Now I am not going to verify this, but I highly doubt that the Post's obituary for Robert Byrd opened up by saying he was a member of the KKK.
Nice link of conservatism to racism, WashPo. Don’t remember a liberal/racism connection mentioned when Sheets Byrd kicked the can.
Ave atque vale, Kilpo.
Is he related to Kwame?
I remember he made weekly mincemeat of Shana Alexander on Point-Counterpoint segment of 60 Minutes (back when I used to watch it)
James J. Kilpatrick, 89, a fiery advocate of racial segregation...
Compare this entry to the ComPost’s inital lead-in to the Robert Byrd obit... for some odd, unknown reason, they differ somewhat.
“Jane, you ignorant slut.”
He, with a woman named Shana Alexander, IIRC, did a segment called Point/Counterpoint on 60 Minutes. It inspired the
Sat Night Live weekend update segment (Ackroyd/Curtin) where
Dan’s catch phrase, upon his rebuttal, was, “Jane, you
ignorant slut.”
” fiery advocate of racial segregation as a Richmond newspaper editor in the 1950s “
WOW sheets Byrd didn’t get this treatment in news stories.
Kilpatrick was one of my favorite conservative writers. I have his book, “The Writer’s Art,” and still refer to it occasionally. The book contains correspondence with Bill Buckley, usually debating English usage, and usually really funny. He obviously had great respect for his political opponent, Shana Alexander and devoted a chapter featuring her reporting and writing. Alexander covered the Patty Hearst trial and judging from the excerpts in the book, sent some of the most compelling dispatches from that event.
A line I recall explains the difference between “nauseated” and “nauseous.” If you are nauseated, you feel sick. If you’re nauseous, you make other people feel sick.
Notice the creepy WaPo writer can’t resist including an insult in the second para — “writings on race.” Jerks have to take their shots even in obits.
Point/Counterpoint was a much better way to kill two minutes than with Andy Rooney’s doddering claptrap
When KLilpo retired, it was a great loss. One of the best. Sympathies to his family and friends.
A grossly and in my view deliberately unfair obit of Kilpo.
Articles by Adam Bernstein:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/adam+bernstein/
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Adam Bernstein has been helping put the “post” in Washington Post for more than six years. The American Society of Newspaper Editors has recognized his obit writing for doing “a great job revealing the small details and anecdotes that get at the essence of the person.” He was also featured in Marilyn Johnson’s recent book about the obit writing craft, “The Dead Beat.” Bernstein wrote the introduction to the 2004 reprint of “You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger,” Roger Hall’s best-selling memoir of his wartime experiences in the Office of Strategic Services. “
from: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2007/09/adam-bernstein.html
Evidently he writes Obits for famous people for the Washington ComPost.
RIP.
Did the lamestreams even give him a break for being pro-abo?