Posted on 06/15/2004 7:22:09 PM PDT by txradioguy
Republicans were dismayed to hear Ron Reagan, Jr., deliver what sounded like a rebuke to President Bush during a final tribute before his father was buried on Friday.
Referring to his dad as "a deeply, unabashedly religious man," the Reagan son added, "But he never made the mistake the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. . . "
"He accepted [his faith] as a responsibility, not a mandate," noted the presidential son. "And there is a profound difference."
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said there was no doubt the comments were a slap at Bush, but noted that Reagan Jr., "is somebody who's on the left more than on the right."
"He's never been in lockstep with his father or his father's legacy," Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg.
In fact, Bush supporters should probably consider themselves lucky that Ron Jr. was able to keep his Bush-bashing under wraps for as long as he did.
Commenting on the president's nomination four years ago, a less restrained Ron Jr. asked sarcastically, "What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"
A for President Reagan's religion, he was indeed unabashed when it came to his Christian faith. He was the first president in over a century who openly professed his faith in "Jesus Christ." He used almost every major public opportunity to invoke God, God's name or prayer.
One of his most famous speeches, where he called the Soviet Union an 'Evil Empire', was at a conference of Evangelical ministers.
Ron Reagan Jr., Talk Host ent Internet
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Ron had a short lived talk show a few years ago. On one show, he interviewed Charles Manson at Manson's current cell of residence. Manson began "preaching" his "message". During it, he turned to Reagan and asked, "Do you believe in god?" "No, I do not," Ron responded.
--CDA
http://www.celebatheists.com/entries/atheist_30.html
What an achievement........................NOT.
Ron Reagan Jr. Steps Up to Bat With Left Chat
by Joe Hagan
On Monday, July 28, Ron Reagan started a week-long run as guest co-host on MSNBC’s Buchanan & Press, with the son of the former President sitting decidedly to the left of Pat Buchanan. But Mr. Reagan was doing more than just filling the seat of vacationing co-host Bill Press; he told The Observer that he hopes to anchor his own liberal-leaning talk show. And what better place to test his talking head than against Old Man Crossfire himself, the squinty-eyed hatchet man who, after all, worked for his father back in the day. Having spent the past three years hosting dog shows on the cable network Animal Planet, Mr. Reagan relishes the idea of going up against the bark and bite of the right wing.
"I’d love to do another talk show, and I’m talking to some other people about that," he said following his Buchanan & Press appearance. "I’m still in the planning stages, and I think there’s a lot of room for this. Despite this supposed ‘liberal bias’ in the media, I can hardly find any on TV."
Mr. Reagan was invited to Buchanan & Press by the show’s new executive producer, Tammy Haddad, who helped invent Larry King Live in 1985. Ms. Haddad said she met Mr. Reagan at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 2000 and was impressed by the former ballet dancer and sometime TV presence.
"People think that there aren’t many good liberals out there that can carry a show," said Ms. Haddad. "We had dinner together and I thought, ‘This guy is so good, he should be on TV.’ I’m sure he’ll get offers after this. Let’s hope he talks to MSNBC first."
MSNBC might want to act fast: Mr. Reagan said he was approached by two journalists associated with an "Internet entity" who were pitching, he said, an "unabashedly" liberal show to cable networks. "We’ve had the conversations, and now we’re meeting people at various media outlets," he said, adding that the proposed show is of the time-honored sit-down variety, "with the telltale, piquant little bits like ‘The Lie of the Week’ or a ‘Right-Wing Moment’—like Tom DeLay talking about teaching children about biology: ‘We evolutized up from the mud!’ O.K., we’re in trouble as a country."
The show could be a tough sell. To date, the 45-year-old Mr. Reagan hasn’t shown much prime-time promise. Since working as the "adventure correspondent" on ABC’s Good Morning America in the late 1980’s, the thin, affable, occasionally acid-tongued Son of the Gipper has mostly bummed around the cable dial. After The Ron Reagan Show, a syndicated late-night chat-fest, failed to take off in 1991, he worked as a producer and host on E!, hosted a computer show for Cnet, did documentary voice-overs for the History Channel and co-hosted Fox’s short-lived newsmagazine Front Page. Things have been a bit better over at Animal Planet, where, he said, his pooch program gets the highest ratings on the network. Still, he’s yet to equal the sensation he caused during his father’s second administration when he hosted NBC’s Saturday Night Live and danced around the stage in his tighty-whities in a Risky Business skit.
Lately, he’s been edging back into the political fray. Mr. Reagan first went on MSNBC as Mr. Buchanan’s guest in April to discuss George W. Bush. During the Iraq war, Mr. Reagan described the Bush administration as "overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive and just plain corrupt. I don’t trust these people."
