Lamestream = biased.
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The author, Ben Smith
http://www.politico.com/reporters/BenSmith.html
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What would you say about an arrogant twirp who
speaks about Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W.
Bush in this manner?
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“I was born in 1976, the week Jimmy Carter was elected. Four years later, my mother let me come into the voting booth with her. I pulled the lever on the prehistoric voting machine to send Carter back to the White House. Instead, Reagan won in a landslide, which was confusing for a four-year old, since my family knew no one who admitted to voting for him.
My British peers were Thatcher’s children; we didn’t have a word for it, but I grew up under Reagan.
That demonic image of the president on the local walls, which must have surfaced during his second term, could have been inspired by any of a dozen issues, or all of them.
Reagan had cut taxes on the rich, and cut some spending on the poor and the cities. He had been talking tough about the Soviet Union, for which many in “Moscow on the Hudson” had a measure of sympathy.
He supported right-wing dictators in Latin America, when we supported left-wing dictators. He talked about God more than Jewish secularists were comfortable with. Later in his term, he ignored the burgeoning AIDS epidemic. And a neighborhood of intellectuals considered him a moron.
*snip*
Amid the Reagan eulogies, though, it’s too easy for liberals to forget their contempt for what we saw as unfair cuts and his simplistic anti-Communism.
Indeed, the uniform, seething hatred for Bush returns me immediately to my 1980s childhood. Of course Bush has sent out the troops; but who doubts that Reagan would have lashed out if the country was attacked?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/09/usa.theobserver
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I’m glad I went searching for some background on him and found that. I didn’t like him before; now, I can comfortably despise him and be on alert for his next missives.
Ooops .. missed this sterling chunk of spew:
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“Now New York has turned its ire on another president, another idiot and cowboy. On the West Side, the locals are assuring themselves that George W. Bush is the worst yet, the worst ever.
When it came to militarism, Reagan talked tough, but Grenada was his only hot war; Bush has soldiers scattered across the Muslim world. And in matters of style, Reagan, at least through the gauze of time, was sort of lovable. “Liberals would look at Reagan and say ‘Damn, I wish we had someone that charming,’” a local Democrat, Eric Schneiderman, told me.”
Ben Smith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jun/09/usa.theobserver
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Liberalism = a documented mental disorder
Well well confirmation that Ben Smith is the leftist loon that I always said he was.
Thanks for the background on the cad. We should start doing ‘backgrounds’ on all of Obama’s brownshirts in the press.