The ever-embarrassing Michael Reagan calls Ron Jr. "an embarrassment to his father"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

NOTE: I fixed my thread title to remove the half-brother reference (thank you DU) but kept it in the article title since that's the way it was published...A.V.

January 14, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Reagan Rejects Half-Brother's Charge Their Father Had Alzheimer's While President

USA Today reports...In a new book -- and an interview on ABC's 20/20 -- President Ronald Reagan's son says he saw evidence of his father's Alzheimer's disease back during his years in the White House. "There was just something that was off, I couldn't quite put my finger on it," Ron Reagan said in 20/20 interview airing Friday night. The younger Reagan said his father often didn't seem sharp during their political debates. At another point, Ron Reagan saw his father read from not cards as he made phone calls. "It wasn't like oh my God he doesn't remember he's President," Reagan said. "You know, it was just -- I had an inkling something was going on."

Michael Reagan released the following statement to FoxNation.com: "Ron was an embarrassment to his father when he was alive and today he became an embarrassment to his mother."

http://nation.foxnews.com/ronald-reagan/2011/01/14/exclusive-michael-reagan-rejects-half-brothers-charge-their-father-had-alzh

[FarPoint]

1. Michael was an adopted child without any Regan blood.

Ron is a biological son of President Regan and wife Nancy

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. and he thought the housekeeper was his mother

because ronnie and nancy wanted nothing to with him.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. That famous, cringe-inducing footage from the Reagan funeral...

...Nancy is standing at the casket and Michael comes up behind her and puts his hand on her shoulder and she spins around and GLARES at him, just "who the FUCK are YOU?"

It was one of those things that you see and never forget.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. I thought the headline was inaccurate...

...thanks, let me see if I can fix it.

[hlthe2b]

2. Michael is a disgusting POS....

But then using his name and POS in the same sentence is surely redundant.

[devilgrrl]

4. What a sad pathetic man

eom

[El Supremo]

5. Have you read his latest attack?

REAGAN: A fool with a badge is still a fool

When a would-be assassin shot my Dad, President Ronald Reagan, nobody questioned the fact that the shooter was certifiably nuts.

Authorities recognized that fact and put him in a mental institution as his obvious disturbed mental state demanded.

Now we have another attempted killing of a public official, Arizona’s widely admired Rep. Gabby Giffords, and just about everybody recognizes the fact that the shooter, one Jared Loughner, is crazy as a loon.

Moreover, the fact that Loughner is probably nutty as a fruitcake, and perhaps dangerously so, could not have escaped the attention of local law enforcement authorities such as Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who already had Loughner in his sights yet failed to do anything to prevent Loughner’s obviously foreseeable skilling spree....

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/email_push/opinion/article_dd595434-1f44-11e0-aed5-001cc4c002e0.html

BTW, Michael was the adopted son of Ronald and Jane Wyman

[NNN0LHI]

6. The Reagans used to aways dress Michael in camouflage clothing when he was little

They were hoping he would get lost in the woods and no one could find him.

Don

[Ernesto]

9. Family values.... nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Too bad Dutch didn't keep the sales slip.

Maybe he coulda returned the little snot.

[Old and In the Way]

11. I always thought Micheal traded on the Reagan name.

I guess he sees himself as the keeper of the Reagan legacy and I'll bet he'll be muscling in for more control when Nancy passes. No doubt he's politically polar to Ron, Jr. and probably closer to Ron, Sr. But I still think he's an opportunist who uses the family name to feather his bed. And I'd bet that Ron, Sr. would never get elected with todays Teapublican Party. He'd be too damn liberal.

[madrchsod]

15. ron is an independent....he has a book coming out about his dad.

[Metric System]

12. I hope Nancy releases a counter-statement. Those are hateful words.

[madrchsod]

17. i have a feeling that ron jr would`t tell his mother.

[immoderate]

13. Michael Reagan's first book describes how his father treated him like shit.

--imm

[blogslut]

14. Aw, come on, Michael

Alzheimer's is your perfect cover story! It explains why your daddy ignored you to the point where you resorted to pilfering White House silver just so he'd be forced to admit your were his.

[madrchsod]

16. my dad said the same thing that ron jr said...

that`s why i stand by my belief that reagan did`t run the government after he was shot. the boys in the basement ran things and they gave reagan his scripts. i think that nancy did`t trust the boys in the basement after he was shot.

[WillyT]

18. Wasn't Michael The Adopted One ???

:shrug:

[JI7]

19. Did you know when Michael Graduated from School his dad didn't know who he was ?

his dad introduced himself saying he was ronald reagan . hahhaha

and from what i understand he didn't tell ron and his sister about Michael for a long time.

[nmbluesky]

20. Michael reagan is not real Reagan blood..

Ron Reagan, Ronald Sr's real son, he knew best about his father than Michael Reagan did..

Ron is Liberal and Ron's sister is also Liberal

Only Michael is Neo-Con...