NPR on Michael Deaver

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Heard over the weekend: (Editorial comments strictly mine, facts provided by NPR)

Deaver's claim to fame, he was the guy who put the lipstick on the pig that was ronald reagan. Apparently the pig didn't look good on its own so it had to be gussied up to be sold to a dubious electorate. What most news outlets most likely forgot to mention is that deaver was a convicted felon (perjury), imagine a republican guilty of lying. Being the good republican, Deaver blamed his problems on something else (not himself.) It was all the alcohols fault. Even their obituaries are pathetic.

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1. Here is an article on Mike Deaver which provides much of the same

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Michael K. Deaver, longtime adviser to President Reagan, dies
By Douglass K. Daniel
ASSOCIATED PRESS

3:09 p.m. August 18, 2007

WASHINGTON – Michael K. Deaver, a close adviser to Ronald Reagan who directed the president's picturesque and symbolic public appearances, died Saturday. He was 69.

Deaver, who had pancreatic cancer, died at his home in Bethesda, Md., according to a statement from the Deaver family that was issued by Edelman, the public relations firm he served as vice chairman.

Deaver was celebrated and scorned as an expert at media manipulation for focusing on how the president looked as much as what the president said. Reagan's chief choreographer for public events, Deaver protected the commander in chief's image and enhanced it with a flair for choosing just the right settings, poses and camera angles.

“I've always said the only thing I did is light him well,” Deaver told the Los Angeles Times in 2001. “My job was filling up the space around the head. I didn't make Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan made me.”

Deaver's own image suffered a setback in 1987. He was convicted on three of five counts of perjury stemming from statements to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury investigating his lobbying activities with administration officials.

Deaver blamed alcoholism for lapses in memory and judgment. He was sentenced to three years' probation and fined $100,000 as well as ordered to perform 1,500 hours of public service. <MORE>

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