Political columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer given weeks to live

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-note-to-readers/2018/06/08/3512010c-6b24-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.701e08c2bcb8

This is an odd one for me, I don't typically respect or care about any kind of celebrity or politician, yet this man has gained my respect ever so slowly over the years. 

I have always watched a lot of CNN and fox news (mostly the opposite of who's in 'power') and despite hating most of all the pundits, I really grew to like him. My exposure to him was mostly as a pundit, not his opinion pieces so much. 

I probably listened to him hundreds of times over the years and never once did I hear him yell or over talk someone he was debating.
While everyone on reddit is shitting on him for selling the iraq war like nearly all right wingers and a lot of leftist did at the time, I remember him as one of the last people who didn't seem to treat politics with a sense of "everyone but me is morally unjust" like we see so much of now when it comes to those in political media. 

Even as a guy who's pretty 'right leaning' these days since anything right of absolute left is somehow "alt right", I mostly disagreed with anything and everything he argued, as I would be what'd you call a liberal until recently where being a traditional leftist makes you a nazi or something because you're not left enough. There's a lot of talk about his amazing life as a paralyzed man, neck down I think (sean hannity once asked him to stand up in front of a crowd, even fox news hosts seemed not to know) but I appreciated him not for what he overcame, but him as a normal man in politics.

I went from hating him to appreciating him well before I knew about his condition. 
 

I think it strikes me how few people like Krauthammer are left in not only politics as presented in the media, but as people in general. 

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"However, recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned. There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.
 

I wish to thank my doctors and caregivers, whose efforts have been magnificent. My dear friends, who have given me a lifetime of memories and whose support has sustained me through these difficult months. And all of my partners at The Washington Post, Fox News, and Crown Publishing.
 

Lastly, I thank my colleagues, my readers, and my viewers, who have made my career possible and given consequence to my life’s work. I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking. I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation’s destiny.
 

I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended."

 

I wish to one day be able to face death in this way, with his monotone, factual, disinterested voice I read this statement in. 
I wish you a peaceful end, Charles.

[LoganTNZ]

This shows that people dont only rally around those who share the same views, but also rally around those who treat debating as an art and not a moral superiority race.

 

This man also gained great repsect from me, not because i side with him  but because of the reasons you mentioned before, about being civil and not an outright monkey.

 

I hope his lives out the rest of his life fufillingly

 

Its god's responsibility to look after him now

 

Rest in peace my man

[Jtalk4456]

On 6/9/2018 at 9:38 AM, LoganTNZ said:

This shows that people dont only rally around those who share the same views, but also rally around those who treat debating as an art

AMEN, I relish a good factual well reasoned calmheaded debate!