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anybody miss paul harvey?

proappproapp Member Posts: 3,264
edited June 2010 in General Discussion
just thinking out loud.....

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  • sarge_3adsarge_3ad Member Posts: 8,387 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, I always enjoyed his way of doing the news.
  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    Used to listen to him quite a bit when younger. Liked it.
  • Old.22BoltsOld.22Bolts Member Posts: 6,032
    edited November -1
    I do miss his news and "the rest of the story"
    was getting tired of the sponsors he choose...
  • 70-10170-101 Member Posts: 1,006
    edited November -1
    When he spoke I always listened.
  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wish I could listen to him and watch Andy Griffith each day.
  • moonshinemoonshine Member Posts: 8,471
    edited November -1
  • PRO X 2 800PRO X 2 800 Member Posts: 917 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jr. or Senior?

    The driver of my school bus used to listen, good stuff...
  • proappproapp Member Posts: 3,264
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by PRO X 2 800
    PAUL HARVEY TRIBUTE HEAVEN NEEDED A HERO

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jod-1G9QExM


    cool,ty
  • wittynbearwittynbear Member Posts: 4,518
    edited November -1
    Definately miss his radio shows.
  • txjackasstxjackass Member Posts: 191 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 35,988 ******
    edited November -1
    One thing I liked about Paul Harvey is that he actually used the products he advertised, and would not advertise anything that he didn't personally use and like. I have bought several products that Harvey endorsed over the years, and have never been disappointed.
  • shoff14shoff14 Member Posts: 11,994 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Always enjoyed "the rest of the story", while milking cows, listening to 700 wlw. About the only good thing that happened while milking. [xx(]
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I liked him.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • penetraitorpenetraitor Member Posts: 3,870
    edited November -1
    He was apart of the daily routine for many years.
  • dfletcherdfletcher Member Posts: 8,162 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First time I ever heard of him I thought he was nuts - probably about '78 or so, I was a transplanted Yankee going to college in downstate IL. As I got older I grew to like him.
  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,666 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    listened to him every chance i could
  • SWAT 50SWAT 50 Member Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    One thing I liked about Paul Harvey is that he actually used the products he advertised, and would not advertise anything that he didn't personally use and like. I have bought several products that Harvey endorsed over the years, and have never been disappointed.


    I lisetned to him every day, and through the years if the above is true, He slept on a tempur pedic, Serta, and Sleep number beds.

    I do miss the unique way he told us about the news.

    I wish his son would have took the torch.
  • rob223rob223 Member Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    According to Paul Harvey ;


    I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December.

    I don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his theory of evolution.

    Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game. "But it's a Christian prayer," some will argue. Yes, and this is the United States of America, a country founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect-somebody chanting Hare Krishna?

    If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer.

    If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.

    If I went to a ping pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.

    And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit. When in Rome...

    "But what about the atheists?" is another argument. What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized.. We're not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds.. If that's asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer. Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's foundations.

    Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us just to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying. God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well..........just sue me.

    The silent majority has been silent too long.. it's time we let that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard, that the vast majority don't care what they want.. it is time the majority rules!

    It's time we tell them, you don't have to pray.. you don't have to say the pledge of allegiance, you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right.. but by golly you are no longer going to take our rights away .. we are fighting back.. and we WILL WIN! After all the God you have the right to denounce is on our side!

    God bless us one and all, especially those who denounce Him...

    God bless America, despite all her faults.. still the greatest nation of all......



    God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray and worship God...

    May 2004 be the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions.

    Keep looking up...... In God WE Trust
  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,041 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    His take on news, well you just don't get that perspective anymore.

    And his "The Rest Of The Story" stuff was priceless.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
  • quickmajikquickmajik Member Posts: 16,324
    edited November -1
    Yes he was a giant amongst mental midgets in the media.. RIP.
  • rob223rob223 Member Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Paul Harvey read this one, one time:

    That Old Gun
    (Thoughts on Guns Freedom and America)

    By Jack Spirko

    As sportsmen we hear often about the Second Amendment of the US Constitution and the right of all Americans "to keep and bear arms". Yet to me the real story of America, our guns and the freedoms we enjoy, is a much deeper and much more moving story. It is a story that has been handed down from father to son to grandson. It is a story that lives in the hearts of old men who still can remember autumn days of their youth. It is a story that has been told around fires at deer camps and above all it is a story held in millions of guns. Most hunters have such a story in a gun they carry, I would like to share mine with America to show the real issues behind what sportsmen defend when we protect our "right to keep and bare arms".

    My story takes the form of an old bolt action Model 25 Marlin in 22 long rifle. This little gun has been with me since my dad gave it to me at 13 for Christmas. It is without a doubt the most accurate 22 outside of those custom target models I have ever seen. I've have shot squirrels in the 100 yard range with it, crows galore, ground hogs, and more varmints then one can ever hope to number. If my house was on fire and I could only grab one of my guns (after getting the kiddo and wife out of course) it would be that Marlin.


    Marlin Model 25 in 22 LR.

    A custom Mauser 30-06 can be replaced, a collection of many guns can be replaced and the oak cabinet that houses them can be replaced. However, a gun a man has carried for more then 20 years since being a dream filled 13-year-old boy can never be replaced. Such a gun is destined to belong to a son or daughter and is priceless to its' owner. In America guns are not just a weapon or a tool. In America guns are tradition, value and something handed down from generation to generation. In America a gun can be transformed from fifty dollar Christmas present into a boy's best friend and then eventually become a gateway to a man's cherished memories.

