Friday, November 22, 2019

Art Buchwald - the old column on Nixon comes back to haunt us at the Trump impeachment hearings

Art Buchwald was taken for granted back in the day.

He knocked out his political humor columns on schedule, and to some, it was hackwork. To others, he and Russell Baker and a few others were a nice snicker on a slow news day.

He didn't turn up on talk shows much, and unlike Mort Sahl, he didn't present himself as a cool iconoclast. He was kind of pudgy and funny looking and had a New Yawk speech pattern.

As you'd expect from topical humor, Buchwald books are an eyesore in thrift shops and used book shops.

Still, now and then a column he wrote still resonates.

Today, the impeachment hearings on Trump have people taking sides. Just as they did when there was talk of Nixon resigning:

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