Most of the problems facing this country today would be solved if we just held more people accountable for telling the truth.  There was a classic example last night on Crossfire with Chris Matthews.  Ron Reagan tried to take a shot at Michele Bachmann.  He snarkly said she was several McNuggets short of a Happy Meal.  This is a typical liberal attack, always assuming that conservatives are idiots.  Why does the media ignore or down play the bitter hatred so often displayed by the liberal left?  Rush Limbaugh says he disagrees with Obama’s policies, and he is a hate monger.  Ron Reagan says that Michele Bachmann is several chicken McNuggets short of a Happy Meal and this is dismissed as just humorous commentary.

But Ron Reagan did not stop with the cheap shot.  He claimed that in an interview with Glenn Beck, Bachmann said the Census was designed to put people in concentration camps.  I wondered about this, so I went back and listened to the actual interview.  It was clear that Ron Reagan deliberately misrepresented what Bachmann said.  What she really said was that she was concerned that the Census was asking for far more information than seemed reasonable.  The question she asked was: “where did it stop?”  Did the government really need to know our telephone number or what time we left for work?  She felt it was an unnecessary intrusion on our privacy.  She also pointed out that one question that is not asked is whether or not you are a U.S. citizen.  Glenn Beck asked her why gathering this information on the Census was potentially dangerous, and she pointed out that between 1942 and 1947 the U.S. government used Census data to round up Japanese Americans and put them in interment camps, even though the government had promised to never use Census data against citizens. 

That is a far cry from claiming that the intent of this Census was to put people into concentration camps.  What she did point out, accurately by the way, was that during World War II the government used the Census data for exactly that purpose.

Ron Reagan either failed to understand what Bachmann said, or he deliberately misrepresented what she said.  It caused me to reflect on the obvious.  Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s adopted son, inherited his heart.  Ron Reagan, his biological son only inherited the rectal cavity.

Regards,

TDM