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   From: hpgoldfinger@N0SPAM.C0M   
      
   Blabra Streisand Defends CBS's Reagan Rip   
      
      
      
   Here comes Babs to the leftist rescue.   
      
   Recently, in one of her infinitely dubious Web "truth alerts," the   
   Democrat diva rushed to defend CBS's miniseries "The Reagans."   
      
   On her site, Streisand proceeds to set Drudge and other sources   
   straight. She writes that she was on the set of CBS to watch her hubby   
   for "a total of only 4 hours of one day," as opposed to the "weeks on   
   the set" that were reported by what Streisand calls "the Republican   
   spin machine."   
      
   Streisand also writes that she has never read the script, never seen   
   the film and is "not responsible for what is depicted in it."   
      
   But in the next breath, she declares that "the Republicans, who deify   
   President Reagan, cannot stand that some of the more unpleasant truths   
   about his character and presidency might be depicted in the movie,   
   along with his positive actions."   
      
   The princess of leftist pap goes on to describe the made-for-TV flick   
   that she supposedly has never seen as "a balanced portrait of a   
   complicated man." Guess now she's a psychic, too.   
      
   In the world according to Babs, the reason that millions of Americans   
   adore Ronald Reagan is because no one else with GOP credentials is   
   available.   
      
   She sneers that Reagan is "glorified by conservatives because what   
   other Republican leader of recent history are they going to point   
   towards? Richard Nixon? George H.W. Bush? Newt Gingrich? Are these men   
   worthy of exalt?"   
      
   Looking at events through Funny Girl goggles, the Republicans   
   accomplished nothing noteworthy, but Bubba is a leader for the ages.   
      
   Streisand dons her economist hat and explains why Reagan really wasn't   
   all that proficient when he doubled revenues, cut taxes and ended the   
   Cold War.   
      
   On the other hand, Clinton, the dude who brought us Travelgate,   
   Filegate, Chinagate and Pardongate, the guy who failed to respond to   
   terrorism and turned down Osama bin Laden, the chief who was   
   impeached, held in contempt by a federal judge and kicked out of the   
   Supreme Court bar, was a whopping   
   success of a prez.   
      
   Streisand blogs that "conservatives love to boast of the 16 million   
   jobs Reagan's economic policies generated."   
      
   She blogs further that Clinton was more successful than Reagan because   
   Reagan "created record budget deficits, increased inequality and   
   tripled the national debt. Judged on their own terms, Reagan   
   proponents would have to admit that Bill Clinton, who generated 23   
   million new jobs in the same amount of time in office and also turned   
   a major deficit into the largest surplus ever, was a more successful   
   president."   
      
   Streisand urges the public to tune in to CBS's ill-timed fib fest, and   
   she brushes aside the criticisms of the miniseries. She explains that   
   this is just "the Right Wing" who will "spread vicious lies and   
   attacks and scream and yell until they get their way."   
      
   The Left Coast Report would love to ask those who've been on Streisand   
   movie sets if they have any misty watercolor memories of people who   
   "scream and yell until they get their way."   
      
      
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