Posted on 06/12/2004 3:52:42 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
A prediction or a threat? As the plane carrying the late President Reagan arrived back at Point Mugu Naval Air Station on Friday afternoon, Ted Koppel made it clear he was appalled at the suggestion that Reagan was the "greatest President of the 20th century," complaining that would mean "hopscotching him past Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Koppel predicted, or threatened, that if Reagan's "supporters try to raise to him to the very heights there, and perhaps find a place for him on Mount Rushmore," that the "controversial President" who had "fairly contentious issues" in his presidency which "we've more or less overlooked" this week, "will come back."
A bit past 4:30pm PDT (7:30pm EDT) on Friday night, as ABC (the only one of the broadcast networks to go live from 7:30 to 8pm EDT) showed the plane taxiing in at Point Mugu after its flight from Maryland, Ed Meese told anchor Peter Jennings that he thought the week's events were "a fitting tribute, I think, to probably the greatest President of the 20th century."
A few minutes later, at about 4:44pm PDT, Jennings turned to Ted Koppel, who had attended the service at the Washington National Cathedral, and Koppel complained that while he could hear what was being said at the service, he couldn't see anything from his vantage point.
But then, as ABC showed him in an inset from the DC bureau over a full screen look at the plane, Koppel got to what really bothered him: "The thought that is really upper-most in my mind is when I hear Ed Meese talking about Ronald Reagan as the greatest President of the 20th century, hopscotching him past Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I think, as was the case when Ronald Reagan was President, when there was some fairly contentious issues and he was a fairly controversial President, we've more or less overlooked much of that over the past week. But I suspect as his friends and supporters try to raise to him to the very heights there, and perhaps find a place for him on Mount Rushmore, that some of that controversy and some of the debate will come back." Jennings agreed: "No doubt about it."
I predict Jennings will be spend considerable air time on the coverage Monday when Clinton's official presidential oil portrait will be unveiled in a ceremony at the White House by black artist (some reason we have to know the race of the artist),,Simmie Knox.
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Poor koppel. Poor pathetic koppel.
...sounds like he wants to koppelate us...
I noticed that CSPAN is running tape of LBJ's funeral. I guess that is their way of being 'fair and balanced.'
By 'black artist', I hope this refers not to the color of the artist's skin, but to the primary color that was used to paint clinton's portrait.
From Koppel's vantage point, Koppel will never see anything.
Al
Something ELSE they didn't tell us......Clinton originally asked for it to be painted on black velvet, thankfully, the artist declined...................
Thanks for the belly laugh, glock....first laugh I've had in a week.
FDR handed Eastern Europe to Stalin and almost gave the world to the Communists. Reagan got it back again. I'd say that gives the edge to Reagan.
Lol...I was googling something along those lines only mine didn't have a tail blocking the view! ;-)
But, according to another story, the Gipper was a leftist, so he and Koppel should have been buddies./sarcasm
Ted Knoppel is a "Clymer"
Not sure if Koppell knows anything about hopscotch, but I bet he's well versed at nude leapfrog with they guys.
Peggy Newnan was right, they just can't contain themselves after 5 days of Reagan. They are fixing to explode folks.
A top general in the culture war speaks.
Wouldn't you love to know how many people watch it??
I was watching that...unfortunately, they didn't show the part where they cut off his head, stuffed it with garlic, put him in a lead coffin, bound with silver chains. and buried him in unhallowed ground!
Say what you will about Reagan and Nixon, Carter and Clinton, LBJ was the worst president of the century.
and I think he killed Kennedy.
Sour grapes from the secular humanist liebral media...
Hey! Quit offending horses!
Gee, Ted has spoken.
What are we to do now? Are we being threatened? Sure would not want to cross Ted - he knows best.
"...sounds like he wants to koppelate us..."
Cute, but Clinton beat him to that.
"sitting there with his eyes closed"
YES HE WAS!! WITH HIS MOUTH HANGING OPEN.
But .. at first, I thought it was planned so they could get attention .. now I'm changing my mind. If Jennings is making excuses for Clintons actions ..... then HE WASN'T FAKING - HE WAS NODDING OFF!!. LOL!
