{"id":17843,"date":"2014-07-22T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17843"},"modified":"2014-07-22T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T00:39:49","slug":"cover-up-in-the-air-what-would-reagan-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/07\/22\/cover-up-in-the-air-what-would-reagan-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover-up in the Air &#8211; What Would Reagan Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Show<\/em> has the video segment &#8220;Cover-up in the Air &#8211; What Would Reagan Do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> article has, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/07\/22\/1315721\/-Jon-Stewart-exposes-GOP-lies-about-Reagan-s-response-to-downed-airliner?detail=email\" title=\"The Daily Kos article\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart exposes GOP lies about Reagan&#8217;s response to downed airliner<\/a>, this excerpt from the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYes, Reagan was in deep mourning for losing the final 12% of his vacation. In fact, in 1988, when the U.S. accidentally <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran_Air_Flight_655\">shot down an Iranian airliner<\/a>, also under Reagan&#8217;s watch, Reagan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnewsarchive.com\/1988\/Reagan-Says-He-s-Saddened-by-Downing-of-Iranian-Airliner-With-AM-US-Iran-Bjt\/id-b35c3ae2a00a7cacbd49d5dd5056ac68\">refused<\/a> to end <i>that<\/i> vacation early.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, America was so torn up about shooting down that plane, that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_C._Rogers_III\">commander<\/a> of the ship who did it later received a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legion_of_Merit\">medal<\/a> for his service. I believe it was called the silver&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:9441bb47-7809-4751-a96a-61963a68525b\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I used to hate it when Tim Russert had a standard operating procedure of carrying out interviews based on gotcha clips and quotes from the interviewee&#8217;s past.  In this case, the gotcha seemed worthwhile for refreshing people&#8217;s memories.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Chris Wallace is the one with the memory.  He actually seems to care that he once had pretense of being a reporter.  I wonder if the Faux Hoise panel will even remember what Chris Wallace had to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Show has the video segment &#8220;Cover-up in the Air &#8211; What Would Reagan Do?&#8221; The Daily Kos article has, Jon Stewart exposes GOP lies about Reagan&#8217;s response to downed airliner, this excerpt from the video. Yes, Reagan was in deep mourning for losing the final 12% of his vacation. In fact, in 1988, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17845,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17843\/revisions\/17845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}