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Breaking: Journalist Michael Kelly Killed at Baghdad Airport
ABC radio news | 4-4-03

Posted on 04/04/2003 6:07:48 AM PST by Rudder

Just announced 5 minutes ago, journalist Michael Kelley embedded with US troops for the Atlantic Monthly Magazine was reported killed during the military action at Baghdad International airport.

That's all.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdad; casualties; embeddedreport; embeddedreporters; journalist; kelley; kia; media; michaelkelley; michaelkelly; warcorrespondents
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To: Rudder
Surprise, surprise. The DUmpster has quite a few happy over this development. Kudos to the few there with a sense of decency.
141 posted on 04/04/2003 9:17:24 AM PST by amused (Republicans for Sharpton!)
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To: Rudder
Michael Kelly's death is tragic indeed.

He was an incisive, thoughtful, and often humorous columnist. His views were mostly "conservative" but always accurate.

Ironically, Kelly was the standout reporter of Gulf War I. He got a freelance assignment from the Boston Globe, and proceeded to enter Iraq on his own. Free of the "pool" reporting of that conflict, he produced some of the best newspaper coverage of the war. It was ironically delightful to have Kelly's hard-edged war reporting in the otherwise whimpy Globe. We were priveleged readers.

I will miss his Washington Post columns a great deal.

142 posted on 04/04/2003 9:18:15 AM PST by angkor
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To: jimbo123
This is truly a classic piece. A sad loss.
143 posted on 04/04/2003 9:22:22 AM PST by StopGlobalWhining
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To: dogbyte12
"Kelly lives in Boston with his wife Madelyn and two sons, Tom and Jack"

None of the reports I've heard so far mentioned his family. Thanks for the post. Condolences to the family.

I can't imagine how these news media people talk their spouses into letting them do this kind of job.
144 posted on 04/04/2003 9:30:29 AM PST by TheDon ( It is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response)
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To: Numbers Guy
"One of my favorite Kelly columns was from a couple months ago about German foreign minister Fischer. It's worth a read:"

Wow! What an indictment of a German thug!
Thanks for the link.

145 posted on 04/04/2003 9:40:00 AM PST by Redbob
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To: jimbo123
Here's another:

Making Liars of Us All

By Michael Kelly

Wednesday, February 11, 1998; Page A21

Assume for the sake of crazy, far-fetched argument that President Clinton is lying about Monica Lewinsky. The line from the president's increasingly cornered defenders is that this doesn't matter, that this is a lot of huff and puff about nothing more than a married man's bit of on-the-side stuff. And, anyway, Ken Starr has committed acts a lot worse than anything the president did, not that he did anything.

No. The Lewinsky matter is not about the minor and personal question of whatever an individual does in the pursuit of happiness behind closed doors. And it is not about the diversionary question of prosecutorial misconduct. It is about the largest, most central and most public of questions: whether we demand that the president obey the law, whether we accept that the president lies to us.

There are a great many laws on the books of this country, many of them onerous and some of them odious. Nevertheless, we are all required to obey them all. You have to tell the truth under oath, and so does the president. You may not conspire to obstruct justice, and neither may the president. You must not paw women who come to you seeking employment, and so too must not the president. To excuse the head of government from the laws that govern the rest of us is not to tolerate one man's peccadilloes; it is to tolerate the corruption of democracy.

And it is this fomenting of corruption that is the great problem with Clinton. The president has always had around him a constellation of defenders -- the planet Rodham, the moon Blumenthal, the satellites Carville and Begala -- who are prepared to do whatever is necessary in defense of anything Clinton does. These are people who believe in total-war politics, and they accept, to borrow from what Churchill said about truth, that Clinton is so precious that he should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Fine, if that's as far as it goes. But year by year, scandal by scandal, the defense of Clinton has made the rest of us accomplices to these lies. The most serious consequence of this has been to devastate what is left of liberalism's claim to be the philosophy of moralityin politics.

In 1992 Clinton said that his enemies were targeting him for a woman he didn't sleep with and a draft he didn't dodge. Liberals knew in their hearts that both claims were lies, but they told themselves that this didn't matter.

In the Whitewater affair, liberals were presented with a case of political corruption of a sort that they had classically fought, a conspiracy by a circle of political insiders to loot a savings and loan and to defraud a government loan program for women and minorities. Whitewater too, liberals decided, didn't signify.

When Hillary Rodham Clinton was found out to have made $100,000 on a no-risk $1,000 investment in commodities deals with a lawyer who represented one of Arkansas' largest regulated businesses, liberals who had taken to the streets against Reagan's Decade of Greed said -- oh, never mind. When the Clinton 1996 campaign subverted the entire system of campaign finance laws, liberals said, well, everybody does it. Lately, with independent counsel Starr getting troublesome, liberals have been saying it is time to scrap the liberal independent counsel act.

And now this. On "Meet the Press" last Sunday, Tim Russert asked Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) whether the allegations that the most powerful boss in the world had sexually exploited a 21-year-old female intern raised questions about Bill Clinton's treatment of women. No, no, said Pelosi, they raised questions about Ken Starr's treatment of women.

