Posted on 06/10/2004 5:53:19 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Weepy Reagan Tribute-Free Zone
June 9, 2004
BY NEIL STEINBERG SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST "That's it. While I'm sorry Reagan is dead -- though at 93, we saw that coming, didn't we? -- I'm going nuts with the tributes. It's as if he was a 16-year-old couple who drove into a tree, with the candles and the floral tributes and such.
We've become a culture of babies, where every death is Princess Diana's. It's enough to sour you on the departed. Over the years, I nudged closer to a grudging respect for Reagan, but this overkill is sending me back toward being the person who had a "REAGAN SUCKS'' button on his bulletin board. I've been having these wicked 1980s flashbacks. About the 25th time I saw "Ronald Wilson Reagan'' in another somber tribute, I found myself thinking "Ronald Wilson Reagan ... each name has six letters ... 6-6-6 ... the Mark of the Beast.'' That thought is 20 years old; we used to think stuff like that. It was a wild exaggeration, of course, to view Reagan as the Master of Evil. But this adorationfest is a wild exaggeration, too"
Steinberg is part of the liberal crowd that cannot stand to see the admiration and respect that the majority of the citizens have for Ronald Reagan.
Steinberg is disgusting in his bashing of Ronald Reagan.
Libs are starting to crack.
Envy makes people do incredible things. Steinberg knows that HE will never be mourned by millions. What a small, small man, to write such a thing at such a time.
" where every death is Princess Diana's."
Idiot can't reconcile his hatred of Reagan to compare that sappy overblown coverage of a clothes horse to the respect and dignity due one of our greatest presidents.
Neil Steinberg sucks!
Ronald Reagan proved that there are some decent liberals worth trying to salvage -- and he salvaged some of them and turned them into conservatives. But, sadly, there are some like this jerk who will never get it. He'd have to have a decent heart in the first place.
Be honest, Neil. You hate Reagan for what he did. Reagan took away your Shadowy-City-in-the-Fog, the dream of a greater Socialist Utopia. By shattering the Evil Empire, Reagan broke the hearts of liberals and leftists everywhere. That's what's got you down, Neil. Admit it. Be a man, not some slime lying on the sidewalk.
Hey, Neil..baby. Are ya go'n nuts with the Abu Ghrab over kill, too, or just this?
Even in death you drive the amoral, socialist, liberal slime toward the cliffs of doom.
Back to Neil. As "Ed Gold" writing in the free weekly The Chicago Reader, in his final column of the "Bob Watch," he wrote the same thing about Greene. Robert (six letters) the middle name (I think it was Edward---again, six letters,), Greene. Six letters.
One of Steinberg's criticisms of Bob Greene was that he was recycling his old columns.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Yep, wondered how long it would take.
This is about the third article I've read this AM along the same lines.
Funny part is, since the public affection for Reagan is so obvious, the Dems are between a rock and a hard place.
They feel like they have to say "nice things", but in reality, they thought of Reagan just about how they think of Bush. But I think the Dems are trying to use their "affection" for Reagan against Bush.
I, personally, would rather see the Dem politicians being honest, because I get the feeling they're trying to be dishonest about how they felt about Reagan, in order to shed a negative image on Bush.
In other words, what they say to the press seems like, "Yeah, Reagan, he was a great man. There was a leader we could get along with. Unlike Bush, who is a loner and we can't get along with him or his ways."
Time to call your psychiatrist, Neil. I think you need a med adjustment.
Dick Cheney yesterday: "If Ronald Reagan ever uttered a cynical, or cruel, or selfish word, the moment went unrecorded."
How about that for contrast?
Hmmm, wonder if he and Ted Rall are related?
Make a note to just screw Neil in the ground under an active outhouse so he can get the daily tribute he deserves.
mc
Actually, they stated to crack years ago during FDR's terms. Then they seem to have forgotten how overboard they went during the Welstone funeral (campaign show). That showed their cracks bigtime.
First of all, they were absolutely hateful to Reagan during his time in office. There are many quotes already posted of what Kerry said, let alone the rest of them.
Secondly, they are trying to imply that Bush hasn't made an effort to get along and place the blame on HIM for the vitriol in Washington, when it is obvious that it is the democrats who have, from DAY ONE done nothing but criticize and obstruct. I well remember Bush making the effort to speak to the democrat caucus meeting right after his Inauguration. What did he get? Sniping comments about his appearance from people like Pelosi.
Keep on going, mainstream media. Keep on trying to brainwash us. We aren't falling for it, and all it does is help more and more people get your number.
This man has no concept of Greatness because Liberals will never achieve the same stature.
Even a week after he's dead, the Gipper gets their goat !
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