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March 11, 2011

New Audio Released of Moment Before Reagan Shooting
— Ace

The Secret Service releases a previously withheld tape.

By the way, a new book about the shooting, Rawhide Down (Rawhide was Reagan's Secret Service codename), has just been released. Despite apparently painting a very positive picture of the First Patient...

They decided to call him Mr. Reagan rather than Mr. President; the situation would be less frightening that way. They were amazed by his joking, his courtesy and his general lack of V.I.P. attitude.
They were also impressed by his bravery.

...even the New York Times praises the book.

Posted by: Ace at 12:05 PM | Comments (60)
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1 Even.

Posted by: the original worcestershire sauce at March 11, 2011 12:06 PM (2fc1M)

2 Odd.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 11, 2011 12:08 PM (qqrPQ)

3 #newtone

Posted by: Ben at March 11, 2011 12:08 PM (wuv1c)

4 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Posted by: Kathysaysso at March 11, 2011 12:09 PM (ZtwUX)

5 even the New York Times praises the book.
Because now he's a dead conservative.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 11, 2011 12:09 PM (7H/n0)

6 Addendum: ...long dead...

Posted by: andycanuck at March 11, 2011 12:09 PM (7H/n0)

7
30 years ago....on the 25th?

Wow.

Posted by: McSoothsayer at March 11, 2011 12:09 PM (qT7qQ)

Reagan = class.

Obama = ass.

He's gotta hate the contrast in the public eye...

Posted by: DarkLord sez bad ideas are bad! at March 11, 2011 12:10 PM (GBXon)

9 4 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Urkel

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2011 12:10 PM (CTd2k)

10 What a coincidence, my nickname around the truckstop restrooms is Rawhide Down.

Posted by: Ron Reagan, Jr. at March 11, 2011 12:10 PM (T0bNf)

11 The NYT is planning on using Reagan's memory as a prop against Conservatives, so it's officially okay to praise Reagan now.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 11, 2011 12:10 PM (bxiXv)

12 9 4 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Urkel

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2011 04:10 PM (CTd2k)

And Mrs. Obama's code name?

Posted by: Kathysaysso at March 11, 2011 12:10 PM (ZtwUX)

13
I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Handicap.

Posted by: McSoothsayer at March 11, 2011 12:10 PM (qT7qQ)

14 God I miss Ronnie. He actually knew how to LEAD, and do so graciously.

Posted by: MWR at March 11, 2011 12:11 PM (4df7R)

I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Figurehead

Posted by: Ben at March 11, 2011 12:14 PM (wuv1c)

16 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Sexy Jesus

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 11, 2011 12:14 PM (4ZxEW)

And Mrs. Obama's code name?

Posted by: Kathysaysso at March 11, 2011 04:10 PM (ZtwUX)

Wookie!

Sidebar: When Oprah Winfrey is traveling with the Obama's, her codename is Orca.

Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 11, 2011 12:14 PM (ZHsNw)

18 12 9 4 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Urkel

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2011 04:10 PM (CTd2k)

And Mrs. Obama's code name?

Merkin

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2011 12:15 PM (CTd2k)

19 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Empty Suit.

And Mrs. Obama's code name?

Broadzilla

Posted by: mpurinTexas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at March 11, 2011 12:16 PM (jxuSt)

20 I wonder what Obama's code name is?
His Fucking Majesty.

Posted by: joe 'genius' biden at March 11, 2011 12:17 PM (7H/n0)

21 He also walked into the hospital on his own two feet , then collapsed into a wheel chair ...

Posted by: AmericanDawg at March 11, 2011 12:17 PM (KrhEJ)

22 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

The Decider

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 11, 2011 12:18 PM (4ZxEW)

23 Broadzilla

Oh my!

(yet it's so twue! it's twue!)

Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 11, 2011 12:18 PM (pLTLS)

And Mrs. Obama's code name?

Posted by: Kathysaysso at March 11, 2011 04:10 PM

Ch'lact moklu t'suh

Posted by: THE Klingon Empire at March 11, 2011 12:19 PM (vdfwz)

25 RR was the best President since Thomas Jefferson. I would have loved for him to have the same congress that Bush II had for his first 6 years.

It would also have been good for him to be in office for 4 terms with a rubber stamp Senate. Then maybe we could undo a lot of the damage that the worst President ever did.

