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CNN’s Douglas Brinkley: ‘Nobody’ Wants to See Trump at Bush 41 Funeral
Breitbart ^ | 4 Dec 2018 | Tony Lee

Posted on 12/04/2018 1:57:34 PM PST by detective

CNN’s presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said on Monday evening that nobody attending President George H.W. Bush’s funeral on Wednesday wants to see President Donald Trump.

“Well, I think George Herbert Walker Bush was right. He planned his funeral memorial service right to have President Trump attend,” Brinkley told host Don Lemon. “But let’s be honest. There’s nobody that wants to see President Trump at this memorial service that is going to be there.”

Trump will not speak at the funeral but will reportedly meet privately with the family.

Brinkley mentioned that Trump has been “no friend” of the Bush family since the 1980s.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: brinkley; bush; bush41; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; donlemon; douglasbrinkley; georgehwbush; ghwbushfuneral; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump
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To: uncbob

“Get off his case
He is probably right
So what”

What are you talking about?

This makes no sense.


61 posted on 12/04/2018 3:13:06 PM PST by detective
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To: GraceG

This isnt even their new low..yesterday on twitter it was posted how when President Trump/Melania went to Bush’s casket, some jackass on CNN said “I bet Trump was wondering how long he has to stand there before he can leave” so honestly NOTHING surprises me about those a-holes at CNN anymore


62 posted on 12/04/2018 3:19:24 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: detective

Brinkley is a jackass.


63 posted on 12/04/2018 3:24:15 PM PST by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: GraceG

Listen to the mockingbird...


64 posted on 12/04/2018 3:35:51 PM PST by Overtaxed (Very sporting of the little black duck.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

The fawning makes me want to throw up a bit. They hated him until Friday night.


65 posted on 12/04/2018 3:38:41 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: detective

Given that this is a Deep State Funeral; Trump should wear this as a Badge of Honor.


66 posted on 12/04/2018 3:42:36 PM PST by WRhine (Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies)
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To: detective

Pure BS from Brinkley and classless. But this is what you get from CNN.


67 posted on 12/04/2018 3:48:19 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Vermont Lt

If I were going to watch, I would want to see him there. I don’t really care to see the Mooch and Barry there, but oh well.


68 posted on 12/04/2018 3:48:26 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: No Socialist

“The whole Bush family is gleeful around the biggest crooks ever to hold office, Bill and Hillary, and the biggest America haters to hold office, the Obamas. Yet they detest Trump. And they detest all of us.”

Exactly. They totally betrayed the GOP and all of us voters who voted for BOTH Bushes and defended all their actions. They supported the biggest criminal in US history to be POTUS. What on earth?


69 posted on 12/04/2018 3:51:11 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: Vermont Lt

The MSM Tainted the McCain service. I hope they have better manners this time and hold their tongues.


70 posted on 12/04/2018 3:51:17 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: detective

These people disgust me. They are so over the top deranged. I wish nothing but the worst on all of these hateful pieces of crap.


71 posted on 12/04/2018 3:51:23 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Toespi

“Certainly the Bushes must understand, after all Abu Graib was in the news, headlined for a year, “it happened on Bushes watch”. Then another year for Katrina, yellowcake, choking on a pretzel........the list is endless.”

You would think that W would be sympathtic to Trump and all the media bashing which is 100 times what W endured. You would think that W would publicly support the Republican president. Huge dissapointment.


72 posted on 12/04/2018 3:53:34 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: detective
Brinkley mentioned that Trump has been “no friend” of the Bush family since the 1980s.

Oh, but the Clintons and the Obamas are and have been? Brinkley should just STFU.

73 posted on 12/04/2018 3:57:52 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Vermont Lt

The MSM Tainted the McCain service. I hope they have better manners this time and hold their tongues.


74 posted on 12/04/2018 3:59:26 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: dfwgator

trump being there ups their ratings and they know it.If Trump didn’t go nobody would tune in.


75 posted on 12/04/2018 4:07:09 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: fishtank

Douglas..... Brinkley.....

76 posted on 12/04/2018 4:07:29 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: timestax
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77 posted on 12/04/2018 4:08:13 PM PST by timestax
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To: detective; x; LS

Top five worst modern popular historians:

5. Michael Beschloss
4. H.W. Brands
3. Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. Douglas Brinkley
1. Howard Zinn

(no.’s 5-2 are interchangeable)

The all-time list will be difficult to sort, but I’d run with:

5. Charles Beard (excused for later works w/ the wife)
4. Richard Hofstadter
3. Michel Foucault
2. Herbert Croly
1. Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels

Runners up include Arthur Schlesinger, Will Durant, Arthur Link, and George Mowry.


78 posted on 12/04/2018 4:26:23 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: detective

He needs to jump in the lake. I’m somebody and I want to see him there.


79 posted on 12/04/2018 4:31:44 PM PST by murron
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To: nicollo

Brands isn’t terrible. As left-leaners go, he’s by far the best of the bunch . . . but this is only based on my reading of his Reagan book. I didn’t read his “Grant.”

Brinkley’s book on Katrina wasn’t bad.

Beschloss and Goodwin are typical old Left gatekeepers.

Zinn is in a propaganda league of his own.

Hofstadter at least was interesting and offered different theories.

Now, excluding myself from all discussions, I think the best modern historians are:

1. Ron Chernow. Superb scholarship, even though he’s not a prof.
2. Paul Johnson. Erratic, and he can get details wrong, but when he’s on, there is no one better at weaving together a story.
3. Burton Folsom. He and I disagree on a couple of points about FDR, but he is meticulous and can be, when he wants to go that direction, a terrific “pop” storyteller.
4. Paul Kengor. The best Reagan biographer out there-—and he didn’t even write a Reagan biography.
5. Steven Hayward’s work on Reagan and US history up to Reagan is very good.

Honorable mentions:
1. My co-author on PHUSA for all matters on the West, Mike Allen.
2. David Landes on all things technical and developmental (his history of time, for example).
3. Ronald Spector for WW II.
4. Edmund Morris, if he had died before he wrote “Dutch.”
5. Pauline Maier


80 posted on 12/04/2018 5:10:23 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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