Oh, what channel is Reagan coverage on??

[Bluebear]

Seriously, I am ready to watch Food network and learn how to stuff a sole, something for which I have no current interest just to get something else on the tube.

PS, Al-Qaeda is threatening US airlines again, I wonder why THIS warning isn't "important" all of a sudden. Oh yeah, we're distracted already I forgot.

[Servo300]

1. Shouldn't be that hard to find...

Check any of the major news channels, like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc.

[LTR]

2. What channel ISN'T it on?

What channel is that stuffed sole thing on? I may watch it.

[Zero Gravitas]

3. All of them

*** BREAKING NEWS *** RONALD REAGAN STILL DEAD... MORE DETAILS SOON... *** BREAKING NEWS ***

[2Design]

6. read a book or rent a DVD or go for a walk... or stand on your head :)

[Kazak]

4. I'm feelin' ya...

The question is, what channel isn't it on? This is gonna start feeling real disingenuous after about a week of this crap.

[Bluebear]

5. Last I saw they are showing people filing by the casket

Is this going to be a virtual "you are there" funeral? Lordy.

[buff2]

7. Didn't look like they had to fight the crowds

to get in to see his casket. Very slim showing of people who are supposed to "worship" him. Gaawd.. :eyes:

[Hepburn]

8. I'm on a Diet.....

.....so the Food Channel is NOT an option. Did catch part of a Perry Mason re-run and am not listening to a book on tape. Man, 4 freaking more days of this??????? :puke:

[calimary]

9. No, REALLY, guys, this is all well and good. Let 'em get it out of their

systems. Let 'em have their orgy. Let 'em self-flagellate all week. All MONTH, for all I care.

The IMPORTANT thing about this is - it's gonna be over and done with by the time the Democrats start their convention. I was worried, earlier this year, that Reagan's death would happen, or "be timed" to conflict with the Democratic Convention and deny Kerry his coronation and polls bump. After all, guess what any of our "respectable" news outlets would switch to, if they had a choice between following the convention and the "Reagasm" - as another DUer has called it. This way, it's all over in one huge tsunami, and it's THOROUGHLY behind us by the time the Dems gather in Boston. It's DONE! It'll all be over with!

Think of this - what if it had happened even later in the year? More toward the republi-CON convention - or worse yet, the last week or so in October - when bush could well be expected to cash in on some sympathy votes?

No-no-no-no-no - FAR better that it happens now. Let's get on with it, and get it over with. There are LOTS of good movies to go see this week, by the way. And good video rentals, too. Plus, maybe some nice family/friends time? Fitness time? Clean out the chicken coop time? Help the pet snake change his/her skin time? Zit-popping and exfoliating time? Hyperbaric oxygen chamber time? I can think of hundreds of good things to do instead of watching the news all week. Maybe a week-long I'm-getting-drunk-on-DU fest. I'm gonna enjoy it, myself.

[Tracer]

10. They are going to give Ronnie ...

... more frequent flyer miles than if he were still alive:

Service in California.
Fly him to DC for some more hoohaw.
Fly him back to CA for another funeral.
Bury him somewhere.

The only thing that I have seen anyone suggest is that they give Ronnie the Ted Wiliams treatment. But I'm sure that someone out there will think of it.