The deification of Ronald Reagan on CNN is making me crazy.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Enough is enough!!!

[Demeter]

1. Change the channel

Do yourself a favor. Don't stroke out!


This too will pass. There's no way they can keep that St. Ronnie lie alive for more than a couple of years more. Most of the people who voted for him are dead, and most of the people he hurt are still alive. Truth will out.

Religion is in its dying days. Be of good cheer!

[Stellar]

5. I did the same with MSNBC.

After Ed Schultz, Joy Reid and The Cycle were cancelled, I stopped watching MSNBC for the most part. That station is just dead to me. Actually, I stopped watching Rachel, mostly because she talks about Trump...too much Trump!

I'm trying to get into Al-Jazeera.

[edhopper]

2. I have had a few friends tell me

voting for Reagan was the biggest mistake they ever made voting.

[Frank Cannon]

3. When RR got elected, our chemistry teacher...

Gave us an impromptu lecture on Reaganomics and how we were basically going to be fucked for the rest of our lives. I thought he was being alarmist; and today, he would almost certainly be fired for doing something like that. But he was dead right. This country has been on a literal slow boat to China ever since.

[Hortensis]

9. My economics professor had us cross out unproved/disproved reaganomics

theories that were presented as truisms in our new, corrupted textbook. Like how the Laffer curve demonstrated that cutting taxes is a method that results in greater tax revenues. Kind of like how saving less produces higher bank balances.

I used to be a cable news junkie, but I watch very little any more so didn't know that reaganism was being touted. Yes, I enjoy having my presumptions confirmed as much as anyone, but mostly I want to be informed, not misinformed.

[Octafish]

4. President Pruneface

Weird how CNN and Corporate McPravda missed the story in the run to up to re-war.



Perhaps next run up to war, they'll remember to apply the acronym, a simple mnemonic device: BNL

Then there are his domestic policies...

[Egnever]

6. Not sure why people continue to watch

TV is mind rot. There are far better ways to get your news and entertainment now.

[Populist_Prole]

14. I stopped near a decade ago: I couldn't take it anymore

Now when I am exposed to it, I can't believe how annoying it is; even beyond the pro-PTB/corporate slant.

The teasing, the spoon feeding, the rapid-fire cadence, the excess flashiness, the "horse-race" reporting banality.

I can't stand it. It's so insulting to one's ability to think critically.

[Egnever]

15. Same here nearly a decade of no cable

Every time I go to someones house and see live TV now I want to hang myself after about 15 minutes. Between the non stop commercials and the spoon fed drivel it is just one big package of annoyance. The fact that people pay for that mess these days just boggles my mind.

For the cost of two months of cable you can get pretty close to if not all the way there to a decent HTC computer to hook up to the big screen and access all the entertainment you want with limited or no commercials for just the cost of the internet connection. The only real loss is sports and if you are that into sports you can pay for a sports package now with most of the major leagues and stream the games.

I couldn't go back to cable if I tried it just makes me nuts watching it within 15 minutes.

[Major Nikon]

7. How soon they forget he presided over the most corrupt administration in history

Not to mention "presided" is not really accurate. He was nothing more than a puppet with a bad case of the brain rot that could do little more than read a script and had no idea what was going on in his own administration.

Saint Ronnie was a national embarrassment. He couldn't even remember the names of his own cabinet and toasted Bolivia while in Brazil. He stood up and told a fake story about a Medal of Honor recipient to a crowd of real Medal of Honor recipients.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Anybody who reads my post knows I bash Republicans a lot...

Anybody who reads my post knows I bash Republicans a lot... But time heals all ? , most ? wounds. A lot of time has past since the Reagan presidency but with the upcoming GOP debate being held at the Reagan Library there is so much discussion of him.

[Hortensis]

10. What's its purpose? To help the GOP by reviving its beloved father figure?

Easy to believe given CNN's expansion of the debate field to 11 to include Carly Fiorina. This is an obvious big assist for a party that really needs a female to bash HRC and stand on that stage.

Since I watch so little, though, obviously I'm not really aware of what CNN may be up to.

[pinboy3niner]

12. To help CNN's ratings for the debate

It's not about promoting the GOP, it's about promoting CNN. Because Republicans are the most likely TV audience for the GOP debate, these days of advance promotion are designed to appeal to them.

[Hortensis]

17. That makes obvious sense, Pinboy.

[pinboy3niner]

11. I learned how they're able to use the Air Force One Pavilion for the debate

I was there once, when our local veterans group was invited to set up a display there for a veterans charity event early this year. I didn't see how that venue could accomodate the debate until CNN explained that they have built a floor where there wasn't one before.

[LWolf]

13. Yes.

I'll be sure not to turn it on.

[tabasco]

16. Mega-corp oligarchy propaganda is what you will see on the mass media

Turn that shit off and cut your cable.

[Hortensis]

18. Agree. It's undoubtedly a very strong seasoning to this stew, Tabasco.