The Good People Who Passed On in 2012 | Eastern North Carolina Now

   Publisher's note: This post is part of what has become an annual recurring series celebrating the lives, and, in some cases, the deaths of those who have passed on in the preceding calendar year.

   Every year, we pay homage to those that make a marked difference, who pass on from this temporal plane, and beyond to a higher calling, or a lower one. In this year of 2012, we witnessed some good people who passed on, and accordingly, we acknowledge their passing and their accomplishments alike.

Andy Griffith: Above.

    Andy Griffith was born June 1, 1926 in Mt. Airy, North Carolina and died July 3, 2012 in Manteo, North Carolina. In between, Andy Griffith lived a good, productive life; made his mark as a comedian, TV and movie actor and eventually became an icon as a small town county sheriff in North Carolina's foothills, who was the straight-man surrounded by hilarious and credible buffoons, while dispensing wisdom and familial kindness in equal measure.

    His "Andy Griffith Show" only ran 9 seasons on TV, but has lived long and well in syndication, and is regarded as one of the top TV programs ever made, and may long keep its lofty status, because of its essential purity of purpose.

I can find no better way to express how profound the impact of the "Andy Griffith Show" was, to so many of us, than to show this Rooster and Roadrunner parody of the show, featuring the late, great Don Knotts as Barney Fife: below.


George Lindsey: Above.

    George Lindsey was born on December 17, 1928 in Fairfield, Alabama, and grew up to be an American character actor, best known for his role as Goober Pyle, Gomer Pyle's zany cousin on the "Andy Griffith Show", who ran the one service station just on the edge of Mayberry. If he never accomplished anything else noteworthy, his Goober character will be forever fondly remembered by most.

    George Lindsey's joyous spirit left this earth on May 6, 2012. George Lindsey kept in constant contact with Andy Griffith until his death. Andy passed on less than two months later.
Andrew Breitbart: Above.

    Andrew Breitbart, born February 1, 1969, was a conservative publisher and journalist, who broke some of the biggest issues in his time that showed the rampant corruption surrounding the Barrack Obama administration in his first term. What cast Mr. Breitbart in such a bright light, in his time, is the unmitigated fact that mainstream journalism, en masse, has stopped investigating anything resembling liberal policy or people, and now spend their days following each other (their liberal associates) around until they can collectively find an issue that they all can agree, and should be published. In this dark age of mainstream collusive journalists, free wheeling, bright reporters, like Andrew Breitbart, have wrested the high ground from these liberal enthusiasts, leaving them wallowing in their base insignificance.

    Andrew Breitbart passed on from this temporal plane on March 1, 2012.

Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens: Above.

    While it is tragic that Ambassador Chris Stevens died while in the service of his country (the first in 30 years, not since the Jimmy Carter "malaise" years) in the Benghazi consulate attack, it was a tragedy made more scandalous by the Obama administration's supreme indifference to the details of this good man's murder, murdered former Navy Seals: Tyrone Wood and Glen Doherty, who died as heroes, fighting to the embattled end to save their Ambassador, and Sean Smith, the Ambassador's attache, who was the first to perish.

    At the heart of the administration's indifference to this al-Qaeda led attack on U.S. soil overseas, was that only weeks earlier at the Democrat National Convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina, key Democrats boasted as a repetitive theme that "GM is Alive and Al Qaeda is Dead."

   When it was apparent that Al Qaeda was indeed alive, and still quite lethal, Candidate Obama's administration and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concocted a story about an offensive video that caused this random crowd of angry Muslims to devolve into a murderous rage. With a complicit main stream media, whose unambiguous primary objective was to bolster the election prospects of their beloved leader, so close to his re-election only weeks away, their fake story took hold, with some of the media's most dedicated minions actually blaming the Al Qaeda attack on some ancillary commentary made by Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on events transpiring in neighboring Egypt.

    This sorry affair represented a new base as to just how low a sitting president would stoop to obfuscate the obvious truth, and the outright death of the mainstream media as a reliable source for unbiased news.

    The death of Ambassador Stevens, and his protectors notwithstanding, was the most significant news story of the year by the unmitigated fact that this huge story was intentionally not covered by the mainstream media, who is forever stained with the "scarlet letter" of B ... for bias. The story of these forgotten men will; however, live large in the annals of the internet, fostered by those who believe that truth must triumph over bias, with no exceptions.

    The unvarnished truth, a corrupt president and collusive mainstream media, the deaths of dedicated public servants, and the heroes, who endeavored to save them are inextricably linked in this tragic tale of credibility lost, an administration irrevocably tarnished, and a nation guided by an uninformed electorate.

    Chris Stevens was killed by Islamist Terrorists on September 11th, 2012, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with no adequate security, with no help on the way from a military told to "stand down," and a mainstream media committed to the subsequent cover-up, thereby using their 1st Amendment freedom to a Free Press to protect the re-election of Democrat Candidate Barack Obama, and any future candidacy of Democrat Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    This is the way truth works, and those committed to the lies of a poor ambition exposed.
U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye: Above.

    Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye was born September 7, 1924, who was of Japanese decent, won the Congressional Medal of Honor, our nation's highest honor, for valor in the European theater of World War II.

    As one of Hawaii's most respected citizen's, Mr. Inouye later became United States Senator Inouye, Democrat, who served for decades in this nation's highest legislative house, making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in U.S. history. Senator Inouye was the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

    Senator Inouye died December 17, 2012.
Dave Brubeck: Above.

    Dave Brubeck was born in Concord, California on December 6, 1920, and grew up in this San Francisco Bay community to become jazz pianist and composer, creating such classics as "The Duke" and "In Your Own Sweet Way."

    Jazz Pianist Brubeck developed a style ranging from refined to bombastic, which well reflected his schooling in the classics. His interpretive style made him a household name to Jazz enthusiasts the world over.

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