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I never cared for his show

RIP Donahue

1 posted on 08/19/2024 3:51:12 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Phil Donahue died?


2 posted on 08/19/2024 3:52:17 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Morgana

But you’re a legend in your own time, a hero in the flood lights,playing tunes to fit your rhymes—but a legend is only a lonely boy, when he goes home alone.
Carly Simon


4 posted on 08/19/2024 3:56:30 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Morgana
Me neither.

RIP

5 posted on 08/19/2024 4:04:47 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: Morgana

Phil Donahue was a pioneer for shoveling liberal pablum into homes Monday thru Friday.


9 posted on 08/19/2024 4:10:37 PM PDT by NautiNurse (With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
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To: Morgana

We’re all gonna die. Some of us will be missed less than others. Or....I don’t care would be an honest way of putting.

He got 88 years. Nothing to complain about. More than I will probably get.


10 posted on 08/19/2024 4:11:56 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: Morgana

He started the feminization of American males - the original metrosexual.


11 posted on 08/19/2024 4:13:47 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: Morgana
He did interview a wider variety of guests who he was generally polite to. Imagine Oprah interviewing Ayn Rand.

Donahue did.

12 posted on 08/19/2024 4:23:25 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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Live from The Phil Donahell Show...


17 posted on 08/19/2024 4:29:18 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Morgana
Donahue had recently been awarded the presidential medal of freedom for his storied career.

Wow. That was a stretch. The only time I watched his show was on You Tube for the Milton Friedman appearances

18 posted on 08/19/2024 4:45:14 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Morgana

I never cared for him...i was a long time donor to St Jude’s but stopped because of him...

He was the Rosie O’Donnell show soon after 9-11. He said, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could join hands with the Afgahns in peace this Christmas season and sing “Silent Night/Holy Night?”

Even rosie o’donnell was horrified. He was a horrible liberal


19 posted on 08/19/2024 4:45:49 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Morgana
Also present was his beloved golden retriever, Charlie…

At least his dog loved him.

20 posted on 08/19/2024 4:46:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Morgana
RIP Phil Donahue
23 posted on 08/19/2024 5:32:47 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Morgana
"By 1979, the show was reaching 9 million viewers, nearly 8 million of them female.... Over the years, he interviewed late night host Johnny Carson, pop star Elton John, boxer Muhammad Ali, anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, comic filmmaker Mel Brooks, and tennis rivals Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Some of his more controversial guests included Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler’s architect; novelist Ayn Rand; Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan; Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke; and porn star Harry Reems....

If nothing else, he didn’t discriminate with respect to guests.

24 posted on 08/19/2024 5:35:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Morgana
Also present was his beloved golden retriever, Charlie, as the illness he had been battling remains unknown.

I tire of this crap. There is no privacy after death.

26 posted on 08/19/2024 5:40:29 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Morgana

Sheesh! What a commie he was.


27 posted on 08/19/2024 5:58:15 PM PDT by Restore
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To: Morgana
Wow, this is the fourth time today he's died. Stubborn cuss, ain't he?


Phil Donahue, Talk Host Who Made Audiences Part of the Show, Dies at 88

08/19/2024 9:45:07 AM PDT · by Cronos · 43 replies
New York Times ^ | 19th August 2024 | Clyde Haberman

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Phil Donahue, Legendary Daytime Talk Show Host, Dies at 88

08/19/2024 7:43:33 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 50 replies
https :// www . yahoo . com / entertainment / phil - donahue - legendary - daytime - talk - 131902675 . html ^

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Talk show legend Phil Donahue dead at 88

> 08/19/2024 7:24:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 59 replies
NY Post ^ | 08/19/2024 | Eric Todisco

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29 posted on 08/19/2024 6:23:00 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Morgana

Nothing good to say, so...


30 posted on 08/19/2024 6:27:56 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Morgana

I watched his interview with Crippen and Young after the first shuttle flight. He pushed the microphone at them at one point in the interview and asked them if they were afraid during the launch. Young says, why don’t you take this crip. Crippen responds,” Mr. Donahue, anyone sitting on 60 tons of powdered aluminum and a 1/2 million gallons of liquid hydrogen and isn’t afraid just doesn’t understand the situation.” Donahue was frozen for a bit with that response. Only interview I ever watched of his.


35 posted on 08/19/2024 7:41:20 PM PDT by Waverunner
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He was an pompous jerk but he seems like a conservative compared to the radical Left that’s on TV now.


36 posted on 08/19/2024 8:39:15 PM PDT by RedMonqey (This is no longer America but "Amerika"!)
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To: Morgana

Won’t be missed.


37 posted on 08/20/2024 6:34:56 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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