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CNN's Brinkley Dubiously Claims Reagan 'Fabricated' Story About Seeing Holocaust
Townhall.com ^ | February 14, 2016 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 02/14/2016 4:51:21 PM PST by Kaslin

Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley claimed that President Ronald Reagan "used to fabricate stories," and alluded to a story about the Holocaust as an example.

After fellow guest James Fallows of The Atlantic recalled possible holes in stories told by GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, lamenting that voters do not seem to care, Brinkley brought up false stories that circulated in 1972 about Ed Muskie, and then moved to Reagan as he added:

So there are these fake kind of stories that come in, but I agree with James Fallows completely with the honey badger idea, nothing Donald Trump says, he can make up stories, but, you know, Ronald Reagan used to fabricate stories. He used to-

After host Brian Stelter jumped in asking, "Fabricated?" the CNN presidential historian continued:

Yeah, he would tell stories about Disneyfied America, you know, things that, you know, he may have been in a movie about the Holocaust, but suddenly, he had a direct experience with it in World War II. And it never stuck to Ronald Reagan in any way, and I cede it's not sticking really to Donald Trump right now.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
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1 posted on 02/14/2016 4:51:21 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Townhall - Anything to keep alive Crony Capitalism


2 posted on 02/14/2016 4:54:34 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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To: Kaslin

Obama’s grandfather liberated Auschwitz, right?

(FACT: Stalin’s Red Army liberated Auschwitz. But this is no big deal because Obama is super awesome.)


3 posted on 02/14/2016 4:55:16 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t know this old liberal clown was still around. It’s weird how some of these clowns always crawl out from under a rock every four years.


4 posted on 02/14/2016 4:55:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (02-13-2016. America's Blackest Day.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And Barack Obama was really born in Hawaii.....


5 posted on 02/14/2016 4:59:37 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Kaslin
Brian Williams was there and so was Hillary. They can verify it all. Dan Rather has the documents to prove it they just have to dry a little more.
6 posted on 02/14/2016 5:04:41 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Kaslin

I can’t even understand Brinkley’s sentence structure. And they say Trump’s speech is word salad??


7 posted on 02/14/2016 5:09:25 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: ClearCase_guy

He must have been in Stalin’s Red Army


8 posted on 02/14/2016 5:10:03 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin
They're all p!$$ed that their "fact check" scam isn't working to discredit conservative candidates. It's the same as their "mainstream" reporting, masquerading their opinions as "facts".

And I never heard the Gipper claim to have witnessed the Holocaust personally.

9 posted on 02/14/2016 5:11:36 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Kaslin

Leftists always lie about history, tearing down real heroes because they have none. Brinkley has the ethics of an egg-sucking dog.


10 posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:06 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: colorado tanker

“They’re all p!$$ed that their “fact check” scam isn’t working to discredit conservative candidates. It’s the same as their “mainstream” reporting, masquerading their opinions as “facts”.”

Remember when the leftards kept publishing things like “Ten Thousand Lies that Rush Limbaugh Told Between 8 and 9 This Morning?”

And when you looked at them, there was nothing there.

I never heard Ronaldus Magnus say anything about seeing boncentration bamps.


11 posted on 02/14/2016 5:21:52 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Kaslin
When irresponsible muckrakers of dubious parentage make things up it's called jingojournalism or "fact checking". When Republicans make factual statements it's called "Lying".
12 posted on 02/14/2016 5:30:02 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Obama saw a LOOK magazine article about a black women who bleached herself to appear white. Bloody Sunday allowed Obama’s mother and father to marry. Obama’s father came to Hawaii because of the Kennedy's Airlift. Then we have the whole mess of Obama’s girl friends. Never mind fact checking any of that crap right....
13 posted on 02/14/2016 5:34:37 PM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: txrefugee

Another reason why the left tears down a Civilization’s heroes being the destruction of the target civilization. People have no person to be proud of when there are no heroes no history, no beliefs.


14 posted on 02/14/2016 5:53:20 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Kaslin; SunkenCiv; Nachum; governsleastgovernsbest

Gee.

And Roosevelt’s fictions about the “ordinary man “ that Roosevelt talked to and got advice from in his “fireside chats” were absolutely true?


15 posted on 02/14/2016 5:55:44 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Kaslin

This is entirely derived from an unnamed ISRAELI source. There was a conversation in which an Israeli official repeated this story to an American ambassador. The ambassador did not hear Reagan say this himself. Reagan worked with a film unit (509th) and saw photos of the Holocaust. He did not say he personally visited the camps. It’s most likely that the Israeli had a translation issue.


16 posted on 02/14/2016 5:57:34 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Kaslin

Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.

I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver

Trump on Reagan, 1987.


17 posted on 02/14/2016 6:07:32 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kaslin

Douglas Brinkley molests dead horses


18 posted on 02/14/2016 6:08:36 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: Kaslin

Saving Private Williams?

Saving Williams’ privates?


19 posted on 02/14/2016 6:18:38 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Trump and/or Cruz, it's all good)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

IOW, David Brinkley is just another Partisan Media Shill.

sidebar:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ed+Muskie+cried


20 posted on 02/14/2016 6:25:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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