Jennings: “Unbelievable, Unimaginable, Staggering, Heart-Breaking…”

By Brian 

Peter Jennings is the “personification of perseverance,” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann blogs. He calls the diagnosis unbelievable, unimaginable, staggering, and heart-breaking.

It hurts to read this paragraph: “It was simply overwhelming to hear him insist that he will continue to anchor his newscast ‘on good nights; my voice will not always be like this,’ yet to watch him not only labor with what sounded like a heavily constricted respiratory system, but worse still, to see him physically strain and contort himself just to force the words out.” More…

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