One more then and now reference — to be filed in media bias folder
You know, there’s one other thing that just came into my mind regarding “the Reagan experience” that is so germane in this day and age.
We’ve seen how the national partisan-liberal media has played up “record gas prices,” right?
Flash back to 1980.
High gas prices??? For God’s sake, gasoline prices in 1979 and 1980 were a disaster. And then there were the shortages and the rationings at the filling stations. I distinctly remember sitting in the back of my father’s car and waiting on line — sometimes for half-an-hour or more — just to get a few measly gallons of gas. I’m sure many of you have similar recollections.
Hmmm. I don’t remember, on the other hand, the media making a big deal about gas prices or gas shortages in the Carter-Reagan campaign season. In fact, my most clear memories of the media propaganda campaign — oh, excuse me; the media “news coverage” — during that election season, are of the not-so-subtle insinuations that Reagan was a loose cannon, that he was another Goldwater, that he would mess up the status quo with the Soviets, etc.
Now, however, this entire election campaign appears to have become — in the media’s view, anyway — a referendum on gas prices.
Oh, right. This time it’s — gasp! — a Republican who’s the incumbent.
Why, the horror!
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