Posted on 06/12/2004 3:52:42 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
A prediction or a threat? As the plane carrying the late President Reagan arrived back at Point Mugu Naval Air Station on Friday afternoon, Ted Koppel made it clear he was appalled at the suggestion that Reagan was the "greatest President of the 20th century," complaining that would mean "hopscotching him past Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Koppel predicted, or threatened, that if Reagan's "supporters try to raise to him to the very heights there, and perhaps find a place for him on Mount Rushmore," that the "controversial President" who had "fairly contentious issues" in his presidency which "we've more or less overlooked" this week, "will come back."
A bit past 4:30pm PDT (7:30pm EDT) on Friday night, as ABC (the only one of the broadcast networks to go live from 7:30 to 8pm EDT) showed the plane taxiing in at Point Mugu after its flight from Maryland, Ed Meese told anchor Peter Jennings that he thought the week's events were "a fitting tribute, I think, to probably the greatest President of the 20th century."
A few minutes later, at about 4:44pm PDT, Jennings turned to Ted Koppel, who had attended the service at the Washington National Cathedral, and Koppel complained that while he could hear what was being said at the service, he couldn't see anything from his vantage point.
But then, as ABC showed him in an inset from the DC bureau over a full screen look at the plane, Koppel got to what really bothered him: "The thought that is really upper-most in my mind is when I hear Ed Meese talking about Ronald Reagan as the greatest President of the 20th century, hopscotching him past Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I think, as was the case when Ronald Reagan was President, when there was some fairly contentious issues and he was a fairly controversial President, we've more or less overlooked much of that over the past week. But I suspect as his friends and supporters try to raise to him to the very heights there, and perhaps find a place for him on Mount Rushmore, that some of that controversy and some of the debate will come back." Jennings agreed: "No doubt about it."
I predict Jennings will be spend considerable air time on the coverage Monday when Clinton's official presidential oil portrait will be unveiled in a ceremony at the White House by black artist (some reason we have to know the race of the artist),,Simmie Knox.
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Poor koppel. Poor pathetic koppel.
...sounds like he wants to koppelate us...
I noticed that CSPAN is running tape of LBJ's funeral. I guess that is their way of being 'fair and balanced.'
By 'black artist', I hope this refers not to the color of the artist's skin, but to the primary color that was used to paint clinton's portrait.
From Koppel's vantage point, Koppel will never see anything.
Al
Something ELSE they didn't tell us......Clinton originally asked for it to be painted on black velvet, thankfully, the artist declined...................
Thanks for the belly laugh, glock....first laugh I've had in a week.
FDR handed Eastern Europe to Stalin and almost gave the world to the Communists. Reagan got it back again. I'd say that gives the edge to Reagan.
Lol...I was googling something along those lines only mine didn't have a tail blocking the view! ;-)
But, according to another story, the Gipper was a leftist, so he and Koppel should have been buddies./sarcasm
Ted Knoppel is a "Clymer"
Not sure if Koppell knows anything about hopscotch, but I bet he's well versed at nude leapfrog with they guys.
Peggy Newnan was right, they just can't contain themselves after 5 days of Reagan. They are fixing to explode folks.
A top general in the culture war speaks.
Wouldn't you love to know how many people watch it??
I was watching that...unfortunately, they didn't show the part where they cut off his head, stuffed it with garlic, put him in a lead coffin, bound with silver chains. and buried him in unhallowed ground!
Say what you will about Reagan and Nixon, Carter and Clinton, LBJ was the worst president of the century.
and I think he killed Kennedy.
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