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Liberals Cheered When Reagan Was Shot
Newsbusters and Others ^ | March 30, 2013 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 01/14/2018 4:54:52 PM PST by tom h

[Vanity] Freepers, please provide your own story of what happened during March 1981 when you first heard the news that President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr.

I was an Ivy League graduate student at the time, in a technical field, and I was shocked to hear faculty in my engineering department say they were glad that Reagan was shot.

Wayne Allyn Root relays a story from Columbia, where all his classmates leaped into the air, cheering wildly, as if the Columbia football team had finally scored a touchdown. [http://rootforamerica.com/the-real-obama-agenda-direct-from-his-columbia-university-classmate/]

The Newbuster article referenced above relays some AP and UPI stories about schoolchildren cheering as well.

What are your stories? If you are age 60 or older you will no doubt have some recollection.

Thanks.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: 1980election; 1984election; assassination; election1980; election1984; liberals; reagan
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To: tom h
I wasn't watching TV in those days, but I was at a friend's house when someone called and said to turn the TV on.

We sat there stunned. It was Good Friday and I prayed that he wouldn't die.

21 posted on 01/14/2018 5:32:25 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: tom h
Liberals hated Reagan and were just as nasty as they are too Trump (even though now many claimed to have liked Reagan or even claim Reagan was really a liberal by today's standards...both bald faced lies.)

Don't believe me? Go to one of those magazine archive sites and pull a few leftist political magazines from the early 1980's. They portrayed Reagan as an insane, reckless cowboy who was too stupid for the job, who the rest of world hated and was probably going to start World War III (sound familiar).

The only difference is that back in the 1980's you had to seek them out to hear the liberals utter hatred, now because of the Internet and 24 hour news it's all over the place instantly.

22 posted on 01/14/2018 5:34:23 PM PST by apillar
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To: Slyfox

“We sat there stunned. It was Good Friday and I prayed that he wouldn’t die. “


No it wasn’t Good Friday.


23 posted on 01/14/2018 5:37:02 PM PST by Mears
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To: tom h

In those days, I was a far Leftist. I won’t share what went on within the group I was associated with. It wasn’t gleeful, though.


24 posted on 01/14/2018 5:39:38 PM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: tom h

I didn’t see anything like this - but I don’t doubt that it occurred. I do remember When JFK was assassinated my grandmother saying, “Good. I never liked that SOB”.


25 posted on 01/14/2018 5:39:58 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: tom h

I remember walking through a grocery store; kind of a superstore precursor to Walmart. Anyway, the TVs in the music/ electronics area toward the front of the store were on and there was a crowd gathered around. No cheering, very somber.


26 posted on 01/14/2018 5:41:02 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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To: tom h
At my place of business, nobody cheered. I got the news from a Russian émigré who was almost in tears. "They didn't waste any time," he said. I knew who "they" were in his mind.
27 posted on 01/14/2018 5:47:41 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Wayne Allyn Root relays a story from Columbia, where all his classmates leaped into the air, cheering wildly, as if the Columbia football team had finally scored a touchdown.


28 posted on 01/14/2018 6:07:09 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: tom h
They thereby, probably very unwittingly, triggered the Curse God laid out for those who rejoiced when their enemy fell.

I bet if you had somehow tracked all those with that attitude, you'd have found they incurred some serious hassles, devastations, troubles in life.

29 posted on 01/14/2018 6:08:17 PM PST by JockoManning (to cpy/paste if want: http://preview.tinyurl.com/Haiku-For-The-End-Times)
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To: tom h

It’s funny, I frequently get compliments for stellar long term memory going back to when I slept in a crib, but I don’t recall that specific day. I don’t remember what I was doing or anything. I was in the Marine Corps reserve at the time, and was a huge fan of President Reagan. Maybe I just never doubted that he’d pull through.


30 posted on 01/14/2018 6:16:29 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

I was a union laborer working on a new VA hospital in The South Bronx, NY. Folks were happy as hell.


31 posted on 01/14/2018 6:20:26 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: dfwgator

If (God forbid) Trump is shot or killed, There will be dancing in Chicago and Hollywood—Then will come the fake tears on CNN.


32 posted on 01/14/2018 6:22:23 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: tom h

A “language arts” teacher is the only person I can recall hoping he wouldn’t make it. Everyone else even as Democrat-dominated as the town was, were concerned. But then, those were the now extinct gun-toting flag waving two genders Democrats, not the newfangled suicidal socialist gender-challenged kind.


33 posted on 01/14/2018 6:25:20 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: tom h

Though I didn’t witness any of what I’m about to say, I’m pretty sure that many liberals did weep when Reagan was shot. Not, not because he was shot. I’m pretty sure that millions of democrats wept or felt sad and angry because Reagan had survived.


34 posted on 01/14/2018 6:28:12 PM PST by adorno
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To: tom h

I had a big excavation job going in New Milford, NJ, with 50 trucks hauling dirt to a landfill in Rockland County, NY.

When on of the chauffeurs started yelling “Reagan has just been shot”, the whole job stopped, all very angry men.

I knocked the job off, sent everyone home, very somber, told everyone to come back in the morning. The next morning it was much happier, the sense of relief was very apparent.


35 posted on 01/14/2018 6:29:47 PM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: tom h
I’m sorry, I don’t remember anything like the negative experiences you are reporting. I was in high school, everyone around me was subdued, and there was no expression of glee of any kind. (That includes my teachers.)

When the pope was shot there was more shock and condemnation, but absolutely no one took joy in either event.

I am surprised anyone’s experience was so different.

36 posted on 01/14/2018 6:33:20 PM PST by untenured
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To: tom h

Was glad when Bobby Kennedy was shot.


37 posted on 01/14/2018 6:37:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: tom h

I was working at a nursing home with a large black staff here in upstate NY. Yep, they cheered.


38 posted on 01/14/2018 6:42:01 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: rockrr

My parents said something similar when JFK was shot, without the “SOB” part. We knew a lot about his antics that never was reported, as house staff of the Kennedy friends/neighbors went to my uncle’s church in FL. The Kennedys were pigs; all of ‘em.


39 posted on 01/14/2018 6:43:10 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Thumper1960

I can only imagine what “far leftists” did for fun and amusement back then.


40 posted on 01/14/2018 6:53:13 PM PST by tom h
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