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Um, this is Ronald Wilson Reagan, right?

I've been listening to the supposedly liberal press falling all over themselves to appear conservative for a whole week now, I have to ask: we are talking about Ronald Reagan, right? President of the United States between 1980 and 1988, right? That Reagan? 'Cause you'd be hard pressed to know it watching the obsequeous coverage on all the networks this week. Maybe the media is the one suffering from Alzheimers. I mean, we keep hearing about "the Great Communicator" and how he was so "idealistic" and stuck to his principles and all that. I've heard him described as "the Republican party's JFK." So tell me, why aren't we being reminded of:

• Huge tax cuts for the rich
• Huge tax increases for the working class
• Firing the Air Traffic Controllers
• Vigorously opposing (to the point of veto) unemployment insurance for farm workser
• Ketchup as a vegetable
• Cutting the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development by 70%
• Rolling back tax incentives for low-income housing
• Reaganville
• Dismantling the California mental health system
• Cutting state funding for mental hospitals and putting their patients on the streets
• Support for the Apartheid government in South Africa
• Iran-Contra
• El Salvador

What else did I miss?

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