Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Character attacks on Ronald Reagan Message-ID: <725@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 03:24:32 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.725 Posted: Wed Aug 22 03:24:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Aug-84 03:09:48 EDT References: <1575@zehntel.UUCP> <801@ihuxn.UUCP> Organization: NBI, Boulder Lines: 68 >| By making a "joking" offhand remark >| about starting a war which could mean destruction of the world, >| especially given the fact that HE REALLY HAS THE POWER TO DO SO... >| Reagan insults and offends everybody on this planet. > >Bullroar. It is a common practice among broadcasting people to warm up >a bit before a microphone before going on the air by saying things that >are outragous to get a reaction from the others involved in the >broadcast (such as the technicians setting things up). This serves two >real purposes -- it gives the technicians a sound level to tune to, and >it breaks up some of the tension and butterflys... Bullshit. It is also common practice among broadcasting people (at least, competent ones) to be careful about what they say because there's always the chance that a mike is really open. If you know two cents about broadcasting, you don't screw around in front of a mike. >Normally such remarks and horsing around are >recognized by the press as such and are not reported (imagine the furor >if the President told an off-color joke during a warm-up!!), but this >time someone (looking for a way to embarass Reagan?) made these very >private statements public... What the hell is "very private" about a statement made in front of everyone who could hear the mike check? What are you smoking, anyway??? >Unfortunately, he has political enemies who will contort these molehills >into mountains. He also has supporters who will try to whitewash anything he says. The most apt label for this charlatan is not the media-invented "Great Communicator" but the "TEFLON President" who can do anything and not have it stick to him. >Double bullroar. Reagan is so dumb that he suceeded in getting elected >to the highest executive office in this country... It didn't take any great intelligence to win over PeanutMan! Come on, those are credentials?! >| Reagan is grossly insensitive to the fact that most Americans do not >| see this as a laughing matter. > >This is too rediculous an assertion to dignify with a response. If you think he's being silly, look at what Europeans had to say about it. When you say that it's "too rediculous (sic)...to dignify with a response" what you're really saying is that even you can't find a way to weasel out of it--Reagan stuck his foot in his mouth up to his thigh. >The other people may or may not be equally capable. However, Reagan >has demonstrated that he has the ability to lead and to get a job done... He has demonstrated nothing of the sort. He has demonstrated that he can out-maneuver the Democrats AND NOTHING MORE. Considering what the Democrats can manage these days, that's no big deal. >I had not realized that actors, ipso facto, could not be statesmen >and/or humanitarians. Also, I had not realized that Reagan was a slick >salesman selling policies which do not benefit the "voting masses" to >an electorate too stupid to see through his act... Of course, one cannot say that actors, ipso facto, cannot be statesmen. But neither are they de facto statesmen. As to your second statement, I'm sorry you hadn't realized that. Look again. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Are you making this up as you go along?