1 The libs think that because democrats voted for Reagan that he was "bipartisan".

2 It's almost like they're trying to re-write the history of Reagan isn't it?  I wonder if they were even conscious and lucid back then, hearing some of this talk. 

Who called in a hit on Khaddaffi?

Who made the Russians wet their beds and wake up screaming and crying every night?

Who fired a bunch of do-nothing air traffic controllers?

Reagan!  That's who!  He was so hardcore, he laughed in the OR when he was shot in the chest.  It's like the evil spirit of Dick Cheney grew up in Reagan's body, laughing at death.

3 Once the Dems realize that they can't demonize a popular Republican they fall back on the strategy of co-opting him as their own. Just think of Lincoln (and MLK Jr, FWIW).

4 i'll never be sick of Reagan.......more vids!!!!!

5 Each dollar of increased revenue has been matched by $1.25 of increased spending.

What a piker. Obama did much better than that.

6 This is not a hard concept to explain well.  Why can't anyone do it?  Besides Newt, who can certianly pay lip service to the idea.

7 The MFM always thins they can rewrite history, as well as being the king maker.  As in El Barada being the new leader for Egypt.  They are Relentless.

8 Andrea Mitchell is a shill for the Democratic party. That she continues to be respected as a journalist and commentator is testament to the dire straits the 4th estate has reached. I see no way out for the MBM. The future is the internet.

Luckily Obama will soon have a kill switch so that if the criticism becomes too much for him to handle he can just shut it off!

9 LOL, this illustrates several things that should be highlighted and shouted to the masses:

1. Can you imagine the same types of questions to Obama?
2. The Democrats and their enablers in the MFM are liars
3. Liberals reset their memory banks every morning at 08:00 am.  They have no History.

10 I was in my car on Sunday.  Heard the teaser for a piece on the "mythology of Reagan."  Of course this is how they would celebrate his birthday.

11 Andrea Mitchell is a shill for the Democratic party. 

And she's married to the previous head of the Fed--how on earth can they allow that?!

12 (I mean when Greenspan was head of the Fed...)

13 Another taste of the fabulous fucktard punch.

14 Posted by: ParisParamus at February 08, 2011 08:54 AM (3/GGc)

Allow the marriage or allow her to continue in her current position?

The incestuous relationships in DC are vile. Husband works in politics, wife works in the media. And the revolving door is just as bad.

The part-time legislators that were envisioned by the founders are long gone, but the idea was powerful. I just don't see how to return to it.

15

1. Can you imagine the same types of questions to Obama?

Yes, unfortunately:

Ditch! Slurpee! I know someone acted stupidly even before I have any facts!

16 1. Can you imagine the same types of questions to Obama?
Excellent point, Vic. Or even using the same tenor let alone similar questions.

17 It's just unbelievable that anyone in the media would actually try out this whopper on a public that remembers Reagan quite well.

What's unbelievable?  Even back in college, journalism was what you went into if you were too stupid to even hack Hotel and Restaurant Management as a major.  No surprise that Mitchell would be dumb enough to try this...

18

What the left is doing is trying to construct an illusion of Reagan that they can use to compare with Obama.  First they tried Lincoln, then Roosevelt, and now Reagan.  They desperately need their leftist choice, the choice they attached all of their hopes and dreams to, the choice they themselve imbued with deity, to be revered, and they know they have a very, very long way to go. 

Instead of Ronald Reagan, they should have chosen Ronald McDonald...  On the other hand, Ronald McDonald has managed to do some good and helpful things for children and families so I guess even that won't work.

19 I enjoy a good dose of Gipper-porn in the morning. 

20 "Egyptian protesters are rallying behind a Google executive to be their leader"? from ABC radio.

21 I was watching the show when Andrea spouted that crap and almost choked on my waffle.  Peggy N fired back promptly and decisively,  so I presume she just lost the future gig on that program.

Never trust the MFM, never underestimate the evil present in the democrap party, and never underestimate the stupidity of the republican party!

22 But, Nell Carter and Mtv taught me that Reagan was a fascist who couldn't dance and slept with a chimp who wore pajamas!

