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Here is my answer to your post that was worthy of your GED: DUH!Revisionist history is such fun no?Reagan was a devotee of politics. From the time he started at the Screen Actor's Guild to his time as governor and then president, he was a student of politics. He was not a blatant amateur like Trump. Unlike Trump, Reagan truly did hire some of the best people in the business. Reagan knew how to deal with the press. He did not have thin skin and dealt with them deftly. Who could forget his bantering with Helen Thomas.
Reagan had defined values and kept to those values. I may not have agreed with all of them, but he was consistent.
If Reagan were around today he would be considered a RINO or worse in their eyes. That is how far Republicanism has deviated from its modern foundations.
Today's politics are nothing like Reagan's years and neither is the press.
Idiot
Dear Patti,Well said Patti ... well said
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The verbal sparring between my father and Sam Donaldson of ABC, or Helen Thomas of UPI, is well documented. But there was never vitriol, there was never name-calling, and if anyone had attacked a journalist, my father would have been the first to stand in the way.
I've tried to imagine what my father would have done if people attending a political speech of his had turned to the press and raised their middle fingers, hurled obscenities or physically menaced the reporters there doing their jobs. I found it difficult to conjure the image, and then I realized why. It simply wouldn't have happened. The person on the podium, the person everyone has gathered to see, sets the tone.
President Donald Trump has quite successfully set today’s tone. He expertly stirred up the anger that was already simmering in the people who support him, and then he lit a match to it. He gave them an enemy — always a useful tactic. And naming the press as the enemy has precedents: Many tyrants have employed it to their advantage. Trump may not read much, but I’ll bet he knows that.
Those of us who are horrified by the vilification of the news media, those of us who cringe at the sight of angry mobs jeering at the cordoned-off journalists at Trump rallies, far outnumber those who are swept up by this ugly passion. We are still in the majority. But if we are silent, if we don't speak up, if we don't raise our voices and say, "This is not America," it won't matter that we are in the majority.
Silence didn't create this country; brazen, unwavering commitment did. And one of those commitments was to a free press - one not controlled or hampered by a demagogue who has a good day only when he's being flattered.
Patti Davis: My father, Ronald Reagan, would never have stood for this
You're an idiot.
Thankfully the party is dying a slow death before our eyes.
Yep.......that's what I've been hearing.......for the last 30 years or so.
Well then you've been hearing wrong. The death is being hastened .. every day in every way.
My suggestion would be to embrace your White Nationalist nature and come up with a new party.
Leave true conservatives and what is left of the R Party the hell alone.
Well if this is death of a party, long live death, because we took over the Congress, took over the Senate, took over the White House, and captured 2/3 of the Governorships across the country.
Enjoy that for another 2.5 months
While her father was unfairly attacked it was nothing like the press has done to Trump, the administration and even the citizen voters.
The press is the enemy. Not principally of Trump either. The press is the enemy of whoever doesn't agree with the press.
so the Senate resolution means nothing to you
I do in fact posess a GED. I also posess a college education. But more important than either of those is my ability to think critically without injecting my emotions into the thought process.Here is my answer to your post that was worthy of your GED: DUH!Revisionist history is such fun no?Reagan was a devotee of politics. From the time he started at the Screen Actor's Guild to his time as governor and then president, he was a student of politics. He was not a blatant amateur like Trump. Unlike Trump, Reagan truly did hire some of the best people in the business. Reagan knew how to deal with the press. He did not have thin skin and dealt with them deftly. Who could forget his bantering with Helen Thomas.
Reagan had defined values and kept to those values. I may not have agreed with all of them, but he was consistent.
If Reagan were around today he would be considered a RINO or worse in their eyes. That is how far Republicanism has deviated from its modern foundations.
Today's politics are nothing like Reagan's years and neither is the press.
Idiot
Listen genius my point was that the party of Reagan is dead and gone. Which apparently you agree with me on when you write that politics are "nothing like Reagan's years". You are all Trumplicans now.
Oh brother!The press is held to higher standards than our President isWell Patti Smattie, maybe you could suggest to your asswipes in the press that they should try for reporting the news rather than be political hacks. Ya Think?
Well said Patti ... well said
gee why am i surprised you only think those 2 are fake....an indy...lol....The Press always attacks Republicans and they defend crooked Democrats.
Hillary and Obama are totally corrupt and yet the Press adores them.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological spectrum.
Poll: Majority says mainstream media publishes fake news
I would agree - The mainstream media (primarily Fox and Sinclair) publish fake news DAILY
meSo what turned you on to Marxism between Reagan and now?
I'm not a Marxist - Any more questions or dumb assumptions Trumpling?
Gotcha. You're not an actual Marxist, you just play one on message boards
We should take a poll. How many USMB members who constantly spew leftist crap are not really Democrats.
