Enough Reagan, already! Kevin McCullough says massive media coverage driving liberals crazy

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, June 11, 2004 | Kevin McCullough

[JohnHuang2]

Enough Reagan, already!

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Posted: June 11, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Kevin McCullough

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© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

I do not share their opinion, but the elite media in America is going nuts at the nation's reaction to Ronald Reagan. From primetime TV news anchors to op-ed writers, the antagonism of listening to Reagan's accomplishments and the thousands of ways he personally touched people's lives has driven them crazy.

I'm not speaking of the far-left "loonies." People on websites like the Democratic Underground have the anonymity to be much more bold and ugly in their reaction. Occasionally, one in their ranks will break out in a public statement. But Tedd Rall saying he imagined Reagan "turning crispy brown" a day after his passing is not the official line of "the mainstream left."

But they have still been fidgety.

According to the New York Post, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw – the big-hearted, fair-minded people that they are – said the coverage of Reagan had been "excessive," and that it was taking coverage away from important news items. Sorry gentlemen, your agenda-driven "Get Kerry Elected" coverage or the 3,000th follow up on Kobe or Scott Peterson will just have to wait. (I mean it's not like you're just jumping up and down waiting to tell the American people about George Bush's slam dunk in the United Nations this week.)

Eric Zorn, of the Chicago Tribune, wrote on Wednesday that "too much" had been made of the idea of "Mourning in America." He felt it was unnecessary to call what the nation has been through as "mourning." His justification? Because he had once lost a grandmother whose funeral he did not cry at. In his mind, no tears, no mourning. So Zorn doesn't cry at sad moments – does that mean the rest of us are wired that way?

Of course that doesn't represent the hundreds of unsolicited e-mails I've received this week – testimonies to Reagan and telling of the tears and sadness that Americans are feeling.

And Anne Kornblut of the Boston Globe wrote on Wednesday about the biggest indignity of all: the Bush campaign actually memorializing Reagan in a way that benefits President Bush (Oh, the inhumanity). Kornblut noted that – gasp! – the Bush website had made actual changes – double gasp! – to incorporate an online memorial to President Reagan.

Kornblut continued to note that Republicans were trying to exploit the idea that President Bush was much like Reagan, and that Democrats were "pointing out" he was very different from the 40th president. Kornblut says in one place that Bush has long tried to "portray himself" as "Reagan's ideological heir."

As if no one else on the planet could see any similarities ... President Bush was trying to trick us all into believing that he was a lot like Reagan when in reality he isn't? According to liberals, Democrats and leftists, the answer is yes.

Kerry on a campaign stop this week attempted to portray Reagan as different from Bush because of bitter partisanship. Maybe it is Kerry whose memory is not so good, given the fact he bitterly opposed Reagan on just about everything Reagan ever did.

The truth is media elites like Rather, Brokaw, Zorn and Kornblut are having trouble squaring what they have been telling others to believe about Reagan all these years and the reality that few people listened to them. When President Clinton passes away someday, they will be incensed if someone even dares to think that less than a full week of coverage should be granted to the Democrats "two-termer" of recent memory.

But the truth also is that it is America that is getting to speak right now. America is paying tribute to a president who won 95 out of a possible 100 states. America is honoring the president who broke the spine of the Soviets, who brought freedom to millions of oppressed people, and who single-handedly turned more people's financial futures around in America than any other president in our lifetime. America is saying goodbye to its hero.

As the thousands came to see Reagan's casket in California – some taking up to 12 hours to do so – and as many more thousands gathered and waited on the national mall outside the Capital Rotunda on Wednesday, it is obvious to all that America loved Reagan.

And for the media elites who still rage with hatred for him, America has told you: "Go eat sand!"

For right now, America mourns.

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[Keith in Iowa]

The liberal media is p*ssed because this is taking away from the time they planned to spend pimping SlickWilly's book.

[goldstategop]

They think a week's coverage is "excessive." They want so desperately to escape the pretense of national unity President Reagan's death forced upon them. By next week, they will be back to their normal selves.

