When this sad, pathetic creature dies: no one will care.
Any questions...?
Posted on 06/11/2004 9:33:11 AM PDT by kattracks
America's largest circulation suburban daily newspaper, Newsday, wins the prize for ugliest bit of Reagan-bashing on the day of the great man's funeral, publishing a bile-filled screed by columnist Jimmy Breslin that trashed the American icon as "a callous man" who "hated children.""I don't see how anybody can summon grief [over Reagan's death]," Breslin observed. "His whole weeklong funeral is cheap, utterly distasteful American publicity."
The Reagan-bashing writer usually inhabits Newsday's editorial section. But in a remarkably bizarre editorial decision, Newsday decided to move up Breslin's hate-screed to page A8, in the midst of its news section, right behind a page headlined: "Paying Respects to Ronald Reagan."
Newsday's Breslin tribute to Reagan continued thusly:
"He was a callous man with a smile who cut taxes in 1981 and left [New York] city and state without funds for such things as help for dependent children. He proudly hurt the boroughs of this city more than anyone before or after him. If you live in Brooklyn, the record shows that Ronald Reagan hated children."
Acutally, Reagan's economic policies were a boon for New York - both city and state.
"Before the Gipper came along, New York, the city, was an economic disaster area," noted New York Post columnist Robert Ward on Friday." But during his tenure, "Wall Street boomed, and thus, so did city and state revenues."
New York City added 254,000 jobs and hundreds of thousands of new residents, Ward noted. Their taxes helped fund the war on crime, rebuild infrastructure and minister to thousands afflicted with AIDs.
Most of which, apparently, went unnoticed by Breslin, who proclaimed that a suitable memorial for Reagan would be to put his face on a $3 dollar bill.
Newsday's editors liked the idea so much they used it to headline his column.
Compare this with Paul Wellstone's and get back to me, Jimmy B.
Huh? Nobody reads Newsday in NYC...
Jimmy, put down the bottle and back away from the table.
Jimmy Breslin is a scum bag
Jimmy Breslin is a drunk.
I'm guessing that pretty much anything that couldn't be seen through the bottom of a glass went unnoticed by Breslin...
That's not steak you smell grillin', that's Jimmy's soul turning crispy brown even before his body rejoins it.
His brain tumor must be back.
Long past time for Breslin to hang it up, IMHO.
You are exactly right about that. I just turn off these screeching hate filled idiots. They have no soul.
Go back and play with yourself Jimmy. It is the one and perhaps only thing you have mastered.
When this sad, pathetic creature dies: no one will care.
Any questions...?
You're both right!
---'Cheap, Utterly Distasteful' ---
Describes Breslin perfectly.
Jimmy Breslin is a man for whom hating President Reagan offers himself the only evidence he would have that he is breathing. Otherwise........
Totally understandable coming from a drunk who drank beer for breakfast............and PIEL'S REAL DRAFT no less!
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