welch etc all get their blood renewed every few months cuz they are so rich, they can afford it!...and young blood keeps them healthy although they are literally walking corpses, lol!)
:sarcasm: