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JAMES J. KILPATRICK | - 'Point-Counterpoint' voice was also columnist
WASHINGTON - James J. Kilpatrick's in-your-face, conservative bickering with liberal commentator Shana Alexander three decades ago was famously parodied - then copied for years to come.
Even more lasting: his contributions as the nation's most widely syndicated political columnist and a dozen books on everything from politics and the U.S.
Supreme Court to the use and abuse of the English language.
Kilpatrick, who rose from cub reporter to one of the nation's most recognized conservative voices, died Sunday of congestive heart failure. He was
"He was a hell of a fella," said his wife, Marianne Means, "He cultivated a public image on TV of being a cranky conservative, but he wasn't a cranky conservative at home."
TV watchers in the s knew Kilpatrick as the conservative half of the "Point-Counterpoint" segment of CBS' 60 Minutes.
The liberal-conservative pairing inspired the Saturday Night Live parody featu