Posted on 03/12/2016 4:29:46 PM PST by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton broke a cardinal rule of the angry left –saying something nice about a Republican who recently passed away. After she was savaged for saying Nancy Reagan had been out front in confronting AIDS, an angry backlash ensued, and Clinton quickly fell into line.
The controversy was worth seven paragraphs in the New York Times print edition, but reporter and chief Hillary-follower Amy Chozick really let the leftist insults fly in the longer online version (h/t veteran commenter Gary Hall), hitting both the Reagans and Hillary in a nasty tone, under the solemn circumstances: "The problem with Mrs. Clinton’s compliment: It was the Reagans who wanted nothing to do with the disease at the time." Then Choick quoted notorious Reagan-hater Larry Kramer.
In the days since her death on Sunday, Nancy Reagan has been praised for her work on a range of causes, from preventing drug abuse to supporting research into Alzheimer’s.
But on Friday, Hillary Clinton praised Mrs. Reagan as a force in confronting another disease: H.I.V./AIDS, which was killing alarming numbers of gay men and others during Ronald Reagan’s two terms.
“It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about H.I.V./AIDS back in the 1980s,” Mrs. Clinton, who was attending Mrs. Reagan’s funeral in Simi Valley, Calif., told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan -- in particular, Mrs. Reagan -- we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it. Nobody wanted anything to do with it.”
Chozick's response was unneccessarily nasty, especially so given the solemn circumstances.
The problem with Mrs. Clinton’s compliment: It was the Reagans who wanted nothing to do with the disease at the time.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first identified the disease in 1981, but Mr. Reagan, despite desperate calls for action and thousands of deaths, did not mention H.I.V. or AIDS publicly until 1985 and did not give a speech about the disease until 1987, when an estimated 40,000 people had already died of the disease and roughly 36,000 more had given a diagnosis.
Chozick, getting quickly back into liberal line, took a radical AIDS activist's old, rancorous characterization as fact:
Indeed, the activist-author Larry Kramer, who chronicled the early years of the epidemic in his play “The Normal Heart,” called Mr. Reagan “Adolf Reagan” and wrote that he “murdered more gay people than anyone in the entire history of the world.”
Kramer used that charming phrase after Reagan's death in 2004. Kramer isn’t fond of any politician, including “Do-nothing” Obama, and also said that Bill Clinton “did us more harm than good,” but that context didn’t make Chozick’s story. Brent Bozell eviscerated Kramer's unhinged and fact-free hatred of Reagan, and the NYT's ongoing uncritical celebration of Kramer, in this 2014 column.
Chozick continued:
Yet Mrs. Clinton said Friday that she had appreciated Mrs. Reagan’s “low-key advocacy” on H.I.V./AIDS, saying “it penetrated the public conscience, and people began to say, ‘Hey, we have to do something about this.’”
She faced a swift and fierce backlash, and issued a contrite apology within hours.
Chozick kept piling on the self-satisfied left-wing insults:
“It’s almost tempting to interpret this as withering, devastating sarcasm,” Gawker wrote. “The Reagans ‘started a national conversation about AIDS’ in the same sense that George W. Bush ‘started a national conversation’ about Iraq.’”
“Marie Antoinette did some incredible LOW KEY ADVOCACY for the French Underclass,” Dan Fishback, a writer and performer, wrote on Twitter.
If they want a solution to the HIV epidemic, they can start by not having indiscriminate unprotected sex with hundreds of partners, stop sharing needles with their junkie companions, etc. Of course, it’s a lot easier to blame a predident and his wife.
Didn’t take the hateful MSM to start in bashing Nancy.
Reagan didn’t force all those thousands of mostly men to engage in reckless, perverted behaviors with all sorts of people and by their myriad little misdeeds create/foster/expand the very plague that consumed them and subsequently spread beyond them.
They did.
The blood of so many on the hands the libertine and licentious, their own blood too.
Speaking of Reagan, here is a new find on Reagan. This is how REAGAN would have dealt with the OWS (Occupy W.S.) fascists! And with the protestors at Trump rallies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpg0UfpuUAs
Just wow! Pass this video around, folks.
Far more articulate than Trump, but of the same alpha-male cloth as Trump.
The country is tired of a metrosexual community organizer and seems yearning for Alpha-male leadership again.
Bump. But you won't sell that truth to Larry Kramer and his pals; Kramer's a paragon of homosexual rage and hate. I didn't know he was still alive. He hasn't been on TV recently; his hatred must be too vitriolic, too volcanic even for the TV libtards.
Local news was talking about Ron and Nancy. I could tell the SOB political guy was holding back saying how much he hated Reagan, contempt was plain on his face. Dirty GD bastards.
IIRC, didn’t Peter Jennings say something to the effect of: “Do we have to cover this s**t?” when RR died?
I’m pretty sure he did.
How’s Hell these days Pete?
I never heard that, but it would hardly shock me. Not coming up with anything on google. Some lib professor actually accused him of PRO-Reagan bias during the 1984 election, as if.
He did say this at the time on air
“At the end of his presidency, a great many people thought he’d made the wealthy wealthier and had not improved life particularly for the middle class.”
and later with the cameras ON THE HEARSE
“we haven’t seen many African-American faces up at the presidential library or this morning.” Desperately wanted to turn the coverage negative, sounds like.
Such a pity he took up smoking again, I wonder if he likes the smell of brimestone.
I have more regard for my toe-jam than I do for jackals like that.
I believe it was an off the cuff remark said into a “hot mic”. Might have been Dan Rather? I’m 99% sure one of them said something like that.
Does anyone else remember this?
Yes, they are all mostly lower than toe jam.
““At the end of his presidency, a great many people thought he’d made the wealthy wealthier and had not improved life particularly for the middle class.””
EVERYBODY moved up, including blacks moving into the middle class.
“Yes, they are all mostly lower than toe jam.”
Are you talking about the “Cruzinistas “ posting here? I thought so.
Some of “the gang” are Cruz “supporters”, I won’t hang Cruzbot on them.
Goldman Sachs for decades has jokingly referred to the White House as our “D.C. Office”
Nuff said.
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