What I like is both men have opposing views, Phil hurled some insults his way, Morton took it like a man, and gave his own response. They were both gentlemanly to each other. No one was OFFENDED!
Not me. I saw Donahue from his first show in Chicago to his last show in NYC. No impersonator, not even the great Phil Hartman (big fan of his work), comes close to Donahue's magic.
Morton downey came on opposite nightline in the late 80s where i lived...i watched it every night...totally entertained and informed...and loved the way MDJ had his beliefs and stuck by them come hell or high water
I think he passed in the mid 90s from cancer. Before passing, he expressed many regrets with a soft heart and voice. He's the guy who taught me tolerance and forgiveness, because I first disdained him; then I became more accepting of people's differences. Then I treasured him.
His death was around March of 2001 if I remember correctly. A number of years ago, I was in contact with a man who was personal friends with Morton. He mentioned the exact same things about Morton that you did.
I think he's cool. He's honest about himself, stands by what he believes in. Seeing this redoubled my resoect for him. I didn't realize his connection with the elite of the times then. The Bennets, his father, the Kennedys
I was young and single the first time I watched and hated MDJ. I wasn't prepared for the rude awakening. For daytime television, he was shocking. Then I respected his right to have an opinion. As his TV show expanded to nationwide, he also had a change of heart about some issues and mature enough to say as much. He'd been scolded and warned from censorship and sponsors. He was an honest guy who spoke from his heart. RIP Mr. Downey.
@@turanga35 Now they’re don’t allow ciggeretts anywhere , (but they’re smoking weed and vaping everywhere ( our government buildings now have needle boxes but nowhere to put out your cigarette buts)
Donahue invented the genre of the daytime TV talk show in 1967 with good intentions apparently. but It sort of became a mixed blessing about 25 years later.
death and dying process with lung cancer I know nothing about. but I saw a guy die from emphysema. The last 3 years of his life what's torture. Just unbearable. I can't believe anyone going through what he did
Donahue sure does ask some personal questions this society these days would get offended with that kind of questions especially about family and parents geez
Fun fact....Morton was supposed to be and was molded to become more vicious and next level then Howard Stern......and it would of worked......but HS weaseled his way and incorporated women and the adult film industry with rock edge to steam roll Morton out of a possible legacy........Morton was about honesty...and got real with real issues.........HS was cheap..RIP
Yes, he did. What they're yelling is "who! Who! Who! Who!" That was what ppl in New York kept saying when ppl heard his name. The audience started doing it when his show became an instant success.
Best thing was when Morton declared on the Race episode was how the News Papers Upset the Black Race on the Front Page and the Whites in the back pages
I started to watch….but when Phil’s “warning” was at the beginning, forget it. Frankly, want a good talk show? Do it LIVE, and when the music starts playing leading to a commercial, tell that sound guy to zip it!
Donahue is hugely responsible for the types of politicians we have today and the idiots who vote for them. He was a classier version of Joy Behar. Mort invented the talk show circuses like Geraldo and Springer that followed. It's hard to say which was worse for society, but I'd propose it was Donahue, because people took his show more seriously, which is more effective for indoctrinating people. Donahue pushed the Leftist agenda by demonizing the opposition and celebrating liberals who adopted the Leftist ideology. It pushed the narrative that you were a "good person" if you accepted/celebrated homosexuality, abortion, and veiled communism as moral and if you slightly opposed any of it, you were a "bad person". In those days, most liberals opposed those issues until the brainwashing took hold. Donahue was the perfect tool for infecting the masses and it's likely that he had government handlers rewarding him for it. Morton Downey Jr. and the types after him helped to cement the Leftist ideology into our society by painting a picture of anti-Leftists as dumb hillbillies and psychos. I think Morton Downey Jr.'s show did a better job at poking fun at ignorance from all sides, but Geraldo and Springer took his effective platform and used it as a tool to create a false image of morality, making it 'cool' to buy into Leftist nonsense and if you didn't, you were the villain on their shows.
