Patti Davis: My father, Ronald Reagan, would never have stood for this

[WaitingFor2020]

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

Apples to oranges. They never attacked Reagan like they do to Trump.

Perhaps that is because Reagan wasn't an ASSHOLE?
Ya - Prolly

Reagan didn't go on endless rallies and attack the press.
Trump started in without provocation in June 2015.
I watched his rallies and Trump's attacks came out of nowhere.
The press hadn't even had a chance to say any fucking thing negative about him before he went on the offense.

 

[bripat9643]

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

Patti Davis was constantly attacking her father when he was President, so why should anyone believe her now? That wasn't Reagan's style, but so what? Who says Trump is obligated to imitate Reagan?

You snowflake douchebags just can't get over the fact that your favored propaganda organ is reviled by the voters.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

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.

very true on your point of the biased press.

 

[Rustic]

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

Apples to oranges. They never attacked Reagan like they do to Trump.

Perhaps that is because Reagan wasn't an ASSHOLE?
Ya - Prolly

Reagan didn't go on endless rallies and attack the press.
Trump started in without provocation in June 2015.
I watched his rallies and Trump's attacks came out of nowhere.
The press hadn't even had a chance to say any fucking thing negative about him before he went on the offense.

Fuck the press

 

[blackhawk]

I will remind people Patti Davis was not always so kind towards her father and that the media her father delt with was nothing like what we have today back then they at least made an effort to accurate and unbiased with some exceptions that is no longer the case today.

 

[DrLove]

"Trump grew up not in rural Illinois, but in the mean streets of New York. He had to fight his way just to go to the store if he was going to survive. As such, he can't ignore slights against him. """"

WTF????

Are you seriously trying to pass this off as true?

Trump grew up with a silver spoon in his big, fat mouth and went off to a very prestigious military school when he was 13, idiot.

Did Polish actually say "the mean streets of NY" ??

 

[bripat9643]

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

Apples to oranges. They never attacked Reagan like they do to Trump.

Perhaps that is because Reagan wasn't an ASSHOLE?
Ya - Prolly

Reagan didn't go on endless rallies and attack the press.
Trump started in without provocation in June 2015.
I watched his rallies and Trump's attacks came out of nowhere.
The press hadn't even had a chance to say any fucking thing negative about him before he went on the offense.

You're kidding, right? The fake media accused Trump of instigating violence at every one of his rallies. They called him a racist the day he announced his candidacy.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Scuze moi, but considering the unseemly manner in which Patti has trashed Reagan in the past, her current virtue signaling self-serving pronouncement isn't at all credible.

It's time to tell the truth about parents, self, says Patti Davis

Patti Reagan had very basic disagreements with her father about politics and otherwise had a rocky relationship with him personally.
That's NOT what this is about.
You're just a coward, choosing to attack the messenger when you can't challenge the message.

 

[bripat9643]

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

It means nothing to everyone.

 

[DrLove]

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

Apples to oranges. They never attacked Reagan like they do to Trump.

Perhaps that is because Reagan wasn't an ASSHOLE?
Ya - Prolly

Reagan didn't go on endless rallies and attack the press.
Trump started in without provocation in June 2015.
I watched his rallies and Trump's attacks came out of nowhere.
The press hadn't even had a chance to say any fucking thing negative about him before he went on the offense.

You're kidding, right? The fake media accused Trump of instigating violence at every one of his rallies. They called him a racist the day he announced his candidacy.

Perhaps that was because "the day he announced his candidacy" he proclaimed most (perhaps there are good ones) Mexicans to be rapists and murderers?

Ya, Prolly it

 

[boedicca]

Scuze moi, but considering the unseemly manner in which Patti has trashed Reagan in the past, her current virtue signaling self-serving pronouncement isn't at all credible.

It's time to tell the truth about parents, self, says Patti Davis

Patti Reagan had very basic disagreements with her father about politics and otherwise had a rocky relationship with him personally.
That's NOT what this is about.
You're just a coward, choosing to attack the messenger when you can't challenge the message.