I love it when the figures of the liberal media show their colors so blatantly.
Best I can remember, Teddy Roosevelt is already on Rushmore, and FDR has a monument in DC.
Reagan and his policies were not contraversal to anyone except the Liberal Commie worshippers in our Congress and their abetting and equally decietful media.
Reagan was completely in Sync with most Americans.
What exactly is Ted Koppel? Who annointed him with the status of official media attack dog against conservatives?
I guess if you are really really boring on network Mad TV and can get a couple thousand bleary eyes liberals to watch you can make pronouncements on anything.
When is he going to read the names of those fallen heroes in the French and Indian Wars?
ROFL... THANK YOU!!!! Perfect likeness!
You didn't have to caption that picture. WE can recognize Billy Butthead anywhere.
Aren't these people pathetic ..?? They're so darned afraid any republican will get credit for anything.
Oh irony, thy name is press-hole. If this isn't synonymous with the real problem with liberal media, nothing I have heard or read, lo these many years, is. It doesn't matter if he had been sitting on President Reagan's casket, taking notes, he would not have actually seen. His vantage point is mute. It's his willing blindness to what is before his very eyes that's the problem I am sick of them. Bitch, whine, deny, refuse, bitchwhinedenyrefuse. It's never ending.
My husband noticed that Lifetime was airing their movie about the Kennedy asassination, complete with the state funeral. The media is SO transparent.
Now I know that is a perfectly good looking horse's behind and I have 6 horses with attractive behinds. To connect them so openly and correctly with our old boy Clintoon, really chaps my behind!!!! But you are very correct. I bothered the dickens out of me to see him in the church with all the others.
Peggy Newnan
Peggy Noonan?
Little. I was thinking the exact same thing. Poor horse !!
At least we know, or have known Ted Koppel is a middle of the road journalist !!
Koppel should have went up front and sat on either Bill or Hillary's laps-they were so far out of it they wouldn't have noticed.
I was in my late twenties when LBJ died, but for the life of me I can't remember it at all - not a thing. But I will never, ever forget President Reagan's! I even re-watched some of the ceremonies today on C-Span that were being re-run. President Reagan - a truly GREAT PRESIDENT!
For the life of me I can't recall Koppel's middle of the road days.
"As we now look at what is now an almost empty Cathedral, I'm thinking of President Clinton who was so happy in churches and in chapels, large and small, sitting there with his eyes closed today, listening to The Battle Hymn of the Republic." - Peter Jennings following the Washington National Cathedral service for Ronald Reagan."
I watched the rurun on cspan today, the impeached one and herheinous slept during Pres. Bush's (43) speach (during the story of the little boy who wanted federal funding to clean his room). Jennings gets it wrong again.
Actually, I think Koppel has a point - Clinton SHOULD be on Mt. Rushmore. We need a way to memorialize America's greatest, impeached, failure of a president so that we never forget and never repeat that mistake.
Otherwise, I like the idea but I'm not sure that Reagan would approve.
I wonder how Teddy would feel about a bill clinton urinal matt....
As if there were no "contentious issues" associated with Teddy Roosevelt and FDR. How about the failure of FDR's administration to properly inform the Pacific commanders about what they knew regarding a coming attack by the Japanese?
I will concede that FDR probably had the most impact of any president in the Twentieth Century, but, of course he had 13 years in office and not all of his impact was to the good.
If FDR had lived a few years after WWII, I think the revelation of communists such as Alger Hiss in his administration would have dwarfed Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal.
FDR's cousin Teddy probably had the next most impact until Ronald Reagan. I think Reagan's victory in the Cold War beats out anything TR did.
Eisenhower made a lot of impact in his life, but most of it was before he became president.
In my opinion, Reagan is the second most significant president of the Twentieth Century behind FDR.
Laughs..Glock(Can I get you something? Here's a pinecone.)..you Rock!
Old Ted "Alfred E. Neuman" Koppel. Didn't I see him about a month ago challenge the correspondent (his name escapes me) who was interviewing him, that he couldn't tell who he voted for in 2000. Koppel is so full of himself.
What does Koppel do for a living? Urinalist?
Can you say Dorian Grey?
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