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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: Mo1
Who's got the popcorn?

I'm ready!


81 posted on 06/07/2004 12:01:15 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: txradioguy
If they start dancing on his grave...it will blow up in their faces bigger than the Wellstone Pep Rally!

This is the Republicans' chance to show the country how a funeral shoul be done.

Noonan is right to expect the media to blow on Saturday. From what I hear, the Reagan family is preparing a state funeral like none that we have ever seen. With the G8 meeting going in Atlanta, there will be plenty of foreign heads of state already here who will attend.

-PJ

82 posted on 06/07/2004 12:01:34 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: CyberAnt

Rumors? I was merely alluding to his best-known on-air brain flatulence.


83 posted on 06/07/2004 12:02:34 AM PDT by RichInOC (Ronald Wilson Reagan, 2/6/11-6/5/04, R.I.P.)
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To: SuziQ

Share-zeeees!!


84 posted on 06/07/2004 12:06:53 AM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: RichInOC

Well .. your reply proves I was right .. you are stupid.


85 posted on 06/07/2004 12:07:57 AM PDT by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: Bonaparte

Indeed -- thanks.


86 posted on 06/07/2004 12:08:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: Reagan Man

> PresBush best watch out. After a week of
> accolades for Reagan, the partisan media
> will be ready to pick up their attacks on
> Bush with a vengence.

Exactly. It's funny to hear them at the point of tears as they praise Reagan, you can bet they'll channel that pain into more lashing out at Bush.


87 posted on 06/07/2004 1:43:03 AM PDT by EaglesUpForever
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To: Arkinsaw
I don't think so. Dan is a bit of an emotional flake. I'm frankly surprised that he doesn't tear up every time he is on the air.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?
88 posted on 06/07/2004 2:04:46 AM PDT by dyed_in_the_wool (Why do Al Qaeda and DNC press releases always sound the same?)
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To: txradioguy
Reagan Commemoration Driving Media Nuts

a little late for that I think.

89 posted on 06/07/2004 2:06:12 AM PDT by Once-Ler (Proud Republican. and Bushbot.)
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To: txradioguy

Next week, the nasties will start...but the mass media will wait a few months out of phony respect (read: to minimize public outrage) before laying it on thicker. Then, in a few years, the so-called skeletons in the family closet will come out, the new version of history for the next generation and the destruction of President Reagan's character and legacy will have begun in full.


90 posted on 06/07/2004 2:23:22 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Correction--the G-8 Summit is taking place at Sea Island, GA about 60 miles south of Savannah not in Atlanta.

BTW, Bush has already arrived at the Summit coming directly from Europe. What an incredible week for our President. Please keep him in your prayers.

91 posted on 06/07/2004 2:24:11 AM PDT by Atlantian
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
"Plus this and the D-Day stories are sure going to cramp the libs style pushing their precious Abu Grabass stories to later pages and segments, where it should have been to begin with"

Agreed. They really hate being interrupted by news when they're on a propaganda roll. They buried the murder of Nick Berg with "Abu Grabass", but they can't bury this. I'd better pick up some popcorn today.

92 posted on 06/07/2004 2:28:42 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: cake_crumb

The poor press, what are they to do, Jesse Jackson
says they are all tools of the rabid right, it must
really gaul them to have to come out with this now.

Take a peek at the Jesse thread it's a doozy!

Democrats are the little guy etc.


93 posted on 06/07/2004 2:48:22 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Its a back handed compliment to the power of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy! hehehe


94 posted on 06/07/2004 2:54:51 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: tet68
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? The lefty media has always done the bidding of the DNC, while lefty politicians assuse them of being tools of the VRWC.

We know those accusations are being made with a wink and a nod to the Dan Ratherites while all of them delude themselves into believing this belated attempt at guilt projection is snowing us stupid, jumped up peasants. What's amazing is that the moronic left doesn't know we know.

95 posted on 06/07/2004 2:56:24 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: cake_crumb
Well, it's a case of the emperors new clothes,
they refused to see the truth about X42 so now they absolutely cannot admit to any thing else. Hoist by their own media petard.
96 posted on 06/07/2004 2:59:58 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: conservative in nyc
If you have a very strong stomach, take a look at Monday's New York Slimes editorial:

I didn't look, but if they put negative stuff only on the editorial page, they're not as bad as the Los Angeles Times, which editorialized on the main "news" story on the top half of the front page that Clinton achieved more than Reagan. It was only in the 4th paragraph (very early in the article, since their paragraphs are usually only 1-2 sentences nowadays). Even a moderate-liberal lady I know who usually likes the LAT fumed that she stopped reading after that totally inappropriate sentence.

97 posted on 06/07/2004 3:06:53 AM PDT by heleny
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To: tet68

I call 'em the Masters of Delusion.


98 posted on 06/07/2004 3:07:09 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: txradioguy

Of course, some are going in the back door. What papers didn't have a half page article on kadafi regretting that the former President died before being tried for war crimes? --with listing all the reasons this brainiac could come up with.


99 posted on 06/07/2004 3:23:06 AM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: Tall_Texan
As much as I despise the lyin' POS, I still won't dance on anyone's demise. I refuse to debase myself for their actions, and I won't let them dictate my responses.

You go right ahead, and I'll cheer.

100 posted on 06/07/2004 3:25:39 AM PDT by Maigrey (Gee, fellas, I didn't know there were any good restaurants this far out. - R. Reagan)
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