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    RobNYCHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:20pm

    Pat Buchanan is still alive.

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    http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night…

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      boaboaboatengtengtengRobNYC
      8/16/16 4:33pm

      You can’t post that without this: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night…

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      PhilBrickmaboaboaboatengtengteng
      8/16/16 4:36pm

      "Sinbad O'Connor! I look at you and I think, 'Cue ball in the side pocket!'"

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    UrbanNunEnthusiastHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:49pm

    I’m probably the only person left who was still watching this show; certainly the only person under the age of 60. Now I guess I have to wait for holidays to get my fix of old people yelling about politics.

    RIP good sir. You entertained me for years and I’m not ashamed to chill with the old folks on this one. That show came from a lost time of political discourse, when people yelled political inanities directly to your face.

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      Jerry-NetherlandUrbanNunEnthusiast
      8/16/16 5:01pm

      You weren’t the only one. For the last year (at least) he looked like they had to place him into that club chair and he was sitting(ish) there in great physical discomfort. It made it even harder to watch (yet I couldn’t stop).

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      houstonhomerUrbanNunEnthusiast
      8/16/16 5:07pm

      Not alone. 46 and it was a part of my Sunday from the beginning. If the Oilers played the early game we taped it on the VCR.

      Bye bye, Mr. McLaughlin...you will be missed!

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    Chamomiles DavisHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:15pm

    “To those of you who thought I’d been dead for years, I say:”

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      Hip Brooklyn StereotypeChamomiles Davis
      8/16/16 4:17pm

      Dude honestly looked like a propped up corpse onstage for the last good number of years. It was scary.

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      IchabodPaddockHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      8/16/16 5:03pm

      The last show I saw was a few weeks ago and it looked like he had lost the use of his arms.

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    IAmNotADamnWriterHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:25pm

    Where’s the dead pool for the rest of the regulars on that show? Other than Jack Germond, who died three years ago. Been waiting for Pat Buchanan for some time now...

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      Slopez IslandIAmNotADamnWriter
      8/16/16 4:43pm

      Pretty sure Eleanor Clift can’t be killed.

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      GDSmithIAmNotADamnWriter
      8/16/16 5:25pm

      Been waiting for Pat Buchanan for some time now...

      So has Satan.

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    NoButWait Hates Your GoT Fan TheoriesHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:28pm

    Oh man my brother is gonna be so sad. He watched McLaughlin group religiously. He always likened McLaughlin to (in his words) a “cartoon owl judge” which doesn’t make sense but at the same time I totally get it.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers5NoButWait Hates Your GoT Fan Theories
      8/16/16 4:51pm

      He always likened McLaughlin to (in his words) a “cartoon owl judge” which doesn’t make sense

      Doesn’t make sense? Really? It makes PERFECT sense...

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      NoButWait Hates Your GoT Fan TheoriesEvenBaggierTrousers5
      8/16/16 5:01pm

      OH MAN YOU FOUND IT

      I always thought it was some half made up, half remembered thing. I didn’t believe it was real.

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    boaboaboatengtengtengHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:31pm

    Okay, who else remembers his appearance on The Adventures of Pete and Pete?

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      donald hornboaboaboatengtengteng
      8/16/16 4:33pm

      Did the redhead on this show grow up to be a stunner?

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      boaboaboatengtengtengdonald horn
      8/16/16 4:39pm

      No, but Nona F. Mecklenburg played Dawn on Buffy, Ellen’s father was the first major role for Steve Buscemi, and Nona’s dad was just some guy called IGGY MOTHERFUCKING POP.

      (Of course, we have to mention all the other great guest stars: LL Cool J, Gordon Gano, Debbie Harry, Geoff and Kate Pierson, David Johansen from New York Dolls, Chris Elliott, Michael Stipe...)

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:19pm

    John was the Bob Ross of political talk shows. In a way. A way that doesn't make much sense. I just....I just miss Bob Ross, is all.

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      Slopez IslandIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      8/16/16 4:24pm

      In that way that the shoes will not be filled. Mesmerizing television, always entertaining. Especially baked.

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      ThatFatScatCat fucking loves muddy puddlesIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      8/16/16 4:32pm

      Yes, well...

      GIF
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    butcherbakertoiletrymakerHamilton Nolan
    8/16/16 4:13pm
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      Aiwaz418Hamilton Nolan
      8/16/16 5:12pm

      There was at least some intelligence and balance to the long-running McLaughlin Group, unlike the putrescent excreta that passes for political debate on Fox, CNN and others these days.

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        ninjaginHamilton Nolan
        8/16/16 5:34pm

        I used to be a regular viewer of the show for fifteen years, but sort of found other things to do on Friday nights about midway through the GWB tenure in the White House. I’d watch the show every now and again, but was never so regular a viewer after 2006 or so.

        About five years ago (the “thin Tony” years), I could sense that John was sort of losing it. He would go on and on, hijacking the show with inane and persistent questions with one or the other of the panelists, gumming up the works and losing track of the rapid flow of the show that was so entertaining. He was mumbling and you could see the confusion setting in.

        So, on a lark, maybe a month ago, I happened to be at home one Friday evening (which used to be my “current events night”) and lo and behold there was John McLaughlin, looking frail and weak, slurring his words, propped up like a mannequin, barely intelligible, with no spark at all left in his eyes. All I could think was “My goodness, does he realize how bad he looks and how poorly he’s doing?” ... and all I could think was that his pride was the only thing keeping him going and that if anyone did say anything to him about it, he was refusing to acknowledge that his time was up and that it was okay to let go of the show.

        As much as he was a jerk, he also had a show where you could say just about anything and also on that rewarded the concise and rapid competition of ideas. Panelists had to keep it simple and keep it quick, and there was real energy in the conversation. Over the past five years, that energy was gone. He pushed it too far, held on too long and the show became a freak attraction starring his animated cadaver. I’m glad he’s gone, both for him and the show.

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