[hinckley buzzard]

Breslin has been a crank for decades. He is a dissolute alcoholic East Coast liberal who would normally be expected to make it up as he went along, in the Robert Woodward-Janet Cooke school of journalism.

Haven't read him for years, but he used to be known for long, drooling run-on sentences-- that passed for style in the east coast backwaters of the sixties. I'm surprised, frankly, to see he's still alive.

[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!