Posted on 06/20/2022 2:42:07 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Mark Shields, the longtime political commentator who was a decades-long fixture on “PBS Newshour,” died Saturday at age 85.
News of his death was shared on Twitter by Newshour anchor Judy Woodruff.
“I am heartbroken to share this,” she said in the tweet, stating that for decades, Shields “wowed us with his encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, his sense of humor and mainly his big heart.”
She said he died with his wife Anne at his side.
Shields first appeared on “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” during the 1988 presidential election and became a weekly guest.
From 2001 to his retirement in 2020, he appeared each Friday with The New York Times columnist David Brooks to analyze and comment on the week’s political news. Prior to Brooks, his counterparts included the late William Safire, Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal and former presidential adviser David Gergen
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Honestly, never heard of the guy.
Couple days late.
I thought he died years ago.
He was ok as a liberal things were not as crazy then.
You didn’t miss much.
He was a panelist on the Capitol Gang. Lefty, but amiable compared to Elenor. left and Al Hunt.
Never saw the PBS show but watched McLaughlin Group. He was the old days liberal type who would accept some things about the other side, sometimes. I remember him kidding the emotional Bob Novak by calling to a stagehand to get Novak his meds-—make that right now. Now both are gone.
Sounds like a bunch of Deep State propagandists.
Good riddance and I’m glad I out lasted him.
He can be seen on Match Game reruns bashing Reagan.
the good die young, or younger it seems...
Yup. I’m indifferent on the RIP.
And yet he’s STILL wrong
Old fraud. “Pooped ‘em, eehhhhhhhh....” RIH.
PBS NewsHour commentator Mark Shields dies at age 85
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Posted on 6/18/2022, 9:55:47 PM by SpeedyInTexas
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Has he died again or is this a duplicate?
Eric Breindel (42)
Well I looked up “markshields” on the search engine and nothing showed up.
I disagreed with the man, but may he RIP.
Isn’t this Mark ‘Maxi’ Shields as per Rush Limbaugh? Another classic Rush pun.
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