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

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I was wondering where he'd gone to.


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I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking 

Thank you, Mr. Krauthammer, and may God bless your soul.   
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Very sad, yet inspirational.  Enormous dignity in that statement.
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What horrible news.
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One of the very few pundits I could actually stomach.  Sad news.

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Charles was a towering intellect surrounded by towering egomaniacs.
G-dspeed, sir.

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Statement of Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. 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.

In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen. That operation was thought to have been a success, but it caused a cascade of secondary complications – which I have been fighting in hospital ever since. It was a long and hard fight with many setbacks, but I was steadily, if slowly, overcoming each obstacle along the way and gradually making my way back to health.

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.

--  Charles Krauthammer
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Very sad, yet inspirational.  Enormous dignity in that statement.

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Indeed!   Dr. Krauthamer has done well and knows better than most that none of us are getting out of here alive.

He is an amazing man.
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Geez!  I didn't always agree with Charles, but he could present arguments in a fair, intelligent, non-judgmental way that I found refreshing.

God bless you, Charles. 

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Sad news.
I've always enjoyed him on the round table at Fox.
Also, I've read quite a few of his editorials, back when  i'd receive a newspaper.

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Very sad, yet inspirational.  Enormous dignity in that statement.


One of the things I admire about him was the fact he never played the ‘poor me’ card, despite the accident early in his life.
« Last Edit: June 08, 2018, 05:02:15 pm by edpc »
I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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I am absolutely crushed.

Charles Krauthammer is the rarest of political pundits: a brilliant and erudite man who expresses himself powerfully without the faintest trace of overblown self-regard.  He is the one person in public life whose opinions I always take seriously, even when I think I disagree with him. Just... damn.
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I am absolutely crushed.

Charles Krauthammer is the rarest of political pundits: a brilliant and erudite man who expresses himself powerfully without the faintest trace of overblown self-regard.  He is the one person in public life whose opinions I always take seriously, even when I think I disagree with him. Just... damn.

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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I am absolutely crushed.

Charles Krauthammer is the rarest of political pundits: a brilliant and erudite man who expresses himself powerfully without the faintest trace of overblown self-regard.  He is the one person in public life whose opinions I always take seriously, even when I think I disagree with him. Just... damn.

Perfectly stated. 
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Charles always had something original to say.  He made the panel discussions worth watching, and he has been/will be sorely missed.

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They say it comes in threes.  Spade, Bourdain, Krauthammer...yet more proof that he was a liberal all along.

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They say it comes in threes.  Spade, Bourdain, Krauthammer...yet more proof that he was a liberal all along.

Hey, was Red Schoendienst chopped liver?

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Once when interviewed, Rush Limbaugh was asked:

If you needed a brain transplant...or if you could switch brains with somebody else...who might that be?  He may have been asked to name three people...can't recall.

He said "Charles Krauthammer" without hesitation, and then expounded on his reasons...all which have been expressed here on the thread.

I dated his personal assistant/valet/secretary back in the early 90's and had the opportunity to meet him.

God Speed, sir! 


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I am absolutely crushed.

Charles Krauthammer is the rarest of political pundits: a brilliant and erudite man who expresses himself powerfully without the faintest trace of overblown self-regard.  He is the one person in public life whose opinions I always take seriously, even when I think I disagree with him. Just... damn.

Spot on

The guy was a class act.
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Hey, was Red Schoendienst chopped liver?

 :silly:  Maybe Ozzie Smith and Vince Coleman next?

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Spot on

The guy was a class act.

@Wingnut

 :amen:  and agreement with his vews or not has not one damned thing to do with it!
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They say it comes in threes.  Spade, Bourdain, Krauthammer...yet more proof that he was a liberal all along.

Krauthammer is not killing himself.  What a crappy thing to say.