Speedkill

Take a look at some of the mail Alterman is getting over a Reagan post he wrote the other day, a short critical look at Reagan’s presidency. Nothing venomous about his death (if you want venom, check out Greg Palast’s article. Sheesh.), but nothing positive about his time in office. A couple of my favorites:

You are a communist menace and an enemy of God and America! Good Americans know what a liar you are and that your real agenda is to get Hillary in the White House in ’08. We’ll die before that godless scum takes our country from us once again! Go and cry with your homosexual friends, you lost the fight, the sun has risen on America to stay.

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I see that you still have your communist party membership! You faggot! Crawl back under KKKlinton’s desk where you belong!!!!!

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Nice try Commie-boy! Can’t stand to hear the re-visiting of greatness that the man who brought pride back to America and faced down the Soviet Union and the left-controled Congress, can you? Reagan is the reason I left the Democratic Party over twenty years ago. Pus-bucket socialists like you that infest the present Democratic Party constantly reinforce that I made the Right decision.

Well, it appears the good Christian folk refrained from swear words, at least.

A couple of articles I’ve come across on Reagan that are pretty good are Alterman’s Where is the Rest of Him? from 2000 and Joshua Green’s Reagan’s Liberal Legacy from early 2003.