23 18
Hussein, Ronald MacDonald and Obama are both clowns, so there's that!

24

Stay after it Laura!

Punch back twice as hard.

 

 

25 Sam Donaldson, arrayed in full Romulan Battle Eyebrows, assaults Supply Side economic theory.

LOL, we need this Sam D. quote on U-tube which is on Wiki (if true):

One of his most widely remembered questions during his tenure at the White House was "Mr. President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes in the past and you have blamed the Congress. Does any of the blame belong to you?"

To which Reagan retorted: "Yes because for many years I was a Democrat!"

26

More lib quotes about Reagan to come. Just got this in my email:

February 10-11 at the National Press Club all day. The University of Virginia in conjunction with the Reagan Foundation will sponsor an Academic Symposia focusing on President ReaganÂ’s international accomplishments. Panel discussions will be followed on Thursday night by a keynote conversation moderated by Andrea Mitchell with John Negroponte, Jim Webb, Richard Haass and John Warner. On Friday, following the morning panel discussions, the featured lunch speaker will be former Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney. For information and to register for the conference, please visit http://millercenter.org/academic/reagancentennial

27

Heh, I wish we had a president who could pimp-slap a pompous journalist like that today and throw his ridiculous question right back at him.

"Excuse me, but what the fuck are you yammering about? That's the stupidest question I've ever been asked. Can you perform even the most basic forms of math, like addition and subtraction? Can you even balance your own checkbook? Look, come back with a question that makes sense next time and stop wasting my time."

In the nicest way possible, of course.

28

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 08, 2011 09:10 AM (DCpHZ)

True.

29

OK here it is

30 good point, and excellent find, LauraW

we don't mind, really!

31

"What's unbelievable?  Even back in college, journalism was what you went into if you were too stupid to even hack Hotel and Restaurant Management as a major. "

 

You're words remind me of a famous (at least in Alabama) quote byJoe Namath.  While at Bama, Joe was asked if he majored in basket weaving, he replied, "No I majored in Journalism, it was easier."

32 All of this current meme on RR is a concerted effort because some libtard bio is due out soon that the NYT is praising.

Fox interviewed the idiot who made it and had to dispel" a lot of myths about RR such as he was against tax increases.

That tells you what this new bio is going to be like.

33 Those that rewrite history are doomed to repeat it!

34

For years the libs have rolled out the lie that Reagan ran up the deficit on military spending and Star Wars while starving "the poor". As always reality contradicts the left.

I also checked out some of the other videos that are linked to that one. Calling the 1980 election for Reagan brought back good memories

 

35 Laura, can you add Vic's video? I love to see Sam as the straight man to Reagan's jokes.

36

Imagine for a moment, Barack Obama saying (with the aid of the TOTUS) Â…

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. — Ronald Reagan

Â… I canÂ’t either

37 Looking at those videos it becomes apparent why Reagan was loved so much. Far from being stupid and weak, he was able to take those hostile press questions and jam it right back up their ass in a humorous way and do it off the cuff.

We haven't had a candidate who could do that since then. The press is always going to be hostile to a Republican unless it is during a primary and the Republican is a RINO/DIABLO.

The Republicans are just going to have to learn how to deal with the Sam Donaldsons and Andrea Mitchells. What they must not do is modify policies in a vain effort to appease them. The press is like Hitler, appeasement does nothing but make them bolder. 

38

Hope you're not sick of this guys

More please. This is more better than prOn.

...except for the midget tranny granny stuff

39 Can do, gimme a sec

40 Kinda OT but the left are digging up Margret Thatcher "The Iron Lady" for a history rewrite  too.

41 Everyone is a democrat within a few years after they die. Everyone!

42 For years the libs have rolled out the lie that Reagan ran up the deficit on military spending and Star Wars while starving "the poor".

And killing the gheys. They really love that meme.

43 the left are digging up Margret Thatcher

She's still with us, which is probably why they're doing it now. Disgusting.

