Paar rather famously took down Red baiter Walter Winchell, although reading about it now I see it had more to do with Winchell writing that Paar:s marriage was in trouble. It was payback, not political beliefs.
Not sent from an iPhone. On May 9, 2017, 6:54 AM, at 6:54 AM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 5:50:28 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> When were late night talk shows not left leaning? Steve Allen? Jack >Paar >>> was left leaning. >>> Kurtz says Hollywood won't let Fallon air at the cool kids table. >>> >>> >>> >http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/08/its-not-only-colbert-why-most-late-night-comics-are-skewering-trump.html >>> >> >> I have a DVD set of some of Paar's prime time shows after he left the > >> Tonight Show. On his first one Richard Nixon was his first guest and >Paar >> told an anecdote from when their families were vacationing together >in the >> Caribbean. Paar might have become known in later years as favoring >the >> Kennedys and the last show in the DVD set was Bobby Kennedy talking >about >> Jackie and the family were coping a couple of months after JFK's >> assassination. In another episode he had Cassius Clay on and Paar >referred >> to him as a "boy." I'm not prepared to call him left-leaning. >> > > >Paar did a seminar appearance in the eighties or nineties at what is >now >called the Paley Center (available for video viewing there) in which he > >tells a story about how, in the late sixties, he and his >then-college-age >daughter Randy clashed over the Vietnam War. She took part in anti-war >protests, and he was afraid that photos of her protesting would get >into >the newspapers and be used to embarrass him. (It ends up being a VERY >funny >story, believe it or not, involving a flag she was holding onto that >Jack >mistook for the North Vietnamese flag.) At one point he says "I >understand >that she's a liberal, and I'm fine with that, but..." >So, yeah, I'm not prepared to call him left-leaning either. > > >-- >-- >TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected] >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
