Posted on 08/19/2024 7:43:33 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Renowned “King of Daytime Talk” Phil Donahue, who created and hosted the The Phil Donahue Show, died on Sunday, Aug. 18 at the age of 88, PEOPLE can confirm.
In a statement first reported by the Today show on Monday, Aug. 19, Donahue's family said the groundbreaking TV talk show journalist died in his home surrounded by his family including his wife of 44 years — actress Marlo Thomas — as well as "his sister, his children, grandchildren and his beloved golden retriever, Charlie."
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For me Thumper rule in effect.........
The original Crossfire with Buchanon and Braden also did a number of shows with NAMBLA content. Sunshine is the best way to expose horrendous beliefs. I fully believe that overturning Roe wouldn’t have happened without the idiots at Planned Parenthood trying to defend partial birth abortions and denying selling baby parts.
She has 4 Emmys, a Grammy, a Peabody, a Golden Globe and a Jefferson
And she has been the national spokesperson for her Dad’s greatest accomplishment for decades.
By all accounts, they had an excellent marriage, no matter what the politics, and we are supposed to be the side that acknowledges that as an ideal.
Donahue gave them a public forum for their spokesmen, how did crossfire handle it?
You thought it but I wrote it.
What difference does it make? It was still a platform. My memory says it was a talking point/questions when they would do an episode on the early years of the Gay Rights movement.
Leaders would come on the show and Buchanon (also Novak) would bring NAMBLA up and try to get the representatives to comment negatively on the group.
I was asking if the NAMBLA spokesmen were on the Crossfire shows selling their case for NAMBLA.
It makes all the difference, using NAMBLA as an attack on the youth obsessed homosexual movement was a great thing to do since NAMBLA is a part of the homosexual movement, but putting their spokesmen on TV to sell it was a terrible thing to do.
I can only assume you are too young to have watched the shows. There were no NAMBLA spokesmen back then, the group was never going to be allowed to make a case in that time period, so asking the early spokesmen of the Gay Rights movement was the only option. This was still the CNN of Lou Dobbs, Bernard Shaw and the rest. We all watched it because we felt it was fairly balanced, and in its early days they clearly would differentiate between their opinion segments/shows and their straight reporting.
Bernard Shaw today would be considered an Uncle Tom by the left.
Sure, someone who served under Nixon was too young for CNN which came along in 1980.
Your point seems to be that Buchannan and Novak were pushing NAMBLA to the public the same as Donahue.
Donahue didn’t PUSH, he covered. Just like CNN did back then. Neither CNN nor Donohue ADVOCATED in favor of NAMBLA.
We saw it differently, Donahue was giving NAMBLA a forum mixed with criticism, but was getting their views out, which was about as far as the hard lefty could go.
I’ll have to take your word for Pat Buchanan and NOVAK being the same as Donahue in the effect of their mention of NAMBLA.
There was also a difference in their audience.
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