MSM Want to Believe Reagan Was Demented While in Office

With the release of Ron Reagan, Jr's book, "My Father at 100," the liberal media have taken great joy in creating a myth (or continuing one that has been thoroughly disproven over the years) that, despite any lack of evidence (other than Ron, Jr. "sensing" something was "different" about his father) that the Great Communicator had developed symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease while still in his second term between 1984 and 1988. Although no one that had worked alongside Reagan ever stated they too had noticed "something wrong" with the former president while he carried out his oath of office.

But leave it to the lefty media to espouse rumor and innuendo as fact. Nothing new here. Remember the Duke Lacrosse non-rape case? Remember the so-called assault (read: spitting) of CBC member, John Lewis and the 15 racial and "homophobic"slurs hurled at him and Barney Frank that never happened? What about the lies about Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh? She never banned or burned books. She never claimed to be able to see "Russia from my house!" That was Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, but it has been attributed to Palin through the media and left-wing blogs. Racial slurs have been attributed to Limbaugh, but strangely enough no quote, sound bite or video has ever surfaced having Limbaugh say any of what he has and continues to be accused of.

And on it goes with the MSM. So when a chance comes along to smear one of the greatest presidents in history and the best Republican one of the modern age, the liberal press is simply salivating at the chance to drag Reagan's name through the mud; hoping, pleading that it's true. As his other son, Michael Reagan has said, "...pretending he was already lost in the fog of Alzheimer’s is a useful way to deny him credit for his achievements. And of course, it turns Reagan into a vividly literal example of the stereotypical Republican who’s “out of touch with reality."

To his credit, Ron Jr. isn't saying one hundred percent that his father was afflicted with the disease while Commander in Chief, but the media certainly appears to be doing so. They've already given Ron, Jr. leading questions about what they hope above all hope was true. Even so, Ron, Jr. has said that even if the disease did take effect early, it didn't distract Reagan from doing his job as president any more than Kennedy's Addison's or Roosevelt's polio. It seems he is at least trying to correct the MSM from their runaway theories, but why publish something like this at all? More fuel for the anti-Reagan crowd. Not that they needed any more reason in their demented little world.

Ironic, isn't it?

Then again, Reagan was brilliant. Maybe it was all an act just to amuse himself and to leave the liberals heads spinning.