love this time period of the show, especially seeing Novak and Germond. To me, this time period was the true Hayday of this show. 5 really great minds with independent opinions. Miss those days.
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being metaphsically impossibe to go higher, what would you rate how much you are going to miss john and his show? I ask you...everybody.
Yes, an 11. One last M-group issue with JM in mind and in his voice. Issue None: End Times. Some say the End Time will happen with the election of Donald Trump...as he crashes the US economy leading to a domino effect worldwide that plunges the globe into total darkness for undetermined millennia. Others say the End Time will occur with Hillary Rodham Clinton ascending the Presidency then revealing her true face as she gathers the souls of the innocent before transporting them to the Infernal Regions. What say you Fan Club!? I miss John already and not even Rosey Scenario can assuage my profound grief.
Lol! I can hear that rapid fire staccato pronunciation and totally unique and peculiar enunciation haha! I also appreciate the hints at a macro view of dramatic nefarious agendas of larger forces at play haha!
Wow. Seeing this 1985 classic episode of MG really takes me back to my youth. As a political junkie and Ronald Reagan Republican I used to huddle every Friday night to watch this show during the 80s. Thanks for bringing the memories!
Reagan was a Dumb Puppet of the Ruling Elite. He and his Administraton are Traitors to the U.S.A. What's his name0 his late CIA Appointee made a deal with the Iranian Government to keep the Hostages past the Election so Reagan/Bush could win in 1980. Also, I think it is funny Reagan was the first President to Court and receive the blessing of the So called Religious Right- the Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson crowd who are just a bunch of Right Wing Stooges pretending to be Christians. The real Phony thing about Reagan being supported by the Christian Right is that Nancy was big on Astrology and she consulted all of Ronnie's Major actions with an Astrologist. I am a nice Jewish Boy (maybe young at heart, but not chroniloigical age any nore), but I know a lot of Fundamentalist Christians. The "Fund" Chrisitans do like Astrology. They think it is Satanic.
I'm 50 years old and used to watch this with my Dad. I used to even watch Wally George (look it up) back then too. I miss these shows and CNN's Crossfire!
I watched this show going back to my teens in the 80's. In recent years I wondered how long can John keep doing this show, amazing how long lived he was and mentally sharp. Dr. McLaughlin should have been a spokesman for The Energizer Bunny. Rest in peace.
Man I love this. I was 9 when this aired and it feels familiar the way a dream does. Jack Germond probably left the studio after taping to go see Back to the Future, which was in theaters at the time. I'm gonna miss this show so effin' much. Please post more of these vintage episodes!
I'd love to see the first weeks where Eleanor Clift first started, that would be a kick. Was she always smarter than the guys or did that just happen because over time she had to do more studying and be more aggressive? ;-)
So saddened to hear about John's passing. I've been watching the show for 15 years, since I was in University. Sunday mornings won't be the same. Rest well, John
If the show will not move forward, please upload episodes, weekly, from the 80s forward. It will give us a lot of insight in relation to current events. I've watched since I was a kid. Cornflakes with homemade buttered hot bread (just out the oven), Sunday talk shows (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, McLaughlin Group), Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom, light lunch, sports, big early dinner/late lunch, finally make it outside to pretend I didn't stay in the house all day doing nothing. Good times!
Ahh, when giants roamed the Earth! When I first discovered this show, there was no Rush Limbaugh, there was no "right wing media." There was Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley, and the National Review. I consumed as much of their work as I could get my hands on. They constituted most of my political education as a teen and young man. So when this show came up on my PBS station one week, following Firing Line, I was delighted. It seemed to me like an editorial board meeting at a newspaper for which I wished I could work. I never found that newspaper but I had found this program. So I kept watching - and watching. They're all gone now; all the giants I respected. Maybe it's part of growing up but the world seems populated by much smaller men these days. It makes me sad, very sad.
Those were the days. Goldwater, Buckley, Reagan, George F Will....it was an ideological movement bigger than any one person. Now it's the religion of the Lord Jesus Trump.
Going from the original McLaughlin Group to shows like Limbaugh or Hannity is like going from champagne to Kool-Aid. At least Pat Buchanan is still with us and the new McLaughlin Group shows some promise.