HAHAHA!!!! The people who are cowards are the ones exploiting a drug-addled waste-oid like Patti to attack Trump.

 

[JakeStarkey]

President Trump should start telling the truth if he wants to set a good tone.

 

[DrLove]

You snowflake douchebags just can't get over the fact that your favored propaganda organ is reviled by the voters.

At present - "the voters" revile Trump. Good luck with the Indies, blacks, browns, and suburban females and their off the chain enthusiasm on election day

 

[WaitingFor2020]

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

Apples to oranges. They never attacked Reagan like they do to Trump.

Perhaps that is because Reagan wasn't an ASSHOLE?
Ya - Prolly

Reagan didn't go on endless rallies and attack the press.
Trump started in without provocation in June 2015.
I watched his rallies and Trump's attacks came out of nowhere.
The press hadn't even had a chance to say any fucking thing negative about him before he went on the offense.

You're kidding, right? The fake media accused Trump of instigating violence at every one of his rallies. They called him a racist the day he announced his candidacy.

What did Trump say in his announcement speech, dunderhead?

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."""
Here's Donald Trump's Presidential Announcement Speech

And TRUMP instigated violence at this rallies.

Watch this, idiot.

 

[bripat9643]

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

Apples to oranges. They never attacked Reagan like they do to Trump.

Perhaps that is because Reagan wasn't an ASSHOLE?
Ya - Prolly

Reagan didn't go on endless rallies and attack the press.
Trump started in without provocation in June 2015.
I watched his rallies and Trump's attacks came out of nowhere.
The press hadn't even had a chance to say any fucking thing negative about him before he went on the offense.

You're kidding, right? The fake media accused Trump of instigating violence at every one of his rallies. They called him a racist the day he announced his candidacy.

Perhaps that was because "the day he announced his candidacy" he proclaimed most (perhaps there are good ones) Mexicans to be rapists and murderers?

Ya, Prolly it

You can rationalize it anyway you want, but the bottom line is that the press has been attacking Trump since day one.

 

[boedicca]

You snowflake douchebags just can't get over the fact that your favored propaganda organ is reviled by the voters.

At present - "the voters" revile Trump. Good luck with the Indies, blacks, browns, and suburban females and their off the chain enthusiasm on election day

Trump's approval level with blacks is over 30%, which is a big reason for the foaming hysteria you loons are performing. As the economy improves due to his policies, your dream of enslaving the American population becomes more and more unachievable.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

President Trump should start telling the truth if he wants to set a good tone.

Trump is a compulsive liar. He can't stop it.

 

[DrLove]

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.

Revisionist history is such fun no?

Today's politics are nothing like Reagan's years and neither is the press.

Idiot

Here is my answer to your post that was worthy of your GED: DUH!

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.

"Trumplicans"?
I like that

 

[DrLove]

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.

Earth to Blues - It was NOT a "free and fair election"
Grow the fuck up and open your eyes

 

[Kondor3]

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

Correct, Patti.

Your father would not have stood for this.

Then again, your father would not have been subjected to this.

As off-beat as some of his ideas were, he never came under suspicion of treasonous collaboration with adversarial nations.

And, his love of Nancy was legendary... he was never taped joking about grabbing women by their genitals.

Nor would he have been stupid enough to engage in the wide-array of faux pas and terrible optics that we have seen recently.

Ronnie Raygun may have been a little scary himself at times, but he was a loyal American and a Class Act, in contrast with Cadet Bone Spurs.

The Trump and Russia is your Democrat butt hurt, it has nothing to do with Trump or reality or Reagan

Thank you for your feedback.

Next batter, please.

 

[boedicca]

President Trump should start telling the truth if he wants to set a good tone.

Trump is a compulsive liar. He can't stop it.

^^^ Diagnosis: Terminal Projection ^^^