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Ronald Reagan

• September 14 -- Movie Critic Takes on Reagan's "False Dawn"
Where did that come from?

• July 30 -- Kerry's Got a Little of the "Reagan Glow"
TV reporter Alessandra Stanley gives Kerry's acceptance speech a thumbs-up: "Kerry looked happy. Really happy….his somewhat goofy, bridegroom radiance lit up the screen, lending his performance energy and spirit….Kerry had a little of the glow that Ronald Reagan transmitted in almost every television appearance."

• July 7 -- The "Relentlessly Upbeat" John Edwards?
Does this sound like Reagan to you? "We will say no to kids going hungry, to kids who don't have the clothes to keep them warm, and no forever to any American working full-time and living in poverty. Not in our America!"

• July 1 -- Bush Ad "Troubling." Nancy Reagan, "Attack Dog"
Alessandra Stanley uses an online exhibition of presidential campaign ads past and present to hit a Bush ad she finds "troubling." Also: Do only Republicans engage in attacks?

• June 21 -- There They Go Again: Ronald Reagan, Anti-Gun
And liberals accuse conservatives of using Reagan for political ends: More cynical Reagan exploitation on the editorial page.

• June 15 -- Reagan and Bush, "Panderers to the Religious Right"
Frank Rich, who's never made a secret of his distaste for the Reagan administration, revels in the former president's "performance chops," if only to make Bush look callow by comparison.

• June 15 -- The Times To Bush: You're No Ronald Reagan
Sheryl Gay Stolberg gets a full anti-Bush story out of a sentence Ron Reagan Jr. spoke at his father's eulogy.

• June 11 -- Gorbachev's "Bold and Brilliant" Perestroika
Thom Shanker interviews Mikhail Gorbachev and gives the Soviet leader the credit for ending the Cold War: "As Mr. Reagan's obituaries uniformly proclaim, the late president won the cold war, but historians agree that the outcome would have been impossible had any man other than Mr. Gorbachev been sitting behind the Kremlin's red-brick walls and across the negotiating table."

• June 11 -- Chewing Over the Reagan Legacy
R.W. Apple praises Reagan's tax-raising "pragmatism" while despairing of his "severe and continuing cutbacks in government services to the poor and vulnerable."

• June 10 -- Bill Clinton's "Fiscal Discipline" Ended Reagan Deficits
Todd Purdum's tribute to Reagan also salutes Bill Clinton's "fiscal discipline."

• June 10 -- Reagan's Budgetary Dishonesty Continues With Bush
David Rosenbaum thinks Reagan began a trend in budgetary dishonesty that Bush continues today.

• June 9 -- That Didn't Take Long; Reagan's "Bitterly Polarizing" Agenda
The mourning period for Reagan is over in Timesland.

• June 8 -- Reagan's Devolving Idea of Missile Defense
The passing of Ronald Reagan is the apparent hook for a Times story on missile defense, which features the eye-rolling tone the Times usually employs when discussing the issue. The paper also quotes two unlabeled outside experts from the same liberal defense group.

• June 8 -- How Reagan Made "Denial of Compassion" Respectable
Columnist Clyde Haberman claims "it does Ronald Reagan no dishonor to look back at his presidency with a clear eye." For Haberman, that means rehashing quotes from liberal Democrats lambasting Reagan's cuts in aid to the city. Haberman gives Mario Cuomo the last word: "The results made the denial of compassion respectable."

• June 8 -- Using and Abusing Reagan's Memory, Part II
Paul Krugman finds something nice to say about Ronald Reagan.

• June 8 -- Using and Abusing Reagan's Memory, Part I
The Times editorial page puts Reagan's memory to use to push stem-cell research--a procedure opposed by social conservatives and pro-lifers (a group to which Reagan belonged).

• June 7 -- Reagan and the Virtue of "Simplicity"
The Times editorial remembrance of Reagan finds the secret to Reagan's success in good luck and pays the president a backhanded compliment for his "simplicity."

• June 7 -- Reagan's "Seeming Indifference" to the Poor
Todd Purdum paints a picture of Ronald Reagan's legacy, from the Schwarzenegger governorship to the Supreme Court, but ends on Reagan's "seeming indifference to civil rights, the environment and the plight of the poor."

• June 7 -- A Not-So-Fond Remembrance of Reagan
In Marilyn Berger's obituary for Ronald Reagan, "optimism" and luck sum up Reagan's achievements. She runs through the anti-Reagan liberal litany of deficits, homelessness, and "ketchup as a vegetable," and even brings up the discredited "October Surprise" theory.

