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  • Newsday's Breslin: Reagan Funeral 'Cheap, Utterly Distasteful'

    06/11/2004 9:33:11 AM PDT · by kattracks · 125 replies · 1,466+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | 6/11/04 | Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff
    America's largest circulation suburban daily newspaper, Newsday, wins the prize for ugliest bit of Reagan-bashing on the day of the great man's funeral, publishing a bile-filled screed by columnist Jimmy Breslin that trashed the American icon as "a callous man" who "hated children." "I don't see how anybody can summon grief [over Reagan's death]," Breslin observed. "His whole weeklong funeral is cheap, utterly distasteful American publicity." The Reagan-bashing writer usually inhabits Newsday's editorial section. But in a remarkably bizarre editorial decision, Newsday decided to move up Breslin's hate-screed to page A8, in the midst of its news section, right behind...