Paul Harvey

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

I enjoy listening to Paul Harvey on a regular basis, and I've noticed Doug Limerick and Gil Gross filling in for him quite a bit lately. Paul was absent for a couple weeks around June and he hasn't been on this week.



I was wondering if you guys have heard anything. I couldn't find anything on the 'net. Hopefully he's not having health or larynx issues like a couple years ago. He must be pushing 70 by now but he sounds fine when he's on.



Vaughn

 

[truckstom]

I think back in June, or whenever it was... He "lost" his voice. Very raspy, couldn't talk for long at all. Been doing a lot of guest appearances also.



Still no one as good as him though... .

 

[TxDieselKid]

Paul Harvy for PRESIDENT!!!





I love his show/newscast. Talk about a soothing voice!

 

[snowracer69]

Best words you can hear all week.....

"Good Morning American's... ... IIIIITTTTTTTTTT'SSSSS FRIDAY!!!"

 

[klenger]

Although I almost always agree with his position on things, I just can't handle his presentation. Of course, I feel the same way about Rush too.

 

[esommer2500]

LOOOOOOOVE Paul Harvey! Listen to him everyday at work at noon, no matter if concrete is waiting or whatever else is going on! I do get kind of tired of hearing the same commercials for Citrical and whatever else, but I love 'The Rest of the Story'! Hope he's doing alright, I'd hate to have to work through lunch or something...



Eric

 

[bmoeller]

Originally posted by klenger

Although I almost always agree with his position on things, I just can't handle his presentation. Of course, I feel the same way about Rush too.

I think they are both great. Better presentation than alot of other people, local or nat'l. Listen as much as possible. Wish they had a "best of" show on the weekend (including Sunday) or to recap the week if you missed it. I know Paul Harvey does on Sat. noon, but Rush doesn't, unless you join his 24/7 paid side of his website.

 

[big jake 1]

Paul Harvey is well into his 80s, and a year or so back, renegotiated his contract so that he would still be sitting behind the microphone at age 93!!!!!!!!





I listen to him or whoever is sitting in for him daily, his first broadcast hits me at 0530AM on my way to work, the local station KFBK carries him 4 times a day. I have been listening to Paul Harvey since 1961, before that we lived in Germany (Dad was stationed there) and I don't recall him on Armed Services network, ( was only 9 years old. . )



Last week I recall him saying that he would be away from the microphone this week as he would be celebrating his honeymoon +60 or so years... ... .



another truly great, really decent American icon.





Hope he has the citrical and the drill doctor going as well as the ocular nutrition thing all pumping out 100% for Paul and hope he is enjoying his honeymoon, even though she is in her 80s















big jake



THE FORD GUY Oo. Oo. Oo.

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Originally posted by big jake 1

Paul Harvey is well into his 80s, and a year or so back, renegotiated his contract so that he would still be sitting behind the microphone at age 93!!!!!!!!



Last week I recall him saying that he would be away from the microphone this week as he would be celebrating his honeymoon +60 or so years... ... .



another truly great, really decent American icon.



Hope he has the citrical and the drill doctor going as well as the ocular nutrition thing all pumping out 100% for Paul and hope he is enjoying his honeymoon, even though she is in her 80s







big jake



THE FORD GUY Oo. Oo. Oo.

Holy cow! I didn't know he was that old

I have listened to him since the '70s but didn't realize he'd been around that long. He certainly doesn't sound like an 80-year old.



He comes up with a lot of great stuff and presents the news in a lot more interesting fashion than the rest of the news jockeys out there.



truckstom, when and where has he been doing guest appearances? It would be great to see him on TV sometime.



I'm glad to hear he's off "honeymooning" it this week, hope he and his wife have a great 60th anniversary!!



Vaughn

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Just found this after a little digging. . . http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-0208040446aug04.story



Paul Harvey will be 85 next month on Sept. 4th



Since he got into radio early in life, 2003 marks his 70th year in this medium



Heck most people retire when they're 65, let alone *WORK* 70!



Vaughn

 

[lschultz]

A thought

Maybe Doc T. could start filling in for Paul Harvey part time and slowly work his way into full time. Because I do think Doc is missing his calling. Any thoughts on this?

 

[apkole]

No matter what was going on on my grandfathers farm during the '60s the help was always sat down for lunch and quiet when Paul started is radio broadcast each noon hour. I can still hear my grandfathers laugh from that bright spot in the day. Still try to time my breaks to be in the truck so that I can catch him. It's interesting how much he says with well placed pauses. As he gets older, I think the pauses become longer.



Andy

 

[RonaldLarson]

Ah, such memories !

Grandpa Larson used to listen to H. V. Kaltenborn EVERY morning when I was a youngster. ( That's a long time ago). He would be reclined waaaaay back in his big chair in his shop, glued to the radio. He was a product of the depression, and not a victim of it. He built solid redwood boats for the midwest resort owners. His boats did not rot after a few years like his competitors. Chris delivered his finished boats on a trailer he built, towed by his Pierce Arrow. He had the first Kiekaefer Mercury outboard dealership in Minneapolis. I had the enviable and unforgettable honor of meeting Carl Kiekaefer and touring his plant in Fondulac Wisconsin when I was 16 years old.

