Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68
Source: Washington Post
Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died June 21 at 68. The cause was cancer of the small intestine, said his son, Daniel Krauthammer. He declined to provide further information.
"I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking," he wrote in a June 8 farewell note. "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."
A star of page and screen, Dr. Krauthammer (pronounced KRAUT-hammer) was one of the highest-profile commentators of his generation. In addition to his syndicated weekly column in The Post, which garnered him a Pulitzer in 1987, he was a marquee essayist for magazines across the political spectrum, including Time, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard and the National Interest foreign policy journal. He also was a near-ubiquitous presence on cable news, particularly Fox.
By any measure, Dr. Krauthammer cut a singular profile in Washington's journalistic and policymaking circles. He graduated in 1975 from Harvard Medical School -- on time, despite a diving accident that left him a paraplegic -- and practiced psychiatry before a restless curiosity led him to switch paths. Instead of diagnosing patients, he would analyze the body politic.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-krauthammer-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-and-intellectual-provocateur-dies-at-68/2018/06/21/b71ee41a-759e-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html
I remember seeing a story last week or around that time, where he said he was terminal.
ETA: George Will was quick to pen his thoughts - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-charles-krauthammer-i-knew/2018/06/21/960807a4-731c-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term.056fc59dace3
Original article -
Krauthammer, one of the highest-profile commentators of his generation, championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Known for acerbic, unsparing prose and hawkishness on U.S. and Israeli security matters, he long directed his moral indignation at the "liberal monopoly" on the news cycle.
In addition to his syndicated weekly column in The Washington Post, which garnered him a Pulitzer in 1987, he was a marquee essayist for magazines across the political spectrum, including Time, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard and the National Interest foreign policy journal. He also was a near-ubiquitous presence on cable news, particularly Fox.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/06/21/charles-krauthammer-pulitzer-prize-winning-columnist-and-intellectual-provocateur-dies-at-68/?utm_term.044aa8852ec7
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)and that was beneficial to plants. There, I said something nice about him.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)disaster in the last fifty years for the US, then you did not live a life well spent.
hlthe2b
(102,358 posts)level of "honor" compared to the current crop of RW pundits. (which DOES speak to how low we've gone)
Still, I will simply wish him to RIP.
procon
(15,805 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)RockRaven
(14,998 posts)into the dustbin of history...
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...The Iraq War was an abomination and completely unnecessary. It was the wet-dream fantasy for the PNAC crowd in their lust to be "New Rome." Estimates say up to a MILLION innocent Iraqis were killed. Tens of thousands of American soldiers were killed or maimed. And the destabilization of the entire region gave us ISIS and "the Caliphate."
I won't grave dance, but I certainly won't shed a tear.
House of Roberts
(5,182 posts)with Robert Novak, Breitbart, and Tony Snow, waiting for George Will to join them.
gay texan
(2,471 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)(isn't that SOB dead YET??!?.......)
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Krauthammer mentions being grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nations destiny. Well, that makes just one of us as this nation and the world is still dealing with your championing Bush-era policies and warmongering.
democrank
(11,104 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)ADX
(1,622 posts)...even though we were on different ends of the political spectrum, I always respected the way you presented your arguments.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)Very Classy.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)maxrandb
(15,351 posts)Did they ensure they hammered a wooden stake through his heart?
LudwigPastorius
(9,170 posts)AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)RIDDANCE
AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)ARE OVER. PERIOD.
We are dealing with Fascist NAZIs....otherwise known as Republicans.
We CANNOT.....and MUST NOT....be the opposition of "higher Ideals" or some such shit.
These criminals are destroying our democracy and way of life. While I respect Michelle O and her opinion of "Going High when they Go LOW" is a waste of time. We are in the fight for our very existence as a democracy. 250+ YEARS OF A BETTER UNION!!!!
Think about that...We are fighting for the preservation of the American Experiment. Dotard is ACTIVELY trying to destroy our democracy and nation.
We are not very far from Dotard cancelling the election in Nov 2018. Dictatorship follows. Think about it....
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47of74
(18,470 posts)Donnie Dumb F--k and the GOP want us dead. These people crawled out of the sewer so it's time to stop with the we go high bullshit and head for the gutters. Playing nice with the Nazified right will not get us anywhere.
There's always the ignore button for people who don't like my attitude.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Insidious disease that I would never wish upon anyone friend or foe. I never agreed with the positions this man planted his flag on but it is always saddening to read that someone has been diagnosed with it and sad to read that they lost their battle with it.
R.I.P. Mr. Krauthammer.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)as much as I disagreed with him, I have seen way too many of my friends/family taken by cancer. I derive no pleasure in his demise.
Botany
(70,581 posts)axm
(91 posts).
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)but, his paragraph about 2 years ago on Trump was pretty much a perfect description of Trump's psychology, in my opinion:
This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value indeed exists only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.
I've never gloated over anybody's death here on DU, or IRL, and I won't start with Krauthammer. May he rest in peace. His family has my condolences.
alp227
(32,052 posts)but he moved right when the 1980s came along. His Democratic past could explain why he was a "never Trump" type.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)you mean to tell me he was only ONE year older than me...wowza...I thought he was in his 80s...
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Chucky Cabbagebasher. He was the simopath's little goose.
Wolf
Demonaut
(8,926 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)The world is a little bit better place. The population in hell grew by one.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Link to tweet
I would like to share a story about Charles Krauthammer.
In October 2016, my dad met Krauthammer and Robert Reich at a thing in Washington. I'm not sure exactly what the thing was, but they chatted for awhile after. My dad's a geek for this stuff, so he got a photo and posted it to Instagram.
I don't have a thread unrolling app and don't want to put too much into the text, but it was a nice story on him
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Everyone, take the time to read this thread.
Thank you again.
dreamland
(964 posts)Good riddance.
LeftishBrit
(41,210 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Good riddance
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)tonekat
(1,820 posts)I'm taking that too. Good Riddance to a truly abhorrent person.