Anybody remember when Reagan got angry in the 1980 campaign...?

[kentuck]

And his eyes bulged out, and he raised his voice and said, "I paid for this microphone, Mr Green!!" At the time, I thought it was such a petty thing to get angry about. (I think they were requesting that all the candidates turn their microphones off?) Reagan lost it.

But the media spun it as a charming quality of the old fart. It could very well have been spun just like Dean's "gaffe" the other day. But they chose to put an entirely different interpretation on it and it became one of the endearing moments of Reagan folklore...

[BeyondGeography]

1. There you go again

eom

[FloridaPat]

2. If the media actually reported what happened, it would have

been labeled on of the best pep-rally speeches of all times. Right up there with Knaute Rockne. The media is after Dean. Too far ahead of Bush. Might actually win. Considering Bush has a really bad temper, the media should be ashamed of themselves. They certainly aren't.

[Devlzown]

3. The press gave Reagan head every time

he spit out one of his little sound bites. The only other person I've seen who's gotten such fawning treatment from the press is dubya.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. The time I remember Reagan losing his temper is when he was heckled

in Brooklyn NY. A group of people chanted, "Reagan wants war." Ronnie boy replied, "If I wanted was I'd declare it on you!!!"

It's amazing how our media whores do not recall this episode.

:beer:

[On the Road]

5. It's Complete and Utter Propaganda

people are shown something and told what to think about it. And even for those who are independent, with every lie a little bit rubs off. The thing about the media is it's diffuse and supposed to be invisible. Nobody is saying something; it's just being said.

[question everything]

6. Actually, he did not lose it

It was really a shining moment for him.

First, I don't think that Reagan was ever shown as angry. That's why so many loved him, still do. Because he was very easy going, always smiling (and saying and doing what was told).

This was a debate in New Hampshire and, I think, the party there determined who should participate. And I think that Bush (Sr.) was excluded. So Reagan got upset because some were excluded and told the organizers that he was paying for that event and demanded that the others were invited. He was presented as a magnanimous person.

[Lefty48197]

7. Reagan was a bitter, spiteful, hatefilled man

and he taught an entire generation of Americans to hate too. We are still reaping what Reagan has sewn.

[Sapphocrat]

9. Right-O!

And I'll be damned if I give that bastard a break just because he's got Alzheimer's now.

(Don't anybody jump on me -- I actually feel for anybody, and his/her family, with the dreaded Alzheimer's. What I'm saying is that a horrible, tragic illness does not excuse the old S.O.B. from his atrocities while he was still {presumably} fully capable and responsible.)

"We start bombing in five minutes..."

[TahitiNut]

8. That was a line from Frank Capra's "State of the Union"

Reagan didn't have an original thought in his addled skull for over 30 years.

[coda]

10. Didn't have anything to do with angry. It was staged.

Found a funny take from southpaw.


Too Volatile for the Presidency

"I PAID FOR THIS MICROPHONE, MR. GREEN!," he said, red-faced and irate, at the debate in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Thus Ronald Reagan was doomed from ever winning the presidency.


from:

southpaw.goodshow.net/