Posted on 12/17/2001 9:30:48 AM PST by ouroboros
Reese, a conservative columnist, does not mince words. In his column, which King Features Syndicate distributes three times a week to more than 150 newspapers, he does not hesitate to take a stand and back it up to the end. In 1985, after being horrified by acts of terrorism around the world, Reese said succinctly: "The wise thing to do with a terrorist is shoot him."
Charley Reese was born Jan. 19, 1937, in Washington, Ga. He was raised there, in eastern Texas and northwest Florida. By the time he was 19, he had worked as a janitor, printer, cub reporter, civil servant and caption writer for Plant News Pictures, Ltd. in London. In 1955, he began his career at the Pensacola News in Florida as a cub reporter. For the next 10 years, he worked at various newspapers, honing his craft by reporting everything from sports to politics. Between 1969 and 1971, he worked as a campaign staffer for gubernatorial, senatorial and congressional races in several states.
He joined The Orlando Sentinel in 1971 as assistant metro editor. He later became assistant to the publisher, then columnist and editorial board member. He retired from the paper in July 2001. He has traveled to Europe and the Middle East on assignments, all the while maintaining his distinctly American style of journalism.
Reese served two years of active duty in the Army and received an honorary doctorate from Webber College in Florida. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and voted the best columnist in Florida by both the Florida Press Association and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors.
He is the author of four books, including "Great Gods of the Potomac," and was the ghost writer of "The Eleventh Hour" by Gen. Lewis Walt. An American foundation commissioned Reese to write a study of the Swiss national defense system. Reese has won numerous journalism and civic awards. His column is read by decision makers around the globe. A column he wrote on the House of Hope, a home for abused teens, prompted President Reagan to write a personal check for $1,000 to the organization.
Reese makes his home in Florida. Now divorced, he is the father of three grown children.
Heck, the blood has been flowing since before I was born; now I'm grown up, have a beard and it's still flowing. It didn't take Sharon to that. It took Israel being surrounded by nations that did not want it to exist.
Occupation? The "palestians" were just a loose association of Bedouin tribes who crossed into Israel after 1948 in order to take advantage of the material opportunities. Can Reese define the boundaries of this supposed "territory" in 1948? Can he name the capital of "palestine" in 1948? Neither existed, and this crap is a bunch of Arafat lies that most of the world has swallowed whole.
Bull$hit.
He walked up the stairs to a Israeli guard station, and shook hands with his troops.
That hardly qualifies as an invasion.
Just go to the archives of the now defunct Spotlight and you can find many similar loony rants so I am told.
If that's the best you can do, looks like Charlie is a winner .
.. Oh .
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The title of Israel to every inch of this space is precisely the same as its title to downtown Tel Aviv. The weakness of so-called "Palestinian" title is that only 23% of them even had their male direct ancestor living in Israel/Territories as of Dec. 8, 1917. They are only interloping Egyptians, Syrians, and other rabble who have no title to the land.
Pathetic. Pull out a months old article why don't you? 'We' have not forgotten? Who is 'we'? You - in Costa Rica? I guess 'you' missed the reports of Bush and Sharon's meeting a week or so ago. On the same page. 100%.
Observers are coming? Little green men you mean? You see them often, do you?
Yeah. That 'winner' was dumped by the Orlando Sentinel.
Ask tex-omar all about it. Chuckle.
Lying is an illness you know. One term I have heard people use for it is Clintonitis.
To Charlie Reese, apparent Jew-hater:
Q. How can you spot an Islamic holy site?
A. It's built on the remains of someone else's holy site, usually after the previous occupants have been raped, murdered and/or enslaved.
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