NPR hawking corpse of Reagan and his '84 D-Day speech

[Seneca]

Why, oh why? So the empty suit could read a script. Maudlin, empty rhetoric from the Great Prevaricator. This propping up of his bloated corpse on the anniversary of D-Day is obviously a weak effort to mark the one year anniversary of his death yesterday, and somehow link them.

What did Ronald Wilson Reagan do for veterans? Absolutely nothing. Defense contractors, yes. Proxy wars in Central America, yes. Invading small islands to "liberate" them, yes. Sending Marines to their demise in Lebanon, yes. Privatizing national security by lining the coffers of a rogue Marine lieutenant colonel and selling arms to terrorists, yes. Cutting VA benefits, yes.

One year and one day later, fuck you Ronald Reagan, fuck you very much.

And let us remember the sacrficies of REAL veterans, from 61 years ago, on the beaches of Normandy. Also let us remember what a lying, narcoleptic scumbag Ronald Reagan was, as he sleptwalked his way through history.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Fuck NPR

Neocons have got them now, too. Fuck 'em all.

[mopaul]

2. don't forget he fought the japs and the nazis....oh wait, that was a movie

in a few years, when he's been elevated to actual sainthood, they'll swear he actually won the war singlehandedly with his charm.

afterall, he ended communism with one sentence.

[Seneca]

3. He once told Holocaust survivors...

... that he filmed the liberation of death camp detainees at the end of the war.

The truth was, he was a projectionist for the Army Air Corps in the war, and never left Hollywood.

The fact that there is a difference between filming and SHOWING film is of no consequence to wingnut pinheads. They just excused Reagan by saying he was a charming old fool, and meant no harm. :eyes:

[MisterP]

6. and at the Bitburg cemetery, he said that the SS men and other Nazis

there were "as much victims of Hitler as the Jews were." His aides yelled "Oh my God" and the Ramones wrote a song about it.

[maveric]

9. Wingnut parents of one of my comatose patients has a Reagan calendar

in her room showing Ronnie onhis horse, making speeches, etc...One of the months shows him in a US Army uniform, the caption went something like "During WWII President Reagan fought bravely and helped the Allies gain victory".
Yeah Right! He fought "bravely" in Culver City!
Do they think that everyone is stupid enough to believe that shit?

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Wasn't that the same trip on which he honored the SS cemetary

with a visit?

Not everyone in the German army was a nazi, but everyone in the SS was. It made me ill.

[Seneca]

5. I think that was '87 or so

Bitburg. Even one of his aides, upon hearing Reagan saying that the SS officers were "victims too", exclaimed "Oh my God!".

[MisterP]

7. Ha! Didn't see your post: do you perchance have Paul Slansky's

"The Clothes Have No Emperor"?

[Seneca]

8. That is one of my favorite books

Very sad that it is out of print, so I guard it with my life. :-)

[Seneca]

10. For our evening readers