Buyer's Remorse (B*sh) and MSM Frenzy (Ford's funeral)

[npincus]

My personal view is that the blanket coverage of the Ford funeral coupled with pundits' gushing and elevating him in death is a response to the horrid, incompetent, dishonest, fraudulent occupant of the White House now.... the swamp that B*sh has created of an institution that was respected and respectable once upon a time, and Ford the symbol of this bygone era, an utter contrast to the scum that lied us into a tragic and bloody quagmire, the scum that presided over the drowning of a great American city, that led an administration of criminals.

I was out of the country when Reagan died, and didn't see any MSM coverage for that. But now, I have the feeling that the time given and affection being shown for Ford in death has everything to do with the scorn for the Thing in the WH today. Buyer's remorse, perhaps.

[MissWaverly]

1. agree, but I wish they would quit about talking up the pardon

I strongly feel that the nation never healed after Nixon, it left a festering wound which
still hurts today, most of those involved in the current scandals cut their teeth on the
hubris of Watergate and are determined to keep dishing it out, they truly have no respect
for our democratic way of life, to them America is just a cash cow to be milked and
led around. I wish we had accountability for Watergate, for Iran-Contra and for
election fraud. I don't want to hear about healing, full pardons and how the nation
would be better off.

[mitchum]

5. Agree with you 100%, Miss Waverly

They are attempting to pass off historical revisionism as elegy

[MissWaverly]

6. did you hear about Junior's 7 second photo at Ford funeral

Ford's family greeted everybody, all 3300 mourners until Junior demanded that he have
a private viewing, he shows up at the coffin, Ford family nowhere to be seen, he
was there for 7 seconds plus his eulogy

[JohnnyLib2]

2. Let us hope!

[benddem]

3. Well the Reagan

funeral was more like a beatification for Sainthood or elevation to the Pope. But I can't believe all this for a guy who was Pres. for two years. I was in the Army when Truman, Eisenhower and Johnson died. We had to send half of our enlisted people for each of those...and I don't remember that any of them had services in DC. Eisenhower was buried just down the road from where I was stationed. I could be wrong but I just don't remember that the hooplah was like this. Course we didn't have CNN and FAUX then and didn't have 24 hour a day TV.

[ribrepin]

4. I don't remember this hoopla for Truman, Eisenhower or Johnson

This is on par on with President Kennedy's funeral.

[malaise]

7. The good news is that very few people have time to watch

This too will pass in a few minutes.

[Bake]

8. It's almost - ALMOST - as bad as the Reagasm

But not quite. That was even more sickening.

Bake

[Tulum_Moon]

9. You missed the Raygun saint ronny ceremony?

They had him on a horse drawn carriage with a riderless horse with the boots in the stirrups placed back wards for gawdsake! And the crowb was yelling "WE love yopu nancy" It was pretty bad IMO.

[Bake]

10. Oh, I saw more than enough of the Reagasm

But it didn't take too long to reach the :puke: point.

Bake

[salin]

11. which is interesting - don't you think?

Reagan still has tons of admirers (go figure!) - he was in power for 8 (long) years.

Compare that to Ford's very brief (and unelected) tenure in the WH - and the virtual media silence about him (as in reporting anything that he does) in the intervening years. Yet this pomp and ceremony was bordering on matching that of Reagan?

I would have to agree with the OP. Esp the repeated emphasis on how decent and honorable Ford was (and the implicit - hanging - comparison made when ever that phrase was uttered.)