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Noonan: Reagan Commemoration Driving Media Nuts
NewsMax.com ^ | 07 June 2004 | Staff Reports

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."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; mediabias; peggynoonan; ronaldreagan; thegipper
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To: stocksthatgoup
Who will be the first reporter, journalist, editor, politician to go on a full court Reagan rant???? And when will it occur??

I think your question deserves it's own thread. Please Freepmail me if you do that.

181 posted on 06/07/2004 1:21:21 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is (still ) a Smug and Holier- than- Thou Socialist)
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To: txradioguy

The passing of the 20th Century's best President and the 60th Anniversary of D-day. All and all, a real bad weekend for the RAT media.


182 posted on 06/07/2004 1:31:06 PM PDT by wjcsux ("Communists read Marx and Lenin, Anti-Communists understand Marx and Lenin" -R.Reagan)
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To: AFPhys; Fishtalk
Many thanks for the ping/alert! I would have missed it otherwise and I should NOT have.

Fishtalk...thanks for your posts.You've come SUCH a very long way! The scales fell from your eyes,thankfully,and you've come into the light.Welcome home. :-)

Once upon a time,not all that long ago,without talk radio,FNC,and the net,getting the truth out there,was a feat of Herculean magnitude!Generations of people could be hoodwinked;now that more difficult.But all of us still have a job...removing the blinders from those who still refuse to see.

183 posted on 06/07/2004 1:41:52 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ELS; All; kristinn; tgslTakoma; Bonaparte

We're working on this idea now. I probably have some "I Miss President Reagan" buttons in a box somewhere. I'll let everyone know if I can get some made in time.


184 posted on 06/07/2004 3:14:09 PM PDT by Angelwood (FReepers are Everywhere! We Support Our Troops! (Hillary's Vast Rt Wg Conspiracy))
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To: txradioguy

Dan Ratherbiased can choke on his fake tears.


185 posted on 06/07/2004 3:19:19 PM PDT by petercooper (Now, who's this Joe Mayo everyone's talking about?)
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To: txradioguy

Dan's daughter is a fundraiser for the Texas Democrat Party, as I understand it, and there is no affinity between Rather and Reagan other than the fact that both their names start with an "R."


186 posted on 06/07/2004 4:08:11 PM PDT by Theodore R. (When will they ever learn?)
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To: sauropod

So, what you're saying is that he's wearing mohair on his pate?


187 posted on 06/07/2004 4:33:52 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! -- RIP, President Reagan)
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To: bray
The liberals have latched onto the cause of so-called human rights for homosexuals. Now that Communism is all but dead to the world, the liberals have to champion something.
188 posted on 06/07/2004 6:09:57 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad (Rising waves, what motive is behind your impulse? The desire to reach upwards.)
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To: nutmeg
"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."

LOL, she knows them really well.

189 posted on 06/07/2004 7:16:17 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul (I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: NYC GOP Chick; sauropod
Have tears in my eyes laughing, Chickie. The mohair you see is from the back of his head. It's a horrible comb-over.

As I recall, sauropod, old Sammy boy was doing some kind of a scandalous story on all the ways bad Americans make money. Sam found out a terrific way to make money the way the bad Americans make money by buying a mohair ranch in New Mexico. He gets a subsidy from the U.S. Government for not producing mohair.

There was another story about him buying a jojoba ranch somewhere. Another U.S. Government subsidy.

190 posted on 06/07/2004 9:00:21 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: txradioguy
Someone said last night that Dan Rather was tearing up talking about Pres. Reagan

Isn't there a limit on the number of times a news anchor can attempt to reenact the 1963 Cronkite moment? I think Rather has exceeded his allotment.

Save your crocodile tears Dan!

191 posted on 06/07/2004 11:03:19 PM PDT by Spotsy (The news media should report the news, not manufacture it)
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To: txradioguy
"I would say that by next Friday night, they're going to blow."

They already blow.

192 posted on 06/08/2004 4:58:07 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,Election '04...It's going to be a bumpy ride,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø)
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To: txradioguy
Nothing could drive the media further off the rails for longer than a move to put Reagan on Mt. Rushmore.

So9

193 posted on 06/08/2004 5:59:56 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: Riley

I can already tell you one who isn't worth watching any more - although with even a modicum of intellect you would have already known this - (P)MSNBC. The day after his death they trotted out this memoriam that somehow highlighted Iran-Contra above everything. No wonder the cellar-dwellers of the ratings race NEVER GET IT.


194 posted on 06/08/2004 6:36:22 AM PDT by Spacetrucker
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To: txradioguy

Probably just a touch of gas;)


195 posted on 06/08/2004 7:07:53 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: bray

Right! Why don't these newly-minted "friends" of President Reagan support our current President, who is fighting an enemy that is the direct successor of Soviet Communism in terms of seeking to undermine the West and destroy America?


196 posted on 06/08/2004 7:16:20 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: ride the whirlwind
Being a lifelong registered Democrat, I really never planned it that way, but...

I voted for Reagan in every election in which he ran.
: )

197 posted on 06/08/2004 7:26:38 AM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either.)
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To: Publius6961

Just 1 heart attack from the libs would make my week complete! Someone is bound to explode their blood pressure over the ongoing hypocrasy they have to display this week - who will it be? If I had to pick, someone like Kennedy, Byrd or Leahy (old, decrepit and ready to pop)


198 posted on 06/08/2004 8:53:18 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: txradioguy

Shepard Smith (besides being an incompetent boob) is a snide little man.


199 posted on 06/08/2004 10:15:13 AM PDT by Endeavor
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