Reagan adviser Michael Deaver dies

[babylonsister]

Source: AP

Reagan adviser Michael Deaver dies

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer 43 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Michael K. Deaver, a close adviser to Ronald Reagan who directed the president's picturesque and symbolic public appearances, died Saturday. He was 69.

Deaver, who had pancreatic cancer, died at his home in Bethesda, Md., according to a statement from the Deaver family that was issued by Edelman, the public relations firm he served as vice chairman.

Deaver was celebrated and scorned as an expert at media manipulation for focusing on how the president looked as much as what the president said. Reagan's chief choreographer for public events, Deaver protected the commander in chief's image and enhanced it with a flair for choosing just the right settings, poses and camera angles.

"I've always said the only thing I did is light him well," Deaver told the Los Angeles Times in 2001. "My job was filling up the space around the head. I didn't make Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan made me."

Deaver's own image suffered a setback in 1987. He was convicted on three of five counts of perjury stemming from statements to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury investigating his lobbying activities with administration officials.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Ya beat me by mere seconds!

Damn you, BS!;):hi:

[babylonsister]

3. So solly, Charlie!

:hi:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Deaver did his job... well...

Unfortunately, his product was to sell the Reagan myth to the unwashed masses - thanks a bunch.:(

[madrchsod]

4. he was good and he was one of the few

loyal reaganites left...

[Algorem]

5. f him.

[LuckyLib]

6. His "packaging" of Ronnie reminds us of another president who was all hat and no cattle.

That was when it dawned on folks that there could be a complete and utter moran in the WH, as long as he was scripted and packaged.

[PSPS]

7. Another one who dies 20 years too late for humanity to garner any benefit

The MSM has been all over this with their pre-packaged hagiographies. One I heard on the radio even had Ed Meese waxing on about how "great" Deaver was. We've apparently become enured to having crooks being endorsed by other crooks.

[Turbineguy]

9. Good old Ed Meese

Developer of the Meesedemenor.

[Stephanie]

8. Yawn.

Who knew he was still alive? And who cared.

[kskiska]

10. Nancy's friends are dying off

This is the second within days, after Merv.

[Faygo Kid]

11. Guys like Deaver seems so , . .quaint now, but paved the way for Rove.

Still, RIP. Michael Deaver on his worst day could not hold a candle to the evil of this Bush administration. That's hardly an endorsement, but pancreatic cancer is no bed of roses. So sympathies to his family, and I will concentrate on fighting the unspeakable administration we now face, not the one I condemned back then.

[TankLV]

12. Good...

He's one of the MANY who have and will be dying that brought our country to where it is today...

It should have happened SOONER - like say - age 12...BEFORE he could have done so much damage...

The world is a better place for him now being GONE...

So many more to go...

[mitchum]

13. rest in dirt

[Benhurst]

14. Is he very truely really dead?

[struggle4progress]

15. Hot to Handle (Jun 04 / On the Media interview)

~snip~
BOB GARFIELD: You could actually set the networks' agenda for covering the president by engineering press events, couldn't you?

MICHAEL DEAVER: You could. One of the things that we did that made that easier was that we worked on a 60-90 day strategy, so that I knew pretty well for the next three or four weeks what the news story was going to be 80 percent of the time. People at CBS and NBC and NPR didn't know that.

BOB GARFIELD:And you knew which days you wanted to deflect attention from the true story of the day and which day you wanted to invite attention.

MICHAEL DEAVER: Of course.
~snip~
http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/transcripts/transcripts_061104_deaver.html

[yorgatron]

16. good riddance to bad rubbish.

:puke: