Coming as a shock to the hundred of fans of his radio show, Tony Kornheiser took a brief break from discussing American Idol. This momentous shift in programming was done so he could announce that he was the latest of dozens of employees that have taken the voluntary buyout from The Washington Post, that redoubtable money-bleeding newspaper he's pretended to write for the last few years.
"All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer," he said, which is likely not something that anyone under the age of 30 will ever say again. "This other stuff is great, but I don't care about it," he continued. "In my mind that's what it says on the headstone, it says 'newspaper guy.' "
Awful touching for a guy whose paychecks all now say "radio guy," "TV bloviator," and "Monday Night Football's top Tom Brady fluffer". Not wanting to startle listeners too much, he mixed in his plaintive memories of when The Post mattered with, hey!, Idol.
"There was not enough wine in the world, there wasn't, not last night," he said. "I'm watching 'Idol,' and I'm thinking about all these things, and I don't know who I'm supposed to talk to about this….It just feels odd. It feels odd and it feels bad. It doesn't feel sad, there's no sadness to it, it just feels wrong."
Wow. What a profound loss. Readers will surely miss the two paragraphs he'd toss off for page 2 of the sports section every few days. Or the humorously annotated NCAA bracket every March. I worked for the paper for three years and I never once so much as glimpsed the guy at the office. But he was a presence, boy howdy. Now that damn Paul Farhi can write vapid pieces in the Style section without any fear of reprisal.
In news about people didn't wait 10 years too long to retire: Annika Sorenstam is calling it quits at the end of the year (Oh yeah, and Justine Henin). If you get bored, Annika, you can probably talk golf on a TK's show, so long as you laugh at everything he says and limit any non-Idol discussion to 30 seconds. Were you on Idol, by the way?
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He probably spent more time at the Morton's steakhouse than he did at the Post's offices. Still, it's nice to see yet another sign of the Post's demise. Hard to believe that the Washington Post was the newspaper that broke Watergate. Times have changed, man (and I'm not talking about the Washington Times – that's still the gossip-hungry, right-wing-fellating rag it's always been).
Word on the street is he couldn't deal with Christmas Ape being fired.
Kornheiser is pretty good… I feel like we've an Ally and medium in the epic battle to have Jay Marriotti wiped from this universe
"Monday Night Football's top Tom Brady fluffer"
That, my friend, is one heated horse race.
Looking at this picture, the Post had to let him go once they found out about all the Native Americans that he slaughtered.
Whatever will I wipe my ass with now?
Good. Now we won't have to hear Michael Wilbons best 'Uncle Tom' every time the white guy says something rational.
"Monday Night Football's top Tom Brady fluffer".
Favre will have something to say about that. That jealous bitch!
Awe. My dog is going to be pissed that he won't have anything to read while pissing on my floor anymore.
Readers will surely miss the two paragraphs he'd toss off for page 2 of the sports section every few days
Same thing with Mariotti…I wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times sports department for four years, and I saw him at the bright one once. Of course, this was before he showed up for a half-hour a day to trade barbs with geniuses like Woody Paige.
Same thing with Mariotti…I wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times sports department for four years, and I saw him at the bright one once
Was he wearing his toupee?