Nobody is talking about Reagan at my workplace

[WI_DEM]

From the coverage in the media over the weekend I thought that everyone was in deep mourning over the passing of the late, beloved Ronald Reagan. Well, I came into my job this morning expecting to see the hospital draped in black--but it isn't. I go to my department--I work in registration and billing--and certainly the talk among co-workers will be on the passing of the Gipper, but not one peep--Oh, wait...I just heard a patient mention it. He is an older man probably in his 70's and he is saying, somewhat loudly to his wife, "Well, what the hell do people expect he was 93 for God's sake--he had to go sometime."

Is the media trying to stir up emotion which really isn't out there?

[Misunderestimator]

1. Same here... not a peep. n/t

[CO Liberal]

2. Nothing Here, Either

And I work for a major defense contractor.....

[LittleApple81]

3. Remember: the RWingers love the sheeple with short attention

spans. Now this might bite them in the butt. People don't even know who Reagan was, they don't care, and they want the reality TV back. So they actually may get pissed about all the Reagan stuff.

[StClone]

8. The Wingers are trying to tie Bush to Reagan 'legacy'

Which is interesting brcause if what they have to remember Ronnie by is what Bush is like I think it will hurt Reagan and the Wingers.

[lectrobyte]

13. Yeah, I was watching William Kristol on C-SPAN this morning

trying to do just that. Too bad for them, though, since Reagan, for all his faults, could give a speech and actually move people. And answering reporter's questions, he seemed like a razor-sharp wit compared to say, a recent exercise of someone trying to think of a mistake they might have made. If Reagan was just a figureheard, then how would we describe what we have now?

[Vickers]

16. Wow, I hadn't even considered that

Man, I don't even know which part of your post to quote...it was all spot-on!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Spinzonner]

4. Better not tell the patient

that he is probably near the expected lifespan for males and he has to go sometime.

[nostamj]

5. I suspect the answer to you question is YES

the 24/7 reagan coverage must bore anyone but the most hysterically partisan to, pardon the pun (?) death.

I'm sure that most have turned it off by now. old men (and Peggy) talking about an older man is just not compelling TV.

[mhr]

6. So Sad, A Funeral That No One Attends - Reminds One Of Elanor Rigby

One knows one's time has past when your funeral has to be sold like soap!

[ewagner]

7. Just noticed

...looked out the kitchen window onto the "back Court". There are 6 or 7 American flags out this morning. Memorial Day I counted 12 flags flying along the block......they went down after Memorial Day but went back up last night/this morning. Coffee shop buzz? Mostly local crap....some D-Day rememberences/comments...no Reagan.

[jean]

14. but are the flags at half-staff?

[Walt Starr]

21. Hey, even my flag is flying at half staff right now

That is not out of respect for Reagan. It is out of respect for the office he held.

[ewagner]

23. Nope

these are the Walmart Special types that are fixed to the pole........

[Walt Starr]

24. You can still fly those at "half staff"

There are two positions for them. At an angle and straight out.

Straight out is the "half staff" position for these types of flags.

[ewagner]

27. They must not know this

I know I didn't.............

[lectrobyte]

9. Give it a week or so, this too will pass...

The media has a short attention span, too, and aren't the Jackson/Bryant/Peterson trials about to crank up?

[kcwayne]

10. Yeah, I played golf with a bunch of repukes, and not a word

I expected them to say something, but then I realized that these people certainly never learn from history, or even have a clue about what ever happened, so they probably don't have any memories to draw on. But I at least expected them to parrot what the propaganda channels are spewing out.

[Walt Starr]

11. The media overplay of the Reagan crap is NOT for general consumption

It is for one purpose and one purpose only. It is intended to accomplish what Bush has been unable todo for the past two months.

Solidify the GOP base.

[OpSomBlood]

12. Not a word here.

The flag is at half-staff, but nobody here seems too broken up about it. When I broke the news on Saturday, the reaction was, "Hmm, too bad."

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. It's times like this that I'm glad I work with a bunch of aging hippies

I don't think anyone's going to be mourning The Great Miscommunicator in my office :)

[Walt Starr]

17. Reagan was NOT the "Great Miscommunicator"

He was "The Great Prevaricator".

:D

[Estel]

18. Same here at Environmental Protection Agency...

just talking about getting Friday off and having a long weekend!!

[drumwolf]

19. that elderly male patient's quote summed it up

He was 93, and he didn't "die" this weekend so much as he FINISHED a process of dying that took many years. Really a bit of an anticlimax.

[DinahMoeHum]

20. Right. Reagan was essentially dead for 10 years. . .

only the husk of his being hung on for that time.


:evilfrown:

[slinkerwink]

22. I think that the weeklong memorial is going to be a mistake

with the oversaturation of media coverage about Raygun, too many people will tune out for the actual funeral on Friday, and be glad when he's done and buried.

[readmylips]

25. My repig hubby turned his TV offf...

I was surprised like hell. He didn't want to watch his saint Reagan. We don't talk politics because we might kill each other, and we watch TV in different rooms. Last night my freeper son came over (second son), he said, "Raegan died, whao!" I replied, "He lived a full life, he was 93." Of course, they got into a heated discussion...those democrats want our soldiers dead, Ted Kennedy is a communist....those democrats are goons...that Hillary power-hungry communist wants to over throw Kerry's campaign, all democrats say so.....Bush needs to kill all those ragheads....on..and on...on...for 3 hours.

I said one or two things and couldn't say anything else. I feared for my life. They yelled and called me a stupid liberal goon. We were by the swimming pool. If I had said anything else, I'm sure they would have drowned me.

They are my two perfect examples of why I'm not a republican and never will be.

[Suspicious]

26. Same story in my office...

...and I work with some hard-core conservatives. Not one word. They're discussing the various sporting events they attended over the weekend.