After Fox News said Obama wasn’t Reagan-esque enough, plenty of other conservatives soon followed. Let’s take a brief stroll down memory lane in case some have forgotten what actually happened in 1983. After the Soviet pilot killed 269 people on a civilian airliner, Reagan’s aides didn’t bother to wake him up to tell him what happened. When the president was eventually briefed on developments, Reagan, who was on vacation in California at the time, announced he did not intend to cut his trip short. (Reagan’s aides later convinced him to return to the White House.) Last week, Obama delivered a public address on the Malaysia Airlines plane about 24 hours after it was shot down, calling the incident an “outrage of unspeakable proportions.” Reagan also delivered stern words, but in contrast, he waited four days to deliver public remarks. So what is Fox talking about?
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:14:13 +0000
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