Duck-Billed Catechist Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_...x5AiVzg3.is0NUE Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Wow...he just got a medal too... LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZenLunatic Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_...x5AiVzg3.is0NUE RIP. 83 is a pretty full life. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Edie Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 While I am never happy to see people die, I will not miss him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ShuckOwens Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 While I am never happy to see people die, I will not miss him.Good riddance, right? I did not read the article. Did Alec Baldwin end up stoning him? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncle wilco Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and championed government restrictions on the funding of abortions, has died. He was 83. I love how this is written. Kind of nips any misguided Democrat sympathy for Rep. Hyde's passing in the bud right off the top. I guess it's more difficult to say two positive non-partisan things he accomplised in his 83 years...I mean nobody would appreciate that kind of journalism at all. Besides, he's dead now so who gives a sh*t...especially from the left side of things. [just my registered independent sarcastic observation of perceived journalistic bias] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 Those are the two things he's most known for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
boywiththorninside Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 I completely understand mentioning the Clinton impeachment, but the abortion thing did make me do a double-take. To put both in the opening line does seem partisan. I'm not in the biz, but they should have mentioned the Clinton thing and something completely neutral like how long he served in Congress. Interesting fact (assuming Wikipedia is true): he helped bring the Georgetown Hoyas to the 1943 Final Four. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 I completely understand mentioning the Clinton impeachment, but the abortion thing did make me do a double-take. To put both in the opening line does seem partisan.If the abortion funding issue was something he was passionate about, isn't it possible he would have been glad to see it listed as one of his most important achievements? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 If the abortion funding issue was something he was passionate about, isn't it possible he would have been glad to see it listed as one of his most important achievements?Right. You want some amusing AP obituary copy, check out Mr. Whipple's obitOver 21 years, Wilson made more than 500 commercials as Mr. George Whipple, a man consumed with keeping bubbly housewives from fondling the soft toilet paper. The punch line of most spots was that Whipple himself was a closeted Charmin-squeezer. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h35GeyU...s7YeowD8T0U6H81 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncle wilco Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 well, then i hope when sen. byrd passes on, the lead paragraph reads "former KKK member, racist and lover of government pork". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
boywiththorninside Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 If the abortion funding issue was something he was passionate about, isn't it possible he would have been glad to see it listed as one of his most important achievements? Good point and you could be right. However, the one-two punch of impeachment and abortion still strikes me as odd and somewhat biased. Just my opinion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Finally, the end of the ubiquitous Hyde Amendment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Those are the two things he's most known for. Yeah...why should anybody remember this: ... he strongly opposed a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on members of Congress, and supported the Family and Medical Leave Act. He has also voted to ban certain types of assault weapons. In the 1990s he joined the Clinton administration in opposing the 1973 War Powers Resolution, an act restricting the president's authority to engage troops overseas that some GOP lawmakers sought to invoke to protest military operations in Haiti, Somalia and Bosnia. In addition to helping shape U.S. policy in the war on terrorism, Hyde in 2003 oversaw passage of a $15 billion bill to fight the international AIDS epidemic. "Left unchecked, this plague will further rip the fabric of developing societies, pushing fragile governments and economies to the point of collapse," he said. "So to those who suggest that the United States has no stake in this pandemic, let me observe that the specter of failed states across the world certainly is our business." I hate politics and partisanship and the false emotions it stirs in otherwise reasonable people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted November 30, 2007 Author Share Posted November 30, 2007 Listen, I grew up in his district. I live in his district. Those are the things he's known for. Many times you're not known for the best things that you do no matter who you are. When I read about the Hyde amendment I thought "Oh yeah, that was him." I didn't think "Oh man, what a bastard." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 well, then i hope when sen. byrd passes on, the lead paragraph reads "former KKK member, racist and lover of government pork". It will - along with all the good stuff he has done for us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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