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| 2004-06-11 | ||
| Via NewsMax, so you know it’s true... :-) Newsday’s Breslin: Reagan Funeral ’Cheap, Utterly Distasteful’ Isn’t Breslin, like, 200 years old by now? America’s largest circulation suburban daily newspaper, Newsday, wins the prize (for which there are many nominations - Ed.) for the ugliest bit of Reagan-bashing on the day of the great man’s funeral, publishing a bile-filled screed by columnist Jimmy Breslin that trashed the American icon as "a callous man" who "hated children." Cutting federal programs = "hated children". This is what passes for logic with the LLL nowadays; sad if it weren’t so pathetic.
As opposed to the thoughtful, eloquent expressions of this column... The Reagan-bashing writer usually inhabits Newsday’s editorial section. But in a remarkably bizarre editorial decision, Newsday decided to move up Breslin’s hate-screed to page A8, in the midst of its news section, right behind a page headlined "Paying Respects to Ronald Reagan." Tag team effort. How charming... Newsday’s Breslin tribute to Reagan continued thusly: "He was a callous man with a smile who cut taxes in 1981 and left [New York] city and state without funds for such things as help for dependent children. How about funds from the parents?
Back at ya, asswipe! "Before the Gipper came along, New York, the city, was an economic disaster area," noted New York Post columnist Robert Ward on Friday." But during his tenure, "Wall Street boomed, and thus, so did city and state revenues." As Paul Harvey would say, ’the rest of the story’. New York City added 254,000 jobs and hundreds of thousands of new residents, Ward noted. Their taxes helped fund the war on crime, rebuild infrastructure and minister to thousands afflicted with AIDs. Kinda forgot about state and local governments, Jimmy? Oh, those were run by DemocRATS, never mind... Most of which, apparently, went unnoticed by Breslin, who proclaimed that a suitable memorial for Reagan would be to put his face on a $3 bill. Not unnoticed, more like conveniently ignored. Since when did the LLL let facts get in the way of a chance to piss on someone’s grave? Newsday’s editors liked the idea so much they used it to headline his column. | ||
| Posted by:Raj |
| #7 Once upon a time, Breslin did a story about me and my family. I was just about to graduate from college at a very early age. As we found out the next day, he had contempt for us all, and we returned the sentiment. But he had the newspaper, and there were no blogs in 1977. And, distasteful? Has anyone seen a more dignified observance in recent memory? |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2004-06-11 4:50:11 PM |
| #6 I knew a guy who used to be a reporter for the NYT. He said Breslin told him one time not to let the facts get in the way of a good story. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-06-11 3:48:15 PM |
| #5 C'mon Jimmy, admit it. You think Ronald Reagan hated puppies and kittens, don't you? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-11 3:41:01 PM |
| #4 I am big. The newspapers got smaller. |
| Posted by: Jimmy Breslin 2004-06-11 3:01:00 PM |
| #3 So what is Breslin's excuse? Did his mom lock him in a closet when he was 5, and forget about him? If you live in Brooklyn, the record shows that Ronald Reagan hated children." I guess Breslin's editor removed the reference to the President hating puppies, kittens, and little bunny rabbits, because that would have been over the top. . . Note : In the funeral we heard about Reagan feeding the squirrels on the white house lawn peanuts. Breslin doesn't want to reference that either. Goes against his psychotic thoerem. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-06-11 2:48:17 PM |
| #2 What can anyone say about a second-rate has-been with no future and a past littered with invective and failure/blame pieces? Does anyone actually read this diseased drunk with a hole where his brain should be? Whatever he's paid, it must be considered charity. Such an inconsequential wannabe surviving on a diet of bitter envy of substance and relevance should be in a home for the utterly deranged. Newsday, huh? Well, perhaps he already is. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-11 2:27:37 PM |
| #1 Mods - I chose Page 2, but (like my previous one) it's not posting there. Please move accordingly. |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-06-11 2:01:30 PM |