Koppel has usually been one of the more balanced observers and commentators of events. Even Rush Limbaugh once remarked that to call Koppel “a liberal” wasn’t being really fair to the guy.
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Agreed.
He was scripted at times but closer to balanced than most would give him credit for and was quite articulate in many cases.
We could only dream today that the MSM was anywhere close to were Ted Koppel was when he was in his prime.
He ambushed Hannity with a chopped-up, selectively edited interview, which I’m sure he does at every chance he has.
We only know about that instance because Hannity called him out about it.
He’s a preening Leftist dimwit who is balanced about nothing.
Even then, he was stable, mature, reasonable, and persistently reliable even before the age of twenty.
Several years later, I recognized his voice reporting from Vietnam on ABC radio, even before his name was given. I was so pleased.
In another meaningful TV broadcast, I watched him as the arbitrator of a debate between very capable reasonable representatives of the State of Israel and the unreasonable illogical appointed speakers representing the PLO. Both sides respected him and his cool ability to keep them in order during the debate. This even though Ted was himself Jewish in descent.
You know Grace Anne Dorney, his first and only wife, is a Catholic, right? I've read biographies on him. To me, though liberal-leaning, Ted was/is the epitome of a cool, reasonable, well-spoken observer of the world picture facing us.
A really big Little Brother of Pie Kay Aye, but able to get his dander up when it fits the occasion.