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To: PJ-Comix

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.


4 posted on 03/19/2019 12:25:07 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Socialism is a war crime against one's own people." -- tinyowl on 03/11/2019)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
"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.

11 posted on 03/19/2019 1:10:36 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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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.


23 posted on 03/19/2019 3:58:26 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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I knew Teddy when he was young, when was in the next year's pledge class at Alpha Chi Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha at Syracuse University. I helped put him through Hell Week myself, an experience designed to tested his character.

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.

47 posted on 03/19/2019 9:05:59 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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