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.
This drunk f**k's screeching tantrum is just the start of it - it will be very ugly in the next few weeks.
Is NYC considered "surburbia?"
"Projection" is when you project some characteristic that you posses onto someone else, Jimmy.
Jimmy Breslin=CRAP
Sooner or later it will come to pass that decent people will no longer wish to share their country with people like Breslin and the rest of the left-wing scum infesting our news organizations, universities, and government.
I am already there.
The words of some about others often tell more about the speaker than of whom they speak.
Shrug. Let 'em rant, the losers. :)
Jimmy, go and have a six-pack of Bud on me.
I was going to post the same thing. If any undercover operation/prank/protest warrior thing should have ever been done, it would have been to break into the memorial service and release thousands upon thousands of balloons from the ceiling that all said "Mondale for US Senate" - right when it turned into a party.
The catch is "suburban" daily newspaper. Most suburbs read the paper of the city that they are the suburbs of, with only weekly advertisement bulletins and local-news-only papers. Long Island is a very strange political entity: a sharply-defined area with a large population (3 million outside NYC), and no major cities or even towns.
I think the only other newspapers I've ever heard of to which Newsday might compare itself would be the Orange County Register and the MetroWest (Boston) News.
...unless it was a dumbocrap.
Hey Jimmy...go to hell ya fat drunk!
What does Breslin know about being cheap and utterly disgraceful?
- The Who
A political joke criticizing a political giant.
Let 'em talk. More harm than good to the left.
I'll bet ol' Jimmy would have an aneurism if the congregation started chanting, "Four...more...years!...Four...more...years!"
I really, really....really hate liberals now....
Jimmy who ?
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