My god look at the CNN web page

[Beatrix]

"Regan dies" in big HUGE letters. I have never seen CNN do that. They obviously want to play this to the fullest.

[skooooo]

1. Well, it is a pretty big deal..don't you think?

A 2-term president dying? I think it's a pretty major event.

[Beatrix]

4. How naive

yes CNN cares. That's why it's there. "big news" No other reason.

[skooooo]

20. Naive?

ok, whatever

[LTR]

2. I beleive it was done with 9/11

Perhaps a few other events.

[bluestateguy]

3. The networks have been planning for this for months, perhaps years

It's pretty obvious in watching all of these retrospective stories that they have been on the shelf for awhile and that they are the product of many months of work.

[Cronus Protagonist]

6. Right on. They've had at least two years to do these.

Now we'll see all the pseudo-patriotic claptrap for a week or more becuse the inventor is so large and costly.

Click here for "FUCK BUSH", and other fair and balanced yet stunning, insulting, shocking, funny buttons, magnets and stickers

[patriotvoice]

5. Major players have 'preemptive' obituaries.

CNN with that font happens occassionally: Nixon dying, 9/11, etc.

Cheney died in 2001, incidentally:


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cnnobit1.html

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On edit: word choice.

[LTR]

7. Surprised they didn't go with this one

[patriotvoice]

8. Yeah, the current one looks like ...

... it's the result of downsizing their graphics design department.

[SayitAintSo]

14. Yeah the State paper here in SC had Thurmond's obit on line

by accident WAY before the event ... It was a big FAUX PAS down here in good ol' South Carolina...

(however many thought thought it was old news as well ...LOL)

[Arugula Latte]

16. That reminds me of the SNL skit

where Tom Brokaw is going to go on vacation and so is preparing every possible scenario for Gerald Ford dying.

[Eurobabe]

9. takes the onus off the current president dickhead

and his european gaffes

[Beaker]

10. if you're going to ask people to look at a website...

common courtesy dictates that you include a LINK...

sheesh.

[Beatrix]

11. Sorry

I forgot how much strain 3 seconds of typing www.cnn.com resulted in.

[LTR]

12. ROTF!!!

OUCH!

[muchacho]

13. apropos

i think Reagan dying now is symbolic of the whole neo-con movement he spearheaded coming to a timely end.

Good riddence....

[TahitiNut]

15. It's FULL WALLOW time, folks.

It'll be nothin' but Reagan. Watch for some moves by the Cabal that'll fly under the ronnie-chaff and get missed by the media's weak-to-the-right radar.

[TahitiNut]

17. Notice CNN's QuickVote question?

What will Ronald Reagan be most remembered for?
Triumph of conservatism
Morning in America
End of the Cold War

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Where the f**king h*ll is Iran/Contra? :puke:

[Straight Shooter]

18. Here's a QuickVote question:

Most remembered for treating HIV victims like lepers

[muchacho]

19. Legacy

Ketchup as a vegetable and spawning some of the best and angriest rock in American history.

[bleedingheart]

21. he didn't end the cold war...he just was lucky to be in office when

it happened.