One news excerpt said, “Democrats say he ran up the national debt.”
Democrats don’t SAY he ran up the national debt. He DID run up the national debt. Are even the most fundamental of factual observations now presented as partisan sniping? Will, in some 30 or 40 years, Democrats “say” that the late president Bush went to war in Iraq?
When Nixon died, all anyone wanted to talk about was how he went to China. Some news outlets admitted that he was the only US President to resign, but I don’t remember a single one explaining WHY.
“The Great Communicator.” Hmmmph. More like “The President Who Made It Clear That Good Spin Renders Truth Irrelevant.”
It’s the new news. Nobody actually does anything anymore; they say they did something, or somebody says they did something. This way it’s less biased, because how can there be bias when nobody ever does anything?
The scheduled topic for 60 Minutes tonight was “An FBI whistleblower says that the unit translating information from terrorism suspects deliberately slowed the process,” which sounded like a potentially big story worth tuning in to see. It was replaced by the oh-so important retrospective on Reagan’s life.
Heh. I’m ironically reminded of the SNL “Buckwheat is dead” spoof with the breaking news anchors every ten minutes, which coincidentally was spoofing Reagan’s shooting at the time.