"The Press Slept While Reagan Rambled" -- FAIR
During Reagan's 1988 Moscow summit with Gorbachev, the New York Times noted that the President had fallen asleep at a meeting with Soviet dignitaries. The Times subtitled the article: "REAGAN IMPRESSES SOVIET ELITE." Two days later, another summit-related article in the New York Times attributed this quote about Reagan to Britain's Margaret Thatcher: "Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears." The article's headline: "THATCHER SALUTE TO REAGAN YEARS."
Remembering The 1980s by Jeff Cohen, from 1999
FAIR's article just as easily could have been titled "The Press Rambled while Reagan Slept," which might have reflected the "Liberal Media's" appreciation that a man singlehandedly overthrowing an Evil Empire needs to get his zzzzzz's.
With Reagan, relevant questions about his mental competence weren't even raised-- and a President being asleep at the wheel should be as newsworthy as a President sleeping around.
40 winks, anyone?
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