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Mark Steyn - Media met its match
Washington Times ^
| 6/11/04
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 06/10/2004 10:48:46 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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All weekend long across the networks, media grandees who had voted for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, just like all their friends did, tried to explain the appeal of Ronald Reagan. He was "The Great Communicator." He had a wonderful sense of humor, he had a charming smile. Self-deprecating. The tilt of his head. Twinkle in his eye.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; marksteynlist; ronaldreagan
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posted on
06/10/2004 10:48:46 PM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Mark Steyn is the best!! What a wordsmith!
To: kattracks
Another homerun for Mark Steyn.
"The Great Communicator" was effective because what he communicated was self-evident to all but our decayed elites
The more things change the more they stay the same.
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posted on
06/10/2004 11:10:45 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Some things have to be believed to be seen)
To: clooney4824
Knows a lot of 'em, and uses 'em well.
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posted on
06/10/2004 11:11:29 PM PDT
by
185JHP
( "Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, invincible in battle.")
To: kattracks
"Reagan bolstered the U.S. military might to ruin the Soviet economy, and he achieved his goal" - Gennady Gerasimov, who served as top spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry during the 1980s.
Among Reagan's accomplishments were to "stop the nuclear race, start scrapping nuclear weapons, and arrange normal relations between our countries." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to communism and his efforts to defend human rights" - Yelena Bonner, widow of Soviet dissident Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov
"When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989." Lech Walesa
Not bad. Not bad at all
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posted on
06/10/2004 11:23:36 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Some things have to be believed to be seen)
To: TXBubba
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posted on
06/10/2004 11:40:05 PM PDT
by
beaversmom
(Michael Medved has the Greatest radio show on GOD's Green Earth)
To: kattracks
Peter Robinson, the speech writer who wrote the famous "tear down this wall" speech the other day explained how that phrase came to be. Conventional wisdom held that the German people "had gotten used to the wall" and there was no point in dwelling on it. Peter went out among the people to get a sense of their sentiment and learned they had strong feelings about the wall. He penned the famous phrase and everyone down the line tried desperately to have it removed from the speech. The State Department was apoplectic! Reagan asked Peter to explain why he wrote it that way, understood the meaning, agreed with it completely, and overrode everyone. He kept in the phrase and delivered the address. Important concepts communicated simply and clearly.
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posted on
06/10/2004 11:49:21 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004))
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
06/10/2004 11:51:50 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004))
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posted on
06/11/2004 7:00:39 AM PDT
by
eureka!
(May karma come back to the presstitutes and Rats in a material way.....)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
06/11/2004 7:13:07 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(hoplophobia is a mental aberration rather than a mere attitude)
To: FreedomPoster; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...
Thanks!
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posted on
06/11/2004 11:59:49 AM PDT
by
Pokey78
(quidnunc: A one person crusade to destroy Mark Steyn.)
To: scholar; Bullish; linear; yoda swings
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posted on
06/11/2004 12:10:39 PM PDT
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: Pokey78
To: kattracks; Pokey78
Great un-excerpted column, kattracks.
I really appreciate your pings, Pokey.
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posted on
06/11/2004 12:15:14 PM PDT
by
metesky
(You will be diverse, just like us.)
To: lonevoice
Not bad. Not bad at all
15
posted on
06/11/2004 12:25:47 PM PDT
by
Aeronaut
(Status quo, you know, that is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. RR)
To: kattracks
A Great Article. Thanks for posting it.
God Bless President Reagan.
He is now in the arms of God.
God Bless America!
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posted on
06/11/2004 12:48:23 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: kattracks
Very moving. Great, great job.
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posted on
06/11/2004 1:10:01 PM PDT
by
Paul_B
To: kattracks; dighton; general_re; Pokey78
The elites were stupid about Reagan in a way only clever people can be.
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posted on
06/11/2004 1:56:01 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: Pokey78
Great article !
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posted on
06/11/2004 2:13:58 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Call me the Will Rogers voter: I never met a Democrat I didn't like - to vote OUT OF POWER !)
To: kattracks
He always says it best.
Edmund Morris is a fey boob, btw.
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posted on
06/11/2004 2:30:01 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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