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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That's what is behind all of these efforts to rename schools named after famous, brave Indians and hero's of the Civil War.
Thirty years and they’ll still be pulling this carp on Trump.
Get used to this.
Reagan still lives in their heads rent free.
Sarc, I hope.
No. Obama made this claim.
It sounded “plausible” because people sort of assumed that Obama’s grandfather might possibly have served with Patton or something. Then it came out that No one in the Allied armies — not Patton, not anyone — liberated Auschwitz. It was purely the Soviets.
Then people realized that Obama was a shameless liar. And the media shrugged, and pretended he never said it.
“Then people realized that Obama was a shameless liar.”
If only it were so. Seems like half the population is made up of drooling idiots.
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