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Wave a name like a flag, will'ya? Why not wait and let Mrs. Reagan speak for herself on present issue, and not be so impulsive to throw up the fancy beggar's shield of dropping a fancy name so as to blunt a valid argument.

You see, and you should learn to understand a true bit of natural politeness perhaps unknown to you, that as elected President, as Commander-in-Chief, as Chief Federal Executive, as a leader in the Republican Party, as a leader in the conservative moment, as a movie star, as a TV star, as a speaker, and as a professional personality, Mr. Reagan enjoyed an association with us that was independent of his marriage to to Nancy.

In other words, we can and should feel slighted by an attack on his character, given that we knew the man in our own way too.

It is exceedingly vain and venal for you or anyone to deny that we or Ann Coulter have any say worth hearing by throwing out that false bait about Nancy.

By bringing up an externality like that to diminish the the unrelated points we make, you have engaged in a subtle form of slander. Subtle, but clearly slander against us.

[BuckeyeForever]

What the hell are you talking about?
Someone else here has reprinted the entire interview Couric conducted with Morris. I remember the interview well, and the transcript here corroborates my recollection. Morris, after having great access to the Reagans, published a bizzare half-fictionalized tale about the Reagans that used a controversial method of filling in the gaps of the historical record. He was criticized widely in the media for his use of a Hunter Thompson-like "gonzo" technique.
The Reagans were vocal in their criticism of Morris, and didn't hide their feeling of betrayal after letting Morris have unprecedented access. Morris in fact did use the words "apparent airhead" in his book to characterize the President of the United States. Couric used that appellation to provoke interest in the Today Show interview. In the interview, she took him to task, and no doubt already fearing the backlash would hurt sales, Morris backed off much of his criticism and even tried to suck up to the Reagans after the fact.
It really is ridiculous that Coulter chose that incident as an example of liberal bias in the media. As Couric pointed out, she essentially cross-examined Morris and got him to recant much of what he had written, making him look like a fool. As Couric pointed out today, Nancy Reagan called Couric to thank her for setting the record straight.
How ironic that Coulter used that incident to lambast Couric. Anyone reading the actual transcript of the Morris interview (in another post in this thread) ought to realize that Couric's skepticism of Morris's statements only belies Coulter's very argument of liberal bias. The fact is Coulter could have chosen many other, much better examples to make her point about the liberal biases of the Today Show hosts.
So knock it off with that crap objecting to the relevance of Nancy Reagan's reaction to the Couric interview of Morris.