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09-17-2019, 10:04 AM #1Unforgettable
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RIP Cokie Roberts
daughter of a couple who were both members of Congress from Louisiana and NPR/ABC correspondent, anchor and commentator. She was 75.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ent...t-14446030.php
I always liked her. You knew her political leanings but she never seemed stridently partisan, which is a rare thing these days.U really think players are going to duke without being paid over Kentucky?--Gilbert Arenas, 9/12/19
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09-17-2019, 10:10 AM #2Fiddlin' Five
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Re: RIP Cokie Roberts
Her colleagues said she never became cynical or lost her love for politics. She did force NPR to clarify her role as a commentator when she wrote a column in 2016 calling on "the rational wing" of the Republican party to reject Donald Trump as their presidential candidate.
Cool as a rule, but sometimes bad is bad.
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09-17-2019, 06:01 PM #3Administrator
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RIP Cokie Roberts
75? Wow. I did not realize.
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09-18-2019, 06:00 PM #4Fab Five
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Re: RIP Cokie Roberts
A consummate professional and one of a dying breed of true journalists.
“Before I leave I’d like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations,
“I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it.”
-Patriot and Senator. John McCain
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