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June 15, 2004

Morley Safer: Reporters, but Not the Public, Should "Know Better" Than to Adulate Reagan

It's the second item:

Safer complained about the “excess of adulatory commentary ad nauseam,” not “by the public, but by reporters who should know better.”

Reporters are the smartest, wisest, most benevolently-minded people on the planet. They're sort of like Philsopher Kings, only they kick even more ass when it comes to Truth and Virtue.

Just ask them. They'll tell you.

And you can trust them. Because they're reporters.

Meanwhile, leftist producer Don Hewitt significantly advanced the Reagan-was-just-lucky-he-took-office-as-the-Soviet-Union-was-imploding-and-the-American-economy-rebounding, by suggesting that, gee willickers, Reagan was even "lucky" as to his time of dying:

Outgoing Executive Producer Don Hewitt argued the public outpouring had little to do with an affection for Reagan: “I don't think this is about Ronald Reagan. I think this is about a country that's hungry for nostalgia. And it just so happened that Ronald Reagan's death and America's hunger for nostalgia coincided.”

Ohhhhh, what a lucky man... he was...

Update: Donald Luskin notes that the Princeton Paranoiac Paul Krugman, supposedly a scientist of some sort, is now resorting to explanations involving "magic" and "miracles" to explain mundane economic phenomena.

So, the supposed rational, empirical Left liberal now explains everything in terms of:

1) Magic

2) Miracles

3) Luck

Why does the economy expand when taxes are cut? It must be because the evil Spirits of Commerce are appeased by these burnt offerings. But the good Spirits of Equality are angered.

But George W. Bush is a freak for believing in God, of course.


posted by Ace at 01:26 PM
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Ah, yes. Magic and Superstition explain anything that benefits conservatives.

That might explain why Michael Moore is so adamantly anti-Bush. As we all know, Jedi mind tricks don't work on Hutts.

Posted by: Brian B on June 15, 2004 02:22 PM

You know, I always wondered why those hippy feminists burned bras back in the sixties. It all makes sense now. Thanks.

Posted by: Jan on June 15, 2004 03:29 PM

I see this as a natural progression. The origin of leftist thinking was Marxian socialism, which propounded "scientific" ideas for the complete totalitarian restructuring of society. It may be hard to believe, but Marxism was once sold on the basis of its scientific approach to the optimization of an economy.

Well, we know how that worked out. But Marxism turns out to be a pile of jackstraws; remove any one of them, and the rest collapse at once. So with the scientific rigor of the thing no longer defensible, its proponents, who had become addicted to the pursuit of power, had to buttress it some other way. They tried pseudo-moralism, then the claim that socialism would bring international peace, then an ascetic ethic that holds that people ought not to be well off, because it distracts them from "what really matters."

All of it has gone down to defeat. Command and control have produced nothing but darkness and despair. Free markets and individual liberty have triumphed. But the Left isn't willing to give up its totalitarian dreams. So even if it can't argue coherently for its own ideology, it must prevent onlookers from intelligently studying why freedom works. It must cloud men's minds about the causal mechanisms that underpin the free society.

So leftists use terms like "magic," "miracles," and "luck."

Classically, magic has involved either hidden laws of nature or the intervention of superhuman creatures. Clearly, the Left would prefer that we not think about the laws of nature. But what superhuman creatures did Reagan have at his beck and call? The public wants to know!

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on June 15, 2004 04:55 PM

But what superhuman creatures did Reagan have at his beck and call?

The USMC, The US Navy, The US Air Force, the US Army, SAC, and, perhaps the most insidious, powerful Daemon at his command, Adam Smith.

Posted by: on June 15, 2004 06:13 PM

Hell, claiming magic, miracles, or luck is better than what Slugman and his ilk normally do:

Offer a hand wave and remind us that everyone knows that trickle down economics is hogwash. Are you gonna believe the perfesser, or your own lyin' eyes?

Posted by: Patton on June 16, 2004 02:45 AM
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