Posted by: Vic at March 11, 2011 12:19 PM (M9Ie6)

26 Yes, but you only get one Reagan every other generation or so. I'm old enough to have heard Reagan address the Repub Convention in 1964 ( tape delayed to Germany ). I was impressed. he was Good. Very Good/

Stop waiting for him to be re-incarnated; find the best conservative candidate and run with him ( yes I said 'him' ; deal with it )

How about the Fat Man / not Sidney Greenstreet? Not Reagan, eh? Not conservative enough? How about if he's the only R who can defeat Hussein

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 11, 2011 12:20 PM (UqKQV)

27 The NYT is planning on using Reagan's memory as a prop against Conservatives, so it's officially okay to praise Reagan now.

The only good conservative is a . . . .

Posted by: NYT at March 11, 2011 12:23 PM (JpqtI)

28 Wisconsin AG Van Hollen: DOJ identified sender of threatening emails

Posted by: toby928™: Popular Front for the Liberation of Wisconsin at March 11, 2011 12:23 PM (GTbGH)

29 28 Really? I'm surprised they'd even investigate it.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 11, 2011 12:25 PM (pLTLS)

30 I remember that day. Still runs chills up my spine.

Posted by: joncelli at March 11, 2011 12:25 PM (RD7QR)

31
The threats in Wisconsin weren't serious, and we have chalked it up to boys being boys.

Posted by: Eric Holder, AG at March 11, 2011 12:25 PM (ZHsNw)

32 28 Wisconsin AG Van Hollen: DOJ identified sender of threatening emails Posted by: toby928Â™: Popular Front for the Liberation of Wisconsin at March 11, 2011 04:23 PM (GTbGH) Maybe the Wisconsin DOJ, and not the feds?

Posted by: joncelli at March 11, 2011 12:26 PM (RD7QR)

33 29 28 Really? I'm surprised they'd even investigate it.

Wisconsin DOJ, not US DOJ.

If it were the US DOJ, I'd be shocked.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2011 12:27 PM (CTd2k)

34 OT: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told an audience at MIT on Thursday that he thought the Defense DepartmentÂ’s treatment of alleged WikiLeaks source Private Bradley Manning was Â“ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.Â” --- Â“One young man said he wanted to address Â‘the elephant in the roomÂ’. What did Crowley think, he asked, about Wikileaks? About the United States, in [the questioner's] words, Â‘torturing a prisoner in a military brigÂ’? Crowley didnÂ’t stop to think. WhatÂ’s being done to Bradley Manning by my colleagues at the Department of Defense Â‘is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.Â’

Posted by: George Orwell at March 11, 2011 12:28 PM (lwUmg)

35 28 Wisconsin AG Van Hollen: DOJ identified sender of threatening emails

Posted by: toby928Â™: Popular Front for the Liberation of Wisconsin at March 11, 2011 04:23 PM (GTbGH)

I predict a slap on the wrist!

And nothing for all the easily-identified twitter-deathers.

BECAUSE THEY'RE DEMOCRATS and thus above the law.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 11, 2011 12:29 PM (bxiXv)

36 I thought it said, "DOJ identified as sender of threatening emails".

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 11, 2011 12:30 PM (gJNMj)

37 Posted by: George Orwell at March 11, 2011 04:28 PM (lwUmg)

Unbelievable! These people take the most outrageous position they can think of against the US in whatever situation presents itself.

Posted by: Tami at March 11, 2011 12:30 PM (VuLos)

38 Unbelievable! These people take the most outrageous position they can think of against the US in whatever situation presents itself. But don't worry. Micheal Medved says Barry and his administration love America as much as you do. Probably more.

Posted by: George Orwell at March 11, 2011 12:33 PM (lwUmg)

39 The Vapid OneÂ® isn't even the beginning of a pimple on the ass of Ronaldus Maximus.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 11, 2011 12:34 PM (d0Tfm)

40 The ObamaDOJ considers the death threats an act of self defense because of the attacks on public employees.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 11, 2011 12:34 PM (4ZxEW)

41 I think their sweet little ones are named Radiance and Rosebud, but maybe that was during the campaign?

Posted by: MissTammy at March 11, 2011 12:36 PM (BebB7)

42 State is always at war with DoD, mostly because State is run by liberals and actually defending the nation is so, so, counterproductive. I mean, really.

Posted by: joncelli at March 11, 2011 12:36 PM (RD7QR)

43
It would also have been good for him to be in office for 4 terms with a rubber stamp Senate. Then maybe we could undo a lot of the damage that the worst President ever did.