[KangarooJacqui]

Enough Reagan, already! Kevin McCullough says massive media coverage driving liberals crazy

Too much Reagan isn't enough... Kangaroo Jacqui says driving liberals crazy is a good thing. (Besides, it's a fait accompli - liberals are crazy to begin with!)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AW, my heart bleeds for them , they should not tune in to Larry King tonight either cause he a Tim Russert are extolling Reagans virtues...

And we have this from Moscow:

Reagan Mourned in Former 'Evil Empire'

[Allegra]

I just love this. Reagan drove the liberal media up the wall when he was President.

Now he gets to do it one more time from the grave.

I love RR. :)

[Qwinn]

While Bush is -not at all- like Reagan in terms of having limited government as a major goal (and that's an important difference), in every other respect I believe Bush does deserve the comparisons.

And the media whinging has disgusted several people that I know already. It's not so much that Reagan's death will help Bush, it's that the subtextual (and sometimes overt) media bashing of Reagan will alienate viewers from the Left, which will help Bush.

Qwinn

[JohnHuang2]

I love RR. :)

Seconded! ;-)

[DB]

"America is paying tribute to a president who won 95 out of a possible 100 states."

huh?

[MadIvan]

Mad Ivan agrees with Kangaroo Jacqui. It would be even better if they were driven to frothing at the mouth crazy and the following charity would become a reality:

THE LITHIUM FOR DEMOCRATS FUND

The Lithium for Democrats Fund will enable Democrat politicians to receive the anti-psychotic medications they obviously need. To highlight the seriousness of this cause, it is proposed that a calendar be created for the charity, showing some of the barmiest Democrats who are in need of this assistance - to wit:

And certainly a special spread will be required for October, to commemorate the Paul Wellstone Memorial Two Hour Hate:

Please give generously.

Regards, Ivan

[JohnHuang2]

Kangaroo Jacqui says driving liberals crazy is a good thing.

No need to drive -- it's a short walk for liberals ;-)

[MadIvan]

Two elections, 50 states in each, ergo 95 out of 100.

Regards, Ivan

[Robert_Paulson2]

they had soooo hoped the abu gharib scandal and the 911 commision would remain on the front page for the next two weeks...

by the time our nation has begun to absorb the grief and greatness we associate with our President's passing, in about a week or two... the sovereignty of Iraq being restored, will be just days away... and the NEW front story.

and within weeks of that event, the emerging NATO deployment, with the approval of a US cajoled United Nations agreement... and the comeuppance in France's face... will take us right up to the last 60 days of the presidential election... along with emerging truth from the Iraqi Republic... that THEY have found the paper trail AND the parts and materials that were part of the WMD's... sent to Syria.

OH BOY...
It's beginning to look like it's gonna be great.

Kerry is on the tracks and the train, it is a comin.

[DB]

Ah!

Thanks.

[beaversmom]

I thought about this when he died and it's only meant in humor. He upstaged President Bush at the D-day event. If only he could have hung on a little longer and passed on the day Clinton's book came out. That would have been priceless.

[beaversmom]

Oh my goodness--they've all gone feral.

[MadIvan]

It is rather stark when you see them all together, isn't it? :)

Regards, Ivan

[noutopia]

We as Americans should feel honored that we had a man like Reagan as our President.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Ivan.
Buddy.

Couldn't you get Prime Minister Tony to offer these clowns a temporary job over there in the social democrats organization?
(Isn't that the "ever united in error and ignorance" party?)

We are really sick of these clowns over here.
When you guys get sick of them, you could send them across the Channel to France, couldn't you?

That picture of Gore (you posted) looks rather like he's trying to defecate in his diaper. Perhaps?

[MadIvan]

We have enough leftists here, thank you...I think we should just send them directly to France. Smuggle them in, if necessary.

Regards, Ivan

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"...they had soooo hoped the abu gharib scandal and the 911 commision would remain on the front page for the next two weeks..."

They aren't exactly geniuses when it comes to picking high ratings reports, are they?

[MadIvan]

Oh by the way the quote was, and one of Tony's best -

"Ah yes, the Liberal Democrats...united, as ever, in opportunism and error."

