The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Dies at 75. A staple on "This Week", and she was always a welcome voice to hear for me.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Purgatory at best.

"She liked people on both sides of the aisle and had friends on both sides of the aisle," Will told NPR. "If you don't like the game of politics, I don't see how you write about it well," he said. "She liked the game of politics and she understood that it was a game."

Will said that although Washington is a "town of short leases," with people constantly coming and going, Roberts represented the permanent Washington, a kind of figure who was constant through decades of political change: "The Washington not often denounced by people who denounce Washington because they don't know it exists," Will said. "Cokie represented the durable, ongoing Washington that is a custodian of the manners of the city and the sociability of the city that makes it really function."

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?

I may not be comprehending your post. I hadn't watched in probably 15 years but she was a talented journalist. Fair and usually impartial. Gave Sam Donaldson the business now and again. Was almost a teacher for viewers at breaking down some of the political bs going on. It's cool if she rubbed you wrong. Given your general draw toward intellect it surprised me she is lucky to reach purgatory. Maybe I missed something about her.

It's certainly closer to that than it is to a game. Baseball is a game.

Born in New Orleans as Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, she was given the nickname Cokie by her brother, Thomas, who had trouble pronouncing Corinne.

Roberts' father was Thomas Hale Boggs Sr., a former Democratic majority leader of the House who served in Congress for more than three decades before he disappeared on a campaign flight in Alaska in 1972. Her mother, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, took her husband's seat and served for 17 years. Lindy Boggs also served as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

Roberts split her time between Louisiana and Washington as a child and attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Her first job was at the Washington television station WRC-TV, where she hosted a public affairs program called Meeting of Minds.

She married journalist Steven V. Roberts in 1966.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

CH+TM=Match

I'd snort coke off of her pussy

Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?

apportionment of suffering

Yea, that one was waaay too similar to a CH post.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Tall Midget's been bringing it since I was a teenage libertarian dipshit.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

In addition to willingly serving as a tool of corporate domination, "credible" Cokie was also a self-admitted dupe of the U.S. war machine: "Look, I am, I will confess to you, a total sucker for the guys who stand up with all the ribbons and stuff and they say it's true and I'm ready to believe it." Thanks, Cokie, terrific.

Well, I think you're just being cranky. We know that he does not mean to be taken literally. What he means is debatable, but it is certainly not that politics is simply a game.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.