I recently started listening to news radio at work and every day at noon they have on Paul Harvey who is apparently a famous journalist. How is this possible? He goes into commercials without the slightest warning, discussing a specific brand of vitamin as if it were news. What’s the deal with this? My friend told me that he has been on the radio for quite some time. Was he ever any good? Do you like him?
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P.S. Paul Harvey is one of the premier Urban Legend spreaders in the world. He is a major impediment in the fight against ignorance.
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Yep, I like Paul Harvey. He’s old fashioned and as Manhattan stated, he tends to float some goofy stories sometimes but it’s all a part of the ‘charm’ I think.
Personally, I prefer his “The Rest of the Story” pieces vs. his noon-day news pieces.
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Paul Harvey’s been in the business for many years. Besides delivering news in his stop-and-go fashion, he also does a mini-show called “The Rest of the Story”, where he tells an inspirational (yet often apocryphal) story about some historical figure, only revealing the person’s name at the very end. To distract you, he’ll refer to the person by a nickname or middle name (like calling William Shakespeare “Bill”).
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Yep, I like Paul Harvey. He’s old fashioned and as Manhattan stated, he tends to float some goofy stories sometimes but it’s all a part of the ‘charm’ I think. Beats the heck out of the “cardboard cut-out, teleprompter reading, non comprehending, cookie-cutter, fashionable pretty people with no brain-stem activity” they promote on the local television news channels.
Personally, I prefer his “The Rest of the Story” pieces vs. his noon-day news pieces.
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I used to like him…a lot. Loved his “rest of the story” pieces. However, for years now, all he does is advertise for everyone. My husband and I refer to him as a whore.
trisha
Paul Whore-vey?
I used to occasionally listen to Paul Harvey–not for the news but for pure entertainment value. You can always tell when ol’ Paul is about to launch into a commercial because he’ll always use the word “page” in its lead-in sentence.
For example:
And now, page two. Heywood Jablomey of Flagstaff, Arizona writes, “Dear Mr. Harvey: The old saw about desert heat being a dry heat was little comfort to my furiously-sweating testicles. The moisture and chafing was intense, even though I made the switch from briefs to boxers and exchanged my Sansabelts for bermudas. I was reduced to slathering my kiwis with frozen yogurt in order to kill the maddening itch, when I heard you advertisement for Gold Bond medicated powder.” Blah, blah, and so on…
“It’s only common sense,
There are no accidents 'round here.”
bursts into laughter
I knew a guy in college that could do a great impersonation of Paul Harvey. All I can remember of it was that somewhere in the middle of the spiel, this guy would say with the appropriate Paul Harvey intonation, “it was…a horse!”
Wish I could remember the rest of the story. Good day!
For a guy who’s so famous for giving “the rest of the story,” it’s amazing how often his noontime news nuggets are slanted by what they leave out.
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OmiGAWD, don’t get me going on Paul (“The Snore”) Harvey. The talentless, uninformed putz is the epitome of Old Fart Reactionary Talk Radio. He’s a direct throwback to the radio hucksters of old, trying to convince people he’s Murrow incarnated.
Basically he reads news leads from other sources, spins them to his specifications and tucks them into the slim pockets between commercials. Scary thing is, Rush fans (wide-load hasbeen Limbaugh, not the band), Dr. Laura masochists, Illuminati and Bilderberger freaks, etc. actually pay for his airtime.
He always recalls for the me the great pilot for “WKRP”: the “old fart” station goes rock format without warning, and DJ Johnny Fever is still stuck with old advertizers. Rock blares in the background and Fever is pitching a rest home: “I’m sure you’ve asked yourself this question: what will happen when I can no longer feed myself?”
Sorry. Rambled there a bit.
Veb
Well, it’s like this:
You know how kids are goin’ around with “Because Stone Cold Said So” on their t-shirts?
If the made a t-shirt like that for octogenarians it would say
“Because Paul Harvey Said So.”
“Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.”
Oh I’ve found my home!! I thought I was the only person who hated Paul Harvey. Whenever I hear his first word come out on the radio, I flip it off or turn the station.
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You are absolutely correct. So many of his Rest of the Stories hinge on freak happenstance, when what really happened had nothing to do with chance. For instance, he claims that seltzer was added to Coca-Cola syrup by accident one day, but Coca-Cola was always a soft drink. Or he’ll take a minor event and frame it in a Reader’s Digest-God-moves-in-mysterious-ways context. In The Wizard of Oz Frank Morgan, as Professor Marvel, wears a coat that originally belonged to L. Frank Baum. Baum’s widow gave it to the production for this purpose. But Harvey claims that the coat found its way from a rummage sale to the MGM wardrobe department, where Morgan saw it on an unattended costume rack and was inexplicably drawn to it. Yeah, right. Or he’ll give background to an event that never happened, like the inspiration for Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech—which never happened!
Isn’t he dead yet?
I guess I’m just better off living with my inner tensions.
—Snoopy
Ah, yes, Paul Harvey. I used to work at a potato packing facility (so I grew up in farmville) where the owner and all his buddies would sit around the boardroom table smoking cigars and listening to. . . Paul Harvey.
Since my main job was inventory, I spent maybe two hours in the cooler counting potato boxes and the rest of the day I was a “gofer.” Which meant I got to hear Paul Harvey a lot. To this day I can’t listen to Paul Harvey without thinking of that friggin’ potato dock and smelling musty potatoes.
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Rilchiam:
I won’t dispute that Paul Harvey is an urban legend spreader, but are you sure about the “Give me liberty or give me death” speech never happening?
Cabbage, I’m basing it on quotes other Dopers have posted. If the search feature was working, I’d dig up the thread, but it’s been debunked here.
I guess I’m just better off living with my inner tensions.
—Snoopy
Rilchiam:
Cool, I’ll have to check that out. I always thought the story, though, was that the speech was given, but no one wrote it down, so what we have now is just a paraphrased version of it (except for the famous last words).