Posted on 05/19/2016 9:17:13 AM PDT by Borges
Morley Safer, an intrepid storyteller and interviewer whose name became synonymous with the news magazine "60 Minutes," has died. He was 84. Safer was the longest-serving correspondent in "60 Minutes" history. He joined the CBS program in 1970, just two years after it launched, and worked there ever since, contributing 919 reports over the years. He filed his last report in March.
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One of my parents grew up in a communist country, so I know more about it then you ever will. You can take your snide attitude and jam it.
And you still haven’t backed it up. Show me the Morley Safer story that demonstrates he was a “communist”. Of course you can’t. Because you’re full of gas. You don’t even full grasp what the concept means.
The man is dead. Try to show a scintilla of class.
Yours too. And mine, I guess.
Whatever he was doing 50 years ago, the last time I watched the show it seemed like he spent most of his airtime talking to celebrities.
He wasn't any kind of force for evil over the last 30 or 40 years. Unless he had some kind of secret life, like Charles Kuralt.
Arthur McGowan @60,
The presumption of a homecoming is based on fifth-column media leftist Safer’s religion. The hope is simply that the homecoming is “especially warm.”
one left wing propagandist down
thousands to go
I tried to be sad but it just wouldn’t take.
Safer never struck me as overtly political. Was he?
He was taking on the US government in a big way during Vietnam. That may have been more generational and adversarial than ideological, more the way reporters made names for themselves by going after the powers that be than an attempt to promote a specific ideological agenda.
Lately, though, and for decades, he seemed to be doing more soft lifestyle and celebrity stories. If he did exposes, they tended to be more of corporate shenanigans than of politicians or political movements. But I didn't watch the show for a long time so I could be wrong.
A lot of people hold the CBS connection against him. Maybe they assume that he didn't have to do the political stories because so many other CBS reporters did. Anyway, he didn't seem to have a secret life, like Charles Kuralt or Steve Kroft, and he never got caught peddling false documents like Dan Rather,
One can start with NewsBusters' "Bye-Bye Morley Safer! The Retiring 60 Minutes Correspondent’s Most Liberal Moments."
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Absolutely. His pension and Social Security benefits to a surviving spouse is probably worth more than the life insurance policy (if he even has one at his age) or other death benefit.
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