Posted on 06/06/2004 9:47:26 PM PDT by txradioguy
Reporters who regularly slammed Ronald Reagan while he was president are quietly seething now that they're forced to mouth platitudes about the man's greatness, former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan said Sunday night.
"[Journalists] are willing, over the next few days, to concede what is so obvious that they have to concede it - his personal goodness, etc.," Noonan told Matt Drudge on his radio show.
But with a solid week of commemorations for the conservative icon still ahead, liberal reporters will barely be able to contain themselves, she predicted.
"I'll bet they start pulling a few political [stunts] - kind of letting their biases out a little bit more. And I'll tell you, there's going to be an explosion next weekend [after Reagan is buried].
"That will mean that the elite journalistic media will have gone through seven days of talking kindly about Reagan," said Noonan. "I would say that by next Friday night, they're going to blow."
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.
>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.
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.
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.
It's well past time for Donaldson to hang up his microphone. Out to pasture with you Sam.
That is perhaps the most hateful and inaccurate editorial I have ever seen. The New York Times has sunk to a new low.
"Courage"
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?
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.
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...
When the idiot said that, I said to the tv, it's a state funeral...duh!
"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
I expect it. Do you? We'll never hear the end of it.
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.
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
bump
Something tells me I couldn't afford that Reagan button today!
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