44 Where are the "homeless" when you need them?

45 41 Everyone is a voting democrat within a few years after they die. Everyone!

Posted by: The Chicago Voter Rolls at February 08, 2011 09:40 AM (3vrnt)

FIFY

46 42 For years the libs have rolled out the lie that Reagan ran up the deficit on military spending and Star Wars while starving "the poor".

And killing the gheys. They really love that meme.

And don't forget that Reagan was the sole cause of homelessness during the 80's and even beyond. 

47 Hey! Where's the swearing dog, lauraw?

48 This never gets old.

49 Oh, and Reagan shut down all the mental hospitals in all the states when he was governor. /s

50 She's still with us, which is probably why they're doing it now. Disgusting.

I even read the article that says she's still with us, but must have blocked it out assuming even they wouldn't sink that low.  Proving that one should never try to put a limit on the depths the left will sink to for power.

51 That the MFM would put a witlessly preening cocksucker like Sam Donaldson in a high-exposure position tells you what type of fuckstick they value.  No wonder they like BOzo so much; he's just like them.

52 The defining characteristic of the modern day left is the inability to feel shame. 

53 Reagan had his "Voodoo Economics," so what does Barky have?

Putt-putt Economics?

54 Where are the "homeless" when you need them?

Frozen to death under three feet of global warming.

55 49 Oh, and Reagan shut down all the mental hospitals in all the states when he was governor. /s

Posted by: moi at February 08, 2011 09:46 AM (Ez4Ql)

That's one of my favorites.  The ACLU helped to end forced institutionalization, which liberals (a) think was a great thing (b) acknowledge that it caused homelessness and (c) blame Reagan for it.

You can talk in circles with them on that one.

56

Oh, and Reagan shut down all the mental hospitals in all the states when he was governor

If you added that Journalism majors increased at the same time, I might believe it.

57 53 Reagan had his "Voodoo Economics," so what does Barky have?

Putt-putt Economics?

Posted by: Fritz at February 08, 2011 09:49 AM (GwPRU)

Turbo Tax Economics?

58 Putt-putt Economics?

Kenyan economics?

59

Fun read from a Cannuck about what an empty suit Ebola is and how the MBM tries to dress him up in the costume of former presidents

It starts with this and just gets better and betterer:

But so far Time has presented us with a cover picture of Obama in FDR drag and another one of Reagan embracing Obama. Before the big OÂ’s term is done, we may well be treated to another cover of Obama playing basketball with Andrew Jackson on the cover of Newsweek or in bed in the Lincoln Bedroom with Abe Lincoln for TimeÂ’s last print issue.

60 54 Where are the "homeless" when you need them?

Frozen to death under three feet of global warming.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 08, 2011 09:49 AM (ElYV9)

Our real concern with global warming is that we need more ice floes, otherwise how are we going to handle the health care costs of our senior population?

61 Hope you're not sick of this guys

No fucking way. Reagan is, was, and will always be ours.

62 Reagan should have started with "Uh Sam, did you know that there is a dead ferret sitting on your head?"  And as for the stupid question you just asked...

63 That 2nd clip is THE AWESOME.  Good times.

64 LOVE the 2nd clip.

65 Posted by: beedubya at February 08, 2011 09:55 AM (AnTyA)

Good article.  Somebody here made the point pretty early in his presidency that the MFM treats McFly like a retarded kid.  They haven't stopped doing it, even though they belittle him by it, and he's too fucking dumb to realize it.

66 I've had the , "Reagan forced the crazies out onto the streets causing the homeless crisis" argument w/ my libtard college professor brother for years. Anyone know the case the the ACLU used to effect that change?

67 Also, you can't get tired of Reagan Porn.

68

That second clip is what always kept me glued to the television when he was speaking or giving a speech.  

Recreating Reagan by the press that hated his guts when he was POTUS.  I have a long memory and the left called him a war monger who wanted to blow up the world with nukes.  Ronnie Ray-gun of Star Wars.  Created AIDS to kill homosexuals.  Stupid, doddering and old.

And now they suddenly claim him as their's?  LMFAO, that is only to be believed by the youngins who weren't even alive during his presidency.

