TRAGEDY – AT 11:51 A.M. ET:  Charles Krauthammer, the most effective conservative commentator of our time, is dying.  In letter to Fox news colleagues and viewers, he revealed his fate.  From Fox: 

Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed the heartbreaking news that he is in the final stages of a losing battle with cancer.

The 68-year-old’s incisive takes on politics of the day have been missing from Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” for nearly a year as he battled an abdominal tumor and subsequent complications, but colleagues and viewers alike had held out hope that he would return to the evening show he helped establish as must-viewing. But in an eloquent, yet unblinking letter to co-workers, friends and Fox News Channel viewers, Krauthammer disclosed that he has just weeks to live.

“I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months,” the letter began. “I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.”

Krauthammer, who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1975 despite a first-year diving accident that left him a quadriplegic, explained that he had a malignant tumor removed from his abdomen last August. Although a series of setbacks left him in the hospital in the ensuing months, he believed until recently that he was on the road to recovery.

"However, recent tests have revealed that the cancer has returned,” Krauthammer wrote. “There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.”

COMMENT:  To say he will be missed is a major understatement.  He is the best, and he has always carried himself with style and elegance, and true intellect.  I never heard him raise his voice, or mount a vicious attack.  Krauthammer has shown us what a quality analyst can be.

There is a cynical old French saying that the graveyards of the world are filled with indispensable men.  That may be true, but Charles Krauthammer comes as close to being truly indispensable as any man I've seen.

June 8,  2018