42% of American voters are Independents
Correct - And only 26% are Republicans. And Donald is rapidly killing what was left.
"There is no Republican Party - There is a Trump Party" -John Boehner
meI'm not a Marxist - Any more questions or dumb assumptions Trumpling?
Gotcha. You're not an actual Marxist, you just play one on message boards
We should take a poll. How many USMB members who constantly spew leftist crap are not really Democrats.
42% of American voters are Independents
You obviously pull the blue lever. You're making his point, not contradicting it
I wouldn't say that's obvious in the slightest. Offhand, don't think OL voted for Hillary but could be wrong.
She's very much a true moderate .. one of the smartest posters in USMB.
meSo what turned you on to Marxism between Reagan and now?
I'm not a Marxist - Any more questions or dumb assumptions Trumpling?
Gotcha. You're not an actual Marxist, you just play one on message boards
We should take a poll. How many USMB members who constantly spew leftist crap are not really Democrats.
42% of American voters are Independents
And most of those 42% often take the liberal side of things.
meI'm not a Marxist - Any more questions or dumb assumptions Trumpling?
Gotcha. You're not an actual Marxist, you just play one on message boards
We should take a poll. How many USMB members who constantly spew leftist crap are not really Democrats.
42% of American voters are Independents
And most of those 42% often take the liberal side of things.
No, very simply most of the Trump-voting independents are now HORRIFIED at what they got
Doesn't make them liberals.
You have no idea what I do in the privacy of the voting booth and I'm not fixin to tell you, either.meI'm not a Marxist - Any more questions or dumb assumptions Trumpling?
Gotcha. You're not an actual Marxist, you just play one on message boards
We should take a poll. How many USMB members who constantly spew leftist crap are not really Democrats.
42% of American voters are Independents
You obviously pull the blue lever. You're making his point, not contradicting it
You shouldn't presume so much knowledge of what others think and do. You can make some pretty big mistakes that way in your calculations.
I'm not a Marxist - Any more questions or dumb assumptions Trumpling?
Gotcha. You're not an actual Marxist, you just play one on message boards
We should take a poll. How many USMB members who constantly spew leftist crap are not really Democrats.
Trumplings such as yourself are NOT "conservatives". Embrace it.
We're not? Then what are we?
White Nationalists, Nazis, Klansmen, Alt-Righties, Protectionists, Baggers, Birthers, Blowhards and well ... Deplorables
We actually had journalists back in Reagan's day. An editorial was clearly labeled as such, not worked into a news story. Objectivity was still a fairly common thing. To draw some sort of parallel from then to now is absurd. Since then we have had numerous anchors stripped of their positions with sexual misconduct charges and outright lying on camera.
meWe should take a poll. How many USMB members who constantly spew leftist crap are not really Democrats.
42% of American voters are Independents
And most of those 42% often take the liberal side of things.
No, very simply most of the Trump-voting independents are now HORRIFIED at what they got
Doesn't make them liberals.
Why is that? How many of them do you know?
Catch up Gomer
Trump and Women, Independents: Worrisome Signs | RealClearPolitics
The so called press have attacked not Trump, but Americans who elected Trump in a free and fair election. They lost and have been trying to undermine the president we the people elected ever since. THAT'S what's been going on.
Correct, Patti.Well said Patti ... well said
<snips>
The verbal sparring between my father and Sam Donaldson of ABC, or Helen Thomas of UPI, is well documented. But there was never vitriol, there was never name-calling, and if anyone had attacked a journalist, my father would have been the first to stand in the way.
I've tried to imagine what my father would have done if people attending a political speech of his had turned to the press and raised their middle fingers, hurled obscenities or physically menaced the reporters there doing their jobs. I found it difficult to conjure the image, and then I realized why. It simply wouldn't have happened. The person on the podium, the person everyone has gathered to see, sets the tone.
President Donald Trump has quite successfully set today’s tone. He expertly stirred up the anger that was already simmering in the people who support him, and then he lit a match to it. He gave them an enemy — always a useful tactic. And naming the press as the enemy has precedents: Many tyrants have employed it to their advantage. Trump may not read much, but I’ll bet he knows that.
Those of us who are horrified by the vilification of the news media, those of us who cringe at the sight of angry mobs jeering at the cordoned-off journalists at Trump rallies, far outnumber those who are swept up by this ugly passion. We are still in the majority. But if we are silent, if we don't speak up, if we don't raise our voices and say, "This is not America," it won't matter that we are in the majority.
Silence didn't create this country; brazen, unwavering commitment did. And one of those commitments was to a free press - one not controlled or hampered by a demagogue who has a good day only when he's being flattered.
Patti Davis: My father, Ronald Reagan, would never have stood for this