69 If we tell you often enough that Reagan was really a liberal/progressive, you WILL believe it!
Thank you and good night,
Your friendly MFM

70 They called him the 'Teflon president' because nothing 'stuck' to him.

Which pretty much was a concession that they were throwing as much shit at him as they could.

71 Already the MFM is sort of intimating that GW Bush wasn't that bad.

72 70 Yep.It pissed them off to know end.The hearings on Iran/Contra totally blew up in their faces,that was their best shot.LOL.

73 And can we please put to rest that the man was suffering from Alzheimer's during his presidency?

Preznit Teleprompter could only hope to think on his feet like Reagan could.  He didn't need notes or teleprompters to tell him how he felt on a given subject.

74 Ah, I remember that incident like it was yesterday.  Old Sammy's scalp turned red and heated up about 5 degrees after that quip.

Good times.

75

I liked Ronald Reagan a lot, until, until those Muslim terrorist loonies bombed that Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, and President Reagan just played with his pud; doing nothing, absolutely nothing about it - no retalliation, no reprisals, nothing. What a putz.

That was the same wussy way that President Carter and President Clinton reacted to terrorist attacks, too. 

With Desert Shield and Desert Storm, President G.H.W. Bush showed that he was the first president in 40 years who had any balls, and with his invasions of Afganistan snd Irag,  his son, G,W. Bush, showed that he sure had balls, too.

As for Ronald Reagan, saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" took about as much guts as ordering take-out from a new Chinese restaurant. It was timely, that's all. Gorbachev was probably already planning to dismantle that wall. Let's not make Reagan bigger than he was. He had many flaws.

76 When did journalists (even the unapologetically left ones) stop sounding dramatic?

77 73 And can we please put to rest that the man was suffering from Alzheimer's during his presidency?

Preznit Teleprompter could only hope to think on his feet like Reagan could.  He didn't need notes or teleprompters to tell him how he felt on a given subject.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 08, 2011 10:14 AM (f9c2L)

Maybe after he got Alzheimer's he became liberal?

78 The MFM hated Reagan. Hated. They just want to use him to help Ebola. Their shit just never stops. Stop watching them!

79 The meme about RR shutting down all the mental hospitals started when he was in CA (as a citizen) and it somehow spread to all over the country.

It is just another lie promulgated by the liars in the MFM. The actual case was O'Connor v. Donaldson decided by the Supreme Court in 1975.  The case was brought by the ACLU.

At the time of the case RR wasn't even gov of CA any longer and was not president either. He had absolutely zero to do with it.

80 Posted by: JR at February 08, 2011 10:07 AM (jCNOU)

Short, faulty memories (for those few "memories" of the left that actually have any attachments to reality, tenuous as they are) are required of all leftists.  Most of the democratic party forgot that the Cold War had ever happened by 1992.  It's as if there never was any USSR.  Of course, this is triply weird because the Dems idolized the Soviets.  Now, of course, they have a new commie girlfriend in China.

81

With Desert Shield and Desert Storm, President G.H.W. Bush showed that he was the first president in 40 years who had any balls, and with his invasions of Afganistan snd Irag,  his son, G,W. Bush, showed that he sure had balls, too.

As for Ronald Reagan, saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" took about as much guts as ordering take-out from a new Chinese restaurant. It was timely, that's all. Gorbachev was probably already planning to dismantle that wall. Let's not make Reagan bigger than he was. He had many flaws.

Posted by: Brian at February 08, 2011 10:15 AM (sYrWB)

I thought GHWB's forming of the coalition for Desert Shield and Storm was an act of tremendous statesmanship in forming a multi-national force for which he was never given enough credit (again what do you expect from the MFM?).  Unfortunately he got screwed by listening to Powell which ended up with the action being truncated short of getting Saddam the fuck out or weakening him more significantly.

