zultr:
"If only he stopped broadcasting to all the people who didn't go as well."
As usual, the US and the UK media are suffering from Collective Amnesia ... again. It`s disgusting that they are ignoring the entire man and his works.
Refer for example to the UK media's performance within hours of the death of Ludwig Hoch, aka Robert "the bouncing Czech" Maxwell. Through the despotism of a fat chequebook and the UK libel laws that were made for it, Maxwell had held the lid on for decades. When he died, the media revelations were appalling to those not in the know (---and yet his sons who were up to their necks in it are thriving today at the head of a big business in the City.)
No such behaviour in the US of A with its massively monopolised media, or the UK concerning Reagan however. Instead they are largely devoted to entertainment and wallpaper, such as the pictures of Reagan's saddled horse complete with reversed boots, as if he had been a cavalry officer or noted rancher, instead of bad actor turned celebrity presenter on behalf of GE and the rest of the military-industrial mafia.
This is just about all the monopoly mainstream US TV and UK TV and media do now---deifications, ennoblements and just wars. c.f. the treatment of "Mayor of the World" Rudy Giuliani for his comportment during the WTC episode. Our Queen, via T. Bliar, actually dubbed him Knight of the Realm---this man whose father was caught in the act of an armed robbery for the Mob, and whose relations with women belong in a psychiatric manual and who, instead of being ennobled for 9/11, should have been indicted for it.
Ronald Reagan during his Presidency delivered exactly what he was recruited to do: folksy, hearty warmth in the midst of cold, brutal porkbarrel politics and imperial ruthlessness.
As far as the monopoly US and UK TV AND media is concerned today, US federal politics is conducted with all the decorum of a Church tea-party and the President is equal in probity and honour to the Pope.
Stick to the internet for now!
quote:
"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."
(Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, June 16, 1994)
Ditto for Reagan.
Anything else is a huge insult to the thousands upon thousands of innocent people who were murdered and tortured in South America under his watch...because that was the reality of Reaganism exported, the American people got off relatively lightly.
