Go!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
One could go on. I only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn't like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter's briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn't, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information. This was a man never short of a cheap jibe or the sort of falsehood that would, however laughable, buy him some time.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
"a cruel and stupid lizard"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
hahaha beat me
"rictus of senile fury" is the money shot there IMO
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
The SNL sketch with Phil Hartman about Reagan stopping to play dumb and pose for pictures between planning sessions for Iran-Contra where he was a ballbusting thug wouldn't have happened without him.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Please watch the last three minutes of this press conference. It's astonishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eyISCTG5Y
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
"I think I'd like to, uh, point out that Maynard Keynes didn't even HAVE a degree in economics."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
it's weird to think that it's only been 10 years. guess it just feels like longer because he was so completely out of the public eye in the final years.
― some dude, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
"I think I'd like to, uh, point out that Maynard Keynes didn't even HAVE a degree in economics. OWN a television."
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, 6 June 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Too bad he hasnt been dead for longer
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
it's not snark but i've always liked this insight from hendrik hertzberg, on the difference between reagan and the neocon hawks who surrounded him:
When Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and "the form of evil in the modern world," conservative op-ed writers expressed their satisfaction that at last we had a president who had a moral vocabulary and a tragic sense of history, a president who recognized that some political systems are irredeemably tyrannical and aggressive, a president who rejected the contemptible claptrap that attributes every international conflict to "lack of understanding." These commentators, and many of their friends inside the Reagan administration, saw Gorbachev as simply cleverer than his predecessors, and therefore more dangerous. Reagan did not agree. When he said "evil," he just meant bad. He didn't really believe in immutable malevolence. The villains of Reagan's world were like the ones in Frank Capra's movies: capable of change once they saw the light. Reagan thought that Gorbachev was a pretty good guy.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 6 June 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldBpQkIVv8
― sarahell, Friday, 6 June 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
Piper Laurie said he was a selfish, lousy lay.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 June 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
http://winnietoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1-ronald-reagan-taunting.jpg
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 6 June 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
horrified by the image of Piper Laurie and Ronald Reagan having sex thx morbz
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 June 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
Ronald had a thumbdick iirc
― Neanderthal, Friday, 6 June 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Please watch the last three minutes of this press conference. It's astonishing.― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 6, 2014
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 6, 2014
what did you think was astounding about it?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 6 June 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
sarahell otm
― polyamanita (sleeve), Saturday, 7 June 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
horrified by the image of Piper Laurie and Ronald Reagan having sex thx morbz― Οὖτις, Friday, June 6, 2014 4:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Friday, June 6, 2014 4:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
REAGAN IS CARRIE'S DAD OMG
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 June 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/b9ed1cb83265aec9968d0d8792426ed6/tumblr_n42cyp4gp31s7e5k5o1_1280.jpg
― slam dunk, Saturday, 14 June 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link
sadly reagan seems almost (almost) palatable compared to many/most in today's GOP
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 14 June 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, Reagan wouldn't make it past NH in a GOP presidential primary.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 14 June 2014 03:55 (ten years ago) link
I was eating at a some bar and grille type place in Minot, ND en route to Seattle when a bunch of middle aged air force looking guys came in and were talking about Reagan dying and Smarty Jones losing the Belmont and one of them said something like "we lost two good ones today" before offering a toast which seemed like a really weird thing to say.
― joygoat, Saturday, 14 June 2014 05:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/27/behind_the_ronald_reagan_myth_no_one_had_ever_entered_the_white_house_so_grossly_ill_informed/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
― nomar, Monday, 28 December 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
His team devised ingenious ways to get him to pay attention. Aware that he was obsessed with movies, his national security adviser had the CIA put together a film on world leaders the president was scheduled to encounter. His defense secretary stooped lower. He got Reagan to sign off on production of the MX missile by showing him a cartoon.
― nomar, Monday, 28 December 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
never knew abt Piper Laurie, thanks thread!
― piscesx, Monday, 28 December 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
Good to read this stuff for the 456th time.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 December 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link