Posted by: Vic at March 11, 2011 04:19 PM (M9Ie6)

By "the worst President ever" you must mean the mind meld of Wilson/FDR/Carter.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 11, 2011 12:38 PM (7+pP9)

The book records the utter amazement of, for instance, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger at Mr. HaigÂ’s Â“Dr. StrangeloveÂ”-style meltdown.

The wind doth taste of bittersweet

Like jasper wine and sugar

I bet it's blown through others' feet

Like those of...Caspar Weinberger.

Posted by: P. Opus, Bard at March 11, 2011 12:39 PM (+OP3J)

45 Michelle = Harry

Barry and the girls = The Hendersons

Posted by: Secret Service insider at March 11, 2011 12:40 PM (T0bNf)

46 FDR. Carter was too stupid to be "worst".

I base "worst" on the most long term damage to the country. FDR was by far the worst.

Posted by: Vic at March 11, 2011 12:40 PM (M9Ie6)

47 OT/ but as long as we're talking about books, Jack Cashill's "Deconstructing
Obama" is compelling even without the possibility of a surprise ending.

I think anyone that comes here would find it hard to put down, unlike it's subject.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 11, 2011 12:41 PM (HBqDo)

48 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Not sure if serious.

It's Renegade. Secret Service "code names" are PR, not code names. They send out press releases with the SECRET in them.

LBJ's and Bush II's SS names were personal insults. Obama's unfortunately isn't, unless it's the world's subtlest Freudian Styx joke.

Posted by: oblig. at March 11, 2011 12:45 PM (xvZW9)

49 A note to our posters. Apostrophe s ('s) does not denote multiple quantities. It denotes the possessive case, as in the phrase : "Flerp's brass knuckles". Who do the brass knuckles belong to? Why, Flerp, so they are Flerp's brass knuckles. However, they are not Flerp's brass knuckle's. ...and Flerp is trying very hard not to use them every day.

I only bother to bother you all - because I have noticed an increasing incidence of 's misuse lately. Just for fun, try and note when people mispronounce height as "hyth" (pronounced 'hite'). It seems to have become quite commonplace these days.

Posted by: Mr. Flerp's Brass Knuckles at March 11, 2011 12:47 PM (sXcG4)

50
I only bother to bother you all - because I have noticed an increasing incidence of 's misuse lately.

Ki's's my a's's.

Posted by: nickless at March 11, 2011 12:52 PM (MMC8r)

51 Ki's's my a's's.

Oh hell ye's.

Posted by: Sockpuppet Czar at March 11, 2011 12:53 PM (txz7O)

52 This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put.

Posted by: Churchill at March 11, 2011 12:56 PM (G60Nl)

53 Come for the smart mil blog talk, stay for the punctuation lectures.

In these days of texting gone mad, that any moron even knows apostrophes exist is enough for me.

Posted by: MissTammy at March 11, 2011 01:02 PM (BebB7)

54 OMG!!! The grammar nazis are here! RUN! RUN!

Posted by: Soona at March 11, 2011 01:12 PM (5bZGN)

55 I remember he jokingly asked his surgeons if they were Republicans before they put him under. I'd be surprised if I could muster more than "somebody... shot me!" in that situation.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 11, 2011 01:33 PM (XIXhw)

56 I only bother to bother you all - because I have noticed an increasing incidence of 's misuse lately. Just for fun, try and note when people mispronounce height as "hyth" (pronounced 'hite'). It seems to have become quite commonplace these days.

Posted by: Mr. Flerp's Brass Knuckles at March 11, 2011 04:47 PM (sXcG4)

That's one of my pet peeves as well, though I'd point out the whole thing gets a little murky at the boundaries. For example, suppose you have a man named Smith. Mr Smith has a family. They live in a house. You could say it's Mr Smith's house, but more correct (in a community property state, anyway) would be to say it's the Smiths' house.

Now suppose his name was Mr Bess.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 11, 2011 01:40 PM (XIXhw)

57 We're going to see the Smiths, at Smith's. We're going to the Smiths'.
It's a form of engineering, and it's possible to do it as an equation, too, except we quit teaching that because it's too hard. Damaged GPA's.

"It" is a special material, and there are special handling rules.
You can teach English to engineers, but do it as a foreign language.

Posted by: comatus at March 11, 2011 02:43 PM (W5ilH)

58 2 9 4 I wonder what Obama's code name is.

Urkel

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2011 04:10 PM (CTd2k)

And Mrs. Obama's code name?

Jurkel

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59 Someone should have blown JOHN HINKLIES brains out

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