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Offline franksolich

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Re: Since Ray-Gun's election in 1980, can anyone name 1 conservative achievement tha
« Reply #25 on: November 14, 2009, 01:43:50 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on November 14, 2009, 01:40:49 PM
And the network news. I remember feeling so fortunate to be doing so well, when every evening I heard on TV that 1992 was the worst economy since the Great Depression.

You know, I had a premonition about that, when I saw, circa autumn 1991, a solemn Dan Rather morosely announcing a recession was underway, and that it was bad.

Dan Rather seemed to announce it long before anyone in print journalism seemed to find a recession.

I had a queasy feeling that Dan Rather was making up things so as to defeat George Bush, who only months before had enjoyed 90+% approval ratings (the end of the War for the Liberation of Kuwait).
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Re: Since Ray-Gun's election in 1980, can anyone name 1 conservative achievement tha
« Reply #26 on: November 14, 2009, 01:48:29 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on November 14, 2009, 01:40:49 PM
And the network news. I remember feeling so fortunate to be doing so well, when every evening I heard on TV that 1992 was the worst economy since the Great Depression.

The MSM says that everytime there is a chance that a conservative could be elected.......it is fortunate that they no longer have the monopoly on information that they enjoyed back then.....

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Re: Since Ray-Gun's election in 1980, can anyone name 1 conservative achievement tha
« Reply #27 on: November 14, 2009, 01:51:04 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 14, 2009, 01:43:50 PM

I had a queasy feeling that Dan Rather was making up things so as to defeat George Bush, who only months before had enjoyed 90+% approval ratings (the end of the War for the Liberation of Kuwait).

And we can look at how well that strategy worked out for Ol' Dan.....karma is a real bitch sometimes.....

It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.......

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Re: Since Ray-Gun's election in 1980, can anyone name 1 conservative achievement tha
« Reply #28 on: November 14, 2009, 01:59:15 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on November 14, 2009, 01:51:04 PM
And we can look at how well that strategy worked out for Ol' Dan.....karma is a real bitch sometimes.....

It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.......

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Yep--"fake but accurate." :tongue:
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Re: Since Ray-Gun's election in 1980, can anyone name 1 conservative achievement tha
« Reply #29 on: November 14, 2009, 02:32:50 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 14, 2009, 01:43:50 PM
You know, I had a premonition about that, when I saw, circa autumn 1991, a solemn Dan Rather morosely announcing a recession was underway, and that it was bad.

Dan Rather seemed to announce it long before anyone in print journalism seemed to find a recession.

I had a queasy feeling that Dan Rather was making up things so as to defeat George Bush, who only months before had enjoyed 90+% approval ratings (the end of the War for the Liberation of Kuwait).

Dan Rathers hatred for the Bush family may stem back farther then I think but I suspect it comes from the evening during the 1988 campaign when he was interviewing VP Bush and brought up Iran Contra trying to ambush him.
President Bush let loose on him and gut punched him with by saying that "how would you like your entire career judged by those 7 minutes you walked off the air" regarding an incident a year or so earlier where he left the anchor desk in a snit.

Rather was left speechless.
http://www.ratherbiased.com/bush_attack.htm

I suspect that played into the TANG memo fiasco as part of a vendetta and ultimately that is the event that his career is judged by.
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