He paved the way for the empty combative crap we have today instead of journalism. I'd be fine with him living forever so long as he stayed out of the profession he helped to destroy.
I like the revival of this show on Maryland Public Television but re-watching this very episode reminds me of why I fell in love with the show when I was in college. John McLaughlin was a splendid moderator - crisp and blunt. These guests were all great and not just the chemistry but the timing was like watching a well-oiled machine. Tom Rogan does an admirable job leading the new series but I can't see him blasting through that review of senators the way McLaughlin did. I miss the show as it was in the 80s. It was great seeing this recording!
MCLAUGHLIN GUEST BOOK ENTRY for Gawler's Sat August 20th, 2016 AD Rest in peace John. You have earned it. You lived up to Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey's definition of a champion as a person who "gets up when he can't" right to the very end when you narrated the voice over words for the first program you had ever missed in 34 years and seven months using "the worn out tools" of your vocal chords a final time, putting on your "Sunday best" for the occasion by referring to yourself as Dr. McLaughlin in the only time I have ever heard you use that title, while stoically minimizing your illness by expressing hope for our sake at a time you must truly have been "running on empty"! What a display of fortitude and faith Father McLaughlin, forever to us our "Monsignor", friend, teacher, paragon, beloved one. You went straight to heaven in one instant, with no passport, no delays and no questions asked, since your life was the proof of one righteous soul that God did not waste that week of creation, and that Christ did neither die in vain that day after Gethsemane. We will always remember you and do what we can to preserve your life's work for our McLaughlin Group Family, temporarily lost without our teacher. and needful of a Saturday and Sunday visitor. With deepest respect, Joe & Merry Boysen in Shell Beach California, Saturday, August 20th, 2016 AD Dominus Vobiscum.
Joe Boysen10 hours ago I hereby take back, retract and renounce everything bad I ever wrote about Tom Rogan with full apologies and do a 180 degree reversal on show format ~ for the "last roundup" at least. There SHOULD be an empty "riderless horse/missing man formation" tradition John Chair at the head of the Round Table with a Mclaughlin Tartan & Christmas Sportscoat draped over it, and it shall be occupied at the beginning of each program in the opening sequence thereof by the seating therein of the colleagially(sp?) rotating regular panel chairman for each program starting with Pat, Eleanor, Clarence and Tom, with that week's guest occupying the abandoned chair of that week's rotating host. (IF there is to be a program taped this Friday, it should be chaired by Pat ~ and hereafter, with or without any formal announcement, now, or ever, and NOT some kind of weekly rotating chairmanship unless Pat wants that. It would be nice if Mort could be there, but, whether Mort is there or not, IF John's seat IS to be left empty, for now or always, then a McLaughlin tartan draped over it suits me just fine. Young Rogan can place it there at the outset on camera, just to take the sting out of my angry words. Dominus Vobiscum.) Joe Boysen12 hours ago Final version modification: "not to mention ....... This is a disgrace! This is Media Tel A Fib MonopoLIARS "Good War" MindFog(K)ing JudeoFascism. Get used to it. Joe Boysen12 hours ago Friday August 19th 2016 AD Second submission of Funeral Guestbook Tribute: (Gawlers, the same outfit that did JFK) I certainly hope that our earnest, sincere & heartfelt tribute to a man we love and who would not tolerate any censorship no matter what the cost to him, has not been censored and eliminated, as appears to be the case with the words which follow submitted many hours ago. Don't do that! Our condolences to John's family and loved ones & to the Oliver Productions staff and to our family of fellow McLaughlin Group faithful viewers, doubly bereft now to learn that this successful, one of a kind, longterm American legacy program is going to be allowed to die with its' creator! One of the heroes of the 1927 world John was born into was the late legendary heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, whose definition of a champion was 'a person who gets up when he can't'. The great Rhode Islander John Joseph McLaughlin who grew into Father McLaughlin and beyond lived out that code of duty and bravery to the very end by recording the voice over segments of the only show he ever missed when he truly must have been "running on empty". To let his life work die like this when there are people who need it now more than ever and people old like Pat and Eleanor and Clarence as well as young Tom Rogan who are able to pick up John's lance and torch and to take the program to new heights is a disgrace to decency. God Bless you Dr. John, our "Monsignor" and friend. A Deum qui laetificat, juven