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."
Sour grapes from the secular humanist liebral media...
Hey! Quit offending horses!
Gee, Ted has spoken.
What are we to do now? Are we being threatened? Sure would not want to cross Ted - he knows best.
"...sounds like he wants to koppelate us..."
Cute, but Clinton beat him to that.
"sitting there with his eyes closed"
YES HE WAS!! WITH HIS MOUTH HANGING OPEN.
But .. at first, I thought it was planned so they could get attention .. now I'm changing my mind. If Jennings is making excuses for Clintons actions ..... then HE WASN'T FAKING - HE WAS NODDING OFF!!. LOL!
I love it when the figures of the liberal media show their colors so blatantly.
Best I can remember, Teddy Roosevelt is already on Rushmore, and FDR has a monument in DC.
Reagan and his policies were not contraversal to anyone except the Liberal Commie worshippers in our Congress and their abetting and equally decietful media.
Reagan was completely in Sync with most Americans.
What exactly is Ted Koppel? Who annointed him with the status of official media attack dog against conservatives?
I guess if you are really really boring on network Mad TV and can get a couple thousand bleary eyes liberals to watch you can make pronouncements on anything.
When is he going to read the names of those fallen heroes in the French and Indian Wars?
ROFL... THANK YOU!!!! Perfect likeness!
You didn't have to caption that picture. WE can recognize Billy Butthead anywhere.
Aren't these people pathetic ..?? They're so darned afraid any republican will get credit for anything.
Oh irony, thy name is press-hole. If this isn't synonymous with the real problem with liberal media, nothing I have heard or read, lo these many years, is. It doesn't matter if he had been sitting on President Reagan's casket, taking notes, he would not have actually seen. His vantage point is mute. It's his willing blindness to what is before his very eyes that's the problem I am sick of them. Bitch, whine, deny, refuse, bitchwhinedenyrefuse. It's never ending.
My husband noticed that Lifetime was airing their movie about the Kennedy asassination, complete with the state funeral. The media is SO transparent.
Now I know that is a perfectly good looking horse's behind and I have 6 horses with attractive behinds. To connect them so openly and correctly with our old boy Clintoon, really chaps my behind!!!! But you are very correct. I bothered the dickens out of me to see him in the church with all the others.
Peggy Newnan
Peggy Noonan?
Little. I was thinking the exact same thing. Poor horse !!
At least we know, or have known Ted Koppel is a middle of the road journalist !!
Koppel should have went up front and sat on either Bill or Hillary's laps-they were so far out of it they wouldn't have noticed.
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