Martin C. Boire
www.TruthForUs.com

President Reagan’s Funeral, the People, and the Press

June 15, 2004

June 12, 2004 Robert Novak on CNN said Reagan’s service was too Christian and too religious. Novak would do well in a dictatorship where the state would even dictate a man’s funeral.
Tuesday or Wednesday of the funeral week, Don Imus said Reagan was stiff because he wouldn’t take his pants off. He also said he was sick of everyone falling all over him.
CNN two days into the service ran a series of pieces focusing only on what went wrong along the way to what went right, and never mentioned that it did finally go right quite fabulously.
I believe the New York Times ran a photo and a small inner piece on problems.
But The Economist (a former European opponent), ran a full cover page Reagan Beat Communism.
Americans filled the hillsides along the funeral route and stopped their cars in the middle of the interstate to salute and honor their beloved former leader.

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