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Critics Still Getting It Wrong
New York Post ^
| 6/9/04
| John Podheretz
Posted on 06/08/2004 11:31:15 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
MEMO to all those who believe that Ronald Reagan is being unfairly lionized in death: Bring it on.
The undercurrent of unhappiness at the elegiac coverage of the Gipper isn't really an undercurrent at all by now. Rather, it's a stream that will soon overflow its bounds and become a flood.
I'm not talking about the "I'm glad he's dead" garbage peddled by Internet leftists desperate for a Drudge Report link. I'm referring to the discomfort expressed publicly by major media figures about how the Reagan coverage is unbalanced — and how his supposed failures need to be dissected and lovingly dissected.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: godblessronaldreagan; liberalmediabias; reaganfuneral; ronaldreagan; ronaldwilsonreagan
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; kayak
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"But I don't know anybody who voted for him" (I know this was said about Nixon but it is still appropriate of the journalist mindset)
1984 election results. Blue= Reagan, Red= Mondale.
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posted on
06/08/2004 11:50:54 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
To: Brad's Gramma
I agree! Bumpski-doodle-dandy!!!
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posted on
06/08/2004 11:51:30 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(We are in a war. The enemy is Islam. It's time we stopped pretending otherwise.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Brad's Gramma
I'm referring to the discomfort expressed publicly by major media figures about how the Reagan coverage is unbalanced — and how his supposed failures need to be dissected and lovingly dissected. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like they spent the week of Diana's death and funeral talking about all her weaknesses and failings. That coverage was fully balanced. /sarcasm
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:14:44 AM PDT
by
kayak
(In Memoriam ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan ~ 1911-2004)
To: kayak
To paraphrase Orwell, "some coverage is more balanced than others".
I'm sort of enjoying watching the left have a meltdown.
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:33:43 AM PDT
by
kb2614
(".....We've done nothing and were all out of ideas!!")
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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posted on
06/09/2004 3:28:13 AM PDT
by
RippleFire
("It was just a scratch")
To: kayak
The pressitutes/propagandist only want BAD/EVIL things to fill the news 24/7 to bring down the spirits of Americans to where they were when President Reagan took office.
The pressitutes are evil people, just as the Soviet Union was evil.
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posted on
06/09/2004 4:28:01 AM PDT
by
GailA
(hanoi john kerry, I'm for the death penalty, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I have a question. Do article or opinion pieces by the New York Post have to be exerpted now? You and Kattracks each excerpted an opinion piece from the Post.
Just curious
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posted on
06/09/2004 10:22:03 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: kayak
"Well 'royalty' is a bad thing but she was truly the peoples' princess." < /sarcasm >
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posted on
06/09/2004 12:48:09 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
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