Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

[the_drip]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=126542


RIP

[Shawn Lutz]

Re: Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

man that was pretty fast, sorry to hear that [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] RIP Peter

[semagic]

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rip [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Cleveland Metal]

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Wow... Not quite an icon, but a pretty important dude...

Sad...

[horns666]

Re: Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

I didn't know him..or watch him.

so I can't say I did or didn't like him

67 is a young age to kick the bucket..

RIP

[StukaJU87]

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Welcome back Bill.

RIP, Mr. Jennings.

[ChickenScratch]

Re: Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

Pete's the man dudes, he was by far the most entertaining newsman to watch. He actually gave the role dignity and there was an air of respect around him that you could not deny. By far my favorite newsman. He's been my idol for a while (hell, I have a degree in journalism).

You stay classy Peter Jennings.

[Tetsuo]

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You know he dropped out of HS as a Sophmore... did pretty well considering aye?

[guitarsjb]

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RIP [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[IrfaanSE801]

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Very classy dude, RIP

[the_drip]

Re: Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

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I didn't know him..or watch him.

so I can't say I did or didn't like him

67 is a young age to kick the bucket..

RIP

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only newsreporter on the networks that I could ever stand to watch without getting pissed off. He was awesome.

[eli10003]

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he was sophisticated, smart, and commanded instant respect...

sorry to see him go...

[mattsmusiccenter]

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He certainly saw more in his lifetime than any of us ever will. I was bummed to hear he had passed away.

[fullshred]

Re: Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

He stopped smoking 10 years prior to 9-11 but then it kicked in again because of the stress. Cigs are bad news

[YetAnotherOne]

Re: Peter Jennings, you stay classy.

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he was sophisticated, smart, and commanded instant respect...

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He was a condescending anti-American jackass, a high school dropout and part of the generation of television news anchors that transformed a once proud profession into a craven pack of whores who now do little more than peddle political influence. Or, as someone put it somewhat more eloquently:

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In all fairness, it is not the manner nor the means of his death we criticize--it is the life he lead. For like a dishonest, but popular politician, his smiling face is what most people remember, never having seen the harm he promulgated on others, and his intent to do so. By manipulating the news as he did, he sewed much anguish among those he disdained. And though he was uneducated, never having completed high school, he pretended to intellectualism and moral superiority, while embracing the lowest order of decay and corruption in his political allies. Perhaps his most annoying feature was that he often implied that in being a Canadian he was somehow superior to Americans. That in being a Canadian, in itself, made him better than the hoi-polloi, the rednecks and crackers, the untermensch that dwell below the border of his native country. So, what is there to mourn with his passing? That he courted the unjust, that he oppressed the honorable, that he used his position to deride the audience he held in contempt, that he attempted to manipulate the political sphere in favor of [the left]? I will not mourn for Peter Jennings, I will forget him. For what he wanted in life was in itself his punishment, and seeing his faction brought low surely distressed him more than the opinions of the red state Americans he disliked.

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Offer condolences if you will, mourn him if you must, but please don't romanticize someone who played such a pivotal role in destroying a public institution that had served our nation so well.