truth about reagan spilling out on c-span

[mopaul]

reagan lovers, and reagan haters are both speaking on c-span now.
see, he's not in the ground yet, but, it's o.k. now to speak ill of his dead ass.

i'm not the only reagan hater out there, thank god, i thought i was losing it. i pride myself on my mental health.

[DaveSZ]

1. On the News Hour

Roger Wilkins talked about how Reagan used racism to win votes:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/jan-june04/historians_reagan_6-7.html


ROGER WILKINS: Well, Reagan was an incredible combination of a person who was very optimistic, upbeat, but underneath there were some really ugly parts of his politics.

He was, I said once before on this program, he capitalized on anti-black populism by going to Philadelphia and Mississippi , for example, in the beginning of his campaign in 1980.

Nobody had ever heard of Philadelphia and Mississippi outside of Mississippi , except as the place where three civil rights workers had been lynched – in 1964 – he said I believe in states rights.

Everybody knew what that meant. He went to Stone Mountain , Georgia , where the Ku Klux Klan used to burn its crosses, and he said Jefferson Davis is a hero of mine.

He was rebuked by the Atlanta newspapers – they said we don't need that any more here. He went to Charlotte, North Carolina one of the most successful busing for integration programs in the country and he said I'm against busing and again the Charlotte papers rebuked him. And the impact of that plus his attacks on welfare women, welfare queens in Cadillacs, for example. And his call for cutting the government. He didn't cut the government; the military bloomed in his time. But programs for poor people day diminished entirely and America became a less civilized less decent place.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. here's what wilkins said in 1986

from paul slansky's "the clothes have no emperor."

"A high-powered cheerleader for our worst instincts, a nasty

man whose major talent is to make us feel good about being creepy

and who lets us pretend that tomorrow will never come."

[democrat in Tallahassee]

2. LOL from your header, I thought he had fallen out of his coffin, like

ayotolla. i'm disappointed!

[playahata1]

6. HAH!!!!!

O, God, that is so RICH, Peggy!

[seemslikeadream]

3. Imus is talking to Michel Bechlos

and he just said that Reagan believed in Armagendon. At one point shared his beliefs with some foreign leader in Korea and afterwards Reagon was told that it might not be a good idea to do that in the future.

[mopaul]

4. he's sorry he missed armageddon, jerry falwell was his favorite

now bush 2 continues the death march to revelations.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. MAKE THEM STOP IT!!!!!

Andrew Sullivan may be watching!

:evilgrin:

[ithacan]

8. Don't pay any attention to the naysayers mopaul!

I have been thoroughly enjoying your commentary throughout the media farce that's taken place since Reagan died.

If he truly were the sainted person the right claims, they'd have no need to do what they're doing now.

I heard on NPR last night also, EJ Dionne actually pointing out the bad things Reagan did, and David Brooks almost aquiescing... But of course it's hard to deny the truth (Iraq Contra, and all the other criminal acts of the Reagan years).