Anybody see Studs Terkel on Democracy Now.....

[HardWorkingDem]

This man is a national treasure. I could sit and listen to him for hours and hours. He is now ninety three years old and while watching the show it's sad to see him slowing down a bit.

As for Amy Goodman, what a peach of an interviewer. Very, very few interruptions and she just let him talk. At one point while talking about one thing, he mentioned there was an adjoining funny story behind it and she encouraged him to tell it. Other interviewers would have just let that go.

[mr_hat]

1. Studs tried to pork my girlfriend.

when he was interviewing her for one of his books. Randy old sod.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. A lot of those old coots are like that

down around here, the legendary Bill Monroe also had a legendary tongue. Any woman with two legs who gets near old Bill, soon finds out what a 'friendly' old geezer he really is.

[spanone]

4. P.S. Bill Monroe is dead.

[mr_hat]

6. Ralph Stanley?

[spanone]

9. Ralph's close to it.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. This was about 5 years ago

when he was still very much alive. Didn't mean to imply that this happened recently.

(I did forget that he kicked the buck though)

[proud patriot]

2. I listened to the last half hour of the show

He's just great .

[Democrats_win]

5. He called bushco a "burlesque show that isn't funny."

also, bush is a "burlesque reagan." He was right about everything changing after Reagan. Working class became a dirty word.

At 93, he's lead an interesting life.

[Pastiche423]

7. In a 2002 interveiw w/Phil Donahue

Studs referred to whistle ass as a wanton child.

I fell in love w/him all over again.

[Javaman]

8. I just finished "hard times"...

Lots of similarities to todays society. Read it.

That man is brilliant.

[rasputin1952]

10. I read "The Last Good War" and it reminded me of the Army of my

generation, not just the WWII generation. I suppose that griping GI's are a univerdal lot, but if I could have changed some of the names and places, it would have been exactly like the Army I knew; an enlisted mans view of the drudgery of Army Life, none of the Carousel Views of the Top Brass who don't have to sleep in the mud...:)

He has always been concerned with the "Common Man" and it will be a sad day for this nation when he passes on...:( Like Vonnegut if you let him speak and don't interupt him, you get a view of America that is rarely seen...:D