Chris Matthews knew of this in advance, set it up for everyone to pay attention to Ron, then zeroed in on this line as a sharp rebuke of GWBush,As closely as I listened, I must have missed him zeroing in on that as a sharp rebuke of GWBush. Of all the places where one could and should protest Christian bashing, to quibble over this seems a waste of time and energy.
Obviously, you did not hear Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman and even Pat Buchanan, all were going on about the passage from Ron Reagan's graveside eulogy to his father.
They left a bad tast in my mouth after the beautiful ceremony. They wanted to divorce President Reagan from GW Bush. All three had that as their aim. I felt the nonsense had all returned .. Blissfully without those harpies all week.
"As closely as I listened, I must have missed him zeroing in on that as a sharp rebuke of GWBush. Of all the places where one could and should protest Christian bashing, to quibble over this seems a waste of time and energy."
Then you certainly missed his commentary afterwards, where he, Fineman and Buchanan all pointed to this moment as a definite rubuke of GW Bush. I really paid no attention to it at the time, but Matthews is the idiot, who all week long has been making comparison's of RWR and GWB.
What's worse is that Matthews is just plain wrong. RWR very much wore his faith in public, as almost every speech he gave was laced with religious overtones. From the City on the Hill to even his fight against the Godless communists. For those (like Matthews and Ron Jr.) trying to impart this great difference with regards to Faith, between RWR and Bush...they are wrong.
Matthews went as far as to say that RWR wouldn't approve of this war in Iraq. How does he know? This was a man who tried to assassinate the leader of a country for the bombing of a dicotech in another country; this was a man who led an invasion of a small Carribean island because of the threat communism was making.
To say that after 9/11 RWR wouldn't have done the same...we don't know. And neither does Matthews. My wife who is apolitical actually was disgusted by the whole segment, as was I.