Was watching Chris Matthews this evening, and he said to one guest that Regan's popularity stopped at our borders.
So you get what I mean when this professor said Chris Mathews on his gushing - this guy was so left he was falling off the precipice.
Wonder where all the actors were to pay him tribute. Lots of foreign leaders, boy scouts, 5,000 people men, woman & children an hour - NO ACTORS - except Arnold Schwartenegger.
Very sad!
Come to think of it, I never saw Tommy boy out there. Perhaps I missed it. Nope, that 'liberal satan' and his 'evil Kennedy spawn' wife were the ones who showed up to pay Regan homage.
I hear you. That's okay, we don't need their kind. If they don't show up, it's no loss to me. It's just par for the course.
These folks may not show up because Nancy whould whop them up side the noggen.
In a sense he was right. Unless you are very, very conservative in much of the non-US West that were not part of the former Soviet empire - i.e. Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Norway but not Czech Republic for instance (and not conservative enough to have fallen into the nationalist and anti-American Right), you will have sneered at Reagan's legacy.
I personally feel some American liberals feel the same but can't express their true feelings at public because they know doing so will make their political future toast - after all, they are in the United States! Foreign left-wingers (or "centrists") and the far-left Americans have no such inhibitions so they feel free to say what they truly think about Reagan.
Really, the Great One doesn't need the defilement.
Bo Derek (still beautiful in her 50s, IMHO), Morgan Fairchild and Tom Selleck were visitors in California, in addition to the Governor.
I think I'll give Hollywood the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe -- just maybe they didn't want to show up en masse because it would have detracted from the solemnity of the funeral. Or if they did show up, there must have been a mutual agreement by the media and live video crews not to shine the spotlight on them. I think Arnie was there as a government official. It's also possible that many actors/actresses and show biz people went through the line disguised and unrecognized, sans coteries.
And it is just possible that Hollywood thought it best to have their own private and unheralded memorial for Ron, as co-workers might do. I can understand that.
If I'm wrong, I'm going to be more than just a little dis-appointed.