tutum meum. Dominus Vobiscum. Thanks for making our Saturdays with the ONLY television we ever watch. What now? Joe & Merry Boysen, Shell Beach, California. Joe Boysen21 hours ago (edited) Our Entry in Gawler Funeral Home Book. John's Funeral will be Saturday at 2PM August 20th at Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Washington City. Incredibly, apparently it has been decided to just kill off the show! Doesn't Pat want it? Do the Occupiers not want Pat because they don't want to empower this mega talented man, especially teamed up with Rogan to expand it? What about Eleanor or Clarence or young Rogan, not to mention ....... This is a disgrace! This is JudeoFascism. Get used to it. Our condolences to John's family and loved ones & to the Oliver Productions staff and to our family of fellow McLaughlin Group faithful viewers, doubly bereft now to learn that this successful, one of a kind, longterm American legacy program is going to be allowed to die with its' creator! One of the heroes of the 1927 world John was born into was the late legendary heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, whose definition of a champion was "a person who gets up when he can't". The great Rhode Islander John Joseph McLaughlin who grew into Father McLaughlin and beyond lived out that code of duty and bravery to the very end by recording the voice over segments of the only show he ever missed when he truly must have been "running on empty". To let his life work die like this when there are people who need it now more than ever and people old like Pat and Eleanor and Clarence as well as young Tom Rogan who are able to pick up John's lance and torch and to take the program to new heights is a disgrace to decency. God Bless you Dr. John, our "Monsignor" and friend. A Deum qui laetificat, juven tutum meum. Dominus Vobiscum. Thanks for making our Saturdays with the ONLY television we ever watch. What now? Joe & Merry Boysen, Shell Beach, California. Joe Boysen1 day ago (edited) This talk BY A HANDFUL OF ILL BRED ROGAN GROUPIES about Dear John's successor less than three days after his passing is even more tasteless than the HORRIBLY RUDE speculations about his health which preceded his heroic last efforts as the champion he always was. STOP IT! His OBVIOUS successor IS Pat Buchanan, the ONLY person, other than John himself of course, and "family loyalty" to ALL members of OUR group, and the MAIN, if not ONLY reason, we, MOST OF US, tune in faithfully, and gratefully, DESPITE THE NEAR SICKENING PRESENCE OF THE OFFICIOUS, POMPOUS, & UNBEARABLE KNOW-IT-ALL BLABBERMOUTH. He is an overrated person who DOES NOT EVEN DESERVE the honor, at his premature stage, of being any more than a rotating guest. One of the Rogan boosters argued that he was "more diplomatic" than the incredibly good natured and popular Pat! That is not even true ~ compare Pat's conduct with the too often querulous whining fishwife Eleanor on soooo many occasions! IF it were true, it is only a mis-impression arising from Rogan's choirboy demeanor as a people pleasing intellectual fraud with no real convictions other than a militarist Israel First Neocon agenda, and a desire to be "liked". Without Pat at this critical transition and for some time to come, the show will FAIL in the near term ~ unless the culture hijackers who OWN US ~ temporarily we earnestly pray ~ highly value it as the spoils of war, which is probably why these swine inserted this Manchurian Candidate like "incubus' into this national treasure legacy in the first place ~ and John's life work and legacy will be for NAUGHT. It is THAT SIMPLE! We can only pray that Pat will take the job at all, especially in light of these recent embarrassments resulting from this opportunistic maneuvering by a third string thinker whose SOLE distinction is his affected accent. Postscript: What plans exist as to obituary, funeral, interment, memorial, etc? If there is to be a program taped this Friday, it should be chaired by Pat ~ and hereafter, with or without any formal announcemwnt, now, or ever, and NOT some kind of weekly rotating chairmanship unless Pat wants that. It would be nice if Mort could be there, but, whether Mort is there or not, IF John's seat IS to be left empty, for now or always, then a McLaughlin tartan draped over it suits me just fine. Young Rogan can place it there at the outset on camera, just to take the sting out of my angry words. Dominus Vobiscum Joe Boysen6 days ago Get well soon Dr. McLaughlin! ~ I like Monsignor better John! Joe Boysen6 days ago I don't want to hear Blabbermouth Rogan acting like he is IN ANY WAY "running the show" in John's absence. That is Pat's role Mr. PRESUMPTUOUS, and NOT yours! STFU!!! As for Eleanor Smug, we want to lay her off and cut off her income and leave her with four dependents and see how she feels about these TERRIBLE trade deals and the economic policies of RUINATION advocated by the Israel First Oligarch Supremacists and Bankster JewMericanisers working 24/7 for over a century to DESTROY US by Balkanizing and DIVIDING US!!!! L'Crime!!!
