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Shhhh! Joan Rivers Was a Ronald Reagan Supporter
NewsBusters ^ | September 5, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/05/2014 9:20:08 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Shhh! Don't tell this to the Mainstream Media but Joan Rivers was a big Ronald Reagan supporter.        

In the Joan Rivers obituaries you will sometimes see mention about her being friends with Nancy Reagan. However what you haven't seen yet is the fact that Rivers was a supporter of Ronald Reagan to the extent that she helped him out in his 1984 re-election campaign. It was noted at the time and many liberals were displeased as you can see from the very title of this snarky Washington Post article reprinted in the Eugene Register-Guard published early in the 1984 campaign on August 24 of that year, Nancy Reagan didn't mind Joan Rivers' off-color jokes:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: joanrivers; ronaldreagan
Something you haven't read in the obituaries but as you can see back in 1984, the MSM wasn't too happy about this.
1 posted on 09/05/2014 9:20:08 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Joan Rivers worked with Steve Forbes during his short run yeas ago.


2 posted on 09/05/2014 9:21:59 AM PDT by Hildy
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Oh come on. The MSM knows it. That’s why their reaction to her death has been so tempered.


3 posted on 09/05/2014 9:25:22 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: PJ-Comix

Me too!!!


4 posted on 09/05/2014 9:25:49 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: PJ-Comix

I listened to her radio show a little and she was on our side.


5 posted on 09/05/2014 9:27:59 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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I hear that before PJ

She was pretty conservative lady


6 posted on 09/05/2014 9:30:29 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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That’s our Joan! Giving the lame-stream heart attacks since 1984 and before! Ride that new way Joan, send ‘em lightening.


7 posted on 09/05/2014 9:31:14 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: PJ-Comix

I don’t think I would consider her jokes off color. She was blunt and sharp. The only comics I can stand these days are the Blue Collar Comedy Tour guys.


8 posted on 09/05/2014 9:32:38 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: Steely Tom

Having been a Reagan supporter is waaaaaaaay worse than having been a pedophile. THAT would garner pages and pages of weeping obits. For weeks and months on end, no less.


9 posted on 09/05/2014 9:32:38 AM PDT by EDINVA
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As a celebrity in her 80s, she sure went out on a high note, I was hoping she would recover so that we could hear the cracks about her in a coma, but as it is, she was having a very big moment in the public’s eye, when she died.


10 posted on 09/05/2014 9:37:10 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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Gonna miss you Joan but really, really miss Reagan. It felt like a real man and leader was our president with Old Dutch at the helm. Not so fond of Nancy though but she wasn’t an overbearing wife hack in the pol realm like Hellary or Tranny-ooch.


11 posted on 09/05/2014 9:53:44 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: ansel12

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How many times can you say, 'Cow goes moo, pig goes oink?'
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12 posted on 09/05/2014 9:54:26 AM PDT by Baynative (Free people are not equal, equal people are not free.)
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I remember when Shirley Temple died, it came out that she was a Republican, and the vicious, hateful remarks began. I wonder if this will happen now with Joan Rivers? No celebrity is allowed to be a Republican, obviously.


13 posted on 09/05/2014 10:28:51 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
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It wasn’t a hidden fact about Shirley Temple. She ran for Congress in the ‘60s as one and served as an Ambassador under GOP Administrations.


14 posted on 09/05/2014 10:31:31 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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I guess Ms. Rivers’ thighs are now thin.


15 posted on 09/05/2014 1:34:01 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Barry is but a symptom of the disease that killed this republic. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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I think she’s going to be spending awhile kicking the crap out of Edgar.


16 posted on 09/05/2014 1:49:20 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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