"There's a point of sensitivity that women have about Kenneth Starr's attitude toward women; how he's investigating, exploiting Monica Lewinsky, how he used Linda Tripp to do that," said Pelosi, with a face so rigidly straight it seemed it might crack. "The Susan McDougal case comes back to mind, because here again is a humiliation of a woman because she won't tell him what he wants to hear in that case. And now you see the humiliation of Betty Currie." Yes, Susan McDougal was humiliated, and so was Betty Currie. But the agent of their humiliation wasn't Ken Starr; it was Bill Clinton. And he is the agent, too, of the humiliation of Nancy Pelosi.

The problem with Clinton is not only that he lies; it is that he makes liars out of everybody else. The problem is not only that his moral standards are low; it is that he requires that everybody else lower theirs to meet his. By the time he is finished, so too will be the quaint idea of a higher ground in politics.

Michael Kelly is a senior writer for National Journal.

146 posted on 04/04/2003 9:43:29 AM PST by StopGlobalWhining (Making Liars of Us All)
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To: Howlin
Gosh, this breaks my heart. I always enjoyed his columns. What a loss.
147 posted on 04/04/2003 9:52:52 AM PST by MizSterious ("The truth takes only seconds to tell."--Jack Straw)
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To: Rudder
What a great loss --- My prayers for his wife and kids.
148 posted on 04/04/2003 9:54:05 AM PST by beckett
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To: MizSterious
That's it. My heart is broken. I couldn't describe it before.

46 years old.
149 posted on 04/04/2003 9:57:18 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Rudder
This makes me unutterably sad.
Why are reporters risking their lives like this? He was a really good writer.
150 posted on 04/04/2003 10:00:25 AM PST by equus
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To: borkrules
I have to concur with what you wrote. I received the latest yesterday and I as I was reading Michael's column(from Kuwait), I thought that he was a very brave man to do this. The Atlantic Monthly is a very good magazine and I started subscribing a couple of months after he became editor.

RIP.
151 posted on 04/04/2003 10:01:42 AM PST by segis
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To: Rudder
His got young kids and a wife. Very sad.
152 posted on 04/04/2003 10:03:31 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl
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To: RJCogburn
"Oh, no. He was a wonderful and intelligent writer."

And he was on the right side!

from his paper.... As a columnist, Kelly was a caustic conservative who was merciless in his criticism of Bill Clinton and Al Gore and was generally supportive of President Bush, especially on foreign policy. In 1997, New Republic owner Martin Peretz, a close friend of Gore, fired Kelly as the magazine's editor over his continuing attacks on the Clinton administration. Kelly is survived by his wife, Madelyn, and two sons, Tom, 6, and Jack, 3, according to the Associated Press.

153 posted on 04/04/2003 10:05:14 AM PST by patriot_wes
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To: hellinahandcart; Poohbah; LurkerNoMore!; SerpentDove; Ms. AntiFeminazi
Great loss, great sadness.
154 posted on 04/04/2003 10:08:07 AM PST by Stultis
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To: StopGlobalWhining
Thank you so much for posting this!!!--My all-time favorite Michael Kelly column! I had lost it when I changed jobs---it was saved on my computer in California.

Michael Kelly was one of my HEROES--a brilliant columnist who knew how to use humor and sarcasm to expose the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the libs.

I will miss Michael so much! I'm so grieved for his two sons' loss of their dad.
155 posted on 04/04/2003 10:09:27 AM PST by Cordova Belle
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To: Cordova Belle
Michael Kelly killed. So much that needed saying was said by him. His election 2000 essays burned my soul. The libs have no idea what our side has lost. The pain of this war is just beginning. Brace.
156 posted on 04/04/2003 10:17:13 AM PST by Havisham
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To: Rudder
I still have a copy of one of his old columns written last year, and re-read it just now. It was great, so well written and so true. His loss is a great loss to print journalism.
157 posted on 04/04/2003 10:28:33 AM PST by YepYep
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To: Rudder
Breaking: Journalist Michael Kelly Killed at Baghdad Airport

Just Now on Drudge - Headline with No Link - "REPORTER MICHAEL KELLY DEAD IN IRAQ.... "

Michael Kelly is dead

158 posted on 04/04/2003 10:32:55 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: dogbyte12
He's Editor at Large of the Atlantic Monthly and columnist for the Washington Post -- excellent writer and thinker. He's the guy who quit the New Republic a few years ago over the Clinton scandals -- didn't like the way they were interfereing with what he wrote. I will miss his work.
159 posted on 04/04/2003 10:34:52 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Rudder
Breaking: Journalist Michael Kelly Killed at Baghdad Airport

Just Now on Drudge - Headline with No Link - "REPORTER MICHAEL KELLY DEAD IN IRAQ.... "

Michael Kelly is dead

160 posted on 04/04/2003 10:40:03 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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