Jimmy Breslin Accused of Faking Interview

A.P. ^ | April 07, 2004 | KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer

[Hildy]

One on my fondest memories of my Father was the day he walked up to Jimmy Breslin and called him a fat, lying scumbag (I was there with hime). They knew each other for years. Breslin repaid him by printing a New Year's day article which said he'd never speak to my father again! We hung the article up with pride!

[jackbill]

Look at the picture. Is that a man who likes the sauce? Does anyone really listen to him - other than the "liberal intelligencia"?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Jimmy who?

[wideminded]

He also had a late-night television show, "Jimmy Breslin's People,"

This was actually a very interesting show. Who else would interview the physicist Isidor I. Rabi (radar pioneer and discoverer of nuclear magnetic resonance)? Rabi was a fascinating guest. The interview was conducted in a branch library where, as a boy, he had read every book. Rabi, a Jew, said that the world is indebted to the Anglo-Saxon people for the invention of constitutional government.

[mrustow]

He's a ruin, alright, but he's allegedly been off the sauce for years. A drink or ten might do him good.

[mrustow]

I'm getting a laugh out of this story, seeing as Les Payne is himself a notorious, racist liar. I guess they were showing their commitment to affirmative action and dishonesty, by giving him the editorship.

[beckett]

One on my fondest memories of my Father was the day he walked up to Jimmy Breslin and called him a fat, lying scumbag...

When I lived in Manhattan years ago there was a murder on my street. I walked out of my building and saw police tape up the block a ways. As I got closer I noticed Jimmy Breslin himself standing by the crime scene, jotting notes on a pad just like a rookie reporter.

As I approached I said in a friendly way, "Well what do you know, Jimmy Breslin, I'll be..." or some other such brilliant ice-breaker. Guy just looked at me. Not hello, not an acknowledgement of my presence, nothing. Just a grim glare and he went back to his notes.

What a pearl.

[Hildy]

I was actually be kind with the words my Dad used. What he actually said was, "YOU'RE A FAT F**KING PIG." And my Father was a very mild mannered guy.

[lorrainer]

This guy is a first-class bonehead. Remember the Washington-area sniper attacks? He was p!$$ed off that President Bush wasn't down in the danger zone walking the streets. THAT would have solved it! < /sarc> What a maroon.

[hinckley buzzard]

LOL! Hooray for your Father!
I wish I could remember the columnist who was reviewing some opus of Breslin's and after quoting a particularly pompous and flatulent passage lamented,

"Alas! Even Jimmy Breslin writes like Jimmy Breslin!"

I should know who it was--maybe William F Buckley--not sure--it was a good 35 years ago.