Townhall: The Media Never Loved Reagan

Mad Scientist

Feels Good!
Sep 15, 2008
24,196
5,431
270
Remember this as you see story after story comparing Obama to Reagan.

The Media Never Loved Reagan - Brent Bozell - Townhall Conservative
Is it not amazing that it's taken the news media exactly 100 years to discover that Ronald Reagan was a role model? While he lived and even after he died, they shot every arrow and dropped every bomb they could on this man and his reputation. Now that it's his 100th birthday and America is celebrating, they find him useful. They're trying to rub Reagan's magic all over a floundering Obama.

NBC's Bryant Gumbel proclaimed in 1989: "Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan Administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II."

A 1998 PBS program on Reagan claimed: "AIDS became an epidemic in the 1980s, nearly 50,000 died. Reagan largely ignored it."

CBS "Sunday Morning" TV critic John Leonard sneered that Reagan "took this plague less seriously than Gerald Ford had taken swine flu. After all, he didn't need the ghettos and he didn't want the gays." He added, as Reagan's legacy: "By 1992, 194,364 American men, women, and children were dead."
 
With only one exception, it seems the Media Research Center Reagan apologist produced an extensive list of shortcomings the media refused to whitewash without challenging it, only saying "oh the big bad media is picking on Reagan again! Waaaah!!!"
 

Forum List

Back
Top