Regarding his statements on the Soviet Union:  It's a testimony for what twats the previous Presidents had been that his words meant so much to people in the Gulag who were heartened by the almost unprecedented type of talk.  I blame that mainly on the quislings in the State Dept and CIA getting every fucking thing wrong and, in some cases, being commie symps.  I'm in favor of looking objectively at everything Reagan did, particularly Lebanon, but you can't ignore that he was still dealing with a donk congress.

82 Narrow manded liberals all the nasty things they said about reagan all the blabbering pinheads in hollywood saying all those vile things about him yet he was relected in 1984 and the crap from liberal trash spewing journalists becuase liberals are mean and nasty

83

I'm still waiting for the stunning utopian Obama Administration foreign policy where everyone loves him and us again and we're all happily eating locally made, organic non-transfats containing donuts of joy.

I'm so glad for the Reagan retrospective, and it makes me laugh trying to imagine his reaction to the current administration's lack of...anything of substance.

84 I have a long memory and the left called him a war monger who wanted to blow up the world with nukes.  Ronnie Ray-gun of Star Wars.  Created AIDS to kill homosexuals.  Stupid, doddering and old.

And now they suddenly claim him as their's?  LMFAO, that is only to be believed by the youngins who weren't even alive during his presidency.

Posted by: JR at February 08, 2011 10:07 AM (jCNOU)

 

The girl I was dating in 1984 got hysterically mad at me for voting for Reagan. (My first vote) She went on about him wanting to blow up the world. I asked why hasn't he done it yet. She said he wanted to get re-elected. I said if his sole goal is to blow up the world why care about re-election? Because he needed more power to do so, was her reason. So why didn't he celebrate his re-election by blowing up the world? I was told that I "just didn't understand how it worked." I responding by laughing in her face.

85

#81 - By their very nature, Americans like winners, not losers. They like winners in sporting events. They like winners in big business, they love to win wars.

Like Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton annd Obama, Ronald Reagan did nothing, absolutely nothing to reinvigorate and to reinstill a winning spirit in Americans. To the contrary, we saw a continuation of the malaise that we saw under Carter, but with shorter lines at gas stations.

Many people saw him as all talk, no action, and as all hat, no cattle - just a smooth-talking actor, and, rightly or wrongly, that was how the dummies in the MSM perceived him, too. It's not so much that they're disingenuous. Journalist simply ain't the brightest bulbs on the tree. You'll see that every day if you pay close attention to what they're saying and contrast their opinions with reality.

86

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87

I don't think that there is any such thing as investigative journalists anymore. One of them makes an assumption or a conjecture, and like lemmings, the other ones follow him off a cliff, mimicking assumptions and conjectures, because they're too spoiled, too lazy, too sloppy, too careless, too stupid and too incompetent to do any research and to get their facts straight. What passes for news today is mostly contrived bullshit.  I know several journalists, and all of them are extremely lazy, dense, shallow, obtuse and politically correct.

88

Ronald Reagan 1,000,000

Brian 0

89

#88 - Yeah, that was a rational resonse ..., for a psychotic, retarded 3-year-old child.

You asshole.

90 Oh good heavens, there's that rare bird spurwing plover putting in an appearance at #82, and he sounds like the real deal, too, and not a sockpuppet.

Welcome back, spurwing. We hardly knew ye.

91

Brian?

F U

92 yea but

jelly bean boom!

93

Like Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton annd Obama, Ronald Reagan did nothing, absolutely nothing to reinvigorate and to reinstill a winning spirit in Americans.

That's not the 1983 that I remember.  I remember everyone in my high school getting some serious reinvigoration when he bombed the Libyans. 

I also remember the new supply stuff coming into my Army Reserve unit, along with tales of how bad things were under Carter.  There was quite a change in the whole military picture, if I recall.  We were still in the post-Vietnam era when the military was not highly regarded, and victory in the Cold War was far from certain.  Reagan put the spine back in the US military. 

Yeah, he had faults, and he made mistakes.  Beirut wasn't one of his brighter times.  But overall, he is still Ronaldus Maximus. 

94 I too thought Reagan made a bad decision on Beirut but after a while I realized he was right. That was proven by all the bull that went down in Nicaragua.

