Cokie Roberts, broadcast
journalism legend, dies at 75
CNN Business,
by
Kerry Flynn
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/17/2019 12:01:12 PM
New York -Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, winner of three Emmys and a legend and trailblazer in broadcasting, has died at the age of 75, ABC News announced.
Roberts worked in television, public radio and publishing for over 40 years. She began her tenure at ABC as a contributor for "This Week with David Brinkley" and later became ABC's chief congressional analyst.
Roberts is survived by her husband Steve V. Roberts and her children Lee Roberts and Rebecca Roberts, her grandchildren Regan, Hale and Cecilia Roberts and Claiborne, Jack and Roland Hartman, along with nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DaddyO 9/17/2019 12:28:37 PM (No. 182356)
Sure she was of a certain bias, but I felt she would at least try to bring a little objectivity. Weird her dad's plane crash wreckage in Alaska was never found.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/17/2019 12:36:25 PM (No. 182363)
A premier Swamp Dweller and one of the founding members of the Deep State.
She won't be missed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snapper451 9/17/2019 12:39:51 PM (No. 182367)
A democrat hack to the end. This reminds me of Mark Twain's comment that he never wished for anyone to die, but did read some obituaries with enjoyment (paraphrased). She never gave a Republican a fair shot and was a Democrat outwardly.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ming 9/17/2019 12:40:33 PM (No. 182368)
O won't speak ill of the dead. RIP Ms. Roberts.
#1, any chance he was 'good' friends of the Clintons, like Epstein was? Just an amusing thought.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 9/17/2019 12:42:17 PM (No. 182373)
Buh-Bye
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 9/17/2019 12:54:15 PM (No. 182387)
She has become a good Democrat!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rather Read 9/17/2019 12:56:05 PM (No. 182389)
RIP Cokie, my prayers for you and your family. I might have disagreed with you but unlike the current crop you were not a shrew.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/17/2019 1:04:22 PM (No. 182404)
Her father’s prominence certainly helped her career along, I’d say.
Some interesting things at Dad’s Wiki page, where it speaks only of his “disappearance":
In the 1979 novel "The Matarese Circle" author Robert Ludlum portrayed Boggs as having been killed to stop his probe into the assassination."[12]
Boggs publicly dissented from the Warren Commission’s “single bullet” conclusion.
The Cessna was required to carry an emergency locator transmitter per Alaska state statutes section 02.35.115, Downed Aircraft Transmitting Devices, which took effect on September 6, 1972,[17] five weeks before the plane disappeared. This statute incorporated by reference, except for the effective date, Federal Aviation Regulation 91.52, which mandated emergency location transmitters on most non-jet powered fixed wing civil aircraft, including those used for air taxi and charter services. FAR 91.52, published on September 21, 1971, had an effective date of December 30, 1973 for existing aircraft.[18][19]
No emergency transmission signal determined to be from the plane was heard during the search. In its report on the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the pilot's portable emergency transmitter, permissible in lieu of a fixed transmitter on the plane, was found in an aircraft at Fairbanks, Alaska. The report also notes that a witness saw an unidentified object in the pilot's briefcase that resembled, except for color, the portable emergency transmitter. The safety board concluded that neither the pilot nor aircraft had an emergency location transmitter.[20]
And this timely bit:
In April 1971, he made a speech on the floor of the House in which he strongly attacked Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover and the whole of the FBI.
That led to a conversation on April 6, 1971 between President Richard M. Nixon and the Republican minority leader, Gerald R. Ford, Jr.. Nixon said that he could no longer take counsel from Boggs as a senior member of Congress. In the recording of this call, Nixon asked Ford to arrange for the House delegation to include an alternative to Boggs. Ford speculated that Boggs is on pills as well as alcohol.[14]
Later that month, Boggs went even further: "Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Boggs
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 9/17/2019 1:15:21 PM (No. 182411)
winner of three Emmys
nuff said..
as opposed to saying nothing..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pook60 9/17/2019 1:24:59 PM (No. 182416)
After reading a few articles about Cokie, it helps me to understand a little more about the way kooky leftist social justice grievances get legs. The daughter of a white politician from Louisiana goes to Wellesley and then on to PBS and ABC. No doubt she had doors opened to her because of her politically connected family. Decades later, someone comes along and decries ''white privilege'' in the entirety of our society and people like Cokie who know they cut to the front of the line, buy the premise. Sorry, Cokie et al. It was political connection privilege, not white privilege. Besides, she still had to work hard once she had her foot in the door, so even privilege is not a disqualifier of success. I doubt Cokie and I agreed on much politically, but she appeared to be hard working and professional in her deportment. I'll take that over The View herd or Rachel Maddow.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ho72 9/17/2019 1:28:37 PM (No. 182418)
Never cared for her but, unlike the hoard of leftist cretins who take to social media to exult in every prominent conservative's death, I take no particular joy in her passing.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
winmag 9/17/2019 1:43:40 PM (No. 182424)
I'm sure she'll be voting straight democrat ticket next year.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
obdurate 9/17/2019 2:01:10 PM (No. 182428)
Today she gets the answer to the mystery.The rest of us will have to wait a little longer.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 9/17/2019 3:36:13 PM (No. 182478)
Another liberal "journalist" (I'm being redundant again) bites the dust . . .
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 9/17/2019 3:51:54 PM (No. 182489)
I didn't realize she was ill. Her sister Barbara also died of cancer but at a much younger age. Rest in peace.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 9/17/2019 5:11:54 PM (No. 182528)
I watch Cokie back in the days of only 3 propaganda outlets. She was never a journalist but a devout mouth piece for the DNC. Shamefully shallow and about as much depth of thought as tissue paper. It is nausating how the media I have hear to day are lionizing her as some kind of Edward Morrow. Just goes to show, bot full tilt Dem in journalism and become an unaccomplished superstar. Her career made me sick and still does.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
pinger 9/17/2019 5:14:08 PM (No. 182529)
To expand on poster number 13‘s thoughts, there is no mystery. It’s the dinner hour and I’m sure she’s enjoying a glass of whatever they drink there with Ted Kennedy by now.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 9/17/2019 6:04:06 PM (No. 182575)
Not going to miss her extreme leftist commentary and slanted news coverage. No joy in her death, but her slant on the news will not be missed.
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I wish no ill will to someone who dies of cancer. Her H-ll was here on earth. Rest in peace.
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