Grandpa made a living during the worst economic times in our history by looking into his ingenuity and developing a product he thought he could sell. Risk, investment and hard work.

Paul Harvey, Rush Limbaugh and Mike Reagan are the voices which echo the bootstrap attitude that effected my Gramp's success. They remind us of what we are capable of, and what we should expect of ourselves, and how the country depends on us, not how we depend on the country. Gramps had no welfare, no food stamps, and no Social Security to fall back on. He was a small part of the creation of the backbone of this country.

We should all pay attention to the real prophets of the future of America. Listen closely, and rejoice in our greatness !!

Ron

 

[merryman]

I like Paul Harvey, but I do get irritated with the way he presents commercials---unless you pay attention, its like he is presenting facts rather than someone's commercial, plus, I really do wonder about the factual accuracy some times.



Saw an article about him the other day and it revealed that his latest contract pays him $10million dollars a year and compared it to Rush Limbaugh; he earns just a little less than 1/3 of Rush Limbaughs contract!!! The article said Rush's contract paid him $34million per year. That is an unbeliveable amount of $$$$.



But, considering what Rush did in breaking the liberal monopoly on the news we could hear, he has earned it. Befor he got started you could get ONLY the liberal slant in almost any news arena.

Befor I stumbled onto to Rush(about 10 years ago, I was driving along and happened to tune him in-----it was so refreshing to hear someone saying the kinds of things I had come to believe!!!), I had become so frustrated with the press at every level, I had about quit paying any attention to what they pawned off as news.

Even the old guys like Walter Cronkite twisted it sooooo bad; in a recent interview, even Cronkite slipped up when asked what he missed most after leaving his "anchor" position, he responded that he most missed being involved in --if I can recall his words--"setting the agenda for America" In other words, deciding what "issues" and what "view" of the issues we should get.



I first got interested in this on the local level. I would be involved in a law suit and then read about the lawsuit in the news paper or see a report on TV; I would often wonder how I could have so completely failed to understand what the trial was about. Never mind the times I would be interviewed and then watch the interview on T V. Man!!! It did not take me too many experiences to refuse to do an interview unless it was carried live--which they will seldom do. If you are live they can not juggle the questions and answers. Many times I have seen them show the interviewer asking a question, then when showing me answering the question, it would be an answer I gave to a DIFFERENT question. When you challenge them, its always "an error in editing", but funny how that error always happened to further whatever "agenda" they were pushing at the time.



Sorry about the soap box, as you can see the subject sets me off.



Vaughn

 

[RonaldLarson]

Good post, Merryman

Yes, it is sad when the news media is sooooo biased that their obvious agenda becomes almost comical. It has become entertainment, pure and simple. Innuendo is their favorite way of trying to appear un-biased. When Ahnolt announced his candidacy for Ca. governor, Katie Couric interviewed a Democrat campaign manager. Her question about Ahnolt's background was nothing less than an attack on him. Now Ahnolt (ok, Arnold) is not exactly the best man for the job, but it showed un-bridled favoritism for the Democrat side. It's rampant in the industry.



Puts a strain on freedom of the press, but you know, the trend toward conservatism is aided by this kind of press bias. It makes people angry at being lied to, and makes them look to trustworthy sources like Rush, Reagan, Savage and Harvey. What goes around, comes around !!

Ron

 

[illflem]

What liberal media?

The idea that the mainstream media have a "liberal bias" has long been conventional wisdom. At various times, public figures from Richard Nixon to Newt Gingrich have all taken refuge in the claim that the "liberal" media were out to get them. A legion of conservative talk show hosts and media-watch groups pound away at the idea that the media exhibit an inherently "liberal" tilt. But the assertion is based on remarkably little evidence and is repeatedly made in the face of contradictory facts.



The conservative critique of the news media rests on two general propositions: (1) journalists' views are to the left of the public, and (2) journalists frame news content in a way that accentuates these left perspectives. Previous research has revealed persuasive evidence against the latter claim, but the validity of the former claim has often been taken for granted. This research project examined the supposed left orientation of media personnel by surveying Washington-based journalists who cover national politics and/or economic policy at US outlets.

The findings include:





On select issues from corporate power and trade to Social Security and Medicare to health care and taxes, journalists are actually more conservative than the general public.



Journalists are mostly centrist in their political orientation.



The minority of journalists who do not identify with the "center" are more likely to identify with the "right" when it comes to economic issues and to identify with the "left" when it comes to social issues.



Journalists report that "business-oriented news outlets" and "major daily newspapers" provide the highest quality coverage of economic policy issues, while "broadcast network TV news" and "cable news services" provide the worst.



http://www.fair.org/reports/journalist-survey.html