Mike Luckovich

[babylonsister]

[Gothmog]

1. May they each rest in peace

[malaise]

2. I can't believe Safer had his last program on Sunday

and is dead today - he must have been seriously ill.

[LiberalArkie]

4. I think he timed it the way he wanted to.

[malaise]

5. I have no problem with that - it did cross my mind

Would that everyone had that option

[LiberalArkie]

7. I had been trying to get my dad to let me check him into the hospital for a good workup.

I had been trying to for a year. He got his absentee ballot in and was proud to tell me he decided to vote for Bill Clinton (this was 1992). He told me he was ready to go to the hospital for a check up. I asked him if he wanted me to mail his ballot in, and he said not yet. He always made a thing of voting and he was solid Republican. But I called our doctor and the doc sent an ambulance out to pick him up. I followed the ambulance a little later with some of his stuff. The hospital called me the next morning and told me he died during the night. I think most people will know when the time is right.

[malaise]

8. Damn that was sad

Still it was good for him. Some people do just decide to die. A good friend's grandmother died one day. Her husband of 72 years told them not to call the morgue because he was going with his wife. He lay down and hugged her until he was dead about three hours later.

[LiberalArkie]

14. My mom went 4 years before him.. And he had lung problems from the navy and he had been

ready for quite a while. I hope when I am ready it works out like that. I wonder if I should shoot for November or January?

[malaise]

15. I'd like it to work out that way as well

See your dad didn't shoot for anything - he had the will to make it neat - follow him. Enjoy life - it's all we have.

[LiberalArkie]

16. Yea.. I got to know him later in life, never saw him much growing up with him working 2 jobs and

1 being shift work. So I guess it worked out.

[malaise]

18. You are one of the lucky ones

You got to know him

[LiberalArkie]

19. I guess, I wished I had asked him about him growing up and stuff, but him and my mom

were in that generation where you did not talk about family problems with the children. weird

[yurbud]

25. That sounds like the end of THE NOTEBOOK

It was a schmaltzy movie but it made me cry because my grandfather had just died.

[malaise]

26. Was decades ago but I'll never forget it

I can see why you cried.

[mountain grammy]

10. I feel like we all said goodbye on Sunday,

not knowing it'd be forever.

[malaise]

13. I watched part of it because it was his last program

Stopped watching 60 Minutes after that Lara Logan crap.

[pacalo]

3. They belong to a great generation of true journalists.

[babylonsister]

6. I wish he had included

Bob Simon. Yes, he wasn't an original, but taken way too soon and such a good journalist imo.

[Hekate]

9. I can actually hear each of their voices in my head, they're so iconic. RIP gentleman, and thanks.

[Dustlawyer]

11. Its a shame how the network has used the show to sell out to big business now.

Ed Bradley had come out of his brief retirement to do a story on a client of ours who lost both parents in the BP plant explosion in Texas City, TX. He did not tell anyone that he had terminal cancer and wanted to tell her story, that was the only reason that he did it. He actually cared about the people in his stories and did a great job on his final story.

Now, the last thing 60 Minutes would do would be a negative story about one of the network's biggest advertisers, those days are just as gone as the men above. Thank you guys for the good works that you did while you were here!

[spanone]

12. obviously, they took journalism with them.

great toon

[libodem]

17. Much admiration and respect

To those journalists from the far left media as they used to call it.

Now it's all "lame stream", all the time.


And Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Scarborough, Coulter, Drudge, Savage, Britebart and O'Keefe are the new world order of 'news'.

[Hiraeth]

20. .

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Don't forget Harry Reasoner

Harry Reasoner was part of the 60 Minutes team, too.

[MissDeeds]

23. I thought of him too

And as mentioned above, Bob Simon.

[gademocrat7]

22. Rest In Peace, gentlemen.

[sammythecat]

24. Great likenesses all, but

especially Morley Safer. I look at that face and his voice comes immediately to mind.

One of the best shows ever on television. Long gone now, sadly.