There was no way the commie Dem congress would have supported him on doing anything in Lebanon. He would have been doing the typical Dem thing, throwing away U.S. soldier's lives for nothing.

The Dems would have forced pullout within a few months.  He actually made the tougher political decision there because his bases hated it, but given the congress we had it was best for the military.

95 Like Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton annd Obama, Ronald Reagan did nothing, absolutely nothing to reinvigorate and to reinstill a winning spirit in Americans. To the contrary, we saw a continuation of the malaise that we saw under Carter, but with shorter lines at gas stations.

Ok, I have to take issue with this.  Reagan was all about optimism and stood in marked contrast to Carter in that regard.  Although I didn't like Kennedy very much, he was also optimistic; but a bit of a bumbler too who probably died at the right time to not have subsequent events ruin his legacy.

96 Reagan is responsible for setting Brian loose from the booby hatch. /

97 Good comment on the Reagan tax cuts: "Let's set the record straight. The real myth is that Reagan cut taxes. What he cut was tax rates. Tax revenues doubled between 1980 and 1988 ($517B to nearly $1 trillion). The deficit increased from $75B in Carter's last year (15% of revenue) to $120B in Reagan's last year (12% of revenue). The reason for the increased deficit was not the money that Reagan spent on defense (about the same percent of revenue as in the Carter years). The real culprit on "reckless spending" was a spendthrift Democrat congress. They spent like drunken sailors and blamed Reagan for the increase in the deficit."

98 Many people saw him as all talk, no action, and as all hat, no cattle - just a smooth-talking actor, and, rightly or wrongly, that was how the dummies in the MSM perceived him, too.

I can't comment on how the MFM really perceived him but in the 1980 elections, and before (witness Norman Lear's All in the Family where "Reegan" was the choice of our resident troll's moniker), they tried to portray him as this war-mongering loose cannon that would get us into a war not unlike how that stupid daisy/mushroom cloud ad was used against Goldwater.  That's why during the first debate against the hapless Carter, when Reagan let loose with the grandfatherly "There you go again" a gazillion libs' heads assploded as this crazy person itching for a fight came off as this kindly candidate who could chuckle mildly about opposing dumbbells.

99

Like Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton annd Obama, Ronald Reagan did nothing, absolutely nothing to reinvigorate and to reinstill a winning spirit in Americans. To the contrary, we saw a continuation of the malaise that we saw under Carter, but with shorter lines at gas stations.

Right. So that explains his landslide REelection.  Thanks for playing.

100 Keep whipping this meme. One need not ever wonder why there is a site named "Fire Andrea Mitchell"

101 George F. Will said that Clinton's cabinet were "children" and "architects of disaster."  He later described Donaldson during a pundit panel as a "pyromaniac in a field of straw men."

102 Sam Donaldson == Bill O'Reilly v1.0 (beta test version)

103 I've always thought Andrea Mitchell was a little light in the brains department but I never realized that a bag of hammers is smarter than she is. Soon, liberals like her are going to put all fiction writers out of work ... such silly fantasies simply can't be made up.

The news media has been left wing biased for over half a century or longer but at least some of the journalists were intelligent way back when. Now they're biased and stupid.

This has to be Revenge of the Neanderthals.

104 Alzheimer's my arse...anyone sharp enough to tackle Sam Donaldson isn't losing his marbles.

105 But, Nell Carter and Mtv taught me that Reagan was a fascist who couldn't dance and slept with a chimp who wore pajamas! Well, they are both dead.

106 96 Reagan is responsible for setting Brian loose from the booby hatch. /

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at February 08, 2011 01:09 PM (mHQ7T)

 

^THAT^, from the batty girl in a straight jacket screaming at us from her rubber room.

 

107

Right. So that explains his landslide REelection.  Thanks for playing.

Posted by: Stillwater at February 08, 2011 02:08 PM (0GpN4)

Pay attention, junior. I neither said, nor implied that Reagan was a bad president.  My criticisms of him are legitimate. As usual, your argument was specious.  TRY to focus, junior.

108 91

Brian?

F U

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