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.
It has be REALLY nice not to hear about the over reported Abu Ghraib thingy.
But why do I have a feeling that the Perky One and the rest of the lefty media will have some line tomorrow like "While the nation mourns the loss of President Reagan...the investigation into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal continues..."
Mark my words they will do their best to give Reagan's death a shorter news cycle than Nick Berg.
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.
I have been wrestling with the death of President Reagan this past week and I think, if nothing else, I can give some insight into liberal-think and Ronald Reagan.
For when Reagan was President I was a liberal of the highest order. So was my husband.
Yes, a couple of aging hippies we are, but both now passionate conservatives. So tentatively I bring up the subject of Ronald Reagan because those were the days when we would NEVER have cast a vote or said a kind word about him.
Our vitriol was not, in those days, as hateful and mean as the libs of today, but we did, as expected, dislike any conservative and there was nothing Reagan could do that would impress either one of us. We were cool and way smarter than him.
So I did some thinking about my liberal memories of Reagan and I'm vague. I wasn't quite as political as I am now but I did have the mentality of a liberal at the time. As I recall, my mental image of Reagan was that he was not really the President, that his administration was basically a committee type of affair. I definitely recall thinking he was a war monger and very dangerous. Understand this is not reality I'm talking about here, just my memory of liberal-think.
"I didn't much care for Reagan," my husband said at my request for his feelings about his death. I knew he would say that. He was a liberal at the time.
As for myself, hell I marched on Washington the day he was nominated, wearing green in protest of his supposed intentions to turn back all the social gains of feminists.
On the day he was nominated they released the Iran hostages and I remember thinking what a public relations crock that was.
As for the Soviet Union and the Berlin wall thing, I remember thinking how stupid to tell Gorbechev to tear down a wall....any idiot could have said that. And I certainly never understood why he got elected twice in a landslide. The wise *I* never voted for him.
"I wasn't crazy about the Iran-Contra thing," husband replied to my query as to why he didn't like Reagan.
I, like most liberals then and today, didn't understand Iran-Contra at all but I knew that Reagan did something bad and what could we expect?
The media was in a frenzy about it is all I remember and in my liberal heart I knew they were on to something. The media counts on people like me to hear their sound bytes and conclude evil when none is there.
Since his death I have listened to every pundit and read all the ink on President Reagan and I feel sooooo bad. Because everything said about Reagan can be said about our current President and I think the world of George Dubya.
So why was I so down on Reagan? Because I was a liberal. It's how they think. Read my tagline.
I really wish I had taken the time to be fair to this great man for now I know that he had the best interests of this country at heart. And the country loved him.
I always wondered why. Now I know. And I know how an idealology can blind you to reality.
NEVER AGAIN!