Old Weird Ward
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Saturday, June 12, 2004
- - - - - Jimmy Breslin and Ronald Reagan - - - - -
Jimmy Breslin obviously didn't like Ronald Reagan. Surprise, surprise.
Jimmy Breslin obviously can't use, or understand, logic.
This man Reagan was 93 years old and out of it with Alzheimer's for many years and I don't see how anybody can summon grief. They proclaimed it a deep religious ceremony. Which it is not. His whole weeklong funeral is cheap, utterly distasteful American publicity.
The great American news industry, the Pekinese of the Press with so much room and time and nothing to say, compared Reagan to Lincoln and Hamilton, they really did. This is like claiming that the maintenance man wrote the Bill of Rights. And almost all the reporters agreed that Reagan was the man who brought down Russia in the Cold War.
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Now, no doubt George Kennan, and Harry Truman first expressed the policy of "containment" of the Soviet Union. But Jimmy Carter forgot all about that, concentrating instead on something called "detente", which was a crock of smelly stuff.
Ronald Reagan didn't believe much in "containment", and didn't believe at all in "detente". He did believe in "confrontation", and elucidated it most clearly with the phrase "Evil Empire".
In only one respect, Jimmy Breslin was correct: The man who was Ronald Reagan "left the house" when Alzheimer's took his mind - all that was left was the shell of the great man that was.
In all other respects, Jimmy Breslin is more full of "stuff" than a Christmas turkey. He's a POS.
DISCLAIMER: For personal reasons dating back to 1966, when Reagan was Governor of California, I had a personal dislike of Ronald Reagan, the person. As Ronald Reagan, Governor, and as Ronald Reagan, President, I respected him. I agreed with his positions and policies. I even believe that he was the architect of the fall of the Evil Empire. And I think that he was a good Governor and a good President. But, I still didn't like him. He could be a rude son-of-a-gun.
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