Credit Where Due

Reading through Cursor.org brought me to a Timothy Noah article in Slate touching upon a subject I knew nothing about: that Jack Paar helped end the dreadful, hateful, miserable, Joe McCarthy-loving career of so-called newsman Walter Winchell.

While Jack was long gone by the time I came around and sometimes watched my mother watch The Tonight Show, that's a debt of gratitude I did not know until tonight that was owed. A tip of the hat to you, Mr. Paar. I wish we had more of you, considering how many O'Reillys, Coulters, and Rich Lowrys we have today.