Jimmy Breslin, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for Newsday and all-round journalism icon, retired last week after publishing an election day column predicting a Kerry victory “that shouldn’t even be close.”
“I invented this column form. I now leave, but will return here for cameo appearances And I leave today as the only one in America who from the start was sure John Kerry would win by a wide margin,” Breslin said in his column.
He ended the column with the words “Thanks for the use of the hall.”