This is Jimmy Breslin. At his angriest. As Carl writes at "Simply Left Behind", that's when Breslin does his best writing. Read on and you'll understand why.
Jimmy Breslin, National Treasure
There are few men like Jimmy Breslin in journalism anymore. You folks outside of New York probably only know Jimmy Breslin if you are of a certain age, and drank Piels' beer. "It's a good drinkin' byeer!" We here in the city know Breslin to be a champion of the common guy, the Joe Lunchbuckets of the world who make things work and fix things when they don't, who go home at night and read a tabloid with a beer and a meat and potatoes dinner. A dying breed, in other words. He's lost a bit off his fastball as he's gotten older, but occasionally can crank out a high hard one when he gets angry enough. Today, he got angry enough: "The war was there to take his life because George Bush started it with bold-faced lies. He got this [...]
Tags: Jimmy Breslin, Iraq War, George W. Bush
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