Politerrati!
The “liberal” media just won’t this Reagan thing go; enough with glorifying past leaders, Great Communicators or otherwise. Back to glorifying the War on Terror, you Bush-whipped hippies.
Has there ever been a more compelling argument that the media is the mouthpiece for the government when you see Reagan touted as one of the greatest Presidents ever? They’re even considering replacing Jackson on the twenty. As I told MHG and my houseguest the other day, Bush Sr. has had no less than four terms in office now and the Reagan craze is only more proof.
“Remember Reagan, America? He was considered by many to be senile and was no less a puppet than our current President, only with notably better public speaking skills. Ah, the good ol’ days of trickle-down economics.”
I’m waiting for Point Break to be taken off of TBS’s rotation due to Patrick Swayze’s defamation of one of our greatest leaders.
I guess it just goes to show that the “liberal” media are journalists, first and foremost, and liberals second, if at all. Must be a slow news day in Washington; and thank god I don’t get American stations here =) As far as Reagan goes, I think he was the decent, charismatic person everyone says he was. However, he’s hardly representative of fiscally conservative individuals. That supply-side econ stuff was a little reckless. And, he may have had some small role in bringing about the end of the cold war, but that was already in motion. I think most Presidents are fairly impotent when faced with the sands of time. All the more reason to replace them with an internet voting system.
Comment by Bjorn — 6/14/2004 @ 5:11 pm