Word: lofton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything from heart disease to tips for keeping children happy on car trips. What these programs do best is live exchanges with two or three people on different sides of an emotional issue. Good Morning America, for example, recently paired Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel and Conservative Columnist John Lofton; when Lofton criticized Wiesel for not speaking out against other atrocities, Wiesel's blunt rebuttal ("How dare you, really") made for affecting television...
...much like Reagan's State of the Union message but didn't like the Democratic alternative either, and editorially suggested that the times are so tough a little bipartisanship is called for. On the far right the reaction to Reagan was anger at betrayal. John D. Lofton Jr. couldn t wait to express himself in the Conservative Digest, the magazine he once edited, but got it off his chest in the Washington Times, the Moonies' new newspaper. He called Reagan a "political 'Tootsie' . . . wearing clothes which quite frankly (at least when he was a candidate...
...happy about Haig's resignation? John Lofton, editor of something called the Conservative Digest, was asked the question that very night on ABC's Nightline. "For about a minute and eight seconds," Lofton replied- meaning, until he heard the name of Haig's successor. Once again, to a mind like Lofton's, Ronald Reagan was proving himself insufficiently Reaganite...
...themselves onto talk shows on an off night. Richard Viguerie, whose computers contain the hottest list of right-wing fat cats, was there; so was Terry Dolan, who raises hours for commercials against candidates on his hit list. After five hours of palaver in a Washington restaurant, Lofton telephoned the New York Times about the historic" meeting. People had concluded, he said, that Reagan was salvageable, but "there was unanimous agreement on one thing: Haig must...
After the night when right-wingers dined on their discontents, Lofton proclaimed, "Reagan without Reaganism is the worst of both worlds." Perhaps his difficulty is in definitions. Kristol says of the new Secretary of State George Shultz: "He's not a Reaganite- but I don't know what a Reaganite means any more." To the pragmatic Californians in the White House, a Reaganite is someone who this any moment is prepared to go along with what Reagan wants. If this can be descried...