I want to like Tom, but he is so young and clumsy, like his comments that you can see him apologize for on his website for being self-centered and arrogant. He is simply immature ... as in my opinion are most Republicans, there is something missing in Conservatives when it comes to empathy and compassion.
The McLaughlin Group was a very good political public affairs show, I remember when it used to air on PBS all the time in the Eighties. It's certainly better than Fox News, that's for sure.
i'm so sad the show will be ending. I started watching this show in 2003 during Bush's controversial presidency. But i haven't seen the show in the last 10 years tbh. it's unfortunate he didn't pick a successor to continue the show.
This was broadcast on public tv in central Iowa on sundays at 11 or 1130 am..even as a kid i always looked forward to the MGroup i enjoyed various ideas being challenged side by side in the same time and space and letting us conclude what we think. Today... we get an even better version of this with multiple outlets on this thing called the internet
Three of these men are dead now: Robert Novak, Jack Germond and John McLaughlin. Watching this show was always a highlight of my week. So sad that they and the show are gone...
I never saw a McLaughlin Group with commercials until this one--it ran on the local PBS station without commercial interruptions. In Jack Germond's book "Fat Man in the Middle Seat" he described an incident on the show when John McLaughlin lost it and screamed out of control at Robert Novak during a commercial break. Not too long after Novak left the show and started Capital Gang on CNN to compete against the McLaughlin Group.
When I first saw McLaughlin (in the mid-90s), I thought he was just this cantankerous old man who I would never go to for political opinion. By the time of his passing, I had swiveled 180 degrees, looking forward to his still-persnickety leadership of the Group. He will be missed. I, too, hope that The Group will continue in some form. It's too vital to let fade away! Also: MOR-TON! Love it!
20:03 that prediction was a disaster: Democrats didn't win back 1 seat, they won back 8 and gained a strong majority (55 to 45), despite only a 2% swing in the popular vote.
Dems took the Senate 55-45 lol Despite getting a few results wrong, it was impressive how well each of them knew the candidates. Despite Novak being a dipshit, he seemed to be the most accurate in his predictions.
Have not missed an episode since 1999. Really inspired by it criticism of the subject and the way ahead deep predictions of world of Geopolitics/Economic development of our time.
I prefer the earlier synth-driven version of the McLaughlin Group theme used from it's run in 1982, rather than the "later" version (used since late 1987) which was used for the remainder of the show's run!
Back in the day, they talked about popularity and social programs. Now we talk about popularity and social programs, but you can see the difference in personality types, and how they interact with people
I remember the moments of pedagogy from Washington, DC which taught me the forensics of prima facia evidence needed to drive the story of US politics forward. /S/ MILNER BENEDICT III March 10, 2024 Sunday 8:33 am
Dr McLaughlin's funeral is posted on his channel under "live streams." Or search RU-vid for "John McLaughlin Funeral Mass." It is 1 hour 34 minutes long. :(
I think the "McLaughlin Group" has to die with the man. But I'd definitely throw money at a Tom Rogan Group Kickstarter. He's obviously no McLaughlin, but he seems to share McLaughlin's ability to be serious, knowledgeable and humorous at the same time. Seriously, this such a terrible loss for tv. Haruuuumpf.
I have never seen this show. This is cool. It’s like 5 friends just around a table discussing politics, disagreeing but still civil. Totally not possible these days.
The big difference between the panel then and now is their positions are based on "facts" and not on "feelings" as it is today. Also, the panel may disagree with each other but it seems they respect each other as opposed to today.
Besides the rare pleasure of watching sane and rational political commentary, the next remarkable thing is that the show was brought to you by “Electricity.”
Fred the beatle Barnes, The curmudgeon Jack Germond, Mort Kondracke,, and the slick Bob Novack being a 19 yr.old political junky this was mother's milk.
