Noonan: Reagan Commemoration Driving Media Nuts

NewsMax.com ^ | 07 June 2004 | Staff Reports

[FreedomPoster]

That's a really good idea. I need to get that working again on my PC. Have a little walkman-type radio wired to the sound card on my PC, just need to find the app that does the sound capture.

[MindBender26]

>Rather HATED Reagan W. -- just as he hates George W.

From personal experience, Dan also hates Dan

He is an unstable, lying man who will do anything to get ahead.

Cronkite HATES him, not just because he pushed Walter out the door, but because he called Kennedy dead on rumors, not fact and Walter put it on the air before it was confirmed.

His personal habits were or are more like Clinton that many know. Back when he covered the Civil Rights movement in the South, there were few Hertz Rent-a-Car girls who hadn't enjoyed an up close and personal interview with Big Dan.

[Gritty]

I've never been a Liberal, so I've never had to deal with this sort of personal political deception and lunacy, but I see it all the time in others and one always marvels at how people can be so delusional they refuse to see the truth when it is right before their eyes.

But, I have been an atheist and am now a Christian so I know how the mind and ego can deceive the willing, despite all evidence to the contrary. We all must battle our human tendency to a foolish heart. Combined with our "sin nature" this can be a formidable task. It is very difficult when those around us are agreeing with us and feeding our foolishness and self-imposed blindnesses.

Nice analysis of a common malady which you have had. Glad you have come over from the Dark Side.

[sarasota]

Chris has become a thoughtless blowhard who has to be "right". As long as he speaks quickly and with emphasis, he thinks thinks the viewer will perceive it as "truth". He's not even fun to watch anymore because he's become a cartoon.

[sarasota]

It's well past time for Donaldson to hang up his microphone. Out to pasture with you Sam.

[Dog Gone]

That is perhaps the most hateful and inaccurate editorial I have ever seen. The New York Times has sunk to a new low.

[b4its2late]

"Courage"

[Lee'sGhost]

Sorry, John, I think for once you are wrong. I believe that Rather was tearing up because his career was largely connected to reporting on and denigrating Dutch. The tears appear because Reagan's passing forces him to consider his own mortality. The difference is that when he dies no one will give a sh!t.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"I'll bet they start pulling a few political [stunts] - kind of letting their biases out a little bit more.

You mean like Dan Rather-biased sticking his tongue dramatically in his cheek before he reads something positive about Reagan like he did the other night?

[GWB00]

It sure will be great to see Katie Colonic in the morning ( and all week ) as she has to grit her teeth and twist her colon to act like she's saying nice things about President Reagan.

Since everybody in the media was looking back at Reagan and his life this weekend, I thought I would add my memory.

Does any remember Bryant Gumbel on the Today show always linking Reagan to any problem in America??? It was the funniest thing to watch and this was before the new media could call him out on such bias.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Apply tag line to all lefty journalists...enjoy

strategery + shadenfreude = stratenshadenfreudery)

No making up words!

I watched Fox yesterday and it was a sad occasion, yet it was heart-warming hearnig the flow of love for our wonderful president. May God rest his soul and may the fifth column continue to seethe...

[texasbluebell]

At yesterday's funderal home new conference some lib reporter asked who is paying for the state funeral!!!!!!!!

When the idiot said that, I said to the tv, it's a state funeral...duh!

[ride the whirlwind]

Thank you for sharing your insights from the past. This is for you, as I'm sure this man would be very proud of the breakthrough you and your husband have experienced:

[rbmillerjr]

"Who will be the first reporter, journalist, editor, politician to go on a full court Reagan rant???? And when will it occur??"

Even money on :
Margaret Carlson or
Elanore Clift

[FrankR]

""I would say that by next Friday night, they're going to blow.""

Ya know, I'm sure they will...some of the outlets are already hammering Reagan as hard as they can...but...my question is, WHAT'S THE POINT?

Other than somehow transferring their problems with Reagan, over to Bush (which they already have for the most part), what exactly is to be gained by tromping on Reagan?

Is this some sort of sick effort by the media to try and prove their case for bashing him while he was in the White House...are they trying to say, "see...we were right" ?

What are they going to try for, a posthumous impeachment?

There is just too much media. Squirrely little liberals who always wanted to "be on TV", and too the easy way through college with "journalism". Now there are so many of them, they dig at angles which border on absurd, for their "stories".

Their life's survival depends on filing "something" with the editor before deadline. There are too many reporters, and too many outlets, and the news has become essentially "tabloid", beginning with the Inquirer, all the way up to NYTimes and Network News.

It's pathetic. But, the past 15 years have been better for me, as I stopped watching network news, and stopped reading newspapers...even my local one, which has also become a liberal rag.

If Dan Rather comes on my TV, it's because someone else put it there...and I switch it immediately. He needs to retire.

[SpookBrat]

And I'll tell you, there's going to be an explosion next weekend [after Reagan is buried].

I expect it. Do you? We'll never hear the end of it.

[xzins]

I already heard it this morning. I wake up to WLW radio in Cincy, and the DJ, Jim Scott, was interviewing Steve Roberts, a former NYTimes reporter who currently is affiliated with ABC. Roberts had been assigned to Reagan a number of times.

In the interview he kept repeating that everything Pres. Reagan did was scripted, even his kidding around. Everything was because he was a consummate actor. It was a carefully designed low blow.

I've read a few articles this morning where they're starting to pick at the Reagan legacy. One was openly hostile.

Here's my bet: this coverage is going to help Pres. Bush. Watch Rasmussen's poll numbers on the Bush/Kerry matchup. I predict that the Rasmussen poll, which has been a dead heat for weeks with neither candidate having any lead beyond the margin of error , will finally give a lead to GW by the end of the week that is beyond the margin of error.

If that happens, expect a vicious attack next week.....not on President Reagan (that would be self-defeating), but on PRESIDENT Bush.

[shield]

I liked what one guest on CNN said. I never never watch CNN, but I was curious how they were presenting President Reagan.

The guest compared Bush and Reagan, he said: Both are from the west, both were governors and both would have rather be on their ranches than in DC. When you think about it Bush and Reagan as Presidents are so much alike. I think its making people think alot about this.

Communism vs Terrorist

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[Redbob]

Something tells me I couldn't afford that Reagan button today!