Posted on 06/23/2004 10:26:45 PM PDT by kattracks
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Tom Brokaw, reputedly the most moderate of the network anchors, got an invitation, too. And Dan Rather, in announcing Reagan's death, is said to have been close to tears. But if the two are offering themselves as Reagan disciples today, they were hardly so years ago:
- Brokaw, in Mother Jones, April 1983, on Reagan's values: "Pretty simplistic. Pretty old-fashioned. And I don't think they have much application to what's currently wrong or troubling a lot of people. . . . Nor do I think he really understands the enormous difficulty a lot of people have in just getting through life, because he's lived in this fantasy land for so long."
- Rather, on "CBS Evening News," March, 1992: "In America in the 1980s, what former President Reagan and those who support him call the Reagan Revolution put more money in the pockets of the rich. We already knew that. But a new study indicates that those who did best of all by far were the very richest of the rich."
Further quotes, culled from a report by the ever-vigilant Media Research Center:
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(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Brokaw is as phoney as a three dollar bill and always has been. Typical of midwesterners who forget what they came from.
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