Talk:Morton Downey Jr.

message: I just want to say that that photo of him is fantastic and it should never be changed. This is how we should remember him.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3BD8:4D90:ED84:70E:ECC3:C49C (talk) 08:09, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Fantastic photo

message: I noticed that near the end someone has wrote  "congressman Ron Paul (also a physician) had advised him, in 1988, while on his show, that smoking was highly unhealthy and responsible for a huge number of deaths every year". While this is true, it seems a little irrelevant, as if a Ron Paul admirer just put it here for the sake of it. 90.219.40.12 (talk) 10:05, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ron Paul

message: Starting with Rwalker's revision on May 24, 2011, user Pablumpuke seems to be deleting all mention of the upcoming documentary (Évocateur) being made about Morton Downey, Jr. I've attempted to contact Pablumpuke to find out their reasons for the multiple deletions, but they have yet to respond. Instead of descending into an edit war, I wanted to reach out to all the other contributors of this page to ask for their feedback on the best way to resolve these unexplained revisions. Lemminginstinct (talk) 03:35, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Évocateur

message: Downey had a gay brother who was infected with the AIDS virus.  When Morton interviewed him publicly, it was considered daring, and possibly compassionate at the time.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chumley41 (talk • contribs) 15:14, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Brother 

message: The article currently claims that the incident he was fired for happened happened in two different years.   It has 1983 in one section and 1984 in another.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.89.32 (talk) 15:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racial Incident 

message: This article (and his website) state he wrote Wipe Out but the article on Wipe Out says it's a misconception.  Does anyone know how to straighten this out?--Twintone 21:56, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wipe out 

message: A mention of, or a link to, Joe Pyne as another "pioneer" of this format would be useful here. Bill O'Reilly is the most accomplished, and most dangerous, of the right wing pseudo populists. Their target audience is mostly blue collar, politically naive, not well educated, frustrated, angry, and feeling politically and socially impotent. They (the target audience) constitute a significant swing vote, composing political foder for the Repubilcans, who need those votes crucially in as much as their party represents only a small minority, viz. the wealthy. Psuedo populists effectively swing many working people to the right (counter, of course, to their interests) with emotional force and unscrupulous psychology on sucker issues so that they will vote for their enemies against their own best interests. The pseudo populists deliver votes and support to the Republicans directly or otherwise. Their skill and success in doing this makes them very valuable to the powers that be and gives them a lifetime career as well paid spin doctors. Students of O'Reilly's techniques and success are advised to study the careers of cruder predecessors like Downey and Pyne.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.178.15.190 (talk) 01:29, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A 'trash talk' predecessor 

message: This article states that he was born on the 9th of December, 1933, and died on the 12th of March, 2001. This would make him 67 when he died, turning 68 later that year had he survived. Further down in the article, under the section "Death from lung cancer", it states that he died "from lung cancer in 2001 at age 67". However, at the top of the page, next to the date of his death, it reads: "aged 68". Also, in a television interview made shortly after his death, after being asked how old he was when he died, his wife says "Well, 68, even though everyone gave him the year younger". Indeed, if you search on the internet, you find that about half of the websites say he died when he was 67, and the other half say 68.
Surely his wife would know how old he is, so either his date of birth or date of death must be incorrect. It is much more probable that it is the latter.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.184.32.232 (talk) 07:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  67 or 68 

message: The first three paragraphs (all under "Career") don't make any sense to me. Maybe it's just a chronological thing. The second graf says he moved to Secaucus NJ where he got another show, which was canceled after two years due to low ratings. It then inexplicably mentions Rush Limbaugh again (the first paragraph already made this clear). So is this referring to the radio show? In the same paragraph, celebrities are quoted remarking on the success of his TV show. Shouldn't there be some transition there? And wasn't the TV show highly-rated, at least at some point?
I don't know enough about Morton Downey to fix the article, but it's really confusing as it is.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sxp151 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ratings? 

message: Is Morton Downey, Jr. related to the actor Robert Downey?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.82.218.97 (talk) 00:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  NO. Sorry for the belated reply. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 22:14, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Actor Robert Downey

message: As set forth in the Sacramento News and Review at http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=914298 , Downey intially refused to apologize for using the racial epithet "Chinaman," but later apologized at a press conference before resigning from his radio gig in Sacramento.  The Wikipedia article fails to mention the "day late and dollar short" apology, only mentioning Downey's inital refusal to apologize on the air. // Internet Esquire (talk) 20:58, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racial epithet controversy 

message: For some reason, Downey's article is tagged "African-American", as if he was an American of African descent.  This sounds insane and neither of the wiki articles for either of his parents, (as luck would have it, they both have articles), mention any African heritage.  So I'm thinking this is just some smart-@ssed vandalism.  Thus I will remove it.
:Downey has a small amount of African ancestry through his great-grandfather Lewis Morrison, who was a Jamaica-born actor of mixed ancestry.  (He has his own entry.) 69.126.21.67 (talk) 08:15, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  African-American?!?

message: the guy who was against drugs but smoked and died of lung cancer  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.126.207.236 (talk) 05:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  he's dead jim 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: Is it true that Adrienne and Lewis Morrison (his grandparents) had African, Jewish, and Spanish ancestry?2600:6C50:700C:200:B052:A56C:6712:CC97 (talk) 01:57, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancestry

message: What brand of cigarettes did he smoke? 97.88.25.211 (talk) 02:40, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cigarettes