Jimmy Breslin Dead at 88 – IOTW Report

Jimmy Breslin Dead at 88

RIP

22 Comments on Jimmy Breslin Dead at 88

  1. “Legendary New York City Newspaper Columnist” Which is why those of us in the rest of the country don’t know/don’t care who he is, what he did, or that he is now dead. Why is it that the NY Times thinks that the things that are really, REALLY important to New Yorkers, are important to the rest of the world? Fuck NY.

  2. RIP only if it means Rot In Piss. Which is what will happen when we find out where his rotten carcass will be dumped. Then, many will find his pit, having filled their bladders with beer, to then discharge the waste on his pit and headstone. He was a rotten, miserable, scumbag and we hope he suffered as he awaited death.

  3. The first Marine to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam was Robert Emmett O’Malley from Woodside New York. O’Malley’s childhood friend Tommy Noonan, was awarded CMH also, but posthumously. That took a toll on O’Malley and he went into a bit of a funk for a while after being discharged. Breslin, an anti war liberal, did a story on O’Malley. I remember reading it in a Sunday magazine, I think is was The New York Tribune. It was very flattering. In it there was a photo of O’Malley sitting on his bed in his apartment, sort of disheveled. There was a statue of the Blessed Virgin on the dresser next to a bottle of Jack Daniels.
    That was the last time I read any of Breslin’s crap. I thought he died years ago. O’Malley is now 73 and lives in New York.
    Semper Fi Bobby.
    Check him out.

  4. Imagine if the “journalists” of today had just a touch of his boldness and tenacity rather than being the moody, ever offended parrots that they are! I remember him from news in years gone by, the Son of Sam letter especially, but from the article linked, I learned he was quite the character! I’m sure he will be missed

  5. I must’ve read some stuff by Breslin over the years, but right now I couldn’t tell you what. He sounds like an interesting guy, though. He worked at a time when the New York Times was arguably the best newspaper in America, and good reporters actually went out and chased down stories instead of sitting around government and corporate offices waiting to be handed the latest press releases to be retyped and spewed out to a gullible public. Sometimes not even retyped.

    Those days and that kind of reporting are long gone, I’m afraid.

    Anyway,

  6. @Moe Tom: I’ll have to take your word for it, because to be honest, when I saw his name on the headline here I thought maybe he was a former NYC Mayor or politician. That’s how little I knew of him. Turns out he did run for mayor once as a joke, so maybe I vaguely remembered that.

    As far as being a drunk, he was Irish, right?

    😉

  7. Vietvet. I’ll tell you a funny story. Breslin was making a commercial for, I think, Piels Beer, in a New York Bar back in the seventies. Three or four of us came in for lunch at about twelve noon. The shooting was still going on. The bartender told us to sit at the back of the bar. Lights and cameras allover the place. Breslin was to get a beer, bring it up to his mouth, and say something like “Ah, the king of beers.” Anyway the producer, or whatever, kept saying. “Cut, lets do it again, this time bla,bla,bla.”
    The bartender would deliver the beer back to us and pour another for the next shot.
    We never went back to work, just sat there all afternoon drinking Breslins beer
    I will never reveal anything.

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