• February 20 -- The Religious Right Is Rising (Again)
TV critic Alessandra Stanley sees a rising of the religious right in the release of Mel Gibson's new movie.

• January 8 -- On Reagan and AIDS, Times Catches Up With Times Watch
The Times corrects a piece falsely accusing Reagan of never having mentioned AIDS--three weeks after Times Watch did.

• January 5 -- Defending "The Reagans" Once More
TV critic Alessandra Stanley: "It is hard to get too indignant about CBS's lapse after a year that included…the cancellation of the mini-series 'The Reagans,' after a lobbying effort by right-wing groups who never saw the film."

• December 17 -- Getting Reagan Wrong on AIDS
Dudley Clendinen, former national correspondent and editorial writer for the Times, claims: "'Angels in America' begins in the mid-1980's, in the Reagan era, when the president uttered not a word about AIDS…" Wrong: Reagan mentioned AIDS five times in his 1986 State of the Union.

• December 4 -- Conservative Critics Ill-Informed?
TV writer Bill Carter claims a Reagan-bashing movie "was dropped by CBS last month after a wave of protest from conservative groups who charged, sight unseen, that it was an attack on former President Ronald Reagan." But they'd heard about its anti-Reagan tilt from no less an authority than the Times--and the finished product proves their concern was justified.

• December 1 -- The "Reasonably Accurate" and "Respectful" Reagan Movie
While even the Washington Post's liberal TV critic finds "The Reagans" to be "unseemly and hugely inappropriate," Alessandra Stanley of the Times wonders what all the fuss is about: "Anyone eagerly anticipating or dreading a hatchet job on the 40th President is bound to feel confounded. James Brolin's portrayal of Ronald Reagan is uncannily convincing and respectful."

• November 25 -- Cowardly CBS Caves in to Censors
Emily Nussbaum's piece on the decline and fall of the television miniseries opens by calling CBS' cancellation of its biased miniseries on the Reagans "de facto censorship."

• November 19 -- AIDS "Angels" vs. "Rancid" Reaganites
Editor Frank Rich pens a poisonous, 2,200-word excoriation of the Reagan administration's attitude toward AIDS in a hagiography of HBO's adaptation of the anti-Reagan gay advocacy play "Angels in America." Rich writes: "This epic is, among other things, a searing indictment of how the Reagan administration's long silence stoked the plague of AIDS in the 1980's....it accurately conveys the rancid hypocrisy among powerful closeted gay Republicans in Washington as AIDS spiraled."

• November 7 -- 2003: CBS Wrong to Cave Into Conservative Pressure; 2002: CBS Wrong NOT to Cave Into Liberal Pressure
A Times editorial accuses conservative groups of creating a "Soviet-style chill" by pressing CBS on "The Reagans." But when a feminist group pressured CBS on the Masters, the Times trumpeted the "pull the plug" cause.

• November 6 -- Reagan, AIDS and Pope Pius XII
TV critic Alessandra Stanley reviews the melodrama over the botched and biased CBS miniseries "The Reagans," counting conservatives as hypocrites and painting Pope Pius XII in an anti-Semitic light.

• November 5 -- "Soviet-Style Chill" from Reagan's Supporters
The Times editorial page comes out against the decision by CBS to dump its controversial miniseries "The Reagans," accusing Reagan's supporters of creating a "Soviet-style chill."

• October 22 -- Times Bias Trickles Into Headlines
Jim Rutenberg delivers a balanced story on an upcoming CBS miniseries on the Reagan White House, but a smart-aleck headline writer couldn't resist a little Reagan-bashing.

• July 28 -- Huge Study Confirms Bias at the Times
A huge study of newspaper political coverage from Reagan to Bush II finds: “The New York Times displayed a tilt toward the Democrats….The evidence suggests that the Times tilts somewhat toward the Democrats, particularly in its Congressional coverage.”

• July 25 -- Can’t “Recall” Reagan as California Gov.?
The Times piles on Rep. Darrell Issa, who led the recall drive against Gov. Gray Davis of California: “Democrats today said he would be the ‘poster child’ of their antirecall campaign, mainly because he is the sort of conservative Republican who has traditionally fared poorly in statewide elections.” Conservative California Govs. Ronald Reagan and George Deukmejian might disagree.