Those of us who lived through it will never forget the left's
unceasing campaign blaming
Ronald Reagan for the homeless in the 1980s. It was a vicious
campaign, replete with the typical name-calling and nasty
hyperbole. To this day, liberals haven't let go.
"Reagan deliberately created 'homelessness,'" writes one observer at the Democratic Underground.
Adds Peter Dreier, a well-known progressive who teaches at Occidental College: "[A] fitting tribute to [Reagan's] legacy would be for each American city to name a park bench -- where at least one homeless person sleeps every night -- in honor of our 40th president."
The left launched an unceasing campaign from Reagan's first year in office until his last, as if there had been no such thing as a homeless American until Ronald Reagan took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Reagan biographer Lou Cannon noted how Reagan had been in office mere months and liberals were already erecting tent cities outside the White House intended to evoke images of "Hooverville" during the Great Depression. These mock shanties were declared "Reagan ranches."
Naturally, the mainstream media jumped on the bandwagon, merrily aiding and abetting the campaign. You couldn't turn on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather -- the worst of all of them -- without getting your regular nightly homeless update. The Big Three of Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw (CBS, ABC, and NBC) sent their camera crews across America for dramatic interviews with these suffering souls victimized by Ronald Reagan's Decade of Greed. In a snap, Phil Donahue would find himself a gorgeous, brilliant, saintly mother of four with a doctorate in astrophysics living in a dumpster in southeast D.C.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/26/obamas-homeless
"Reagan deliberately created 'homelessness,'" writes one observer at the Democratic Underground.
Adds Peter Dreier, a well-known progressive who teaches at Occidental College: "[A] fitting tribute to [Reagan's] legacy would be for each American city to name a park bench -- where at least one homeless person sleeps every night -- in honor of our 40th president."
The left launched an unceasing campaign from Reagan's first year in office until his last, as if there had been no such thing as a homeless American until Ronald Reagan took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Reagan biographer Lou Cannon noted how Reagan had been in office mere months and liberals were already erecting tent cities outside the White House intended to evoke images of "Hooverville" during the Great Depression. These mock shanties were declared "Reagan ranches."
Naturally, the mainstream media jumped on the bandwagon, merrily aiding and abetting the campaign. You couldn't turn on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather -- the worst of all of them -- without getting your regular nightly homeless update. The Big Three of Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw (CBS, ABC, and NBC) sent their camera crews across America for dramatic interviews with these suffering souls victimized by Ronald Reagan's Decade of Greed. In a snap, Phil Donahue would find himself a gorgeous, brilliant, saintly mother of four with a doctorate in astrophysics living in a dumpster in southeast D.C.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/26/obamas-homeless
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