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If Ronald Reagan were still alive today, guess what he’d do, don’t know?, okay we’ll tell you, he’d make sure that none of these dandy Hollywood Actors ever tried running for major office, he would. Such as. [The Corner]
FUN WITH JUXTAPOSITION
What Ronald Reagan Hath Wrought
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5:22 PM
on Fri February 6 2009
By
Jim Newell
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I’d rather have a Real Genius than a Fake Texan!
Big Gay Al Reynolds defending Reagan? Delish. Even more delish that it’s underlined.
There you go again! He saved thousands of lives as a lifeguarder, fought the Kaiser in the Great War, and dueled Stalin and won, bringing down the Berlin Airlift.
IF A REPUBLICAN DOES IT, THEN IT IS GOOD. IF A DEMOCRAT DOES IT, THEN IT IS BAD. IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO UNDERSTAND JIM NEWELL?!?!??!!??!?
Is ‘ponders’ the new ‘mulls’ in headline writing?
Republicans don’t know the meaning of cognitive dissonance, and therefore do not suffer from it.
It’s long been one of my dreams to visit Ronald Reagan’s grave. That’s not the whole dream, that’s just the part I’m going to mention.
SayItWithWookies: Please make sure you’ve eaten plenty of fast food tacos beforehand.
AxmxZ: Apparently, they appear not to understand the meaning of irony either.
facehead: Take it easy. Remember: Newell is only about 16 years old. It’s a very impressionable age.
SayItWithWookies: Excellent.
Kilmer’s career is in the crapper, so I guess riding horses is good enough. That’s what Richardson seems to do, anyway.
SayItWithWookies: The other part is either robbing or humping. Or both!
Man, I hate it when the jokes write themselves.
If Ronald Reagan was alive today, he would be feasting on Unicorn Blood with Dick Cheney.
SayItWithWookies: please, please, please don’t forget the ketchup. also.
I was a Hill reporter when Reagan was in office. I saved this note from William Greider to the WaPo sent after they published the Gipper’s obit. Captured my impression of the man to a T.
WILLIAM GREIDER OFFERS SYMPATHY TO THE WASH POST
[From a letter from William Greider, former Post assistant managing editor]
My condolences to the staff and management of The Post. I had no idea you felt so deeply about Ronald Reagan. I was a reporter and editor at The Post during the launch of Reagan’s “revolution,” and we had a somewhat different take on his presidency then.
Reagan nurtured the strong and punished the weak. He fostered the great regressive shift in economic rewards that continues to this day, while ignoring a visible deterioration in the middle class and manufacturing.
His economic theory was cockeyed and did not add up (both parties spent 20 years cleaning up Reagan’s deficit mess). But Reaganomics did deliver the boodle to the appropriate interests, the same ones who financed his rise in politics.
A disturbing meanness lurked at the core of Reagan’s political agenda and was quite tangible at the time, though evidently forgotten now. We wrote tough stories about that and other contentious questions; I remain proud of the coverage. I would rank Reagan’s place in history right up there with Warren G. Harding’s. You want to put him in the company of FDR, maybe even Lincoln. Future historians will decide who’s right. Meanwhile, I read your funeral coverage as a lengthy, lugubrious correction.
TheRealJimbo:
But at least Harding had a female mistress. Ron was distracted until Nancy pushed his Chief of Staff, Donald Reagan, under the bus. Too many late nights (if you get my meaning, if you get my drift) in the Oval Orifice.
I blame Ronald Reagan for Al Franken, that amnesty-supporting, deficit-increasing, terrorist-funding LIEBRAL!!!!!!
Part of me wants to say yay!Batman but he’s an insult to Batman.
Can Clooney run for something? He was a lame Batman, but at least he did Bruce Wayne okay.
I blame Gopher (Fred Grandy). And Sonny Bono.
Actually, I blame Sonny Bono for a lot of things.
Reagan was the first, and last, American president to make both his own military and the Russians poop in their collective pants over the real possibility of a US-started, reciprocal, nuclear war. (The 80’s Doctor Strange Love.) But somehow that entire statement wont fit on a gravestone. Perhaps instead, “He Kept Us Save From Himself.”
S.Luggo: What?
What would Ronald Reagan be doing if he were alive right now? Answer: Clawing at the top of his casket. My apologies, that was adapted from a princess Di joke.
this guy goes a long way to score nicely in Google searches… LOL
FlipOffResearch: Which in turn was adapted from a Lincoln joke…and that was probably adapted a joke about Unk the Feathered.
IceCreamEmpress: “Sonny Bono” — WORST.U2.TRIBUTE.BAND.EVER.
Dashboard_Buddha: Hey, you don’t joke about Unk the Featherhead.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: +1
Dude, man, wow, The Corner … I guess it’s hard to see when it’s right there in front of your face.
And also, Republicans are even less likely to truly critique themselves than Rush is to step on a treadmill.
Mit schweinespheren, mein Herr.
S.Luggo: It’s funny- even thought we didn’t have air raid drills or anything when I was a kid, I lived in complete fear of being annihilated by a nuclear attack. I didn’t sleep well from the ages of 5-12, because my Reagan-loving grandmother told me bedtime stories of what would become of us once the Russians launched their nuclear war against us. She was Russian, mind you, so for her, those were probably the equivalent of knock-knock jokes.
William Greider is my new hero. He forgot the overt racism of Reagan statements and policies. Also.