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Art Linkletter Dead at 97. From Hobo to Radio to TV and Writer
Associated Content ^ | May 26th, 2010 | Sherry Tomfeld

Posted on 05/26/2010 2:11:03 PM PDT by stillafreemind

Linkletter was a conservative and the Wall Street Journal had this quote from him. About Barack Obama, he says: "He's intelligent, a born performer and ambitious, like I was, but that spending bill [the stimulus] is the most terrible mistake in our history. I never thought I would see so much debt."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
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God bless Art Linkletter. My sympathies go out to his wife and family.
1 posted on 05/26/2010 2:11:04 PM PDT by stillafreemind
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To: stillafreemind

RIP good man.


2 posted on 05/26/2010 2:12:17 PM PDT by HelloooClareece ("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)
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To: stillafreemind

I’m glad someone finally posted this.


3 posted on 05/26/2010 2:13:45 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: stillafreemind

God bless Art and his family. This man is a national treasure.


4 posted on 05/26/2010 2:15:06 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: stillafreemind
He will be greatly missed...
It seems like the great conservatives are passing away, Art Linkletter, William F. Buckley....

If God does not raise up a whole new generation of conservatives like these guys, then, we are in trouble... and no, RINOS need not apply....
5 posted on 05/26/2010 2:17:05 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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Some years ago I heard an interview with Mr. Linkletter. Someone asked how long he planned on living. He mentioned that he would like to live until the year where the government would steal the least amount of his inheritance. I think he might have mentioned this year.

Does anyone else remember this?


6 posted on 05/26/2010 2:20:36 PM PDT by american_ranger (Never ever use DirecTV)
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To: stillafreemind

May God bless his loved ones with comfort and strength.


7 posted on 05/26/2010 2:21:18 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: TexasCajun

You actually really TRULY made me LOL...luckily, I had just put my martini down...(Up, with a twist, Tanquerey).

And RIP Art...I always loved ya.


8 posted on 05/26/2010 2:22:00 PM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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9 posted on 05/26/2010 2:23:38 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: stillafreemind
loud ten-count beeps on front-end countdown

Kids Say the Darndest Things - ART LINKLETTER

10 posted on 05/26/2010 2:52:02 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: stillafreemind
I met Art Linkletter once (well almost) back in the early 90's. I was at LAX. I had just returned from San Jose and deplaned. Before rushing to curbside to grab a shuttle back to work, I ducked into the men's room. I was standing taking care of my business, when "Art" pulled up and took the urinal on my right. I was reluctant to violate the sanctity of the urinal, when another fellow came in, and parked on Art's right. He recognized Art and immediately reached to shake his hand! Art took it in stride and received his compliments.

I caught his eye and we exchanged a few pleasantries. I still didn't think it right to shake his hand under these circumstances. A real gentleman in an age sorely in need of many like him.

11 posted on 05/26/2010 2:57:33 PM PDT by nonsporting
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Art Linkletter KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS (revisited)
12 posted on 05/26/2010 2:59:59 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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I heard a story (I think on Paul Harvey, may he r.i.p., too) that Art had been in a very bad car accident before WWII and that both his legs were shattered. At that time he was a pilot. He was told that he would never walk nor fly again; however, the Paul went on to tell that not only did he walk, but he also flew planes during WWII. Don’t know what his missions were, but “now you know the rest of the story.”


13 posted on 05/26/2010 3:04:36 PM PDT by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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To: stillafreemind

I remember as a kid I enjoyed watching his show. Prayers for his wife of 74 years and his family.


14 posted on 05/26/2010 3:06:06 PM PDT by Texas56
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When one looks back on Art Linkletter's life, you wonder how the man endured some of the tragedies that befell he and his wife

Egregious use of the English language bump.
15 posted on 05/26/2010 3:11:16 PM PDT by aruanan
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I remember coming home from school around 2:30 and right after the soap operas, Mom always had Art Linkletter on tv. One of my favorite segments was the interviews with little children.

In one of them, he asked this little guy what he thought the world would be like in 50 years. The youngster thought and thought and thought. Finally, after a very long pause, he answered, “Round.”


16 posted on 05/26/2010 3:17:02 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: stillafreemind
From NY Post:


Radio and TV personality Art Linkletter (left), who appeared in only two movies, was positively brilliant in his only acting role, as Happy Hogan in Richard Whorf's too-seldom-seen and eerily prescient TV satire "Champagne for Caesar'' (1950). Happy is the nitwit master of ceremonies on "Masquerade for Money,'' where unemployed genius Ronald Colman hopes to clean out eccentric sponsor Vincent Price. Happy also turns out to be the love interest of Colman's sister, played by Barbara Britton, the first actress I ever remember having a crush on. Linkletter also played himself in the 1946 movie version of his radio show "People Are Funny,'' which later had a long and popular run on TV.

17 posted on 05/26/2010 3:19:04 PM PDT by iowamark
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Prayers up for his loved ones. Rest In Peace, Mr. Linkletter, and thank you for sharing your talent with us.


18 posted on 05/26/2010 3:25:15 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The real death threat is their legislation" Rush Limbaugh, 3/25/10)
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To: stillafreemind

I remember that his son Jack Linkletter had a daily show called America Alive in the late 1970’s. I see that Jack Linkletter died in 2007.


19 posted on 05/26/2010 3:25:21 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: stillafreemind

Wow.. Another major piece of ‘60s culture is gone.
Who didn’t like Art Linkletter?
Rest in Peace.


20 posted on 05/26/2010 3:35:13 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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