Regards, Ivan

[Robert_Paulson2]

on more than a few occasions, I sign on to the internet and watch PM Tony, "answer questions," in parliament. I had the privilege to watch that particular quip flow right off the tip of his tongue LIVE.

I laughed till the tears ran down my face.
I seldom get it right when I try to recall it.
But I really UNDERSTOOD the man when he said it.

This American says Thank God, for Tony Blair.

[noutopia]

How are the Brits feeling of our loss?

[Robert_Paulson2]

This has been a nightmare for them.

good.

[I_dmc]

Likely meant 95% of the states, but it was actually 98%.

[MadIvan]

I can only speak for myself -

Ronald Reagan: Still My President

Regards, Ivan

[I_dmc]

Ah

[JohnHuang2]

Amen.

[freepatriot32]

Kevin McCullough says massive media coverage driving liberals crazy

[SAJ]

Well, ought to be easy enough.

In theory at least, doesn't smuggling jerkwaters through the Chunnel work in both directions? (g!)

[piasa]

You might have a good fundraising idea, there... those pics are a hoot.

[longtermmemmory]

I think its the coverage AND the outpouring of RESPECT. How much you want to bet the little ratings knomes are comparing praising story ratings with bashing stories.

I bet the fact that if RWReagan were to magically appear again and be eligible for the presidency he would win in a landslide AGAIN is also driving them insane. What did they expect? We would suddenly hate Reagan over time? We would believe the revisionist pro-commie LIES they offer as history?

[Sabatier]

That's a great picture of Gollum at the podium. LOL!

[dawn53]

Kerry on a campaign stop this week attempted to portray Reagan as different from Bush because of bitter partisanship

Actually, I think this was the DNC talking point and it is being put forth, especially in the media.

Didn't anyone wonder how the media, suddenly sees the Reagan years as non-partisan?

They fail to mention the fact that Reagan was despised by the media and the dems, just like Bush.

The only reason I see for them doing this is to try to convince the American people that Reagan was not contentious in the same way that Bush is (which, of course, is just the opposite of the truth.)

[dandi]

"But the truth also is that it is America that is getting to speak right now."

So true. A mile-long line of well-wishers is difficult to spin. Rather, Brokaw, et al can't take anything away from it or make it look like anything except what it is: The man and his presidency was beloved by millions.

[wunderkind54]

I second that...you wouldn't have to take the car out of "park" to drive a liberal crazy!

[RippleFire]

bump

[Old Grumpy]

I remember - WELL - how much air time was devoted to John F. Kennedy's death and funeral. And I'll bet my LIFE that as much or more will be given to either one of the Clintons when one of them kicks the bucket.

[Don Corleone]

coverage driving liberals crazy

This is not a "drive" its a "gimme" putt.

[Pete'sWife]

Drive?

More like a short putt.

[Klatuu]

When President Clinton passes away someday, they will be incensed if someone even dares to think that less than a full week of coverage should be granted to the Democrats "two-termer" of recent memory.

When Bubba passes away his casket will have to be put in a room with a floor drain and they'll need a truckload of urinal cakes.

[Condor51]

"When Bubba passes away his casket will have to be put in a room with a floor drain and they'll need a truckload of urinal cakes."

Kindly allow me to add:
And the 'Honor Guard' will all be gays and lesbians (don't ask - don't tell), the pall bearers will be Hookers and when a Rev gives the invocation lightening will strike the Capitol Bldg flag pole!

:-)

[Highest Authority]

You CAN'T drive Liberals crazy, they start out that way and get worse from there!!!!

[AnAmericanMother]

"Let six fancy-men carry my coffin
Let a whore sing my funeral song
Let all the mourners carry white roses
So they can't smell me as we march along."

- St. James's Infirmary

[hattend]

BTTT

[bray]

Why will clinton only need 2 poll bearers??? Because there are only two handles on a garbage can!

Pray for W and Our Greatest President Ronald Wilson Reagan

[Core_Conservative]

driving liberals crazy

Nothing like stating the obvious!!!!

[mdmathis6]

Not only that...they'll erect the Eternally Lit Cigar Memorial over his resting place.(with apologies to JFK).

[expatpat]

Must be referring to sum of both 1980 and 1984.