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| James J. Kilpatrick, Conservative of 60 Minutes Point-Counterpoint |
| 2010-08-17 |
| Man, I thought he was gone years ago... James J. Kilpatrick, who rose from cub reporter to become one of the South's most prominent newspaper editors and the nation's most widely syndicated political columnist, has died. He was 89. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was noted as a fervent segregationist and an advocate of the states' rights doctrine of interposition, arguing that the states had the right to oppose and even nullify federal court rulings on the subject. He eventually changed his position, though he remained a staunch opponent of actual or perceived federal encroachments upon the individual states. Kilpatrick's wife, Marianne Means, says he died Sunday night at George Washington University Hospital. Means says he was being treated for congestive heart failure. TV watchers in the 1970s knew Kilpatrick as the conservative half of the "Point-Counterpoint" segment of the CBS program "60 Minutes." His sparring with liberal commentator Shana Alexander was famously parodied on both "Saturday Night Live", and the movie "Airplane!" Jane...you ignorant slut! |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #2 It is not clear to me if he was an R or a D: many Southern Democrats were very conservative. |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-08-17 12:52 |
| #1 Best sendup of "Point-Counterpoint" was in "Kentucky Fried Movie". Short, sweet, and gut-bustingly funny. RIP Mr Kilpatrick. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2010-08-17 06:47 |