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.
Complete proof of the 1960s conventional wisdom that you may get over mono but you'll never get over Piel's, the official beer of the Northampton Fair, back then.
Seriously, it's been a chore to read Breslin for several years now. His first wife died and he quit drinking and he just lost it. Nothing less pleasant than a sobered-up Irish drunk, this Irishman says (as do others.)
I know the Tribune Co. had a bad year last year because the LA Times lost so many subscribers due to the attack on Gov. Schwarzenegger but Breslin is probably hurting them too. You'd have to be Michael Moore to agree with anything Breslin says.
Time for him to sit on the park bench and feed the squirrels.
The Democrats did that in 1994, and they were driven out of the House of Representatives as a result. People knew Reagan's heart--it beat in rhythm to their own hearts; and they resented the attacks.
My children, who are now adults, clearly remember the day of the attempted assassination.
"The Greatest President of Our Lifetime"
YES! YES! YES!
Newsday has always been the Long Island local paper, and very paleoliberal. They did publish a New York City-specific edition for about ten years, from roughly 1985-95, but it never really got any traction and the company finally killed it off and retreated to the safety of their monopoly position in Nassau and Suffolk.
They have since reestablished a bit of a beachhead in the City with a Queens edition, and you can still buy the paper at many newsstands throughout NYC. But not many do, except for other diehard paleolibs that like the editorial slant so much they don't care that most of the news coverage is about the suburbs.
A media shenanigans & media schadenfreude ping.
You take the high road and I'll take the low road
Know this Jimmy B.: few will remember ye when ye pass...
Thanks for the ping.
All together now: hit the drunken mick with with a prick on a stick. Lived on Long Island once; at that time Breslin was doing his thing in "the city." It wasn't worth much, so I suppose he is venting in the rural daily now. How low can he go and still actually get paid for his fulminations?
'Cheap, Utterly Distasteful' describes the drunk Breslin and any fishwrap that publishes his alcoholic rage rants.
Breslin Falsifying Quotes to Advance Gay Agenda?
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=6774&catcode=10
Posted by Chris Long
Friday, April 09, 2004
Redoubtable New York Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin is currently under fire for using what have become familiar tactics to advance the gay agenda. The flap involves quotes Breslin attributed to Reverend Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition as published recently in the city edition of Newsday.
Breslin isn’t accused of misquoting Rev Sheldon or quoting out of context (that familiar tactic of leftist elite media) because Rev. Sheldon says he has never even met Breslin. The timing of this scandal may bode ill for Breslin in the wake of the recent New York Times string of scandals that made heads roll at that troubled empire.
Breslin, in the New York City edition of Newsday on April 7, quotes Rev. Sheldon making inflammatory statements about homosexuals and the nature of homosexuality, claiming that Rev. Sheldon made the statements directly to him while both stood in the aisle near the Ohio delegation of the 1992 Republican Convention. Perhaps those alleged facts can be checked, but political conventions can be a fairly anonymous place with the sea of strangers that crowd the convention floor. Breslin attributes a ''…writer with a right-wing magazine…'' as introducing him to Rev. Sheldon. How’s that again? A writer with a right-wing magazine. I see. Exactly which writer with which ''right-wing'' magazine if you please, Mr Breslin ?
Posted by Nancy Brown on April 9, 2004 at 08:32 AM in Print Media/Internet | Permalink
I honestly thought Breslin was dead.
I agree. It will be that way with every leftist/comminist/socialist. The fact that they feel they had to "endure" a week of Reagan funeral activities will cause them to redouble their efforts at spewing bile and hate to make up for the time they lost last week.
John Shelley's Journal
"The alcoholic, old addled scumbag, Jimmy Breslin, is a lying lib-dem piece of shit."
http://www.gdnctr.com/apr_09_04.htm
Yeah...I never see it, they give away the Daily news for free now yet I see some street vendors selling the Post for a 25 cent premium. The Post rocks. Liberals think freedom of speech means they can be traitors, I think Breslin should be charged with sedition, he is the epitome of a scum bag.
What's the psychological term for projecting your own attributes on to others?
I have a personal beef with Breslin. About 25 years ago when NYC decided that homosexuals could be firefighters (firemen as they were called then) Breslin interviewed my widowed aunt, who living in a rooming house in Queens. He misquoted her as saying she was "terrified" about the prospect of gay firefighters. (I knew my aunt well, she was generous and open minded. I doubt the idea of gay firefighters would have bothered her as much as it apparently did Breslin, if at all.)
Compounding this, he portrayed this good and just women who was a dutiful, loving wife and mother, who grew up in an orphanage during the depression, who tragically lost the husband she loved when she was in her thirties, as some sort of colorful "streets of Queens" floozy, using her real name. I will hate him until the day I die.
It was funny at work yesterday, I work with some rats and they were pretty quiet during the ceremonies on tv. One guy I work with who is a republican said they will never do this for Clinton then another guy who is a rat said if they do they will probably throw cigars. Everybody cracked up, I think even some rats got a dose of the greatness of RWR due to this past week.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
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