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Posters old enough to remember: how did the media portray Reagan?
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:06 pm
During his initial campaign run & during his 2 terms, how did the MSM back then portray Reagan?? TIA
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Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:07 pm to 225bred
As an idiot actor who was not in charge, but really dangerous.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:08 pm to 225bred
The MSM portrayed Reagan as a trigger happy cowboy who would start a nuclear war.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:08 pm to 225bred
The MSM didn't exist like it does today. Very difficult to compare. You couldn't spin stories in real time or as fast back then. It did work both ways though.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:09 pm to 225bred
Sam Donaldson was a gigantic pain in the arse
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:09 pm to 225bred
Joked, ridicule, Bedtime for Bonzo. It was bad, but NOTHING like now.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:09 pm to doublecutter
quote:
The MSM portrayed Reagan as a trigger happy cowboy who would start a nuclear war.
Yep
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:10 pm to 225bred
It was awful.
Progs are creating more Trump followers, just like they galvanized support around Reagan
Progs are creating more Trump followers, just like they galvanized support around Reagan
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:10 pm to 225bred
As a doddering fool.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:10 pm to doublecutter
They treated harshly early on. Easier after he was shot and became so popular.
Nothing like as easy as they treated democrats. (They were pretty hard on Carter BUT the most liberal establishment parts of the democrat party hated Carter too--led by Ted Kennedy)
Nothing like as easy as they treated democrats. (They were pretty hard on Carter BUT the most liberal establishment parts of the democrat party hated Carter too--led by Ted Kennedy)
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:10 pm to doublecutter
Trigger-happy cowboy is correct. He was painted as all that and a war-monger.
He was also ridiculed for being too old to hold the office and unfit for that reason.
He was also ridiculed for being too old to hold the office and unfit for that reason.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:11 pm to 225bred
It was constant. The themes I remember were "Reagan's so old he'll be taking a nap when the Russians attack" (pure ageism from the "enlightened") and that Nancy Reagan was really the one in charge as the ball-buster behind the scenes, a la Hillary Clinton during Billy Bob's balling fest in the White House.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:11 pm to 4Ghost
Jokes and ridicule? Expand please and yes I'm old enough to remember it all.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:12 pm to 225bred
The Left kept telling us how he was going to start WWIII.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:13 pm to 225bred
quote:Unfairly.
During his initial campaign run & during his 2 terms, how did the MSM back then portray Reagan?? TIA
Somewhat better after he got shot early in his first term..
However, there was more straight reporting and far less creating of the news.
CNN was fledgling as Reagan took office. Obviously MSNBC/FNC and other 24-7 news outlets were years away from existence.
But it was nowhere near like this.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:14 pm to 225bred
Ronnie Ray-Gun
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:14 pm to 225bred
It was bad and back then we didn't have Fox News or talk radio to help set the record straight. It's amazing that not only he got elected but the enormous margin with which he won both times.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:15 pm to 225bred
Senile -- even though he was only one year older taking office than DT was
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:16 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
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The MSM didn't exist like it does today. Very difficult to compare. You couldn't spin stories in real time or as fast back then. It did work both ways though.
bullshite and you know it.
To the media Reagan was stupid, out of touch with reality, trigger happy and downright dangerous. That was the basic premise they started his Presidency and they stuck with it. Anybody who supported him were knuckle dragging, slobbering Neanderthal racist homophobes.To answer your question, nothing much has changed.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 7:17 pm to 225bred
Reagan was portrayed as dumb.
H. W. was portrayed as dumb.
Dub was portrayed as dumb.
Trump is already being referred to as dumb.
It's the same formula for ever Republican; liberal media doesn't agree with them so portrays them as dumb.
H. W. was portrayed as dumb.
Dub was portrayed as dumb.
Trump is already being referred to as dumb.
It's the same formula for ever Republican; liberal media doesn't agree with them so portrays them as dumb.
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