Posted on 08/12/2020 5:54:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sumner Redstone, the businessman and media magnate who formerly served as executive chairman of CBS and Viacom, has died. He was 97.
Redstone, who often boasted that would live forever, died Tuesday, according to a statement from National Amusements released Wednesday morning.
Redstone was a media mogul who built his family’s drive-in theater chain into a global multibillion-dollar empire.
In his 90s, he became the center of a jilted lover’s lawsuit that nearly cost his family his financial legacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Probably from Covid... what a horrible scourge
He was 97 and in poor health for years..................
BURN IN HELL!
USAToday:
“The media mogul’s point of no return came March 29, 1979, when a disgruntled teenage busboy lit a fire at the Copley Plaza hotel in Boston.
Redstone, then a vigorous 55, was running a successful if unheralded movie theater chain called National Amusements. When the blaze reached his room, the executive allegedly survived by hanging from a third-story ledge.
Fire consumed half of Redstone’s lanky body. Told he might not walk again, he endured 60 hours of surgery and soon resumed weekly tennis lessons, racquet lashed to his gnarled right hand. His will to live turned into a passion to win.”
Free Beer!
I though he supported the GOP.
“Probably from Covid”
That was nothing but your Nosophobia showing. A sign of a feeble mind.
Geez man - SARCASM!
I thought I was being obvious with that...
“That was nothing but your NOSOPHOBIA showing. A sign of a feeble mind.”
What a great word! PERFECT for the current situation. I’m surprised it hasn’t appeared before today. (Maybe it has; I just don’t recall seeing it.)
Wikipedia:
“A longtime Democratic supporter, with a history of donating to many Democratic campaigns, including regular donations to Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Redstone endorsed Republican George W. Bush over Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, allegedly because he argued that Bush would be better for his company and the economy. Despite this public endorsement, he donated money to Kerry during the primaries and was involved in the Rathergate scandal meant to hurt Bush’s reelection.”
“Probably from Covid... what a horrible scourge”
I pray to God you’re being sarcastic.
Covid?
Of course not. Redstone died of heart break after learning the Black, California, female lawyer scourge was the Biden VP selection
That add a whole new perspective to who Redstone was...thanks for sharing.
“Nosophobia”
I’ve been using it, so feel free to copy away. It is the perfect word and describes a mental illness where a person is paranoid about getting a specific disease like COVID-19 to the point it affects their life in a negative way.
No, it was not obvious. Sorry.
FR encourages the use of the /s tag to make that clear.
Imagine me being outraged about your comment too. I don’t have the energy right now
True since how one sounds when being sarcastic doesn’t come through on typed words.
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