Blumenthal, Reagan, and the Big Lie

The American Thinker ^ | May 30, 2010 | James Kahn

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Ronald Reagan's memory is being defamed in an effort to defend a Democrat attorney general caught lying about his military service. The tactic has deep roots on the left.

On Thanksgiving in 2003, President Bush made a surprise visit to troops in Iraq. The initial wildly enthusiastic public response to Bush's visit was dampened by reports that the roast turkey the president held for photographers was fake. The stories turned out to be erroneous, and newspapers subsequently issued corrections. But the damage was done, and the "plastic turkey" story persisted for years. A potentially inspiring moment for Bush's presidency instead became a subject for ridicule.

Now a claim about President Ronald Reagan has resurfaced in connection with senate candidate Richard Blumenthal's misstatements about his military service. After the Blumenthal story broke, left-leaning pundits immediately began reminding us that Reagan had falsely claimed to have filmed the liberation of German concentration camps at the end of World War II.

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Typical Doris backed libtard BS

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Typical Doris backed libtard BS

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The liberals also made up crap about Reagan’s military service (the Army film division due to terrible eyesight) to put Clinton’s draft dodging and lying about it in a better light. What they didn’t mention was that Reagan volunteered for and served in the Army Reserves in 1934, well before the war even began, when we had about 100,000 total in Army service, and when no one “had” to be.