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WaitingforRuffcorn

Post subject: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:30 pm

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Any day now...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06 ... etter.html

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ToxicMasculinity

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:38 pm

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Damn. Hope he is comfortable.

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pittmike

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:45 pm

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That is too bad. I did not even know he was ill or missing.

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Ogie Oglethorpe

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:45 pm

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Here is his letter to his readers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... 4d7674cad4

I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.

In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen. That operation was thought to have been a success, but it caused a cascade of secondary complications — which I have been fighting in hospital ever since. It was a long and hard fight with many setbacks, but I was steadily, if slowly, overcoming each obstacle along the way and gradually making my way back to health.

However, recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned. There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.

I wish to thank my doctors and caregivers, whose efforts have been magnificent. My dear friends, who have given me a lifetime of memories and whose support has sustained me through these difficult months. And all of my partners at The Washington Post, Fox News, and Crown Publishing.

Lastly, I thank my colleagues, my readers, and my viewers, who have made my career possible and given consequence to my life’s work. I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny.

I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.

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DannyB

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:52 pm

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Good riddance.

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Nas

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:54 pm

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DannyB wrote:

Good riddance.

There is likely a tweet about everything and everyone.

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ToxicMasculinity

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:56 pm

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DannyB wrote:

Good riddance.

So you can't say you dislike someone in case they get terminal cancer three years later.

Fuck that.

I hope that Julie DiCaro gets the worst kind of die slow ass cancer.

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Douchebag

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:58 pm

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ToxicMasculinity wrote:

Damn. Hope he is comfortable.

The man has been sitting in a chair for years. I'm sure he's very comfortable.

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DannyB

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:00 pm

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Steve Stone-level burn setting the wheelchair aflame.

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Nas

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:00 pm

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Douchebag wrote:

ToxicMasculinity wrote:

Damn. Hope he is comfortable.

The man has been sitting in a chair for years. I'm sure he's very comfortable.

Until I read that article somehow I didn't recognize that. :oops:

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ToxicMasculinity

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:02 pm

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Douchebag wrote:

ToxicMasculinity wrote:

Damn. Hope he is comfortable.

The man has been sitting in a chair for years. I'm sure he's very comfortable.

Thats actually pretty good. :lol:

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tommy

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:03 pm

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Nas wrote:

Douchebag wrote:

ToxicMasculinity wrote:

Damn. Hope he is comfortable.

The man has been sitting in a chair for years. I'm sure he's very comfortable.

Until I read that article somehow I didn't recognize that. :oops:

Had no idea, either. I always wondered why he looked so . . . immobile, like he couldn't turn his neck. Wow, what a life he carved out for himself.

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leashyourkids

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:03 pm

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Damn. An intellectual giant. Sucks.

Pretty sure he's JORR's guy.

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Terry's Peeps

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:05 pm

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leashyourkids wrote:

Damn. An intellectual giant. Sucks.

Pretty sure he's JORR's guy.

Not after he sees Trump's tweets...

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Nas

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:06 pm

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Terry's Peeps wrote:

leashyourkids wrote:

Damn. An intellectual giant. Sucks.

Pretty sure he's JORR's guy.

Not after he sees Trump's tweets...

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Ogie Oglethorpe

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:42 pm

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tommy wrote:

Nas wrote:

Douchebag wrote:

ToxicMasculinity wrote:

Damn. Hope he is comfortable.

The man has been sitting in a chair for years. I'm sure he's very comfortable.

Until I read that article somehow I didn't recognize that. :oops:

Had no idea, either. I always wondered why he looked so . . . immobile, like he couldn't turn his neck. Wow, what a life he carved out for himself.

I think that's how he wanted it to be. Unless you saw him in person, you wouldn't know he was a quadriplegic. He never let his injury define him.

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Don Tiny

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:51 pm

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Wait, what? He's a quad ??? How the hell did I miss that? Stuff like that nobody deserves ... I mean nobody.

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leashyourkids

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 1:56 pm

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You could tell by how he breathed when he spoke.

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pittmike

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:04 pm

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leashyourkids wrote:

You could tell by how he breathed when he spoke.

Yep. Not as pronounced but same as Chris Reeve.

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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:27 pm

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pittmike wrote:

leashyourkids wrote:

You could tell by how he breathed when he spoke.

Yep. Not as pronounced but same as Chris Reeve.

Chris?

You guys close?

It's Christopher, you fuckin asshole

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pittmike

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:33 pm

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rogers park bryan wrote:

pittmike wrote:

leashyourkids wrote:

You could tell by how he breathed when he spoke.

Yep. Not as pronounced but same as Chris Reeve.

Chris?

You guys close?

It's Christopher, you fuckin asshole

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leashyourkids

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:36 pm

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rogers park bryan wrote:

pittmike wrote:

leashyourkids wrote:

You could tell by how he breathed when he spoke.

Yep. Not as pronounced but same as Chris Reeve.

Chris?

You guys close?

It's Christopher, you fuckin asshole

Evidently not since he misspelled his last name.

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Rod

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:57 pm

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Don Tiny wrote:

Wait, what? He's a quad ??? How the hell did I miss that? Stuff like that nobody deserves ... I mean nobody.

It was a diving accident when he was in his early 20s.

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Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:01 pm

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leashyourkids wrote:

Damn. An intellectual giant. Sucks.

Pretty sure he's JORR's guy.

Even if you disagreed with his point you had to respect his ability to be able to deliver it.
Guess I will have to go read his books now.

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Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:39 pm

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Washington Post Editor wrote:

Now we're up to our long distance opinion column, and this one's about cancer and impending death and a situation we can all understand, whether we have cancer or impending death or neither. It's from a man in Washington DC and here's what he writes. "Readers, this may seem to be a strange opinion column, but I'm quite sincere and it will mean a lot if you read it. Recently there was a cancer diagnosis in my abdomen. It was a little cancer we called Tumor, but he was most certainly..."

Let's go, let's start again. I'm coming out of the fifth page, read the fifth page OK? Please. When you come out of those up-tempo god damn pages, man it's impossible to make those transitions and then you gotta go into somebody dying. You know they do this to me all the time, I don't know what they do it for but god damn it if we can't come out of a slow newspaper page, I don't understand it. Is Don on the phone? OK, I want a god damn concerted effort to come out of a page that isn't a fucking up-tempo page every time we do a god damn death dedication.

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Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:46 pm

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That sucks. Fucking cancer.

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FrankDrebin

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 7:19 pm

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It's official; RIP

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Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 11:50 am

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Thread could have been created today, but feels good to be 1st I guess?

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Hank Scorpio

Post subject: Re: Charles Krauthammer

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:36 pm

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No idea he was a quad until this thread. Total mindblow.

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