Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghost-written speeches are equally easy to spot. The word "paradigm" looks impressive in the transcript of a speech, but sounded pretty silly when Reagan pronounced it "paradijem...
...written this review about two years ago, I would have filled the page with more such examples of Reagan's evident intellectual ineptitude and brazen disregard for facts, not to mention his self-serving alibis and revisionism about prominent scandals. Speaking My Mind is a veritable treasure trove of Reagan gaffes and misstatements of the kind that filled up two volumes by Mark Green and Gail MacColl, There He Goes Again and Reagan's Reign of Error...
...years ago, I would have revelled in smug liberal elitism and written a review that painted Reagan and everyone who voted for him as consummate fools. I would have also missed the most important part of Reagan's book...
Green and MacColl typify liberals' reaction to Reagan's oratory. They treated him as an amiable but vapid dunce who gave verbal expression to his ideological prejudices by fabricating statistics on every topic from Cadillacdriving welfare mothers to the Soviet missile build...
...Reagan, they said, is not only stupid, but mendacious. His ideas are molded out of right-wing dogma and his facts are usually made up on the spot. Anyone who believes this guy is obviously a dunce, too. Why should we pay attention to anything he says...