Posted on 12/18/2008 6:01:12 AM PST by Corin Stormhands
Conservative Leader Paul Weyrich Dies; First to Lead Heritage
RIP Mr Weyrich .....
Shouldn’t this be Breaking News?
Prayers...
Probably of a broken heart, after witnessing the destruction of much of his life’s work in this last election...
Prayers to the family. May he rest in peace.
RIP.
Very sad news. Prayers for his family.
I got to know Paul when he started National Empowerment Television and broadcast it via C-Band satellite. I visited their little studio and got to know quite a few of their people.
He was true to his beliefs and he fought the fight as well as anyone. We conservatives owe him a lot.
RIP, Paul. You will be missed.
And yes, this should be in breaking news.
cancer ?
Rest In Peace, Paul, and say hello to our beloved Ronnie. Prayers for your loved ones.
My sincere condolences to his family. The country has lost a good man.
Rest in peace, sir.
..but he did not labor in vain...
..Paul will know, even now, how much his efforts availed.
God bless you Paul Weyrich.
Yup, I remember NET well. My old BUD dish was often pointing at the bird carrying NET. I called into his show once... I think it was called Direct Line with Paul Weyrich...but I could be mistaken. He seriously injured his back in an accident during that time. I remember that He was fond of trains :-)
A good man has passed into eternity.....
Direct Line, yes that was it. I called in many, many times. NET was to me back then what FRee Republic is to me today.
One of the very first television efforts by conservatives to circumvent the Drive-By Media. It was the forerunner of Fox News, in my opinion. I always thought had it been able to get on cable tv nationally, it would have been a hit.
Paul was just passing through, and is now in a far better place than any of us. Prayers for his family to be comforted with that knowledge....
Condolences to Paul Weyrich’s family and friends.
Paul gave Tony Snow his start on his conservative channel before the days of Fox. It looks like we are going to be missing many team members.
Does anyone know the cause of death? I’ve been looking but so far I’ve found nothing.
RIP Paul!
Ping. Paul Weyrich was a pioneer Dinosaur Media slayer.
Mr. Weyrich was only 66 yrs. old, and their is a column attributed to him dated December 17 commenting on the MN senate race.
This had to be sudden and unexpected.
Very sad loss for our country.
Sad, Prayers for family and friends.
Here are two clips of Paul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbC-7cfPsA
Awful news indeed. May God bless him and his family in this sad time.
It appears that he was in declining health since his spinal injury.
In 1996, Weyrich was diagnosed with a spinal injury. From 2001 until his death in 2008, his injury left him in a wheelchair and in constant pain. Complications from a fall in September 2004 required the amputation of his legs in July 2005.
Requiescat in pace.
It’s like a slow-motion Rapture around here the last few weeks.
Thanks for posting those two clips.
I attended a seminar hosted by Paul and his Free Congress bunch in Memphis in 1982. He was a great speaker and used humor so well.
He looked emaciated.
I think that was the first time I ever saw a picture of Rush Limbaugh - he, and, as I recall, maybe Weyrich, and possibly someone else, like Bill Bennett, had a little booth at the 1992 Democrat National Convention, and broadcast some commentary on the satellite.
Paul gave Tony Snow his start....... As well as Fox’s Major Garret, Kelley Anne Fitzpatrick and Frank Luntz.
Paul’s C-Band channel was an early refreashing light in the dark. He knew that the MSM was and would do everything in its vast power to make conservatives look as bad as possible without reagrd to the truth. I don’t think he was at all surprised by the 2008 stolen election. His insight will be missed.
Paul gave Tony Snow his start....... As well as Fox’s Major Garret, Kelley Anne Fitzpatrick and Frank Luntz.
Paul’s C-Band channel was an early refreashing light in the dark. He knew that the MSM was and would do everything in its vast power to make conservatives look as bad as possible without reagrd to the truth. I don’t think he was at all surprised by the 2008 stolen election. His insight will be missed.
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2008/08/27/national_conventions_as_show_business
“Then in 1992, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett and I broadcast by satellite from the Democratic Convention in New York. We had a minimal crew, only half a dozen. Even though we had not been broadcasting regularly, we were inundated with telephone calls from all over America. The success of that broadcast was a determining factor in launching National Empowerment Television, or NET, a year and a half later.”
What the hell happen to him? He use to be a Conservative.
Following a spinal injury, he has been in pain for the last twelve years, then legs amputated and in a wheel chair. He carried on, and may be rest in peace. A good fight ended with honor.
Rest in peace.
...and may we as a nation be blessed with many such men who understand to cost of liberty and are willing to stand up and pay that price.
Per ArrogantBustard above, Mr. Weyrich was also a Protodeacon of the Melkite-Greek Catholic Church, and served in a parish in Fairfax County, VA.
Eternal rest, grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him. May he, and all the souls of the faithful departed, rest in peace. Amen.
FYI: The word “Precious” in that scripture translates to “costly”.
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In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
The legacy of Paul Weyrich outlasts him.
Paul Weyrich's Teaching Manual
The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE1DA1439F93BA35752C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
Word for Word/National Empowerment Television; You Want Your Newt TV? Whether You Do or You Don’t, It’s Here.
Godspeed to Heaven Mr. Weyrich
From wiki...”Under the auspices of the FCF, he founded the Washington, D.C.-based satellite television station National Empowerment Television (NET), later relaunched as the for-profit channel “America’s Voice” in 1997. In 1997 Weyrich was forced out of the NET television network he had founded when the network’s head persuaded its board to force out Weyrich in a hostile takeover. Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates says this was “apparently for his divisive behavior in attacking GOP pragmatists.”
I remember this because I used to watch this channel all the time. I remember an interview where Weyrich was asked who was at blame. He said it was the liberal GOPers. After that the network stopped being conservative and went out of business all together. It was then that I knew the biggest enemy of conservatism were RINOS not Democrats
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