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    Fox News star Charles Krauthammer reveals he has weeks to live in heartbreaking letter

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...ng-letter.html

    By Greg Wilson | Fox News

    Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed the heartbreaking news that he is in the final stages of a losing battle with cancer.

    The 68-year-old’s incisive takes on politics of the day have been missing from Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” for nearly a year as he battled an abdominal tumor and subsequent complications, but colleagues and viewers alike had held out hope that he would return to the evening show he helped establish as must-viewing. But in an eloquent, yet unblinking letter to co-workers, friends and Fox News Channel viewers, Krauthammer disclosed that he has just weeks to live.

    “I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months,” the letter began. “I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.”

    "This is the final verdict. My fight is over.”
    - Charles Krauthammer

    Krauthammer, who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1975 despite a first-year diving accident that left him a quadriplegic, explained that he had a malignant tumor removed from his abdomen last August. Although a series of setbacks left him in the hospital in the ensuing months, he believed until recently that he was on the road to recovery.

    “However, recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned,” Krauthammer wrote. “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.”

    Fox News viewers will undoubtedly miss Krauthammer’s formidable intellect and ability to analyze politics and politicians with a cerebral wit and keen charm. As the dean of “The Fox News All Stars,” the panel of pundits who break down headlines and events nightly on Fox News Channel’s top-rated “Special Report,” Krauthammer could be counted on to make viewers think, question and even chuckle.

    Krauthammer was on his way to greatness in the medical field when he veered first into policy, and then into journalism. After medical school, he became chief psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he studied depression and published ground-breaking findings in top medical journals. But in 1978, he took a job in the Carter administration directing planning in psychiatric research and later served as a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale.

    It was in the nation’s capital that Krauthammer trained his mind and talents on political analysis and began penning columns for The New Republic, Time magazine and finally the Washington Post. In 1985, he won journalism’s top prize for his weekly political commentary. In his sobering farewell, Krauthammer said he is “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,” Krauthammer wrote. “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.”
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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    So sad.

    We have to wait weeks?!
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    Cancer’s a bitch. Takes the good and the bad
    No - No - No - No
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    Hard life becoming a quadriplegic in college. Guy did okay for himself. Say what you want about him but he had a hard life and made something of himself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schifference View Post
    Hard life becoming a quadriplegic in college. Guy did okay for himself. Say what you want about him but he had a hard life and made something of himself.
    I wouldn't want to be what he made of himself.
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    Fox News viewers will undoubtedly miss Krauthammer’s formidable intellect and ability to analyze politics and politicians with a cerebral wit and keen charm.
    I choked on my Mountain Dew

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptUSA View Post
    So sad.

    We have to wait weeks?!
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    Back to back with Mccain? and the tax cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate? 2018 rounding out to be a good year.
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    I was wondering what happened to him. Been a while since I've heard anything from him.
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    How do you get a random malignant tumor in the abdomen ? Never really heard of such a thing in males before .

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    How do you get a random malignant tumor in the abdomen ? Never really heard of such a thing in males before .

    He needs medicine man.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    He needs medicine man.


    How did I not know he was paralyzed ? In his state he should have probably been seeing an Amish Doctor or something decades ago . They probably have those out east .
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    How did I not know he was paralyzed ? .
    Too busy chasing squaw?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Too busy chasing squaw?
    I really never like listening to him that much anyway . Great Sagamore does not chase squaw . Squaw begs for affections .
    Do something Danke

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    The MAGA inhales a deep, rejuvenating breath.... and smiles.

    Another one bites the dust.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    I really never like listening to him that much anyway . Great Sagamore does not chase squaw . Squaw begs for affections .
    Ya, that has been my experience too.
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    Any way Charles . I am sorry for your troubles and hope you will be happy and pain free on the other side .

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    Weird. Didn't cancer also get Tony Snow?

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    Good riddance to bad rubbish. The country is worse off because of his propaganda.
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