As\u00c2\u00a0with many things\u00c2\u00a0for anyone in my generation, the point of reference for Paul Harvey comes from an episode of The Simpsons.<\/p>\n
That’s my boy Homer singing. Paul Harvey, writer of a thousand Reader’s Digest<\/em> commentaries\u00c2\u00a0positing good ol’ Midwestern Values against- say- taxes,\u00c2\u00a0news source\u00c2\u00a0for any\u00c2\u00a0small-bore mall or store\u00c2\u00a0in America which puts the Unruly Youth in their place, and a place-name that can be inserted as the original source for any homely forwarded email, whether or not he really did write about that thing citing statsitics on how everything in America went to Hell after Prayer was taken out of our public schools.<\/p>\n So, my family is driving through the Mountain West, en route to Nebraska probably (relatives) — round about 1994.\u00c2\u00a0 My oldest sister and my mom in one car, my brother and father and I in the other car.\u00c2\u00a0 We pull over at a rest-stop, where my sister informs us that “Hey.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Harvey’s on!”\u00c2\u00a0 (The universe is random.)\u00c2\u00a0 “What station?”\u00c2\u00a0 “93.7!”<\/p>\n Interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 93.7.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Harvey is usually on AM stations.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, maybe they do it differently here in Cowboy Country, an adjunct part of the Heartland, than over there in the In-Land of a Coastal State (Which, I guess, strictly speaking, is also “Cowboy Country”).<\/p>\n We turn on the station, prepped for Paul Harvey.\u00c2\u00a0 And what we get is… Kiss’s “God Gave Rock and Roll to You.”\u00c2\u00a0 My sister just pulled a rather bizarre joke, didn’t she?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Well, let the disseminating of the most odd or most offending Paul Harvey commentaries commence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As\u00c2\u00a0with many things\u00c2\u00a0for anyone in my generation, the point of reference for Paul Harvey comes from an episode of The Simpsons. That’s my boy Homer singing. – Eh, Paul Harvey’s on. – Ooh! And that little boy who nobody liked grew up to be… -Roy Cohn – [Both] Wow! And now you know the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Eh, Paul Harvey’s on.
\n– Ooh!
\nAnd that little boy who nobody liked grew up to be…
\n-Roy Cohn
\n– [Both] Wow!
\nAnd now you know the rest of the story.<\/em><\/p>\n