Ronald Reagan

FLASHBACK: 3 Krugman Rules for ‘Bidenomics’ That Blew Up in 2022
The New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman’s so-called “rules” for Bidenomics that he preached just days before President Joe Biden took office aged like spoiled milk.

PBS Humorist Blames Reagan For Increased American Ignorance
Political humorist and satirist Andy Borowitz joined Walter Isaacson on Friday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss his new book Profiles in Ignorance which purports to report on the country’s growing anti-intellectualism. However, Borowitz’s segment prove the book is actually just an anti-Republican screed as he blames the problem on Ronald Reagan and defends Democrats…

How Can You Befriend a ‘Semi-Fascist’?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at a recent event with a liberal audience, praised Justice Clarence Thomas, her ideological adversary. Sotomayor said, “He is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution.” She added that while the two often disagree over judicial decisions, “We share a common understanding about people and kindness towards them.”

Morning Joe: Margaret Thatcher Saved Britain From Becoming France!
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and former Obama car czar Steve Rattner offer surprising praise for Margaret Thatcher, saying her tough economic policies saved Britain from "becoming France."

Nets Remember Reagan and the Queen: 'He Was Her Favorite President'
During all the tributes and stories on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, many media outlets — somewhat surprisingly — fondly commented on the enduring and close friendship between Ronald Reagan and the Queen, calling the conservative icon “the best,” the man who “got the relationship right” and was Elizabeth’s “favorite.”

MSNBC Wishes Biden Included Reagan In Denunciation of GOP
MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross lamented on her Saturday show that President Biden was not hard enough on Republicans during his Thursday speech. With LaTosha Brown of Black Voters Matter, Cross expressed dismay that Ronald Reagan and the GOP “of the 1970s, the 60s, the 50s” was not included in Biden’s denunciation because such references are necessary to overcome racism.

PBS Accuses GOP Of Trying 'To Attract Voters Through Racism'
With Mikhail Gorbachev dying earlier in the week, Walter Isaacson wondered on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS, how the fall of the Soviet Union has impacted conservatism. To get his answer, he turned to author Nicole Hemmer who claimed that conservatives are attempting “to attract voters through racism.”

NYT Goes Goopy Over Gorbachev, ‘Visionary…Who Lifted the Iron Curtain'
The New York Times continued to overpraise the Soviet Union’s last ruler, Mikhail Gorbachev, upon his death in Moscow at 91, with an 8,000-word front-page tribute from obituary writer Marilyn Berger. The print edition front-page banner headline read “Visionary Soviet Leader Who Lifted the Iron Curtain” over a photo of Russia’s last dictator. As NewsBusters’ Rich Noyes wrote: “It’s…

NewsBusters Podcast: Reagan Gets No Credit for USSR's End, Only Gorby
When they announced the death of the last dictator of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, the liberal media elite broke out the valentines, giving Gorbachev all the credit for tearing down the Iron Curtain of communism. Ronald Reagan dared Gorbachev to tear down the wall, and Gorbachev is painted as a “towering international hero” for just letting it happen. Media liberals can't give Reagan…

Diseased NY Times Sees ‘Racism, Stigma and Fear’ in Name ‘Monkeypox'
New York Times Health and Science reporter Andrew Jacobs made the August 24 edition with a ridiculous and ideologically diseased story on monkeypox, “Racism, Stigma and Fear: Why Experts Want Monkeypox Renamed." Jacobs worked overtime, reaching back a half century to make “monkeypox” a racist term, even bringing in a conservative hero: "Such racist sentiments haven’t entirely faded.…

Freeform’s Racist Comedy ‘grown-ish': ‘Reagan Was a Genocidal Clown’
The show even goes so far as to claim that late, former President Ronald Reagan was a "genocidal clown" during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

ABC: Who Better Than Attempted Reagan Assassin to Tout Gun Control?
Who better to talk gun control with than the attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan? That’s apparently the thinking of ABC’s Nightline. The ABC program and CBS have devoted a whopping 13 minutes and 41 seconds to interviewing John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot the President in 1981 and also wounded three others.

Leftists Bury Another Norm: Protesters Target Homes of SCOTUS Justices
After angry public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito draft opinion on reversing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas said: “We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like. We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom…

Amanpour Cues Ex-Conservative to Trash Pro-Lifers as Like Nazis, Iran
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co., simulcast on PBS and CNN International, Christiane Amanpour brought on liberal activist Frank Schaeffer to complain about the pro-life evangelical movement that he helped found before turning liberal and spending his time trashing conservatives.