    When I hold that old gun I can almost feel the wind in those wide fields I chased rabbits through. I can feel the young much stronger legs I once had ache from pursuing squirrels on steep slopes, with all day vigor that would make an elk hunter sweat. I remember how on Sunday afternoons as I crawled on my stomach and crested a shale bank that cut up my knees and looked 100 yards across an old strip mine dump at a flock of crows, I was not "Jack Spirko, poor boy from the coal region", no I was Jack O'Connor or Robert Ruark. On those Sundays my status in life did not matter, nor my minimum wage existence and when I leveled the crosshairs on a crows wing it was not even a crow it was a Dahl Ram or a Cape Buffalo. Then when I squeezed off the shot I could begin to truly understand the feeling those great authors were trying to convey to us when they took us with words to the Alaskan Mountains and the African Plains.

    As a young and free American boy I carried that gun up and down the remains of Pine Hill and Sharp Mountains, which had been ravaged by strip mining and through countless farm fields all over rural Pennsylvania. Today those fields are mostly gone, lost to the progress of housing developments and strip malls. Much of my old Pine Hill Mountain now has homes built on it and the coal company closed off the rest so you can't hunt there anymore. Yet that little old Marlin is like a time machine. I can pick it up and remember shots made and missed on seemingly meaningless game. A black bird at 80 yards, a walnut plucked from a tree with no damage on a bet that won me a beer from a buddy and a lot more. It is the freedom we have enjoyed in this nation that turns an old fifty dollar rifle into a time machine, a reminder to conserve our wilderness and one of a man's most cherished possessions.

    When one of the Second Amendments best know defenders, Charlton Heston stated often, "you can have my rifle when you pry it from my cold dead hands" this is the tradition and value that spawned such devotion to a basic American freedom that the anti gun groups simply can not understand. As time has turned, page-by-page, so many special places where a young man could escape with a 22 rifle and a pocketful of shells have vanished. Sometimes when I look around it seems almost none of them are left. Yet there are still many such places and millions of others live inside guns like my old 22 and those memories of lost fields inspire us to protect the ones we have left.

    You probably have such a gun that holds your own memories that you hope to hand down to a son or daughter some day, go ahead, pick it up and remember what it was like the day you held it for the first time. Then remember the day you fired it for the first time and the pride you took in taking care of it. Remember the special places you traveled with it but above all remember the imagination it inspired in you. As adults we loose so much of that imagination that makes our children special. We just can't seem to imagine away our debts for a little while or thoughts of a job we would prefer not to have. We can't travel to Africa in milliseconds they way we did stalking small game as kids or can we? I can and I bet you can too. All I do is pick up that old gun and I am there if only for a moment and it seems each time I do it, I find another forgotten memory held within.

    So the next time you hear about the Second Amendment or a political battle to keep our right to own firearms remember it is not just a legal debate. No, it is much more. When anti gun groups want to take away your guns they are really trying to take away your memories and your youth. They are also trying to take away your ability to have those memories live beyond your years in an old gun that you hope some day will be carried by your children and grandchildren. When you think about it that way the debate is totally different, it is not just legal sparing, it is at its' core a debate to preserve the freedom that has made America a nation of dreamers who have dared to both dream and achieve the impossible. Think about that the next time you pick up "that old gun".
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 35,988 ******
    edited November -1
    What Are Policemen Made Of? By Paul Harvey


    Don't credit me with the mongrel prose: it has many parents-at least 420,000 of them: Policemen.

    A Policeman is a composite of what all men are, mingling of a saint and sinner, dust and deity.

    Culled statistics wave the fan over the stinkers, underscore instances of dishonesty and brutality because they are "news." What they really mean is that they are exceptional, unusual, not commonplace.

    Buried under the frost is the fact: Less than one-half of one percent of policemen misfit the uniform. That's a better average than you'd find among clergymen!

    What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is "sir" to his face and "fuzz" to his back

    He must be such a diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that each will think he won.

    But...If the policeman is neat, he's conceited; if he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's flirting; if not, he's a grouch.

    He must make an instant decision which would require months for a lawyer to make.

    But...If he hurries, he's careless; if he's deliberate, he's lazy. He must be first to an accident and infallible with his diagnosis. He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, tie splints and, above all, be sure the victim goes home without a limp. Or expect to be sued.

    The police officer must know every gun, draw on the run, and hit where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip two men twice his size and half his age without damaging his uniform and without being "brutal." If you hit him, he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully.

    A policeman must know everything-and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

    A policeman must, from a single strand of hair, be able to describe the crime, the weapon and the criminal- and tell you where the criminal is hiding.

    But...If he catches the criminal, he's lucky; if he doesn't, he's a dunce. If he gets promoted, he has political pull; if he doesn't, he's a dullard. The policeman must chase a bum lead to a dead-end, stake out ten nights to tag one witness who saw it happen-but refuses to remember.

    He runs files and writes reports until his eyes ache to build a case against some felon who will get dealed out by a shameless shamus or an honorable who isn't.

    The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy and a gentleman.

    And, of course, he'd have to be genius....For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 35,988 ******
    edited November -1
    There is a really irritating sports reporter working for Channel 8, WFAA, in Dallas, by the name of Dale Hansen. Back when Hansen first started, maybe 30 years ago, he tried very hard to imitate Paul Harvey's delivery style. I found it annoying and un-original. Fortunately, over the years, he stopped trying ti imitate Paul Harvey and developed his own style, still annoying but his own.
  • buffalobobuffalobo Member Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mr Harvey was a life long regular on the radio in our home when we were growing up and even after we left home.
  • rob223rob223 Member Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I placed a bet with my wife, (not one I hoped to win), that he would be passing soon after I had heard his wife passed away. It was a couple of months later, but it did come too soon. He spoke of her often in his broadcast and commentations.
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