For his part, Mr. Buchanan, the former director of communications for Reagan père, said he’d made the younger Reagan’s acquaintance years ago.
"I’ve not known him well, but I saw him when I was out at his dad’s place in Pacific Palisades in 1976, when he was a teenager," Mr. Buchanan said, adding, "His father’s a great hero of mine."
Mr. Reagan said he knew liberals aren’t known for being great TV.
"I think the bar is set higher for liberals," he said. "It’s easy to be Ann Coulter."
Regarding Ms. Coulter’s recent comment about Joseph McCarthy being an American patriot, for instance, Mr. Reagan said that "to dignify those remarks by refuting them takes time. Conservatives have it easy: They just blurt out some nonsense."
In preparation for the July 28 broadcast of Buchanan & Press, MSNBC’s Web site promised: "Sparks fly when Pat and guest host Ron Reagan Jr. tackle the controversy over America’s first gay high school." But the sparks came mostly from Mr. Buchanan, who had the benefit of his trademark bark and tomahawk-chop gesture.
Mr. Reagan was smooth enough, but he didn’t leap off the screen. He did get in a slightly school-marmish jab at conservative guest Michael Long when he said: "Hey, Mike, I can’t help but notice that anything involving gay people gets you conservatives’ panties in a real twist. Why is that?" Then he cocked his head and looked quizzical for effect—a little too quizzical, maybe, but it seemed like a workable riff.
In any case, Mr. Long used volume to bark Mr. Reagan down. "Don’t play that kind of game with me, Ron!"
Mr. Buchanan ended things with the kind of zinger his audience laps up with a spoon. Talking about the gay-only Harvey Milk High School, he noted with a chuckle, "They might have a great football team!"
Ugly, but pure gravy to America’s channel surfers.
Tonight, Mr. Reagan sees if he can get Mr. Buchanan to fetch. [MSNBC, 43, 6 p.m.]
If people really took Ron Reagan serious wouldn't he be more than a silly announcer for dog shows on Animal Planet? And he's not even top dog doing that lol
I mean, really!
How could they have forgotten this article and the things Ron Junior spewed out about President Bush back then?
Posted on 04/17/2003 8:18:29 AM PDT by conservativeinbflo.
Ron Reagan Jr. is furious that the Bush administration styles itself as heir to President Reagan's political legacy.
"The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now," the longtime liberal and former ballet dancer told Salon.
"Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80's. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's--these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people."
Ron Reagan Jr. Blasts 'Corrupt' Bush Administration (Get your barf bag!)
Michael is a true honor to his father.
Unless I'm mistaken, it's not protocol to place the hand over the heart during the Anthem. During the Pledge, yes, but not during the Anthem.
As best I can recall, a man wearing a hat removes it and covers his heart with it. But, not so with the hand.
I may be wrong but, that's how I understand it.
Yes it's protocol to place your hand over your heart during the National Anthem, FYI you're supposed to remove your hat if you're wearing one.
Not acknowleging the playing of the Anthem by standing with your hands by your sides or shuffling your feet and looking like your're bored became fashionable with libs as a way to "protest" the "oppression" the American Flag stands for and "all it reppresents".
I'm sure Ron Jr was a real disappointment to his father. I don't think Ron and Michael are very close either.
Ron Reagan has NEVER lightened up to the legacy of President Ronald Reagan. He's more than content to make what he can off the legacy while holding some level of love & respect for his father, but otherwise has forever seemed to hold great contempt for his father's deeds, dating back to the underware appearance on SNL which, at the time, Nancy was not very pleased with while Ron was determined to play the rebel. This plays well with the underclass and Reagan / Bush haters but it's dependent upon a deep incincerity that at some point might likely catch up with Ron.
RonJr. will always be ballerina boy...nothing more nothing less.
He wasn't even So So.
Okay, thanks for clarifying that.
FYI you're supposed to remove your hat if you're wearing one.
That's what I said.
"That's what I said."
I know and I apologize...my typing got ahead of my reading. LOL!
You said, "Maybe, sometime he will feel a heavenly pull on his earlobes for doing so."
Perhaps so, since his Dad was fond of doing so; however, more than once I heard my father and uncle tell me that they'd "jerk a know in my ass" if I didn't straighten up. It was a very effective deterrent.
When Ron delivered his snide remark about religion in his eulogy, he was looking straight at Michael.
If I am correct the National Anthem is played only when a flag is present. The flag was draped on the casket therefore they should have placed their right hand on their heart as it was being played.
morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related.
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect,
and our government needs the church, because only those
humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to
democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
Ronald Reagan August 1984
Ron Reagan should have taken the time to read what his father thought.
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