Oh, yeah..he said it. In fact, he gave a history lesson going over the eloquence of Lincoln's speeches, like those at Gettysburg, while talking about the rheotirc of FDR. He made a point to say that RWR had speech writers and that the thoughts were never his own. He essentially called him a shallow man. He even said that Reagan made compassion, unfashionable.
Interesting, since CNN talked about this and even conceded that with the release of Nancy's personal letters and RWR diary, the liberals had him all wrong. He was, in fact, an extremely substantive person...who while filled with idealism (a liberal trait), actually sought to fulfill those dreams through substantive acts, unlike liberals who talk a good game. David Corn was even worse on CNN as the debated Laura Ingraham.