When Are The History Books Going To Acknowledge Ronald Reagan's Great Crime?

[ruggerson]

The fact that he, at the pitched, angry and strident urging of Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Buchanan, Richard Viguerie and others, DELIBERATELY ignored the greatest epidemic of our generation, because his cohorts in the White House hated gay people and wished them dead.

This is all explicitly (if understatedly) documented in Surgeon General C Everett Koop's autobiography, Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor.

The mainstream media has done a thoroughly miserable job at exploring and recounting those early years. If they actually reported on what happened, Reagan's culpability would be more publicized, his legacy justifiably revised, and perhaps, as a minor, deserved casualty, MSNBC would be shamed into giving Pat Buchanan the heave-ho.